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Why I Like Books

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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The excellent comics creator and artist Al Davison explains why he likes books, spurred on by the early destruction of their family books by his father and his own youthful experimenting by cutting and pasting different parts of different books together to make something new (I’ll forgive him for cutting into books, something of a [...]

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Last few hours for Al Davison’s IndieGoGo fundraiser

Monday, October 24, 2011

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It’s into the last few hours for Al Davison‘s fundraiser on IndieGoGo for his fascinating sounding art book, The Alchemist’s Easel, which he’s trying to garner support for. Al kindly talked us through the book the other week on the blog, if you haven’t seen it go and have a look and if you can [...]

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Director’s commentary: the Alchemist’s Easel

Thursday, October 13, 2011

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A real treat for you today as the very fine Al Davison graces us with a Director’s Commentary post. I’ve very much admired Al’s work since his autobiographical comics work The Spiral Cage, in which he used the medium to great effect to expand on his lifelong struggle against spina bifida and the related health [...]

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The Alchemist’s Easel

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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The very fine artist Al Davison is trying to produce a fascinating-sounding new art book, The Alchemist’s Easel, and he has set up an IndieGoGo page to try and raise the funds to publish it. From the description: “One morning in 1988 I woke up to find I’d gone blind. At the time I had [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, August 4, 2011

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As our sudden burst of summer warmth one more turns to the more familiar British summer weather of rain and cloud, here’s little ray of virtual sunshine Alex Fitch with news of his upcoming comics and SF related shows; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous [...]

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New at BICS… Al Davison’s Hokusai Demons

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

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Al Davison’s latest graphic novel is available for the first time at BICS this weekend. Previews at Davison’s Facebook. It does look rather lovely though…. and here’s the trailer to show you exactly what I mean. (Alternative direct You Tube link)

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Muscle Memory

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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The brilliant Al Davison has been posting up pages from his work in progress, Muscle Memory: a Survivor’s Story, which as you might expect from Al, is powerful, moving, very personal and fascinating, as well as incorporating some terrific comics artwork, colouring and layouts. I’m looking forward to seeing the whole work when Al’s finished, [...]

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Al Davison’s Muscle Memory serialised online…..

Saturday, August 14, 2010

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Al Davison, author of the seminal Spiral Cage, is currently serialising his new graphic novel “Muscle Memory” online in advance of it’s publication. Definitely worth a look….

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Caption guests announced

Friday, May 21, 2010

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Selina Locke tells us that this year’s Caption – titled Mad Science (our favourite kind of science) – has officially announced its first guests for this year’s bash at the end of July; here’s Selina with the latest: “Sydney Padua will be joining us. Sydney is the creator of webcomic “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace [...]

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Al Davison’s Gaimanda

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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From Al Davison’s dreamblog: “This is a dream I had on hearing that my good friend Neil Gaiman was getting engaged to the amazing Amanda Palmer. It’s full title is: ‘Neil Gaiman reading from American Gods, for a tribe of shape changing Arapaho cats, accompanied by Amanda Palmer playing ukulele and singing a duet with [...]

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Al Davison’s new dream-art blog

Sunday, February 28, 2010

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(Left: The Dancer, right; Feeding Time. © Al Davison) Coventry based writer/artist Al Davison, author of the quite wonderful Spiral Cage has started up a new dream art blog: Id-iomatics. Little on there yet, but Davison will be adding more over the next few weeks.

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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As Doctor Who fans prepare for this weekend’s new episode here’s Alex Fitch, fresh from foraging for jelly babies, to update us to the latest shows he’s involved in, including, appropriately enough, a Doctor Who angle; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to previous shows: Strip! – Doctor Who [...]

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