Kevin Smith, George Miller, Sarah Blasko & More Named For 2015 GRAPHIC Festival

The Sydney Opera House will transform into a shrine to all things pictorial this October for the 2015 GRAPHIC Festival, with a line-up this year featuring the esteemed likes of Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller, View Askewniverse mastermind Kevin Smith, venerated Aussie muso Sarah Blasko and many more.

Miller will be appearing in a panel titled Mad Max: Fury Road — Creating The Apocalypse, alongside co-writers and respective illustrator and dramaturge Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris, while Smith will deliver his Superhero Multiverse keynote address, as well as a post-speech Q&A session with a little help from longtime on- and off-screen partner-in-crime Jason Mewes. Blasko's appearance is also a special one — the veteran songstress and two-time ARIA Award winner will unveil a preview of her fifth studio full-length, Eternal Return, accompanied by visuals provided courtesy of award-winning filmmaker Mike Daly.

That's far from all that's on offer over the festival's duration, however, with fans of AMC horror hit The Walking Dead having the opportunity to bear witness to the season six premiere in a free screening, free screenings of comics legend Warren Ellis' Captured Ghosts, plus The Mindscape Of Alan Moore, She Makes Comics, and Future Shock! 2000AD: A Cautionary Tail as well as free talks being hosted by McCarthy, super-great Aussie comic book artist Nicola Scott, The LEGO Movie's Aussie animation studio Animal Logic, Brendan Fletcher, the director of the stunning The Nightingale & The Rose, based on Oscar Wilde's tale of the same name and starring Mia Wasikowska, Geoffrey Rush and David Wenham, and A Cautionary Tail's Simon Rippingale and Erica Harrison — among several other points of interest and curiosity-piquing attractions.

This year's GRAPHIC Festival will take over various venues at the Sydney Opera House on Monday, 28 September, and Saturday & Sunday, 10 & 11 October. Tickets will go on sale from 9am this Friday, 14 August, via the Sydney Opera House.