Jo Waite
Jo Waite has been a Melbourne-based queer artist, illustrator and writer working in comics and community arts for more than 30 years; self-publishing comics, curating art exhibitions for Melbourne Fringe; lived in and ran an art gallery in Brunswick. From 2007 to 2012 she was part of The Comic Spot; a fortnightly radio show about Australian comics on 3CR; she has volunteered at Sticky Zine Shop, the Squatters Union, Friends of the Earth, Queer Archives Australia and HAAG. In 2016 to mid 2017 she was a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellow and also homeless.