Comments on: The Observer short graphic tale competition

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:20:05 +0000

I don’t know why comics are so desperate for approval from the literary world. What has that ever done for comics? If you want to see the full extent of the Observer’s condecension to the genre, look no further than ‘Mange comes of age’ (of course before the Observer got interested in it, Manga was just for kids, wasn’t it? And why is the title referring to ‘Manga’ anyway?

http://books.guardian.co.uk/de.....90,00.html

The best bit in this self-congratulatory, poorly researched piece of filler is the line “And now here we are launching a transistorised version, what I believe is the English-speaking world’s first graphic short story…” Excuse me? Is the newspaper under the illusion that it has created a genre? Amazing.

By: The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » Away in a Manger

The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log » Away in a Manger — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:03:34 +0000

[...] I’m indebted to a reader going under the initials ‘Myf’ who kindly contacted me to say that they had posted a series of links to the Observer comic strip competition (see yesterday’s post) – Drawanyway has links to a PDF of the winning piece, Away in a Manger by Catherine Brighton, as well as Stuart Kolakovic’s The Box which took second prize and The Waitress by Finn Dean and Sam Green which took third (Drawanyway notes that there wasn’t originally going to be a third prize but it was created especially so the judges could honour this strip too, which speaks pretty highly of it). The blog also has links to discussions of the prize and the works as well as more comics strips – very nice to be able to actually see now what was being discussed. [...]

By: Myf

Myf — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:42:29 +0000

I’m gathering together links to entrants’ strips, if anyone would like to see them – here: http://www.drawanyway.com/2007.....y-entrants

I don’t think this is the only site doing that, either. I’m gratified that in the modern age we can all see, and judge for ourselves, the work submitted. Quite revolutionary when you think about it – previously, competition winners were announced and no-one would have any idea how they compared with the rest of the field.

By: oliver east

oliver east — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:35:06 +0000

here’s stuart’s piece;

http://bp1.blogger.com/_QemkpO.....gfinal.jpg