On Graphic Novels

Illustrators Rachel Ang (I Ate the Whole World to Find You) and Sarah Firth (Everything Eventually Connects) discuss the visual elements of their storytelling.

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RACHEL ANG is an artist and writer who makes comics. Their work has previously been published in international journals such as The New Yorker and kuš!, and Australian periodicals like The Age and Meanjin.

Their first book, Swimsuit, was published by Glom Press in 2018, and won a Silver Ledger from the Comic Arts Awards of Australia. Their next book, titled I Ate The Whole World to Find You, is out now (April 2025) through Drawn and Quarterly (global) and Scribe (Australia/New Zealand).

SARAH FIRTH is based on Wurundjeri Country, Melbourne, Australia. She is an artist, writer, cartoonist, graphic recorder and animator.

She has received a Talking Difference Fellowship from the Immigration Museum, was a finalist in the Incinerator Gallery Award For Social Change and her comics were part of Eisner Award-winning and Ignatz nominated comic anthologies.

Her debut graphic novel Eventually Everything Connects won The Emily Toth Award, a Gold Ledger Award, was shortlisted for The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, The Age’s Non-Fiction Pick of The Week, ALIA’s Notable Graphic Novels and listed as one of The Best Graphic Novels Ever by Refinery29.