Drawing New Zealand cultural icons

I quite like drawing Katherine Mansfield. I’ve done a few comics about her, here and here. This picture has been commissioned for a Katherine Mansfield conference at Victoria University in 2013, and is inspired by Mansfield’s 1917 letter to John Middleton Murry: ‘Don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath – as terrible as you like – but a mask’

I have also started doing comics for the Guide section of Metro Magazine, and my first brief was a Rita Angus and Douglas Lilburn play by Dave Armstrong. I’ve half a mind to write a comic book about all of NZ’s literary and artistic giants. But then I’ve got some other ideas too…