Day of appearance – Sunday 1st November
Anna Penn is an autistic author and artist living in the UK. Though her job in film VFX keeps her busy, she likes to spend her free time drawing comics, playing video games, and making cute figurines and accessories out of polymer clay. She also runs a webcomic about her experiences as a late diagnosed autistic person, It’s a Spectrum, which is available for free on Tapas. Her debut graphic novel, Apocalypse Baby, will be released in October 2026.
Panel Information: Sequential art, sensational stories
There is more than one way to tell a story, and our creative guests have chosen to use graphic novels as their medium. We look at how art adds to the written word to enhance the reader experience and discuss how prose is not the only way to get your message across.
Workshop Information: Make your own keychain
Join Anna Penn, author-illustrator of debut graphic novel Apocalypse Baby, to make your own book-inspired keychain! Anna will show you how to use polymer clay to make your own book-inspired keychain to take home and bake in your own oven. Apocalypse Baby is a queer horromance graphic novel about two boys who rescue a baby during the zombie apocalypse – and fall in love along the way.
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