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8 Jun 2015

The Early Words – How Art Tells Stories: a Breakfast Podcast

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Sonja- The Squeamer -Hammer was up early on Wednesday 3 June 2015 at The Wheeler Centre for Books Writing and Ideas for: The Early Words – How Art Tells Stories the LIVE audio includes cartoonist and trans-man Sam Orchard from Kiwiland.

Below Left to Right, Top : Rebecca Hayes and Tim Molloy, Below : Sam Orchard.

With coffee in hand and recorder of course ( so please excuse the quality, or lack there of ) Sonja manages to record the speakers at the morning session Rebecca Hayes -artist and animator, her works have screened in exhibitions, film festival and various public spaces. Tim Molloy – illustrator and artist. His comic books include It Shines And Shakes And Laughs, Mr Unpronounceable Adventures and Mr Unpronounceable and The Sect of the Bleeding Eye….and another Kiwi cartoonist: Sam Orchard – drawing comics since he was a little girl. He is passionate about telling stories that celebrate the rich depth and diversity of our communities. He draws an autobio webcomic about his life as a queer trans man.

Below a sample of Sam Orchard’s advocacy work

As Sam says for him he uses “comics as a way to disarm that fear”, that he has of not being accepted and the fear that people may be uncomfortable with queer people. For him it’s all about getting ideas to “help those words feel ok “ by using cartoons.

Above: Tim Molloy’s latest Mr Unpronounceable book .

So it was an engaging morning with these hard working talented people and a great chance to get up close…the only thing is the quality of the audio may not be the best at times but in any case ENJOY!

Below: Rebecca Haye’s Scully from her 366 Portraits.