Megaphone Comics Corner and MayDay Special!

The Megaphone Comics Crew are back for Byline '22!

MEGAPHONE is a team of illustrators specialising in Live Drawing and Reportage Illustration; presenting journalism and biographies through the medium of comics.

In 2019 Megaphone opened a story exchange and drawing wall for the good people of Byline Festival. This year they return with the live drawing wall, badge making stall and the 'Megaphone Comics MayDay Special!'- a zine compiled for the festival, filled with contributions by associated artists and writers passionate about human stories beyond the headlines.

Share your stories- draw out loud - make your mark with Megaphone!

SOPHIE LODGE

Sophie Lodge is the artist behind the Comeunity Heart (2016) and 24hearts, a comeunity arts project she started in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Her original idea was to create 24 hearts for the 24 floors in the tower, but the idea spread over the summer of 2017 with people coming together to create hundreds of hearts.

She will create a timeline of artwork created by the North Kensington community over the past 5 years (since creating those original hearts)

The Comeunity Heart

2017: 24 Hearts

2018: A Tropical Avenue

2019: Butterfly Dawn

2020: Bees and Love

(wish upon a portobello star)

2021: An Upside down garden for upside down times

Freebirds!