in profile: coco solid

Coco Solid, aka Jessica Lee Hansell, is a Māori/Samoan/German musician, artist and writer from Auckland. Hansell is one half of Parallel Dance Ensemble with Danish producerRobin Hannibal. She is also a founding member of New Zealand noize collective Badd Energy. As a comic book writer and zine-maker, Hansell was the creator of the comic Hook Ups, which was turned into the cult cartoon series in 2013, and produced This Is Not A Comic with Pritika Lal from 2005 – 2008 and is to release her first full graphic novel through Pikitia Press.

in profile: adele jackson

"The Owl Kids"

"I am a Wellington illustrator and (I've been told) an all-round formidable woman."

  

Character study from "The Owl Kids"

"'The Owl Kids’ is a serialised story for a regular illustration spot I do in the Forest and Bird 'Wild Things’ kids magazine. It’s about a family of (adopted) kids who live in a camper van with their ornithologist mum who is searching for the laughing owl. They stumble on some bird smugglers and do their best to catch them."

"This is a piece of work I did about pre european Māori for Te Kura Pounamu The Correspondence School."


"I work in a tiny garret in a historic Cuba St building that I share with three art galleries and fellow artist, illustrator and awesome comic creator Bob Kerr."


"Comic art is a new thing for me and I’m keen to use it to tell unsung women’s narratives and bring their stories to light."

Extract from "Minnie's Story"

"My comic submission [to Three Words] is about my Māori great-grandmother who lived for a time in a slab hut in the Wairarapa, when the 40 mile bush was felled for road rail and farmland, some time around 1900."

www.adelejackson.co.nz