Drawing for Change: Graphic Novels

Join multi-award-winning graphic novelist and comics scholar Dr Nicola Streeten for an engaging, illustrated introduction to the world of graphic novels. This hands-on session is packed with fun and easy drawing exercises designed to spark your creativity. Following the introduction, you’ll have the chance to create your own mini-graphic novel exploring the theme of ‘change’.

No prior drawing or graphic novel experience is required, and all materials will be provided.

Dr Nicola Streeten is a UK-based multi-award-winning graphic novelist and comics scholar. Her graphic memoir Billy, Me & You (Myriad Editions, 2011) was followed by The Inking Woman (Myriad Editions, 2018) a 250-year illustrated history of British women’s cartoonists. This was complemented by the theoretical publication UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics: A Critical Survey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). She is currently working on Yield, her second graphic novel based on the origin story of radical American alternative community Black Mountain College (1933-1957) told through her familial eyes as the great niece of founding member, John Evarts.

Nicola is founding director of LDComics – a women creator-led forum welcoming all, championing graphic novel works, particularly by women. In 2022-2023 She received a British Council International Collaboration award to deliver REVEAL! Women’s Comics East Africa-UK with a Kenyan partner, storying gender and climate change. Website / Instagram @nicolast.reeten