In this creator chat James sits down with Dean Rankine, a comics artist and writer who won a Ledger Award in 2015 for Itty Bitty Bunnies: Saves X-Mas and the Stan Cross Award in Book illustration in 2020. He's the artist behind Magda Szubanski's Timmy the Ticked Off Pony and most recently he has published Death Metal Elves, with his characteristic cartoony style.

Dean is most famous for working on The Simpsons, Futurama, Rick and Morty and Invader Zim and he also loves working with school and libraries doing comics workshops.

In this episode, Dean discusses his own comics, what it's like working for established franchises, creating his own books and what his comics workshops in schools and libraries are like.

For more from Dean Rankine follow his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deanrankine/

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In this month's roundup Jade and Mia discuss their recent favourite reads:

• Tabby by Stephen Kok, PR Dedelis
• Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule, Ryan Brown
• Escape From St Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up by Lewis Hancox
• Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo
• Roaming by Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki

Then they discuss:

• The Harvey Awards with the double win of the Tamaki super team;
• Akira Toriyama being inducted into the hall of fame;
• New manga titles to buy recommended by Sara Smith of the Graphic Library blog;
• Figment, a new Austrlalian imprint dedicated to publishing graphic novels;
• A recent article on The Conversation about iyashikei manga

Finally, they discuss their favourite picks of the new titles out this month:

• The Weirn Books Vol. 2: The Ghost and the Stolen Dragon by Svetlana Chmakova
• Crystal Cadets by Anne Toole, K. O'Neill, Paulina Ganucheau
• No Rules Tonight by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada
• Pirate Princess by Luca Frigerio, Lorenza Pigliamosche, Simon Bowland
• This Land is Our Land by Julio Anta, Jacoby Salcedo, Francesco Segala

For the full roundup of news, resources and new titles visit our website: https://graphic.alia.org.au

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We started ALIA Graphic Novels and Comics in February 2020. The first episode of our podcast was published in March 2020 as the world prepared to go into lockdown and it's been a whirlwind ever since. We've been publishing monthly roundups of news, resources, webinars and new titles published since March 2020. We created our podcast feed and published our first creator chats in May 2020. All this takes an enormous amount of time to compile but we feel it's important to share everything we have gathered, not just among the ALIA Graphic Committee but with everyone and anyone interested.

We have also made a special effort to interview as many Australian comics creators as possible. Our creator chats focus on Australian creators discussing what they love about comics, how they fell in love with the medium and, of course, their comics and graphic novels. A lot of them are on our YouTube channel and all of them are on our podcast feed (because some of them are camera shy and that's totally fair). We never could've imagined it but we are this is the 100th episode of our podcast.

To celebrate this we have received some messages. We want to thank the ALIA National team for their support and we're glad to receive a message from ALIA Deputy CEO Trish Hepworth.

Then, we hear from four awesome Australian creators who have been kind enough to put their pencils down and send us a message. We hear from:

• Sarah Winifred Searle, who tells us about what she loves about libraries and how libraries have helped her as a library creator
• Reimena Yee tells us about what she loves about comics as a story telling medium and how things are changing in the Australian comics scene
• Mat Groom talks about what he loves about the Australian comics community and his love of libraries
• James Foley answered lots of questions and he has a lot to say about making, the Australian comics community and more.

A huge thank you to all four of them for putting their pencils down for a few minutes and sending us a message. A special thanks to Chris Gooch who sent us the art for this episode.

And a heartfelt thank you from everyone in the ALIA Graphic Committee to all creators and guests in the first 100 episodes. We love your work and we thank you for every email with feedback, the creator chats and your support.

For more from us, check out our website and socials. Visit our website for more: https://graphic.alia.org.au/

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