Two of my favourite Scottish-based comics creators, John and Sandra from Metaphrog (home to the wonderful Louis graphic novels), dropped me a line to say they will be taking part in the Six Cities Design Festival in bonnie Dundee towards the end of May, where they will be giving a talk as well as exhibiting some of the original artwork from their Louis books. Having enjoyed the discussion on European comics at the Glasgow Goethe Institut last winter in which John and Sandra took part (along with Paul Gravett, Marc Baines and Arne Bellstorf – a transcript of that talk is available on the blog here) I’d highly recommend anyone in the area takes advantage of this chance (and equally I’d recommend reading the Louis books if you haven’t already).
John and Sandra don’t have full details yet, although they know there are others taking part including, hopefully, Hunt Emerson, with Paul Gravett on the list along too, with numerous discussions about comics and their relations to other media and the history of comics in the city (Dundee being home to the mighty D C Thomson empire); the details so far for John and Sandra’s event (thanks, guys) are:
Talk: Meeting with Metaphrog:
As part of the Six Cities Design Festival:
‘Biff! Bam!! Crikey!!!: Comics As Design and Entertainment‘, metaphrog will be presenting their work and talking about the creative process applied to graphic novels.
When: FRIDAY 25th MAY, 3.00pm
Where: D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre,
Tower Building, University of Dundee, UK.
Exhibition:
Original artwork from their Louis series will be exhibited.
Exhibition Launch: FRIDAY 25th MAY, 5.30pm , Tower Foyer and Lamb Gallery, University of Dundee, UK.
Watch this space for more details soon…
The Festival will celebrate the history of comics in Dundee as well as exploring comics as art, popular culture and design. With stalls, exhibitions, and talks on comics by leading comics scholars and historians, including Paul Gravett, Roger Sabin, Chris Murray and more.
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For programme info and to book your place click here
‘Biff! Bam!! Crikey!!!: Comics As Design and Entertainment’:
When: Fri 25th & Sat 26th May 2007
Where: D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building University of Dundee, Scotland.
All Welcome!
Six Cities Design Festival
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May 2nd, 2007 at 10:01 am
[...] Sandra and John from the Glasgow-based Metaphrog have kindly sent me an update of their upcoming talk and art exhibition of Louis comics work in Dundee, mentioned here last week, which is shaping up into a very interesting-looking comics event: [...]
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