Michi Mathias. illustration & comics.
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Hi, I'm Michi and I love making complicated concepts clear, drawing in the good old-fashioned way
​on paper with pen & ink and watercolour.
 After a distant past of trying to draw "properly", my work has now veered toward a somewhat quirky wonkiness whilst still being reasonably accurate and detailed. Which is a lot more fun.

Here's how both the illustration and the comics started:​
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So what was I doing instead for three decades? Working with environmental groups, including a few years in Japan, making jewellery, renovating old houses, working with community groups, translating Japanese, making vegan sushi, playing fiddle in various bands, and other things which would look terribly random on a CV.  And raising two beautiful boys. 

That first little booklet of graphic recipes has led to varied and interesting opportunities working with environmental campaigns, educational projects, small biz start-ups, and others whose work I love to support including: 
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​- BeFries restaurant    [there! -->]
- University of Sussex
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University of Cardiff
- Zero Waste Europe, Brussels
- Common Cause Co-operative
- Ministry of Stories
- Oyster Project disability group
- Like the Wind magazine
- Kendal windows art trail (4x!)
- Dancing Fox BV,  Amsterdam
- Ashurst organic farm
- Perceptia Press

and....
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​- Liminal 11 which is publishing my Sketchy Vegan Cooking in August 2021.


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mural for BeFries restaurant in Brighton
Self-published work

- JJ's Graphic Recipes (2013)
- Just a Normal Day? (2016) interactive 'choose-your-own-pathway' comic
- Up, Down or Stay the Same? (2016) fun science quiz puzzles
- Quick Sketch vegan Graphic Recipes, volume I (2016)
- The Day I Found Out How Much Running Really is All in the Mind and other stories (2018)  
- A Spoonful of Sugar (2018) created for All is Not Well

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Speaking engagements and interviews
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- Graphic Brighton conference, Dec 2017
- International Comics and Graphic Novels Conference, June 2018
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I'm in it!
 Myriad Editions 2018
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- Ideamedic podcast talking about my creative work with Tara Roskell, 2017
- Off the Front podcast with Elizabeth Emery, mostly on women in sports. My bit is  the first fifteen minutes, about Two Shillings a Day graphic novel project. 2018
- Talk at Laydeez Do Comics about work-in-progress Two Shillings a Day.
Video with sound and photos from that night. 2020


​I live in Sussex in the UK, where I can be found playing the fiddle or teaching five-string banjo or running on the South Downs when not drawing.
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Click to see what I'm doing right NOW at this moment...
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Michi Mathias     illustration & comics