in profile: margaret silverwood

Margaret Silverwood was born in South Australia, moved

to Dunedin, New Zealand when she was 14, and is now based in Whanganui.

Her enlightened

mother used comics to teach her to read, and she’s loved

comics as a storytelling medium ever since. Her first comic, Getting Drunk, was drawn

as coursework for a creative writing paper, and her second,

Paradise Lost: The Minicomic was drawn at art school.

Margaret has had three children’s picture books published

internationally, exhibits drawings and prints, and has drawn

two more mini-comics: Utopia Now Vol. 1 and Waldoland.

in profile: suzanne claessen

 

Suzanne Claessen is a Dunedin-based writer, illustrator, and beekeeper. Her work aims to reconcile earthly concerns – such as environmental degradation and consumerism – with imagination and the bizarre. 

 

 

She is always on the lookout for opportunities to turn the ghastly and sombre into the wonder contained in nature and mankind. 

 

 

Surrealism and existentialism are her guides.
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