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Gareth Brookes

Graphic novelist, academic and lecturer

Dr Gareth Brookes is a graphic novelist, academic and Lecturer in Illustration Animation at Kingston University. He has published four graphic novels including The Dancing Plague (SelfMadeHero) and The Black Project (Myriad Editions). His monograph Reading Comics Through the Body is published by Palgrave.

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In the self-portrait illustration of Zara, the lines drawn in brush pen, light shadow in ink wash and coloured digitally in pale ochre; the colour of sand. The face is in three-quarter profile, filling two thirds of the frame. Her hair is long, exposing her ear. With chin raised, she looks down, directly at the viewer. Her eyebrows up in the middle, her expression is one of concern.

Zara Slattery

The illustration shows a self-portrait of Akif standing in front of a colourful sky on a cold and pale spring day. Akif is on the left, facing the viewer. He has tan skin, short dark brown hair and a thin dark brown moustache. He is protected from the sunlight by a white, open-topped hat and cool, elliptical-shaped glasses. He is wearing a light pink short-sleeved t-shirt.

Akif Kaynar

A digital collage self-portrait of the artist Sabrina Tirvengadum illustrated in neon green, blue, and pink tones with Photoshop tool icons, on a purple-patterned background. The use of neon colours and details such as the green face and pink hair give the impression of an artificial portrait. Sabrina, a woman with long wavy hair, has her arms crossed behind her neck and looks with a neutral expression. She is wearing a long-sleeved top with an intricate pattern in which details such as flowers, leaves and the sun are recognisable.

Sabrina Tirvengadum

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