About
RACHAEL BALL’S
first graphic novel,
‘The Inflatable Woman’ (Bloomsbury), was one of the Guardian’s Best Graphic Novels 2015 and one of Paul Gravett’s Top 10 GNs for 2015.
The Sunday Telegraph, described it as ‘Inspiring and wonderfully unconventional.’
The Times Literary Supplement described her 2nd graphic novel ‘Wolf’ (SelfMadeHero and ACE funded), as ‘wildly inventive and poignant.’
She is currently working on her third graphic novel ‘The Patsy Papers’ based on her teaching experiences in secondary schools. Also Arts Council funded.
She teaches workshops on creating graphic novels at the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, a Writing for Comics course at the City Lit and also teaches a Design a Children’s picture book course at the the Art Academy. She taught on the Pathways course online and at Anglia Ruskin. She also mentors for LDComics.
She’s taught graphic novel skills at the Arvon online
as well as teaching graphic novel masterclasses at several universities.
She was a
London co-ordinator for LDComics for 8 years
(a female led organization which supports female cartoonists in publishing created by Nicola Streeten and Sarah Lightman)
first graphic novel,
‘The Inflatable Woman’ (Bloomsbury), was one of the Guardian’s Best Graphic Novels 2015 and one of Paul Gravett’s Top 10 GNs for 2015.
The Sunday Telegraph, described it as ‘Inspiring and wonderfully unconventional.’
The Times Literary Supplement described her 2nd graphic novel ‘Wolf’ (SelfMadeHero and ACE funded), as ‘wildly inventive and poignant.’
She is currently working on her third graphic novel ‘The Patsy Papers’ based on her teaching experiences in secondary schools. Also Arts Council funded.
She teaches workshops on creating graphic novels at the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, a Writing for Comics course at the City Lit and also teaches a Design a Children’s picture book course at the the Art Academy. She taught on the Pathways course online and at Anglia Ruskin. She also mentors for LDComics.
She’s taught graphic novel skills at the Arvon online
as well as teaching graphic novel masterclasses at several universities.
She was a
London co-ordinator for LDComics for 8 years
(a female led organization which supports female cartoonists in publishing created by Nicola Streeten and Sarah Lightman)