Sarah Howell
Sarah Howell is an Australian cartoonist and educator based in Brunswick, Melbourne.[1] Howell is often involved in projects that promote the Australian comic book art scene. She is a founding member of Squishface Studio,[1] a workspace for artists in which customers looking to buy comics can walk in and watch artists work.[2] She self-publishes zines and mini-comics.[1] Howell was also the first director of the Homecooked Comics Festival.[3] She has worked as a cartooning tutor at Box Hill Community Arts Centre and a cartooning and graphic novels tutor at the Centre for Adult Education in Melbourne.[1]
Career
Howell was the co-curator and the workshop facilitator of The Dark Woods, a national exhibition and workshop that toured around Australia about the country's comic book art from 2002 to 2006.[1] Howell was the producer of the Gravity Project from 2007 to 2009, a blog documents outdoor and online writing, art, performance and games occurring in Northern Tasmania.[1] From 2009 to 2010, she was the director of the National Young Writers’ Festival in Australia, a festival showcasing the works of "young and innovative writers in both new and traditional forms".[1] In August 2011, Howell was one of eight Melbourne cartoonists to participate in a month residency project at Federation Square called ‘Inherent Vice’, where artists worked to create their pieces and the public could observe them doing so.[4] As a result, in 2012, Howell became a founding member of Squishface Studio, where the same process was applied.[4] Also in 2012, she participated in the Caravan of Comics with nine others—a convoy of comic book artists that toured in America to promote Australian comic art.[5]
Notable partnerships and relationships
Howell works alongside other artists in Squishface Studio, such as Ben Hutchings,[6] Ele Jenkins,[6] and her husband, David Blumenstein.[1][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "sarahhowellprojects.com". sarahhowellprojects.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2016. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
- ↑ Dunstan, Isabel. "Squishface Studio". Time Out Melbourne. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
- ↑ "Sarah Howell". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Caravan of Comics Australian Cartoonists Tour of North America | Sarah Howell". caravanofcomics.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
- ↑ "Comic artists pursue the American dream". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Artists". squishfacestudio.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
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