Bernard Caleo
Illustrator of The History of the City of Melbourne Bowls Club, written by Alex McDermott
Illustrator of You’ll be a Wonderful Dad (Hardie Grant 2022) written by Ailsa Wild
Illustrator of How to Win a Nobel Prize (Black Ink 2018) written by Lorna Hendry
Editor of The Tango Collection (Allen and Unwin 2009)
Meet the Speaker
Where were you born?
In Melbourne, a city of books and stories.
What other jobs have you had?
Film projectionist, museum storyteller, documentary film maker, bookseller.
What themes are recurring in your work?
Discovery. Friendship. Mystery.
What have been the highlights of your career?
Performing picture stories (kamishibai) in Japan and Cambodia. Presenting the documentary Graphic Novels! Melbourne! which I made with filmmaker Daniel Hayward, at the Angoulême comics festival in France. Launching comic books in Melbourne.
Where have your works been published?
Australia, Turkey, Poland, China, Japan, England, USA.
What are you passionate about?
Comic books. Drawing, and seeing other people draw, and the discoveries of drawing.
Haven’t I seen you before?
Maybe selling books at Readings bookshop in Carlton? Or maybe you've heard me talking about comic books on the Melbourne radio station 3RRR?
Anything else you’d like to share with us?
I am doing a PhD on comic books so I will be a doctor of comics!
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The Language of Comics
I am a comic book maker and someone who is interested in discussing the ways that comics work. This session covers the...
Comics Page Workshop
This day-long workshop begins with warm-up drawing and character creation exercises. From the character each student will...
Making Comics
A one-hour practical session of making comics, starting with warm-up drawings and progressing to creating a comics page...
Comic Book Creation Residency
In preparation for this residency, Bernard will liase with the teacher/s in question to discuss the sort of narrative that...
Comics Studio
This session provides an in-depth experience of making comics.Topics:Drawing for comicsWriting for comicsTelling a story with...
Asian Storytelling: kamishibai paper theatre
Storytelling with workshop extension option.Topics:Japanese culturekamishibai ('paper theatre') performance of multiple...
Talking MAUS
MAUS is on the VCE English text listThe comics medium was born and evolved over the 20th century – it's a young art form (not...
Tomorrow Comics
Thinking about the future can stir deep emotions, from wonder to fear. In this session, each student will make a comic...
Online Session: Crisis Comics!
An illustrated talk about the ways that comic book artists have reacted to, and reported on: war, genocide and...
Online Session: Instant Comics!
A session in which Bernard leads the students through making of their own four-page mini-comic.Topics Covered* character...
Reading and Writing Multimodal Texts
Illustrated books and comic books are multimodal texts. In this session, book illustrator and comic book maker Bernard...
Picture Storytelling (performance)
A storytelling session using the Japanese 'kamishibai' (paper theatre) storytelling approach from the 1930s, a precursor to...
Talking Maus/Talking Persepolis
An illustrated talk (powerpoint plus live whiteboard drawing) which analyses either the graphic novel 'The Complete Maus'...
The Story of Comics
An illustrated talk, using projected images and live drawing on the whiteboard to tell the story of the evolution of comic...
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