Tag Archive | "Comica"

Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize for 2011

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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Paul Gravett kindly lets us know that the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story competition and prize will be continuing this year, the fifth time it will have run, which is good news for Brit comics and comics creators. I did worry that in our current climate of slashing cutbacks that something like this might have been [...]

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Comic Cons – in pictures!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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Comics creator, snapper, gentleman and all round good chap Sean Azzopardi has taken a lot of photos at the many comics conventions and festivals he’s been to, from Bristol, Brimingham and Caption and Comica to Angouleme, Stripdagen, Malta and TCAF. Now he’s brought all his photo sets from the various conventions, covering several years and [...]

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When the comics went to war

Friday, January 7, 2011

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Good chum of the blog Alex Fitch alerts us to an upcoming comics conference this summer which he is helping to curate. It’s called Comics and Conflict and the irreplaceable Paul Gravett has just posted up the first details of it on his site. From the description: “The Comics & Conflicts Conference is aimed at [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, December 2, 2010

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As we collectively shiver under the icy blast of winter snow here’s Alex Fitch to put the carrot nose on our virtual snowman. As always, for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows check the Panel Borders site. Panel Borders: The man who painted cats, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast afterwards [...]

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Comica Festival 2010

Saturday, November 27, 2010

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The annual Comica festival is reaching it’s final week, but the quality of the events doesn’t let up. Highlights for the week ahead include Paul Gravett: From Escape To Now – The man at the crossroads chats about Escape magazine and his current role - Monday, November 29. Bryan Talbot and Steve Bell – In Conversation [...]

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The 2010 Observer/Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story Winner is…..

Sunday, November 7, 2010

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The annual Comica/Observer/Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story Prize winners were announced today online and in the Observer newspaper. The 2010 winner is Stephen Collins, someone already much loved by us on the FPI blog for the work we’ve seen in Solipsistic Pop. His winning entry, entitled In Room 208, is published in today’s Observer. There’s [...]

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Upcoming: Comica Comiket (7th November)

Sunday, October 31, 2010

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This coming Sunday in London has the return of the Comica Comiket independent comics fair. It’s happening as part of the annual Comica festival, curated by Paul Gravett. Previous years events have been great successes and from the looks of it, this years should be no exception. Very little word on exhibitors yet, aside from [...]

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Comica Festival (5th November – 1st December)

Saturday, October 30, 2010

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The annual Comica festival, curated by Paul Gravett kicks off this Friday. As usual, it sees a host of comic related events, at a variety of locations around London. Full details on the Comica website, but selected highlights include: The “That”s Novel” exhibition featuring the work of a veritable who’s who of modern comics in [...]

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Frames of Mind

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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Among the slate of cool events coming up as part of Comica, I notice that there’s one which promises to be fascinating, with Brick and Darryl Cunningham discussing Depresso and Psychiatric Tales. I imagine this will be a superb event, with both artists drawing on personal experience and discussing a form of comics which is [...]

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My Cardboard Life pops up at Comica’s That’s Novel

Saturday, October 23, 2010

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Isn’t this just wonderful? Philippa Rice’s brilliant My Cardboard Life is part of the That’s Novel exhibition of British comics at London Print Studio (22nd Oct-18th Dec) that Joe covered last week. But it’s no ordinary My Cardboard Life – this one’s big and it’s in 3D. Here’s the 2D comic: Here it is with the [...]

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Comica: That’s Novel

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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Oh lucky comics folks in London, this week sees the opening of one of the major exhibitions to go with this year’s Comica, That’s Novel. There’s a special launch event tomorrow evening, Thursday 21st, and the exhibition runs fully from October 22nd to the 19th of December at the London Print Studio. From the description [...]

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The Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize

Thursday, September 30, 2010

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There’s just under a week to go until the deadline for this year’s Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize, a happening which has now become a bit of an annual event among the UK comics folks. It’s been great to see this becoming more established and it is a terrific opportunity for the talent in [...]

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Judith Vanistendael in London

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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As Tom Spurgeon would put it on Comics Reporter, if I were in London I’d go to this: Belgian artist Judith Vanistendael’s semi autobiographical Dance by the Light of the Moon is one of the titles I’ve really been looking forward to in this autumn’s releases, not least because Wim has said good things of [...]

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The Comica/Observer/Cape Graphic Short Fiction prize 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010

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This year’s Comics/Observer/Jonathan Cape graphic short fiction prize is open for entries, with this year’s judges including Audrey Niffenegger, David Hughes, Rachel Cooke, Dan Franklin, Suzanne Dean and Paul Gravett. First prize is £1000 and publication of the winning four page comics short in the Observer (so a good chance to show of both your [...]

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How a comic is made

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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On Thursday 21st of January you can “discover the secrets behind writing and drawing comics, graphic novels and manga, revealed by creators featured in the ComiXmas Exhibition at a free event held at the LondonPrintStudio Gallery.” The event, chaired by Paul Gravett, will include Andrzej Klimowsk, Danusia Schejbal, Nana Li, Woodrow Phoenix and Brit comics [...]

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