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.
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Monday, December 14, 2015
Sunday, July 26, 2015
coco solid: role model
Jessica Hansell, picture credit: Stuff Online.
Three Worder Coco Solid, aka Jessica Hansell, is making media waves, currently starring in Brown Eye and writing her first film script, and being a great role model:
"When I was a young woman I didn't know you could be exactly who you were. I thought you had to police and condition and shape-shift yourself to fit so many things. That is 100-percent not true."
Read the full article here.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
comicfest 2015: three words panel discussion in pictures
Photo credit, Francoise Padellec
Photo Credit, Rae Joyce
Massive thanks to the staff at Wellington City Libraries for organising the panel and giving us such a wonderful opportunity to have a conversation that is obviously long overdue.Thanks, too, to everyone who turned up to support us and Three Words - we could feel the energy - and especial thanks to Jenny, for her powerful and moving speech and blessing. And for those of you who missed it, the podcast of the panel discussion is here. Tissues at the ready.
coco solid essay
Indira Neville put together this analysis of the percentage of women featured in recent Aotearoa comics anthologies.
Three Words contributor Coco Solid has written an essay inspired by the Three Words panel discussion at Wellington City Libraries Comicfest2015. She states in her inimitable style why Three Words is necessary, why it's now. She just inspired us right back!
Saturday, November 22, 2014
creative new zealand: three words thanks
We are extremely grateful to Creative New Zealand for awarding us a grant to fund Three Words.
This means that as well as covering our printing and production costs,
we can also pay our contributors. Fom this project's conception,
remuneration was something that Indira, Sarah and me (Rae) felt was
really important and to achieve it for our contributors is beyond
brilliant and a tangible first step towards redressing the gender and status
imbalance in mainstream NZ comics literature! Thank you, CNZ!
We'd like to extend our thanks to Thanks so much to Ruth Boyask, Dylan Horrocks, Ant Sang and Tim Bollinger for their amazing references, and to Alie Mcpherson and Jessica Hansell aka Coco Solid for permitting us to use their work in the proposal.
Thanks, too, to Sarah for working really hard to put together our successful funding application. There's no stopping Three Words now!
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