This Graphic Narrative Symposium at The University of Melbourne brings together enthusiasts of the graphic narrative form to discuss and celebrate its many manifestations and cross-cultural applications. It will include an interactive session with the acclaimed French-Vietnamese graphic novelist and author, Clément Baloup. Baloup’s prize-winning graphic novel corpus delves into themes of immigration, memory and memorial transmission and brings a unique perspective to the art of storytelling as enacted through the mobilisation of both image and word. These themes will feature more broadly throughout the presentations and workshops animated on the day by both graphic narrative creators and academics who use the form in both their teaching and research.
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The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC, Australia
Rachel Ang at The Graphic Narrative Symposium
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The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC, Australia
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I Ate the Whole World to Find You
Introducing a bold new voice — one of the most exciting short-story writers working in comics today.
A coworker-turned-prospective-lover confesses a hard-to-swallow fetish. A train ride fantastically goes off the rails. Cousins revisit summer holiday bliss — or was it really horror? Exes fumble an attempt to reconnect over a dip in the pool. And an expectant mother slips into uncharted territory as she enters a communion more pure than language can accommodate.
I Ate the Whole World to Find You maps the topography of trauma, treasures, and loss imposed onto the body of Jenny, a twenty-something-going-on-thirty-something partial hot mess who’s making her way more firmly into adulthood. As she navigates friendship, family, and romantic relationships, will her inability to communicate destroy her, or ultimately be her rebirth?
Set against an exquisitely lush Australian backdrop, Rachel Ang’s pencils are fluid yet scratchy, precise and evocative, bringing to life the inner and external world of Jenny with stunning realism and gushing imagination. Sprinkled with speculative fiction and fantasy, this radiant debut collection establishes Ang as a storyteller of range and power.
Rachel Ang
Rachel Ang is an artist and writer working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation (Melbourne, Australia). Their work has been published by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and kuš! Rachel’s first book Swimsuit was published by Glom Press in 2018, and they were a contributor to the Eisner Award–winning anthology Drawing Power: women’s stories of sexual violence, harassment, and survival in 2019. Rachel still lives in their hometown, where they draw comics and work in architecture.
