On Monday I went to the Laydeez Do Comics evening off Brick Lane (that’s in East London for all you non-locals) and got to hear a little about all six of the very talented interns of the London Print Studio Comics Collective: Lily Rose Beardshaw, Abraham Christie, Shamisa Debroey, Merlin Evans, Susan Yan Mach and Jade Sarson.
The amazing Karrie Fransman devised and taught on the comics internship program, and crammed it full of workshops, meetings, exercises and experiences, honing the skills of the young comic creators and preparing them for professional life. It sounds like an intensely rich 6 months in which the interns must have picked up tips and knowledge that would normally take a decade of going to comic events to discover.
This lead to tonight’s launch party and exhibition at the London Print Studio celebrating the end of the internship and the launch of the collective’s anthology Parallel Lives…
Here’s Shamisa Debroey who’ll sadly be heading back to Brussels in a couple of weeks…
Shamisa Debroey
Susan Yan Mach with some of her amazing comic pages…
Susan Yan Mach
Abraham Christie and Shamisa Debroey putting on a brave face at the end of all their hard work.
Abraham Christie and Shamisa Debroey having a laugh!
Jade Sarson and the main character from her wonderful looking upcoming graphic novel Siddown!
Jade Sarson
And here’s a drawing Jade did on the studio window…
Jade Sarson's impressive window drawing
Finally here’s my efforts on the window. It was fun drawing with interested people walking past outside, and there’s not many parties you can to where you can draw on the windows without being chucked out!
My less than impressive window drawing
