For an explanation of all this – see here.
To end our little look at the great works entered for the Graphic Short Story Prize we have two familiar names to the regular readers of this blog. First up Jim Medway, who comes up with the beautiful and frankly hilarious Paul Crystal, Graphic Designer. But, like Jim says: “For the benefit of those who are not Observer readers (the foreign and the non-middle class), the story pokes fun at the pretensions of many of their features, whilst berating the Saturday Guardian (same publisher) for so savagely dropping the Comic section. Which might be why I didn’t win”. I was very tempted to run all four pages here – we do get “proper” comics from page 2!
And after Jim Medway we have Andi Watson to close out our look at all of the entries that didn’t win this year. Andi, as you should know is the very talented creator of Glister, Breakfast Afternoon, Slow News Day and Little Star amongst others. His work is always a delight and could very well be exactly what you’re looking for this Christmas to give as presents to all your family. He takes the interesting route of using his 4 pages to do his own little “choose your own adventure tale” of Derek’s Dreadful Dungeon Diversion. Typically wonderful.
(Jim Medway – Paul Crystal, Graphic Designer)
(Andi Watson – Derek’s Dreadful Dungeon Diversion)
And that’s it. Hope you enjoyed our little wander through some of the entries for this years Observer / Cape Graphic Short Story Prize. I think the quality of what we’ve seen is pretty damn good, don’t you?
And The Winner Isn’t: Introduction to the idea.
Sun, Nov 8, 2009
Art and animation, Comics and cartoons, Competitions, Graphic Short Story Prize