110 Creator Chat with Karen and Jake of Inked

Karen Wasson is a children’s author based in Melbourne. Jake Minton is an illustrator based in Byron Bay. Together they have created Inked, a middle grade graphic novel adventure of a fish, or maybe we should say octopus, out of water. It’s also a story about friendship and finding your own path. Inked is the first graphic novel from Hardie Grant’s new imprint dedicated to graphic novels called Figment and it’s out now.In this chat we discuss: Karen and Jake's relationship with comicstheir relationship with librarieswhat it was like working on their first graphic novel and how it all came about are they making another graphic novel?they also recommend some comics and graphic novels they loveTo stay up to date and for the full roundup of news, resources and new titles visit our website: https://graphic.alia.org.au/The ALIA Graphic Groove Theme 2025 courtesy of Clint Owen Ellis https://www.clintowenellis.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.