Melbourne: Mandy Ord
Mandy Ord is a Melbourne-based comic artist and illustrator. Her stories appear in a broad range of local and international literary journals, books and anthologies. In 2008 her first graphic novel "Rooftops" was published by Finlay Lloyd. Her second book of comic stories published by Allen&Unwin in August 2011, "Sensitive Creatures" was selected as a White Raven at the 2012 Bologna Book Fair. As well as producing comics Mandy also presents talks and runs comic educational workshops for schools, universities and community groups.
In 2011 she was part of a group residency through the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) called Inherent Vice, was a guest speaker and illustrator in residence at the Melbourne Writers Festival and a speaker and workshop presenter at Graphic, a Sydney based festival of comics and graphic novels. 2012 sees Mandy travelling to New York and Toronto as part of The Caravan of Comics to promote her books at two major comic book conventions.
Mandy Ord's Blogspot
Caravan of Comics
Sensitive Creatures
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