Mandy Ord Mandy Ord i(A70899 works by)
Born: Established: 1975 ;
Gender: Female
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1 1 y separately published work icon Bulk Nuts Mandy Ord , Sydney : Gazebo Books , 2023 26023522 2023 selected work short story graphic novel Bulk Nuts is a trove of relaxedly funny and touching graphic stories, depicting preoccupations, incidents and mysteries that resonate with many of us. From supermarkets, to dance floors, to bus rides and Melbourne nooks, Ord conveys tender and understated takeaways, compelling us to look closely at our own day-to-day realities. A refuge from the flashy maelstrom of modern life, Bulk Nuts shows how odd and humble things can sustain us.' 

(Publication summary)
1 Choke Mandy Ord (illustrator), 2023 single work art work
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 108 2023;
1 Show Your Working : Mandy Ord Mandy Ord , 2022 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , January 2022;
1 Black Mould Mandy Ord , Caitlin Doyle-Markwick , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: The Suburban Review , December no. 24 2021;
1 y separately published work icon Kyoto Pants Down Mandy Ord , Mandy Ord (illustrator), Eltham : Mandy Ord , 2021 24877485 2021 single work graphic novel autobiography

'Kyoto Pants Down is a 23 page autobiographical story set in Japan. Republished digitally for the first time with three additional sketchbooks pages.

'"I’ve become convinced beyond any shadow of a doubt that Aussie Many Ord ranks right up there with the likes of Alison McCreesh and Eleanor Davis as one of the great “travelogue” cartoonists of our time" -Ryan C.'s Four Color Apocalypse'  (Publication summary)
1 Lost Mandy Ord , 2021 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 80 no. 4 2021;
1 4 y separately published work icon When One Person Dies the Whole World Is Over Mandy Ord , Mandy Ord , Melbourne : Brow Books , 2019 15501851 2019 single work graphic novel

'When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over is a quietly enthralling and keenly intimate work about the search for meaning in the everyday, and what it might mean to belong. A record of a year of a life, When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over is an attempt to pin down time, to capture the most beautiful and fleeting moments that we tend to rush past.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 1 y separately published work icon Galapagos Mandy Ord , Mandy Ord (illustrator), Melbourne : Glom Press , 2018 15744177 2018 single work graphic novel

'The Walking Dead sounds terrible. Unbearable to watch yet impossible to resist. So we switch to a documentary about the charmed life of a colony of sea going iguanas. What could possibly go wrong?

'When deadly pursuit is the new normal what chance do we have?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Time Machine Briohny Doyle , Mandy Ord (illustrator), 2018 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 77 no. 4 2018; (p. 46-53)
1 y separately published work icon Chalk Boy Margaret Wild , Mandy Ord (illustrator), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2018 13658931 2018 single work picture book children's

'A soulful and heartwarming story about what happens when a pavement artist's drawing comes to life.'

Barnaby is a pavement artist. This morning he started drawing me. I have a head that can think, eyes that can see, ears that can hear and legs that can run. Best of all, I have a heart that can feel. Thank you, Barnaby.
(Source: Publisher's blurb)
1 Anarkali Annie Zaidi , Mandy Ord (illustrator), 2015 single work short story graphic novel young adult
— Appears in: Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean 2015;

This re-version of the romantic Indian folk tale has a dancer entombed alive as punishment for her sexual relationship with the prince. In the original story the dancer dies but here she manages to escape and goes on to rescue the prince. That universal female emblem, the Earth, opens itself to Anarkali and allows her passage through its soil and rock, to freedom.
1 y separately published work icon NY : A Graphic Story Mandy Ord , Mandy Ord (illustrator), Braidwood : Finlay Lloyd , 2013 6724373 2013 single work graphic novel

'NY takes its author to Manhattan where she has encounters that surprise and deeply affect her. ' (Publication summary)
1 10 y separately published work icon Sensitive Creatures Mandy Ord , Mandy Ord (illustrator), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2011 Z1798519 2011 selected work short story graphic novel young adult 'Wonderfully off-beat, Mandy Ord's stories reveal with poetic power the intimate, mundane and extraordinary moments in everyday urban life. From spammers who take over your email identity, to dealing with a dead rat, to putting out flames in a train station bin, to how to warm your feet in winter, the experiences and reflections of Mandy's one-eyed girl will put you in touch with what really matters.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 Their Hooks Find Hold Deep in Our Flesh : Part Seven Kate Fielding , Mandy Ord (illustrator), 2009 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 68 no. 4 2009; (p. 154-167)
1 East Mandy Ord , 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , August no. 5 2009; (p. 164-182)
1 Their Hooks Find Hold Deep in Our Flesh : Part Four Kate Fielding , 2009 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 68 no. 1 2009; (p. 109-123)
1 Their Hooks Find Hold Deep in Our Flesh : Part Three Kate Fielding , 2008 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 67 no. 4 2008; (p. 108-120)
1 Their Hooks Find Hold Deep in Our Flesh : Part Two Kate Fielding , 2008 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 67 no. 3 2008; (p. 92-115)
1 Untitled Mandy Ord , 2008 extract novel (Rooftops : A Graphic Novel)
— Appears in: The Age , 14 June 2008; (p. 16)
1 Their Hooks Find Hold Deep in Our Flesh : [Part One] Kate Fielding , 2008 single work prose
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 67 no. 2 2008; (p. 165-183)
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