We started ALIA Graphic Novels and Comics in February 2020. The first episode of our podcast was published in March 2020 as the world prepared to go into lockdown and it's been a whirlwind ever since. We've been publishing monthly roundups of news, resources, webinars and new titles published since March 2020. We created our podcast feed and published our first creator chats in May 2020. All this takes an enormous amount of time to compile but we feel it's important to share everything we have gathered, not just among the ALIA Graphic Committee but with everyone and anyone interested.

We have also made a special effort to interview as many Australian comics creators as possible. Our creator chats focus on Australian creators discussing what they love about comics, how they fell in love with the medium and, of course, their comics and graphic novels. A lot of them are on our YouTube channel and all of them are on our podcast feed (because some of them are camera shy and that's totally fair). We never could've imagined it but we are this is the 100th episode of our podcast.

To celebrate this we have received some messages. We want to thank the ALIA National team for their support and we're glad to receive a message from ALIA Deputy CEO Trish Hepworth.

Then, we hear from four awesome Australian creators who have been kind enough to put their pencils down and send us a message. We hear from:

• Sarah Winifred Searle, who tells us about what she loves about libraries and how libraries have helped her as a library creator
• Reimena Yee tells us about what she loves about comics as a story telling medium and how things are changing in the Australian comics scene
• Mat Groom talks about what he loves about the Australian comics community and his love of libraries
• James Foley answered lots of questions and he has a lot to say about making, the Australian comics community and more.

A huge thank you to all four of them for putting their pencils down for a few minutes and sending us a message. A special thanks to Chris Gooch who sent us the art for this episode.

And a heartfelt thank you from everyone in the ALIA Graphic Committee to all creators and guests in the first 100 episodes. We love your work and we thank you for every email with feedback, the creator chats and your support.

For more from us, check out our website and socials. Visit our website for more: https://graphic.alia.org.au/

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