SPX 2020: Communicating Queer Identity Through Fictional Structures
Channel: SmallPressExpo
Date: 2020-09-13

How and why do cartoonists use fictional characters as a stand-in for their own experiences? Moderator Alex Hoffman and artists Lawrence Lindell (The Section), Kelsey Wroten (Cannonball), and Trungles (The Magic Fish) will explore how fictionalization allows artists to express certain truths more openly, lets artists shape a narrative, and the process of deciding how much of one’s own story goes into a fictional story.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS:

LAWRENCE LINDELL is a cartoonist, author and teacher from California. His work has been featured in Essence magazine and on Afropunk.com. He created From Black Boy With Love, Hey, People of Color, Couldn’t Afford Therapy, So I Made This and the webcomic, The Section. When he’s not drawing/writing comics, he is usually buying/reading them.

Buy Lawrence Lindell’s comics here: https://lawrencelindell.com/new-products

TRUNG LE NGUYEN, also known as Trungles, is a Vietnamese-American comic book artist and storyteller from Minnesota. He was born in a refugee camp somewhere in the Philippine province of Palawan. Trung has contributed work for Oni Press, Boom! Studios, and Image Comics, largely in the romance genre. His first original graphic novel, The Magic Fish, is due out October 13, 2020 through Random House Graphic, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Trung currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raises three very spoiled hens. He is particularly fond of fairy tales, kids’ cartoons, and rom-coms of all stripes.

Buy Trungles’ book here: http://www.trungles.com/the-magic-fish

KELSEY WROTEN is an illustrator and comics artist currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has appeared in Vice, The New York Times and The New Yorker as well as many other places. Her comics include Crimes (Pyrite Press 2018), Cannonball (Uncivilized Books 2019), and the forthcoming The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend with Maddy Court, (Chronicle 2021).

Buy Kelsey Wroten’s comics here:
https://uncivilizedbooks.com/cannonball/
http://www.pyritepress.com/product/crimes