Tag Archive | "crafts"

“Hey! Who’s This Guy?”

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

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The fine Nobrow comics and art folks are hosting an exhibition of crafted work by Louise Evans, better known to many of us as the Felt Mistress, in their London outlet. Not strictly comics, but Louise has a big following among many of the UK comics creators on the scene because she creates such fab [...]

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Getting the Funke out

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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Over on Craft Heroes the one and only Ellen Lindner (late of this parish, now taken herself overseas) spotlights the Netherlands’ Jeroen Funke and his work, which combines comics work with some totally fab looking fabric and papercraft work: “Ellen: When did it become clear that it was something you could integrate into your comics [...]

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Crocheted Who!

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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I think these are just fabulous – Evil Crochet Genius has crafted a complete set of all eleven Doctors via the magic of crochet (tip of the hat to Squeezegut Alley for the link) And on a related note we have to give a shout out to comics and knitting mad creative Lauren O’Farrell. I [...]

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Comics quilting

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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Insomnia’s Red Eye blog has a photograph of a “double page bedspread” (as author Cy Dethan described it) – its a 90″ by 70″ quilt based on Stephen Downey’s artwork from Cancertown. There’s more on this bed linen/comics crossover on the blog of the quilter responsible, Ferret. That’s one of the more unusual and cooler [...]

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