The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

Paul Gravett alerts us to a couple of splendid sounding Comica events coming up next month which those in the London area will want to stick into their diaries – on June the 2nd at 6.45pm in the ICA there will be a special event with Messrs Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill, Esquire, ittinerent artists and gentlemen-around-town to discuss the first part of their new League of Extraorindary Gentlemen book, Century: 1910, published by Knockabout and Top Shelf (see here for the first part of recent interview with Alan in which they discussed LOEG in depth).

On June the 20th at 6.30pm in the ICA there will be a look at la nouvelle bande dessinée, a comics movement which “has swept through French comics and now two of its most dynamic members are translated into English. Émile Bravo draws My Mommy, about a boy’s yearning for his mother, and revives Belgian classic Spirou. Emmanuel Guibert chronicles one GI’s experiences in Alan’s War (reviewed here) and works with photographer Didier Lefèvre to record a mission in Afghanistan in Doctors without Borders. Both will be in conversation with Comica’s Paul Gravett, and will sign books.”