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Hilary Lawler @therealsuperhilbo Sequential artist and Illustrator

Hilary Lawler @therealsuperhilbo Sequential artist and Illustrator


Hilary Lawler

I work in analog and digital art forms, telling stories through sequential art, with a focus on bringing the smaller, overlooked details in life into focus to offer alternative perspectives and observations.

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Longstone Comics anthology - co-founded the Irish comics collective Longstone Comics in 2008

Superhilbo! - first issue launched at the 2D Comics Festival in Derry in June 2009.

Point Village Comic Festival - created and organized in Dublin in June 2010.

Irish Comic News - organized the Irish Comic Noodlers.

    1. Live Panel on web and small press comics, The Comic Cast, 20 October 2009
    2. Interview with Niall Kitson, 8 March 2010
    3. Altern8 Interview - Point Village Comic Festival 12th June 2010
    4. Irish Times Feature - Comics and Festivals, May 2010
    5. Totally Dublin - Feature on Comics July 2010
    6. Quick Questions With, Irish Comic News, 21 June 2011
    7. Superhilbo in Dino Dilemma - Irish Comic SPLUNC! 2010
    8. Superhilbo in Para-abnormal - Irish Comic SPLUNC! 2011
    9. Mindfield Festival Artist 2011
    10. Kings of Concrete Wall Artist 2011
    11. Storyboard Artist - 'Stitches Grindle' 2011
    12. Limited Edition Sketchbook Project 2012 - http://web.archive.org/web/20120829171222/http://arthousecoop.tumblr.com/post/25502298092/35-sweet-sketchbook-cover-patterns
    13. Interview with Ciaran Flanagan, 2d Festival Podcast Episode 9, 30 August 2012.
    14. Panel member for Dundalk Book Festival 2013 - April 2013
    15. Panel member for 2D Festival 2013 - June 2013
    16. Sketchbook Project - Brooklyn Art Library, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2020.
    17. Anonymous was a Woman Exhibition - Linen Hall Library - April 2019
    18. Lady Lilian Spender Graphic Novel - Creative Centenaries 2020 - http://creativecentenaries.org/resources/lady-lilian-spender-graphic-novel
    19. Zine Comic Workshop - March 2021 - https://www.creativecentenaries.org/blog/women-and-the-decade-of-centenaries
    20. Contribution to the Wheely Cool Skate zine - 2023
    21. Contribution to the Moira Corcoran Zine - 2024
    22. Contribution to the OCA Students Voice Festival Zine - 2024
    23. Zines - Musings on Weather, What Next? and Weird Fishes - Drogheda Zine Fair - 2025
    24. Zines - Fanzine Fair, Vienna - contributed zines to the exhibition - 2025 https://www.instagram.com/fanzineistvienna/?hl=en