Shazleen Khan is a queer Bangladeshi Muslim Illustrator and Author based in London. Their notable works include Ignatz award winning webcomic BUUZA!! and Eisner and Harvey nominated graphic novel Saving Sunshine.

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Mark Penman is a comic writer/artist and academic based in Leeds. Mark's works specialise in world building and storytelling, aspects further explored in his career as a comics academic and senior lecturer at Leeds Arts University.

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Hannah Berry is an award-winning comics creator, scriptwriter and campaigner, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, former UK Comics Laureate, and co-founder and co-director of thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org.

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🦭 Sacred Bodies by VER

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