Marie Duval

Simon Grennan is an internationally acclaimed artist, author and scholar of visual narrative. He is the creator of Dispossession: a novel of few words––one of The Guardian Books of the Year 2015––a graphic adaptation of a later work of Anthony Trollope. Since 1990, he has been half of the international artists team Grennan & Sperandio, producer of over forty comics and books. Dr Grennan is a Research Fellow in Fine Art at the University of Chester. Simon Grennan is co-author, with Roger Sabin and Julian Waite, of Marie Duval (Myriad, March 2018), a profile of the work and life of a pioneering Victorian cartoonist, published by Myriad in March 2018. His latest book, Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval, imagining the cartoonist’s take on 21st-century life and culture, is published by Book Works in October 2018.

Julian Waite is a performer, playwright, visual artist and academic. He was educated at Oxford University, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Manchester University, where his PhD thesis was in Overcoming Blocks to Performance. He has written several original plays, community plays and novel adaptations. Recent performance work includes extensive street theatre and clowning throughout the UK, video performance for Manchester Art Gallery (website interactive nominated for a BAFTA award) and he has presented performance art both in the UK and abroad. Julian is Senior Lecturer in the Performing Arts at the University of Chester and currently the course leader for the MA Drama. Julian is co-editor with Simon Grennan and Roger Sabin of the first book to celebrate the work of Victorian cartoonist Marie Duval (Myriad 2018).

Roger Sabin is professor of Popular Culture at the University of the Arts London. He has written several histories of comics, and has an academic profile (see here). He also reviews for the media (BBC, Channel 4, The Guardian), and his exhibition consultancy includes the Tate Gallery, British Museum and British Library. The ‘Sabin Award’ is presented annually at the International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference. Roger is co-editor with Simon Grennan and Julian Waite of the first book to celebrate the work of Victorian cartoonist Marie Duval (Myriad 2018).