inQ!’s first queer comic fair is coming to the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre next month!
Date: Saturday 7 September
Time: 1-7pm
Location: London LGBTQ+ Community Centre, 60-62 Hopton St, SE1 9JH
No booking required – just pop in.
The inQ! Comics Fair team shared:
“Team inQ! are proud to launch our queer little London comic fair, hatched to give LGBTQIA+ comic and zine creators a place to share their self-published wonders with the world.
inQ! is free, it’ll be ridiculously fun, and everyone is welcome. We are proudly inQlusive, community-focused and family-friendly.”
Meet the exhibitors and the inQ! team who are making this all happen! (Plus, check out their beautiful website with more info about the day.)
Meet the exhibitors
Alex Moore
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Alex (they/them) is a London-born and based illustrator. Their work often features loud characters and
bold colours, and they particularly enjoy exploring visual storytelling. They have worked for the likes of
Titan, Dark Horse, IDW and more.
Queer Chameleon
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Queer Chameleon is a webcomic about LGBTQIA+ life. It’s a light-hearted take on some of the shared
experiences and challenges within the community, and also aims to spread education and awareness
through collaborations with other creators.
The human behind the comic is artist Amee Wilson (she/her). She has always been obsessed with
drawing cartoon animals, but could never have predicted she would be spending her days and nights
drawing chameleons… and wouldn’t have it any other way!
Olamide Florence Adeoye (or Flo), also known by her artist alias Sharp Txngue (she/her), is a Black,
queer, neurodivergent illustrator, comic artist, and storyteller.
Olamide Florence utilises bright pastel colours, soft shapes, and scratchy pencil textures to craft visual
narratives that delve into the realms of imagination—exploring concepts like “what if?” and “how does this feeling manifest visually?”—encompassing both positive and negative emotions.
Shazleen Khan
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Shazleen Khan (they/them) is an award-winning illustrator and author based in London, specialising in
narrative illustration.
Shazleen began self-publishing their comics as a teenager and now works full-time as an illustrator; their previous clients include Simon & Schuster, Bloomsbury and Dishoom.
Shazleen’s works include the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Saving Sunshine (written by Saadia Faruqi), the upcoming My First Monster (written by Cecil Castelucci), and their self-authored LGBTQ webcomic, BUUZA!!.
Lucia alias KitsuneArt (she/her) is a queer comic artist and illustrator based in London UK. She loves
creating images and stories with a strong emotional core and LGBTQIA+ themes.
She has been publishing comics for 7 years now and exhibiting at Comic Cons and fairs in the UK and in Europe. Her illustrations have been shown in some collective and solo exhibitions in Italy, UK and the US.
azbt (he/they) is a transmasculine genderqueer queer artist by day, and a beetle bug by night.
Currently based in South London, and influenced by his experiences with mental health and gay stuff,
azbt works primarily through illustration, comics and zines to explore emotional landscapes, human
relationships, and the deconstruction of gender. azbt won the First Graphic Novel prize in 2023 for their
upcoming graphic novel, Bone Broth.
Timothy Winchester
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Timothy Winchester (he/him) loves making stuff – whether that’s silly comics about puns, cute slice-of-life stories about animal friends, or 3d illustrations about a friendly dog. If you enjoy bright, playful, and
engaging comics, come and say hello.
shanefaced (he/him) is a comic artist based in North London. He’s been self-publishing comics for nearly 10 years now, and has exhibited at various comic cons and art fairs around the UK and parts of Europe.
In 2021 he was one of Broken Frontier’s Six Small Press Creators to Watch.
Over the past two and a half years he has been creating a series of illustrations called Road Knight, using traditional fantasy aesthetics to highlight, rather than escape, London life. By combining streetwear and armour, the series has a dark and gritty vibe with a touch of humour.
Yetunde Ekuntuyi
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Yetunde Ekuntuyi is a Black Illustrator based in the UK, who loves to play video games and read comics
(she has a huge backlog). Her work is whimsical and fun, and she creates comics that aim to express
feelings she can’t with words, whether that is loneliness, friendship or her experience with mental health.
Jenny Robins (she/her) is a teacher, mixed media illustrator, live portrait artist and graphic novelist who
likes to wear a lot of necklaces at one time.
Her book Biscuits (Assorted) won the First Graphic Novel Prize in 2018 and was shortlisted for the 2022 V&A Illustration Awards. Her work often explores the importance, complexity and absurdity of identity.
Rein Lee
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Rein Lee (they/them) is an upcoming illustrator and comic artist, creating works around nostalgia and
bittersweet memories. Working in a mixture of traditional and digital mediums with vibrant, warm colours, their works are soft, messy and charming.
Dominique Duong
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Dominique Duong (she/her) is a Chinese/Vietnamese illustrator and comic artist who creates queer
fantasy and horror comics, as well as dabbling in autobio.
Her work has been published by the likes of SelfMadeHero, Discord Comics and Quindrie Press, and she’s currently working on her graphic novel, Patchwork, a queer fantasy romance about dealing with grief and the legacies (for good or bad) left by our parents.
Meet the inQ! team
Deadly Knitshade
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Deadly Knitshade (she/her) is inQ!’s co-creator and organiser, word and website wrangler, and social
media imp.
Knitshade (a.k.a. Lauren O’Farrell) is a London-based crafty artist and author, making comics, artworks, books, and sneaky graffiti. Her playful creations have been featured in Tate Britain, Natural History Museum, the Royal Academy and on the BBC.
She is currently telling people she’s working on a graphic novel and making several bizarre little comics, but is probably just hanging out with her cat.
Chloe Starling
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Chloe Starling is inQ!’s co-creator, tireless behind-the-scenes organiser, and email gremlin.
Chloe is a comics creator, whose work weaves personal narratives into the world of folklore, fantasy, and sci-fi. She won the Manga Jiman in 2020 with her comic themed on ‘technology’, which explored the desire to escape the mundanity of a repetitive life.
Recently, she created a zine celebrating the humble public library for small-press publisher Collosive Press.
Ed Firth (he/him) is an inQ! co-creator and designed the logo. Ed is the writer and artist behind the Horny & High graphic novel series, now published in Germany by Männerschwarm and the USA by NorthWest Press.
His debut was shortlisted for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Prize and in 2022 he placed second in the Observer/Faber Short Graphic Story Competition.
This winter he will be an Artist in Residence at the Tom of Finland Foundation.
Nancy ArtMusic
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Nancy ArtMusic (she/her) is our inQ! workshop expert and volunteer. Nancy is a half-Latvian,
half-Tanzanian woman, with an American accent, living in London.
She is the creator of The Umeboshi Comics, and several autobiographical comics, one of which won the 2022 LDC REVEAL! award.
Nancy also teaches workshops making drawing accessible to everyone. If you love uplifting art, cute comics, and philosophical conversations about what it’s like to be a creative person, you’ll get along great!
AJ O’Neill is the king of our inQ! Communal Table. Though he only sold his first comic, a weird scroll
entitled Growing Up, at Thought Bubble last year, AJ has drawn: concept art for Ridley Scott;
storyboards for [NDA’d out the wazzo]; coasters for Young’s Pubs; and product design for expensive
whiskey. He is almost done co-writing his first musical, Unicorn.
His autobiographic novel AuDHD AF: An Unreliable Memoir will be out next year if it kills him. Which it might.