How To Venice Biennale: Part 1

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Earlier this month, I went to the Venice Biennale, and drew a comic dispatch for the New Yorker(!!!). The first of two instalments is now live on their instagram, and reproduced in gallery format below:

Part 2 will be published soon!

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This was an extremely last-minute decision, and a once in a lifetime experience that I am so happy I leapt for. I pitched the assignment, and applied for and got a press pass to the previews less than a week before getting on the plane.

eating praying AND loving

Soon (once I physically recover from ongoing deadlines), I will write a post about Venice, and share my sketches and photos, the cognitive dissonance of this year’s Biennale, and the comics I pitched that didn’t make the cut. (The hell of present day is that you draw comics for work until your arms fall off, and then you have to write about that work for your blog, because most of what you made was left on the cutting room floor, and you are in a constant fight to ensure that you are accurately represented by what can be accessed of you online, but anyway…)…..

drawing in a basilica; Jenny Saville at Ca'Pesaro; drawing in a bar.

Waking up every day and getting to draw comics about otherwise inarticulable experiences?? The best thing. It truly gets no better.

xo Zoe