User:LauraSeabrook
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| Alias(s): | LAS |
| Real name: | Laura Anne Seabrook |
| Comic: | Comic:Seabrook's Web Comic Serials |
| CG signup date: | {{{signup}}} |
| Birthday: | 18th October |
| Birth location: | Kalgoorlie, Australia |
| Current residence: | Hunter valley |
| Website | [{{{website}}} Website] |
Comic Background
Laura Anne Seabrook has been drawing comics off and on since late childhood. It wasn't until the early 90s that she published any - this was a print version of Thud and Blunder for her fanzine Apocrypha, in support of a DUFF bid. Nothing further happened for a while, apart from co-scripting the Pulp Special with artist Carol Wood (which linked all the regular characters appearing in Pulp by a time travel story).
Then, in early 2000 Carol Wood and Susan Butcher attended This is Not Art in Newcastle to distribute their latest issue of Pox. This inspired Laura to produce an autobiographical mini-comic, Hypergraphia on an irregular basis.
She also produced a series of non-fiction comics called Laura Seabrook's Queer Stuff for local magazine Out Now, which has been collected into a single volume.
While undergoing an Honours course in Visual Arts, Laura suffered from "artists block" and created Comic:Laura Seabrook's Web Comix for fun. She has since completed this course, and the main artwork created for that, A Trans Tarot Deck, was only only possible after Laura learnt digital techniques used to create the web comic.
Other Background
Laura has worked in a variety of jobs, including Publishing Assistant for the Australian Bureau of Statistics. She enjoys aspects of both paper and web publishing, and has been producing 'zines and other publications since 1975.
While not the only important thing in her life, Laura is an openly transwoman, and also a modern gallae. In 2006 she travelled to New York State and was initiated into the Maetreum of Cybele. She has also had articles and comics printed in Polare, and Finding the Real Me. Tales of the Galli reflects this part of her life.
Plans for the future include a possible book about gender transition, and an autobiographical graphic novel.
