Comments on: And the 2009 Observer/Cape graphic short story prize winner is…….

By: Shanarama

Shanarama — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:23:32 +0000

Thanks for the tip Frances. I’ll get onto it.

By: Frances

Frances — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:17:47 +0000

Hi Shanarama
Yes you do need to have a flickr account first – it is very easy to set up, and a good way to display work so worth having. Once you have uploaded work to your account you can then join my group.

By: Shanarama

Shanarama — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:09:28 +0000

I just wanted to say how much I loved Paul Francis’s; Frances’s; Shug’s (2008 one); Rob Davis’s; Laurie’s and Khaled’s work. I thought that your entries were all so great and diverse.
Frances, I am so ignorant of how the world of the web works that I can’t seem to see more than 5 in your group and do I have to join flickr to put my work in the group thing?
It’s really wonderful to see such great work out there. I just went to a fab talk about a Manga artist called Hoshino Yukinobu and I thought, we need an adult graphic comic with all our work in, a bi-monthly anthology, just like theirs… Wouldn’t that be good!

By: Paul Francis

Paul Francis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:16:27 +0000

I’ve put my entry here: http://www.paulfranciscomics.c.....fuses.html.

Paint has a rather lovely post-war visual style. I like its ambiguous attitude towards home and settled life – she loves her flat, but also wants to destroy it, and she feels nostalgia for living in a caravan.

Thanks for showing the losing entries, FP. Should have sent mine in earlier.

By: Nigel Gilbert

Nigel Gilbert — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:56:22 +0000

With one exception, I get the feeling you all agree that there is a consistency in the type of stories that won both this year and last. The debate can roll on about what motivates this kind of choice/judgement but it is a ‘fact of life’ and unless the rules and the judges change in 2010 the same type of story will win again. I think this is one reason why the Competition website includes previous winners- precisely to demonstrate this consistency of result. This is not unprecedented- in the art world for instance, if you’re not a painter of large scale abstracts you don’t enter for the John Moores prize

Those of us who don’t make this kind of work should learn and move on. Use the competition as a spur to get work moving if you must but don’t expect to win. And all the internet coverage of the ‘unsuccessful’ just now has to be good from every point of view

By: Nick Tesco

Nick Tesco — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:24:06 +0000

Having read the winner of this competition I can only think that the competition organisers should be done under the Trades Description Act. Paint looks and reads like a children’s book, and a poor one at that. While I have some sympathy with the arguments as to whether it’s all a middle-class conspiracy etc etc you have to be honest and say that the story is so damn twee as to be almost an emetic.

By: Shug

Shug — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:29:22 +0000

I’ve added mine to the Flickr group.

Cheers!

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:15:07 +0000

A wonderful lot of comments on this post – you may all be interested to know that we’re doing a series of follow up posts of the “non-winners” of the Comica/Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize this weekend.

Just select the Graphic Short Story category on the right hand sidebar:
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/b.....ory-prize/

By: Maddy

Maddy — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:06:55 +0000

Rob, you were one of the people I saw a while back and expected to win. Its brilliant.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:45:24 +0000

Great cartooning Rob – lovely strip.