Our Big Drawing (2018)

  Our Big Drawing was a collaborative, ephemeral project conducted with the Detroit neighborhood, Banglatown, in Summer 2018. In partnership with Power House Productions (PHP), Anne Elizabeth Moore and Melissa Mendes gathered a group of local participants—mostly youth, and mostly first- and second-generation immigrants from Bangladesh—to go on two walks through the neighborhood, separated by […]

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Water, Housing, and Land in Detroit, MI (2018)

Continuing the long-running investigative comics journalism series (previously called Ladydrawers) as a collaborative endeavor, Melissa Mendes and Anne Elizabeth Moore recently completed a 16-month series for Truthout that explores water, land, and housing rights in and around Detroit, Michigan. Through in-depth interviews, shoe-leather reporting, deep research, and brilliant, thoughtful graphics, the series seeks to explore challenges to survival […]

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Seeing Silence (2016)

Seeing Silence was a collaborative zine-making project conducted in 2016 with students in the designmatters program at ArtCenter. Participants were asked to create visual responses—on paper, transparencies, or translucent materials—to a series of prompts recalling moments they may have experienced censorship, silence, or disability. Participants were then encouraged to rework each others’ images and ideas to create something […]

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Let’s Chat About Civil Rights / Let’s Chat About Civic Memory (2016)

Let’s Chat About Civil Rights / Let’s Chat About Civic Memory was installed in April 2016 at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa at the behest of St. Ambrose University. The images, by Melissa Mendes and Sheika Lugtu—a Ladydrawers collaboration—are accompanied by oral histories from local Quad Cities residents regarding two major aspects of Davenport’s participation in the […]

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Harvey & Me (2016)

A comics memoir and collaboration with Melissa Mendes, Harvey & Me is a six-episode literary series for Belt based on Anne Elizabeth Moore’s work and travels with Harvey Pekar. Read “Let’s Just Wait,” “Uninteresting Phone Call,” “Laureates for Everything,” “Book Signing,” “Pulling Lynda Barry’s Leg,” or bookmark the whole series here.

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Chicago Radical Publishing Timeline (2015)

The Chicago Radical Publishing Timeline (2015) was installed in June of 2015, during Pride and CAKE, in the front window of Andersonville’s legendary Women & Children First Books. The timeline included radical publishing projects from queers and folks of color throughout Chicago’s history, and was installed with a selection of complementary books on display in the front window, […]

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