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Bex Glendining
Bex Glendining is a biracial queer, UK based illustrator, comic artist and colourist. Glendining has worked with a number of different clients. Her projects include working with book covers, album and single covers, comics and game concept art. Some of the clients that Glendining has previously worked with include DC Comics, Netflix, BOOM! Comics, Penguin Random House, Entertainment Weekly, Iron Circus, Lion Forge, Simon and Schuster, IDW and Legendary Comics.

Most of Glendining's work is "inspired by the world around us and the spaces we carve for ourselves, what makes out homes our own." She also mentioned in her interview for Creative Boom that she is inspired by nature, plants and her own surroundings, which is clearly reflected in her work.

Education and Career
In the interview for Creatives Lives in Progress, Bex Glendining shared that she wasn't able to finish secondary school due to personal reasons. However, later she did get into a local college for a foundation course in fine art, which gave her an opportunity to progress to a BTEC course.

In 2017 she graduated from Canterbury Christ Church University with a BA Graphic Design degree. Two years later she graduated with a Masters Degree in Research in Media, Art and Design 'Women of Colour Vs Ink: Racism, Sexism and White Feminism in Modern British Tattoo Culture' from the same university.

Seen: Edmonia Lewis Graphic Novel
Edmonia Lewis was the first African-American and Native American sculptor during the civil war to earn international recognition in the field that was dominated by white men.

Seen:Edmonia Lewis is part of the graphic novel series by BOOM! Studios, highlighting the "life of a black woman being successful in the art world". The book came out around the same time as the global #BlackLivesMatter movement has only gained recognition.

In her interview for Comics Beat, Glendining shared that the hardest part of this project was finding references and accurately depicting the events. "Everything was either lost or not documented, or hidden behind passwords - that's the main challenge"

While making the book, Glendining wanted to convey Lewis' charismatic personality and her "excitement for life", but she had to excludenthat along with other fascinating facts about Edmonia Lewis as it "didn't fit the script".

In hopes to teach balance of both the worst and best parts of history of people of colours, 'Seen' comes with a teaching guide, pre-reading activities and though-provoking discussion questions.

Additionally, Glendining mentioned that she is looking forward to illustrate another graphic novel based on the biography of Mary Seacole, a British-Jamaican nurse during the 1800s.

Other Graphic Novels and Comics
Some Bex Glendining's comics that are worth mentioning:

'Silence'

A two-page comics that captures the feeling of grief and the sporadic dissociation that can occur during the grieving process.

'I Am Enough'

A single page comics that explores the feeling of being inadequate. The comic follows a woman's hand that is going through the flower beds as she's questioning if there is anything wrong with herself, wondering why people leave her. At the end of the comic she comes to a realisation that she "is enough"