#wallis eates

by Andy Oliver

The anthology Wings: A Prison Odyssey – collecting the personal stories of inmates at a London men’s prison in a variety of mediums – was the product of a project…

Crowdfunding Corner Extra: Like an Orange – Wallis Eates Introduces Her New Collaborative Comics Work Focusing on Brain Injury Survivors and Their Artistic Practice

My admiration for the work of Wallis Eates began back in 2014 when I was a judge for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Collection. Eates was shortlisted for her graphic memoir Mumoirs – an account of her early life as a child in a single-parent family and the sometimes fractious nature of the mother-daughter bond – and though we saw only a sampling of its pages it was immediately clear to me that…

The Inking Woman: Wallis Eates – Showcasing the Artists of the Latest Exhibition at London’s Cartoon Museum

“I first went to The Cartoon Museum before I got into doing comics, whilst having a secret plan to give it a shot. That I’m now in an exhibition there means my plan worked! I’m particularly thrilled that the exhibition will be moving to Maidstone museum, which is the town I grew up in, and prevalent in my autobio comics work. What I love about this exhibition is that it shows not only the talent…

A View from the Frontier – Getting Back to the Grassroots at DIY Cultures Fair 2017

“When I was making my early work zines were probably more important to me than comics, and exposure to the politics, aesthetics and DIY ethos of zine-making had a huge effect on how I go about making work. There’s a danger of new artists thinking that small press is just practicing for being “properly” published. It isn’t. It’s an opportunity to be as contentious, inflammatory, disgusting, weird,…

Fleeting Faces – More Meditative Zine Reflections on the Lives that Touch Our Own from Wallis Eates

“Liz was one of the neighbours in our block of flats. She lived on the other side of the fifth floor. She had one eye. My mum somehow got the job of administering eyedrops into the empty socket and I would eagerly watch. It was like an inverted strawberry and surprisingly shallow.” So begins Liz of the Light and Dark, one of two new zines (alongside Beautiful Face) by 2016 Broken Frontier Award…

Draw the Line – 100 Artists Including Dave McKean, Karrie Fransman, Roger Langridge, Danny Noble and Wallis Eates Unite to Change the World with Positive Political Action

One of the great pleasures of being involved in comics commentary is that you can be aware of exciting projects going on in the background long before they’re announced to the wider world. Draw the Line is one such enterprise: a collaborative group effort designed to emphasise positive political action as a response to the sobering and worrying global events of 2016 through individual comics and…

30 Days of Comics – Collecting the Powerful Visual Metaphor of ‘November’ by Wallis Eates

November always sees a flurry of artists taking part in the #30dayscomics challenge and – just as we did earlier in the year when we collected the #hourlycomicday strips of Danny Noble and Tillie Walden here – today we’ve compiled the last month’s efforts by small press creator Wallis Eates, another regular Broken Frontier presence. Eates describes her comic ‘November’ in the following terms:…