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Graphic novel creator Luobai heads to Cartoon County

By John Freeman on March 15, 2025

Luobai, a PhD student who has been working on a long form graphic novel, Anxiety is a Red Monkey, heads to Brighton next month for the next Cartoon County event at The Walrus.

Luobai 珞白 has been working on her graphic novel as the creative aspect of her Doctoral work at London College of Communication.

Last month she exhibited art from this project at the University of the Arts London campus in Holborn, and has published two chapters from the graphic novel as individual comics.

Her work mixes elements of Graphic Medicine and 1970s Children’s Books, and will be chatting to Alex Fitch about the various aspects that make up her research and artistic practice.

• Luobai at Cartoon County 6.30pm (Q&A 7.30pm) Monday 31st March, The Walrus, 10 Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AD and online via Zoom from 7.30pm

You only need to register on EventBrite if you are attending online; otherwise the Cartoon County team look forward to welcoming you in person at The Walrus.

• More info about Luobai’s work can be found on Instagram @luobai_art and Behance

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.