If you’ve ever felt a little out of step with the world or just a little bit different from your friends, Frankie’s World creator Aoife Dooley can relate.

Come along for an in-depth look at Aoife’s life before and after her autism diagnosis and discover how her work and her identity have changed as she’s learned to navigate the world as a neurodiverse person. Aoife will share behind-the-scenes details about the making of her hit graphic novels Frankie’s World and Finding Your Voice, including how she draws Frankie and what inspired her story.

Expect lots of laughs and a chance to ask your questions about storytelling, illustration, autism, and so much more.

Aoife Dooley is an award-winning illustrator, author and comedian. In 2018, Aoife was diagnosed as Autistic at the age of 27. Since then, she has shared how a diagnosis helped her to truly begin to understand herself and has created comics and diagrams around the subject of what Autism is to her.