Session 1 — Hot Technology
1:00 pm, Gartner Auditorium

Alison Sampson is a London-based architect and illustrator who lectures and exhibits internationally on the reciprocal relationships between comics and architecture. For more than two decades she worked on award-winning design projects with some of the UK’s leading architecture firms. As a graphic artist, she works with publishers including Image Comics, DC Vertigo, Dark Horse, Boom! Studios and IDW. In 2014, Sampson published her creator-owned, best-selling (and first) graphic novel Genesis (with Nathan Edmondson) and won the Emerging Talent award at the British Comic Awards. She also created and manages the online 200+ artist exquisite corpse project, Think of a City.