Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Sarah Howell is a noted cartoonist and educator based in Brunswick, Melbourne.[1] Howell is often involved in projects that promote the Australian comic book art scene. She is a founding member of Squishface Studio,[1] a workspace for artists in which customers looking to buy comics can walk in and watch artists work.[2] She self-publishes zines and mini-comics.[1] Howell was also the first director of the Homecooked Comics Festival.[3] She has worked as a cartooning tutor at Box Hill Community Arts Centre and a cartooning and graphic novels tutor at the Centre for Adult Education in Melbourne.[1]
Career
Howell was the co-curator and the workshop facilitator of The Dark Woods, a national exhibition and workshop that toured around Australia about the country's comic book art from 2002 to 2006.[4] Howell was the producer of the Gravity Project from 2007 to 2009, a blog documents outdoor and online writing, art, performance and games occurring in Northern Tasmania.[4] From 2009 to 2010, she was the director of the National Young Writers’ Festival in Australia, a festival showcasing the works of "young and innovative writers in both new and traditional forms".[4] In August 2011, Howell was one of eight Melbourne cartoonists to participate in a month residency project at Federation Square called ‘Inherent Vice’, where artists worked to create their pieces and the public could observe them doing so.[5] As a result, in 2012, Howell became a founding member of Squishface Studio, where the same process was applied.[5] Also in 2012, she participated in the Caravan of Comics with nine others—a convoy of comic book artists that toured in America to promote Australian comic art.[6]
Notable partnerships and relationships
Howell works alongside other artists in Squishface Studio, such as Ben Hutchings,[7] Ele Jenkins,[7] and her husband, David Blumenstein.[1][7]