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Surfacing

A comic 'about' reading the surface of the page, and all the things that lie beneath...

Riso-printed in orange and teal ink on very thin Bioprima paper at London Centre for Book Arts. Thick, brown gatefold cover with riso-printed stickers, bound with a teal elastic band.

130x200mm, double-sided folded sheets, elastic-bound, edition of 50.

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St Monday

A mini comic about work. 

Text taken from 'Useful Work vs Useless Toil', William Morris (re-published by Reitlanden Women's Office). Images informed by 'Time, Work Discipline and Industrial Capitalism', E. P. Thompson.

"Saint Monday is the tradition of absenteeism on a Monday. The tradition has been common among craft workers since at least the seventeenth century when the work-week ran from Monday to Saturday"

Riso-printed in black ink on recycled paper at London Centre for Book Arts.  140x195mm, 20 pages, hand stitched, edition of 100.

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Work in progress: a well of tears, a spool-shaped object, a pilar of holy church...

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Some outtakes from my documentation of Jessie Krish’s Net Zero Youth Voice Workshops. Over two afternoons, facilitated by Jessie, researchers from Imperial discussed climate change and air pollution policies with year 12 students in South London.

After the first day’s workshop, the students each took a photo to represent ‘climate change’ in their local area. These photos included images of construction sites, trees, cars and (most commonly) litter.

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Last month I attended a course at the London International Palaeography Summer School: Introduction to Palaeography and Medieval Manuscript Studies.

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My edition is now available from the Gaada shop:

https://www.gaada.org/shop/time-in-the-archive-esther-mcmanus

Series of three A3 risograph prints in two colours on Redeem 315 gsm FSC cert paper.

These prints present an extract from Time in the Archive, Esther McManus’s contribution to We Axe For What We Want, a publication which foregrounds the multiple voices and collaborations of Gaada’s 2020/21 programme, Weemin’s Wark. The project publication will be published by Gaada in July 2021 and features a range of exciting contributions.

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We Axe For What We Want - now on display at Gaada 🌬️

(photos courtesy of Gaada 🙏)

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Opening tomorrow at Gaada: We Axe For What We Want. 18th June–25th July This exhibition presents an extract from my comic 'Time in the Archive', offering a personal reading of the Up Helly Aa For Aa archive. It was informed by archival materials including Lynn Abrams’ 'Myth and Materiality in a Women’s World' and the articles and artworks of local people. The whole comic will be available in 'We Axe For What We Want' - a publication which foregrounds the multiple voices and collaborations of Gaada’s 2020/21 programme Weemin’s Wark. It will be published by Gaada in July 2021 and has taken place in partnership with local equalities group Up Helly Aa For Aa and Glasgow Women’s Library, funded by Creative Scotland. 

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Here’s one for all you in Milano:

👉🏻 Il 21 maggio 2021 dalle 18.00 inaugura “Remembrance from the Lethe”, seconda collettiva promossa da co_atto, aperta al pubblico fino al 9 luglio 2021.

👉🏻 Artistз in mostra: Andrea Cancellieri; Stefano Serusi con il contributo di Andrea Croce; Matteo Giagnacovo; Fabio Ranzolin insieme a Gianna Rubini, Martina Camani e Francesco Pozzato. Esther McManus inaugura la vetrina del fumetto e Cosimo Filippini realizzerà al suo posto la vetrina dedicata alla fotografia. Per l’occasione co_atto presenta il proprio archivio con un progetto site specific di Marco Siciliano.

*** Thanks co_atto and SerT for the invitation! ***

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New Essay Alert from Kim Jooha: 

Navigating Space Comics: An Introduction

https://solrad.co/navigating-space-comics-an-introduction

Kim’s criticism & writing is always such a welcome breath of fresh air. This essay lyrically articulates how ‘Navigating Space Comics’ offer something  expansive, playful and open to the reader. Their description of the gaps and openness to interpretation really resonates with what I hope to achieve in my comics. And as always, Kim brings a rare attention to forms of media and the specificity of what comics have to offer 👏 I was very honoured to be included here - amongst illustrious company and read by a sympathetic, generous reader.

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(Image via @gaada_org)

We Axe For What We Want - currently on press and coming soon!

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From ‘Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism’, E. P. Thompson