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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – David Enker, Sally Romagueras, John Riordan, Nigel Gilbert and Paul Francis

15. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. More of the “non-winners” of the Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize. …… (David Enker – The Sleeper.) (John Riordan – Olympus School) (Nigel Gilbert – Starcross’d) (Paul Francis – Tower Hamlets.) (Sally Romagueras – My White Dad) And The Winner Isn’t: Introduction to the idea. And that is it for this year. Hopefully you’ve [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Francesca Cassavetti, James Milroy, Paul Shinn, Moel Fox, Aidan Potts

15. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Last weekend we extensively covered a lot of the “non-winners” of the Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize. The plan was that we’d just do those few posts and move on. Except all this past week I’ve been seeing more and more of the entries crop up online. [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Jim Medway & Andi Watson

8. November 2009

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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 [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Sion Smith & Charlotte Rose, Mickey Lam & Hannah Forward,

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Fire Sermon by Sion Smith and Charlotte Rose (available as an free ebook here) – a very different style from a lot of the entries it seems, and Sion says on the Tales From The Zodiac Lung blog that “they were obviously looking for something very [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Laurie J Proud, Maddy Vian, Khaled Abou Alfa & Dan Archer

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Three very different styles on show with these entries, first up is Laurie J Proud’s entry Aubrey, which brilliantly features the line “We moved away in 1948 after Dad went mad and burned the shed down”. And then there’s Maddy Vian’s IDEAS – Maddy is very [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Hugh Raine, Matilda Tristram & the mystery that is Thorsten Sideboard.

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Hugh Raine up first, whose very funny comics we featured here, with his entry Maryl. Following that is Matilda Tristram’s entry Sloth and Spiders and finally for this post, from the ever growing Flickr group here’s the entry by “Thorsten Sideb0ard“. I’ve looked but I can’t [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – David Litchfield, Key NG and Martin Simpson.

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Three very different styles on show with these entries, first up is David Litchfield’s entry Bill and Joyce, which I found from the developing Graphic Short Story Prize Flickr group. And then there’s Flu Fighters by Key NG. And finally we have Martin Simpsons Tinned Peaches [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Jason Cobley & Paul Harrison Davies, Natalie d’Arbeloff & Frances Castle

7. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Next up we have the entry from the writer and artist team of Jason Cobley and Paul Harrison Davies – a reworking of their Hugo The Zombie strip from the Accent UK Zombies special. Following that we have the entry by illustrator Frances Castle as she [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Rob Davis, David O’Connell, Luke Pearson

7. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. To kick things off, the first “non-winner” that I saw online a couple of weeks ago: Rob Davis. Rob put his excellent entry “How I Built My Father” up on his blog here, complete with a little explanatory commentary here. And then David O’Connell brings us [...]

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And the winner of the Cape/Observer 2099 Graphic Short Story Prize ISN’T………

7. November 2009

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Last weekend, the Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story prize was announced. Our post on it is here, together with rather a lot of comments. Even before the winner’s announcement I had been thinking it would be nice to put up a few of the “non-winners” as the quality of the work looked really high. But since [...]

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

1. November 2009

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The annual Observer/Cape graphic short story award prize winners were announced today online nd in the Observer. The 1st prize was awarded to Vivien McDermid with her story “Paint”. Described as a “vividly captured and tender story” that was a “touching portrayal of mother with a small toddler“. Vivien will receive a cheque for £1000 at [...]

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Comica news – Graphic Short Story prize announced & Campbell and Brown in conversation

1. November 2009

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Okay, the Comica festival happens all the way through November and full details are up at the Comica website. But here’s a recent announcement we wanted to share with you. Just confirmed is the news that Eddie Campbell (Alec, From Hell) will be in conversation with Scottish pioneer of stand-up comedy, Arnold Brown at Comica on [...]

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Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Fiction deadline extended

22. September 2009

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Due to industrial action by the Royal Mail the organisers of this year’s Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica short graphic fiction prize have decided to extend the deadline to allow for any delays that are outwith the control of entrants – the deadline now moves from September 25th to October 19th. The first couple of years of the [...]

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New Observer/Cape/Comics graphic short fiction competition announced

20. July 2009

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Paul Gravett kindly drops us a line to let us know that this year’s Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica competition for short graphical fiction was announced in Sunday’s Observer. This is rapidly becoming a major event in the UK comics calendar, offering not just a chance for comics creators to try their luck but to also perhaps catch [...]

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Observer/Cape Short Graphic Story prize winner 2008 in the DFC

21. February 2009

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The latest issue of the DFC (#38) features some great work as it does every week, but this week sees the start of two new strips: Spectrum Black and Chicken Caesar Jnr. Spectrum Black looks rather like a Ben 10 cartoon but does so in a good way – not appealing to me, but Molly thought [...]

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