http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2006/ruthe-wins-at-frankfurt/ The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:59:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=9710 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2006/ruthe-wins-at-frankfurt/comment-page-1/#comment-6592 The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » Lost in Translation - Paul Gravett’s talk Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:21:18 +0000 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=1861#comment-6592 [...] And reflecting that example has been the growth at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where over the last five or six years there has been a focus on comics, which began as an experiment and proved so successful that now the Frankfurt Book Fair, the biggest book fair certainly I’m aware of, has a major focus on comics every year as the whole artform and medium has taken off. Other festivals like the Leipzig Book Fair as well are now promoting comics in a literary context. We also have in Germany a number of exhibitions which have shown comic art alongside so-called fine art, showing the dialogue and appropriation going on between the two. This is also I think important because people need to realise that the art world will occasionally borrow and blow-up and distort and play with the icons and characters and stylistic approaches of comic characters and artist, but in many ways the dialogue is more interesting in the opposite direction, where you see what comics take from fine art, what they can use to actually develop their artistic styles, their sequences, their illustrative approaches. It means that there’s an enormous wealth of material that can be brought from fine art into comics. [...] [...] And reflecting that example has been the growth at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where over the last five or six years there has been a focus on comics, which began as an experiment and proved so successful that now the Frankfurt Book Fair, the biggest book fair certainly I’m aware of, has a major focus on comics every year as the whole artform and medium has taken off. Other festivals like the Leipzig Book Fair as well are now promoting comics in a literary context. We also have in Germany a number of exhibitions which have shown comic art alongside so-called fine art, showing the dialogue and appropriation going on between the two. This is also I think important because people need to realise that the art world will occasionally borrow and blow-up and distort and play with the icons and characters and stylistic approaches of comic characters and artist, but in many ways the dialogue is more interesting in the opposite direction, where you see what comics take from fine art, what they can use to actually develop their artistic styles, their sequences, their illustrative approaches. It means that there’s an enormous wealth of material that can be brought from fine art into comics. [...]

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