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title: "JoAnn Purcell — Concept Proposal, Lead Producer and Art Director"
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# JoAnn Purcell — Concept Proposal, Lead Producer and Art Director

![](https://students.senecacollege.ca/attachment?file=crvynUWsli5MbglTA25U3A%3D%3D)JoAnn is the current and founding Program Co-ordinator of Illustration diploma program and previously co-ordinator of the Animation Arts Centre. She completed her PhD in Critical Disability Studies at York University where she drew comics as a research method to inquire into disability and difference. She has a MA in Art History from York University, a BScN from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. Recent publications include *Disability Daily Drawn: A Comics Collaboration* in Graphic Medicine \(U Hawaii Press, 2022\), *Comics, Caregiving and Crip Time* in Sugar, Spice, and the *Not So Nice: Comics Picturing Girlhood* \(Leuven U Press, 2022\). Her dissertation will be published next year by Wilfrid Laurier U Press.

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