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Director’s Commentary: the Man Who Walks takes us through Swear Down

Friday, April 26, 2013

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For our latest Commentary guest I’m delighted to welcome back the Walking Artist, Oli East, one of the few creators working in comics who should probably be sponsored by manufacturers of walking books. We’ve followed Oli’s work going right back to before his first book came out from Blank Slate, and with his new work, [...]

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Director’s Commentary: Bearding Stephen Collins in his den

Thursday, April 18, 2013

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Our latest guest to take the Director’s Commentary stage is Stephen Collins – some of you will already be familiar with some of his output from his work in the Guardian and the anual Cape/Observer/Comica short graphic competition (something we always look forward to). When we heard Stephen had a full length graphic novel coming [...]

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Director’s Commentary supplemental: Army of God, the strange path to publication and the war on terror

Friday, March 8, 2013

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Yesterday we posted a fascinating guest Commentary post from David Axe and Tim Hamitlon about the making of their compelling (and frequently terrifying and horrifying) comics reportage work Army of God – a fascinating work, as well as a good example of how the medium can tackle all sorts of subjects very well, and I [...]

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Director’s Commentary : Army of God

Thursday, March 7, 2013

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Regular readers may recall me blogging on a compelling work of comics reportage by David Axe and Tim Hamilton which was running on one of my regular bookmarked reads, Cartoon Movement. The series was Army of God: Joseph Kony’s War in Central Africa. Kony had come to internet attention via some bizarre online videos, but [...]

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Director’s Commentary: turning to stone – Chris Kent on Medusa

Monday, February 11, 2013

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Chris Kent has been working on Medusa, a graphic novel which combines elements of the War on Terror, the traumas combat can cause in veterans and ancient mythology. I’ve a lifelong fascination for myth and how they relate to the human experience of the world, what they symbolise and what they reveal about the inner [...]

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Directors Commentary art student special – Will Aldis

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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Dan Berry is a comics creator and artist we’ve long admired here on the blog, but he is also a lecturer at the North Wales School of Art & Design at Glyndwr University(where he is the Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication, lecturing on the BA (hons) Illustration, Graphic Novels and Children’s Books degree), helping the next generation of [...]

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Director’s Commentary art student special: Ted Brandt

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

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Dan Berry is a comics creator and artist we’ve long admired here on the blog, but he is also a lecturer at the North Wales School of Art & Design at Glyndwr University(where he is the Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication, lecturing on the BA (hons) Illustration, Graphic Novels and Children’s Books degree), helping the next generation of [...]

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Director’s commentary art student special: Rosy Higgins

Monday, November 26, 2012

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Dan Berry is a comics creator and artist we’ve long admired here on the blog, but he is also a lecturer at the North Wales School of Art & Design at Glyndwr University(where he is the Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication, lecturing on the BA (hons) Illustration, Graphic Novels and Children’s Books degree), helping the next generation of [...]

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Director’s commentary art student special: Heather Wilson

Friday, November 23, 2012

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Dan Berry is a comics creator and artist we’ve long admired here on the blog, but he is also a lecturer at the North Wales School of Art & Design at Glyndwr University(where he is the Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication, lecturing on the BA (hons) Illustration, Graphic Novels and Children’s Books degree), helping the next generation of [...]

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Director’s Commentary art student special: Daisy Hillyard

Thursday, November 22, 2012

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Dan Berry is a comics creator and artist we’ve long admired here on the blog, but he is also a lecturer at the North Wales School of Art & Design at Glyndwr University(where he is the Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication, lecturing on the BA (hons) Illustration, Graphic Novels and Children’s Books degree), helping the next generation of [...]

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