Lucie

After the glitz of Wednesday’s instalment in the monthlong season of Comica anniversary events at London’s Century Club, last night’s session was a distinctly more intimate affair as creators Lucie Arnoux (Je Ne Sais Quoi) and Lucy Sullivan (Barking, Shelter) took to the stage to discuss drawing from life and their own work with the comics form. Comica’s Paul Gravett opens proceedings (L to R: Lucy Sullivan, Lucy Arnoux, Paul Gravett) Coincidentally both Arnoux and Sullivan took the same illustration and animation course…

Cowgirls & Dinosaurs: Big Trouble in Little Spittle is the first of a new series of middle grade graphic novels by Lucie Ebrey, now auctioned to Penguin/Razorbill. Cowgirls & Dinosaurs: Big Trouble in Little Spittle is the first of a new series of middle-grade graphic novels by Lucie Ebrey. The western follows Abigail and her rival, Clementine who are cowgirls that ride dinosaurs, off on an adventure to save their town from the Bandit Queen and the perils of the ferocious dinosaurs of the prairie. Alex Sanchez,…

Oh la la, but this is fun! Je Ne Sais Quoi is a patchwork memoir by an illustrator and cartoonist called Lucie Arnoux, who is French but lives in London. It hops about a bit: not quite fully formed, it has the feeling, at moments, of an animated photograph album (this is Arnoux’s first book). But it is very endearing, and I predict great things of its creator, who has a passionate heart and an abiding sense of how best to live life to its fullest. I should also say that it is extremely cheering (if slightly bewildering)…