Joey and the Junjardy

Brenton E McKenna is a Yawuru artist and writer from Broome who fell in love with comic books at a young age. He studied visual arts at Goulburn TAFE and in 2011 became the first ever published Indigenous graphic novelist with the release of Ubby's Underdogs: The Legend of the Phoenix Dragon. When he's not drawing, Brenton dedicates his time to educating young people through creative storytelling workshops. Allison Rocca is a primary school teacher who has taught in classrooms from the ' burbs of Australia to remote villages in Asia and castle-like academies in Oxford. She is a descendant of Wakka Wakka and Kaanju people and her upbringing was rich in storytelling. Allison likes to draw on the stories passed down by her highly respected Elder grandparents to write fiction for children and young adults. She lives and writes on Yuggera/Turrbal Country, Brisbane.