Elizabeth is the director of Milktooth School of Art and Stories and has been a sessional lecturer in painting at Edith Cowan University. She is working on her debut graphic novel Pup Pup is the Boss of the Stars which will be published in the US through Top Shelf Productions. She is also currently completing her comics and literature PhD at Edith Cowan University.
My Time at PCAF
I co-founded the festival in 2017 while chatting to comics makers at the Comic Maker Network meet ups held at Milktooth. I have a background in the visual arts, exhibiting my own work, teaching art, curating group shows and running artist run spaces. While engaging with comics makers however I was struck by the inclusive nature, the friendliness and the incredible amount of hard work and talent that these artists had. In the beginning I thought of myself more as an enabler and helper of comic makers but then I finally made a comic for my own table in 2022. This tabling experience was by far the best creative experience I have had as I then improved and developed my work further and secured an international publishing deal. I would not feel so good or positive about a future in the arts if this festival and community did not exist. Thank you PCAF community!
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth is a multi-disciplinary artist from the small border town of Agua Prieta in Sonora, Mexico. With an increasing interest in folk art, she uses traditional painting techniques and craft processes to create works that have a distinctive and contemporary voice. Her debut graphic novel Pup Pup is the Boss of the Stars utilises a cast of hand-crafted woollen characters to reimagine and relocate the classic children’s story The Wind in the Willows to her Mexican home town. Elizabeth currently lives and works in Perth, Western Australia where she is the director of Milktooth Children’s School of Art and Stories and also the creative director and co-founder of the Perth Comic Arts Festival. She is currently undertaking PhD studies in comics at Edith Cowan University and lives with her husband, son, mother and two xolo dogs.
Some Comics I’ve Made:
- Pup Pup is the Boss of the Stars
Some of My Favourite Comics:
- Home Time by Campbell Whyte
- Susceptible by Genevieve Castree
- Krazy & Ignatz by George Herriman
- Turtlenecks by Steven Christie
- Forming by Jesse Moynahan
- My Favourite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
- Nightlights and Hicotea by Lorena Alvarez