Tag Archive | "biography"

Graphic memoirs

Thursday, April 19, 2012

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Over on the Guardian Bryan and Mary Talbot select out ten of their favourite graphic biographies/memoirs (as well as briefly tackling the inadequacy of the catch-all term ‘graphic novel’, especially when dealing with non fiction works). Bryan says that the idea was only to pick from works which were full length works and while I’m [...]

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Director’s Commentary – Mary Talbot

Friday, January 13, 2012

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I’m always fascinated to learn more about how works of art come into being, be it comics, books, films or any other medium; I find it often informs my reading of a text more, allowing me to appreciate more elements and aspects of it. One of the pleasures of editing the FP blog is that [...]

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Hellraisers – celebrating the cartoon drunks…

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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Hellraisers – A Graphic Biography By Robert Sellers and JAKe SelfMadeHero “The story of four of the greatest boozers of all time: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole and Oliver Reed. Robert Sellers and Jake seamlessly weave their four stories into one fast-paced adventure of drunken binges, orgies, parties and fun. Told through the eyes [...]

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Born to raise hell

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

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SelfMadeHero, one of our consistently solid fave publishers, is starting to establish a bit of a rep for some pretty cool graphic biographies, following the excellent Cash: I See a Darkness, Baby’s in Black and Gonzo. And they’re doing it again as this week sees the launch of Hellraisers – no, not the inside story [...]

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Nicola Streeten at Cartoon County this evening

Monday, October 24, 2011

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Nicola Streeten, who has recently published Billy, Me & You, a powerful graphic memoir of dealing with the loss of a child, will be the guest at the Cartoon County meeting tonight (24th October) from 7.30pm upstairs at the Cricketer’s, Black Lion Street, Brighton (thanks to David Lloyd for the link)

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Trains Are Mint #7 online

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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Oli East tells us that the seventh Trains Are Mint is now online, totally free for you to go an read. Got to say I’m impressed with TAM #7; we’ve noted on here several times that Oli just keeps improving as time goes by, but I have to say I’m finding this issue, which is [...]

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The Man In Black – in perfect black and white….

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt (Hurt by Trent Reznor, but made perfect by Johnny Cash) I’ve just finished Reinhard Kleist’s wonderful graphic biography of Johnny [...]

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“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash”

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Cash: I See a Darkness Reinhard Kleist Self Made Hero “If you wanna save your soul from hell, cowboy, then change your ways today. Or you’ll ride with us through these endless skies, forever on the hunt for the Devil’s herd...” Ghost Riders in the Sky To say award-winning German comics creator Reinhard Kleist’s graphic [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Logicomix, a philosophical biography in comics

Thursday, September 10, 2009

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On September 4, 1939, just after Great-Britain had declared war with Germany, philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell spoke to a very sceptical American audience about the “Role of logic in human affairs”.  This anecdote is the starting point for Logicomix, a graphic novel about the origins of Russell’s lifelong search to find the undeniable logical [...]

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The Man In Black

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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“Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, Why you never see bright colours on my back, And why does my appearance seem to have a sombre tone. Well, there’s a reason for the things that I have on. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, [...]

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