Queer Comic Artists and Q&A
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Queer Comic Artists and Q&A

  • ALL AGES

We will be hosting artists Sarah Webb, Christine Lêsantos, Mo McMasters, and Leigh Luna to discuss their creative work.

By Mazer Lesbian Archives

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Mazer Lesbian Archives

626 North Robertson Boulevard West Hollywood, CA 90069

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours
  • ALL AGES
  • Paid venue parking

Join the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives for our panel on queer comic artists! We will be hosting artists Sarah Webb, Christine Lêsantos, Mo McMasters, and Leigh Luna to answer questions about and discuss their creative work.

Meet the Artists!

Sarah Webb is an illustrator, visual development and background artist, and cartoonist from Alaska. She currently lives in Los Angeles, and graduated from MICA in Baltimore. Her work focuses on creating immersive worlds and narratives, and is inspired by the otherworldly and odd within everyday life and nature.

Christine LêSantos is a queer Vietnamese-Chinese-American Los Angeles based comic artist, illustrator, writer, and story artist. She has professional experience in storyboards, storyboard revisions, and writing for television animation.

Mo McMasters is a Los Angeles-based artist who runs their own risograph press. They've made comics about clown cryptids from outer space, post-apocalyptic mental health crises, and freak accidents with bees.

Leigh Luna is a cartoonist from Albuquerque, New Mexico, currently living in Los Angeles, California, working in both animation and comics. Her debut comedy graphic novel, Clementine Fox and the Great Island Adventure, was published by Scholastic in 2023, with a sequel scheduled for release in 2027. Leigh is currently a Color Designer on the animated series The Mighty Nein.

Moderated by Anna Chung Witt, a creative working in the animation and video games industry based in LA.

Poster designed by Sonja von Marensdorff.

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Mazer Lesbian Archives

The June L.  Mazer Archives 

The mission of the Mazer Archives is to collect, preserve and make accessible lesbian, feminist and women’s queer history as a means of providing a link among all generations of lesbians; to develop social activities, educational events, opportunities and programs that promote historical awareness; and to provide research and resource facilities.

**The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives is a grass roots archive founded in 1981 in Oakland, California as the "West Coast Lesbian Collections". It is one of the largest archives in the world dedicated to collecting protecting and preserving lesbian and feminist women's history. 1985 the Archives moved to Southern California with the help of the Connexxus Women's Center. It moved into the home of June Mazer and her partner Bunny Mac Culloch in Altadena, California. June died from cancer in 1987. Bunny changed the name to the June L Mazer Lesbian Archives and continued to run the Archives with the help of volunteers. In 1989 the Archive was moved from Altadena into the Werle Building in West Hollywood with the help of Jodi Curlee, Lauren Jardine and Del Martinez of Connexxus/Centro de Mujeres, Jean Conger and the Gay and Lesbian Task Force The Archives has been run strictly by volunteers for most of its thirty-seven years and has continued on supported by private donors and the City of West Hollywood. The Archives has created an outreach and collection-building partnership with the UCLA Libraries.

FreeJul 27 · 2:00 PM PDT