JJ Scott has been working in the comics and sequential art field since his graduation from the University of Portsmouth’s BA Illustration program in 2015 and has worked with such clients as Act Against Abduction, The International Federation of the Red Cross, Portsmouth Comic Con, The Philippines International Comic Festival and Soaring Penguin Press. After the completion of an MA in Illustration from the University of Portsmouth, he began to focus on the wider values of story and visual structure – producing workshops at the University of Portsmouth and more recently performing a series of comics fundamentals workshops at Harrow International School in Bangkok. Through the fostering of his passion from sequential artforms, he has expanded into exposing the wider comics sphere to the UK through a series of “International Initiatives” in partnership with Portsmouth Comic Con. He is currently coordinating works that highlight the wealth of talent found in Southeast Asia and showcasing that work to an international audience through the Zino Loci book project, which was a collaboration between the UK and Chulalongkorn University in 2023.