Pop The Culture Workshop @ Kunjanimation- Lauren Beukes
Wed Nov 26, 11:00 - Wed Nov 26, 12:00
The Animation School
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Lauren Beukes
Lauren talks a bit about her story and about how she got started in comics.
OUTLINE:
Meet Lauren Beukes; her latest book is Broken Monsters and is the author of The Shining Girls, Zoo City, Moxyland, Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past and the graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom with Inaki Miranda.
Lauren will talk a bit about her journey in a one-hour presentation on her comics writing, and will be showing some examples of her work and how it came together.
DURATION: 1 hour
DURATION: 2 HOURS
PRICE: R175 / R100 (STUDENTS)
Bio - Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes is an award-winning, best-selling novelist who also writes comics, screenplays, TV shows and occasionally journalism.
She is the author of Broken Monsters, The Shining Girls, Zoo City, Moxyland, Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past and the graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom with Inaki Miranda.
The Shining Girls, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around, has been racking up great reviews from The New York Times to The Guardian and made the Sunday Times best-seller list. The book was recently optioned by MRC and Leonardo diCaprio’s Appian Way.
Her previous novel, Zoo City (2010) which the New York Times described as “an energetic phantasmagorical noir” won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle and was long-listed for the IMPAC Award.
Moxyland is a dystopian corporate-apartheid political thriller and her first book, Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past is a non-fiction of short biographies of remarkable raconteurs, renegades and rebels.
Her graphic novel with artist Inaki Miranda, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom is a dark Tokyo twist on the legend of Rapunzel set in Bill Willingham’s Fables universe. It debuted at No.2 on The New York Times Graphic Novel Bestseller List in August 2013.
She’s written on kids shows for Disney, including Mouk and Florrie’s Dragons and was the showrunner on the South Africa’s animated TV series,URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika, which ran for 104 episodes from 2006-2009.
In 2010, she directed the documentary Glitterboys & Ganglands, about Cape Town’s biggest female impersonation beauty pageant. The film won best LGBT film at the San Diego Black Film Festival.
She’s also written comic shorts, “All The Pretty Ponies” with Inaki Miranda in Vertigo’s Strange Adventures and “Birdie” with Gerhard Human in The Witching Hour.
Lauren talks a bit about her story and about how she got started in comics.
OUTLINE:
Meet Lauren Beukes; her latest book is Broken Monsters and is the author of The Shining Girls, Zoo City, Moxyland, Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past and the graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom with Inaki Miranda.
Lauren will talk a bit about her journey in a one-hour presentation on her comics writing, and will be showing some examples of her work and how it came together.
DURATION: 1 hour
DURATION: 2 HOURS
PRICE: R175 / R100 (STUDENTS)
Bio - Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes is an award-winning, best-selling novelist who also writes comics, screenplays, TV shows and occasionally journalism.
She is the author of Broken Monsters, The Shining Girls, Zoo City, Moxyland, Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past and the graphic novel, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom with Inaki Miranda.
The Shining Girls, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around, has been racking up great reviews from The New York Times to The Guardian and made the Sunday Times best-seller list. The book was recently optioned by MRC and Leonardo diCaprio’s Appian Way.
Her previous novel, Zoo City (2010) which the New York Times described as “an energetic phantasmagorical noir” won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle and was long-listed for the IMPAC Award.
Moxyland is a dystopian corporate-apartheid political thriller and her first book, Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past is a non-fiction of short biographies of remarkable raconteurs, renegades and rebels.
Her graphic novel with artist Inaki Miranda, Fairest: The Hidden Kingdom is a dark Tokyo twist on the legend of Rapunzel set in Bill Willingham’s Fables universe. It debuted at No.2 on The New York Times Graphic Novel Bestseller List in August 2013.
She’s written on kids shows for Disney, including Mouk and Florrie’s Dragons and was the showrunner on the South Africa’s animated TV series,URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika, which ran for 104 episodes from 2006-2009.
In 2010, she directed the documentary Glitterboys & Ganglands, about Cape Town’s biggest female impersonation beauty pageant. The film won best LGBT film at the San Diego Black Film Festival.
She’s also written comic shorts, “All The Pretty Ponies” with Inaki Miranda in Vertigo’s Strange Adventures and “Birdie” with Gerhard Human in The Witching Hour.
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