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WETA and Dark Horse comic’s creators and designers, Greg Broadmore and Paul Tobin, host a Q&A session on their art, amazing creations and comic works.
Greg Broadmore and Paul Tobin Q&A by Wellington City Libraries on Mixcloud
Wellington City Libraries and GRAPHIC comic store joined forces to celebrate International Free Comic Book Day. Workshops and Panel Discussions with leading artists, costume competitions, and free comic giveaways.
Supported by New Zealand Book Council, Dittybox, Unity Books, White Cloud Worlds and Wellington City Council.
Ant Sang (Creator of Shaolin Burning, designer for bro’Town), Grant Buist (Fishhead Magazine’s Jiteratti, animator and playwright) and Robyn Keneally (webcomic artist) discuss their work, their influences and the comic scene of Wellington and New Zealand.
Supported by New Zealand Book Council.
#Comicfest 2014 Panel Discussion: Ant Sang, Royn Keneally, & Grant Buist by Wellington City Libraries on Mixcloud
Hey! ComicFest starts this Friday the 2nd of May at the Central library, and in preperation we’ve been promoting the fun to come at various parts of the Central library.
Below are some photos from our front window display put together by design-guru librarians Cathy and Helen, our Dr Grordbort display items provided by Weta Cave and Greg Broadmore and all the comics we have from our various panelists – enjoy! 
Jitterati Cartoonist Grant Buist has written his own concise profile below, which we’re extremely thankful for and has also offered his time in preperation for ComicFest in a one-off exchange of comic ideas. Grant has been reviewing the graphic novels from our collection expertly for years on his ‘Grant Buist Cartoonist,’ blog.
As such, he has an extensive knowledge of genres, authors and subjects accumulated from hundreds of initimate graphic novel reads. Here’s where you and Grant can meet to discuss graphic novels in person:
Of course, Grant will be involved in the panel to follow at 7pm, and now, onto the profile!
“Grant Buist is a Wellington cautionary tale who has rusticated himself to Otaki Beach after a decade of drawing Brunswick for Salient and another decade drawing Jitterati for City Voice, Capital Times and now Fish Head.
He was inducted into the NZ Cartoon Archive in 2008 and his musical Fitz Bunny: Lust for Glory has been revived twice after premiering at BATS.
He has published 15 books and is currently working on a lengthy graphic novel without interruption from anyone except for Jehovah’s Witnesses and the occasional cow.”