cape town open books festival 2016

Indira Neville will be representing Three Words at the Cape Town 2016 Open Book Festival!

in profile: jessica dew

Jessica Dew (1993 - ) likes bad good dumb art, medieval art, playing in bands – including Ralph – but hates writing, which makes comic-ing hard. Last year, she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts. It gave her anxiety and irritable bowel. The comics in Three Words are her first.

in profile: joanna anderson

Joanna Anderson was born in Whanganui and lives in Melbourne, Australia. Joanna draws documentary comics and is attracted to recording the quieter and less remarkable moments in history. Joanna collaborates regularly to make comics and exhibitions with her good friend Chris O’Brien.

in profile: demarnia lloyd

When Demarnia lives in Christchurch, likes to paint, and do
some comics, and write songs and sing, and she makes various
objects. What she does with what she makes is often impelled
by the material she is working with. She is married, has a day job, and
appreciates all manner of things.

in profile: warsaw

Warsaw lives in Wellington, where she makes experimental films and music, and the occasional comic. She has self-published comics under various titles and contributed intermittently to Bristle. Recently, she completed a thesis at Victoria University on early amateur filmmaking in New Zealand. http://vimeo.com/user10277055.

in profile: rachel benefield

As a child, Rachel struggled to read and write. Dad noticed her poring over Footrot Flats, trying to decipher words, and started slipping the series under her adolescent door. A love affair with comics was born. By nine she realised she had an ace up her sleeve with drawing. Now she works in Porirua East as an art teacher, running mural painting projects at primary schools, and as an artist and illustrator. Her latest project is a graphic novel called Storm in a Tea Cup.

in profile: pritika lal

Pritika Lal islives in Auckland. An interdisciplinary artist, her creative practice

spans a range of mediums, including comics, video, interactive

digital gadgets and sometimes clay. She works as a lecturer.

in profile: elsie joliffe

Elsie Joliffe lives in Wellington, has been devouring cartoons and comics since she could read, and began making her own comics in 2005 after Wendy Pini punched her in the creative spirit. Elsie primarily creates autobio comics about baking, her friends, her dogs, and how much she hates the current government, often all at the same time.

in profile: zoë colling

Zoë Colling lives in Auckland, is married and has two daughters. She works part-

time as a librarian and likes writing lists, The Armando Iannucci Shows, and

has been mucking around with autobio words and pictures for a couple of years. Her

submissions to Three Words are her first completed comics.

in profile: sally bollinger

Sally Bollinger is based in Auckland where she studied photography at AUT. 

She enjoys storytelling; she co-wrote and directed the webseries Nothing

Much To Do, and is currently working on the sequel Lovely

Little Losers.

She draws comics whenever she has the time and

sometimes even when she doesn’t.