Tag Archive | "exhibition"

Tillieux in Brussels

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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The Maison de la Bande Dessinée in Brussels, near the Gare du Midi, may be less well-known than the Belgian Comic Strip Museum, but it is equally deserving of your visit.  That is, if you are a comic buff who is mad about original art.  Don’t expect any animation activities (except for some lone colouring [...]

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Stool Pigeon Exhibition – starts Friday

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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The Stool Pigeon is a regular, completely free music paper with a great comic section. We’ve looked at it several times here at the FPI blog and it’s very pleasing to hear that there will be an exhibition of Stool Pigeon artwork in the gallery space at Orbital London. The exhibition will feature artwork from [...]

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Peyo in Paris

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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Those among you who have a soft spot for the little blue dwarves that are the Smurfs, who are awaiting the upcoming Smurfs movie with dread in their hearts and would rather dwell on the fact that Smurfs creator Peyo originally created some actually pretty fine comics, and who happen to be in Paris, are [...]

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Diluting Orange – a new show from Malcy Duff

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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Malcy Duff tells us that he has a new exhibition of his artwork about to be unveiled in Edinburgh’s Total Kunst gallery (3 Bristo Place, near Edinburgh Uni and a few minutes stroll from the Edinburgh FPI as it happens). “The exhibition is called ‘Diluting Orange’ and is a mixture of drawings and other pieces, [...]

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Out of this World exhibit at the British Library

Thursday, May 26, 2011

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As we’ve mentioned here a couple of times recently, the British Library in London has just started an enticing exhibition entitled Out of this World: Science Fiction, But Not as You Know it. James Bacon was fortunate enough to get along the sample the BL’s science fictional offerings and I’m delighted to say he was [...]

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Illustrated London

Friday, May 13, 2011

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This isn’t comics but it is such a gorgeous piece of illustration I thought I had to share it on here, I know some of you will appreciate it: Abigail Daker created a gorgeous, colourful illustrated map of London following the mighty Thames. On her blog she talks about creating the map and how she [...]

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Alan Moore at the British Library

Thursday, May 12, 2011

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(cover art to upcoming second part of LOEG: Century by and (c) Alan Moore and Kev O’Neill, published Knockabout/Top Shelf) James Bacon alerts us to the fact that our great, bearded magus of Albion, Alan Moore, will be giving a talk at no less august a literary institution than the British Library (British Library and [...]

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To do in London today: Under the damp earth

Thursday, May 5, 2011

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If you are in London then your must-do is a visit to a new exhibtion by those splendid Nobrow folks, Under The Damp Earth by the excellent Stuart Kolakovic. There is an opening event this very evening from 6.30 onwards (check their Facebook page to RSVP for the evening’s private viewing)  and Stuart’s show also [...]

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But I don’t want to go among mad people…

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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There’s still a few days left to enjoy the free exhibition of Alice in Wonderland books at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge, Edinburgh (the bridge parallel to Southbridge where the Edinburgh FP can be found). I visited recently (conveniently it is open till 8pm most evenings, so you can even visit [...]

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Bastia as if you were there…

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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Those amongst us who were unable to attend the comic festival in Bastia this weekend, fear not !  Thanks to the good people of Bodoï, the French comics blog of choice, you can at least pretend you were there.  The past few days, they presented lavishly illustrated reports of all the important exhibitions. The main [...]

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The Cuts

Thursday, March 24, 2011

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Bloghorn reports on a new exhibition opening today, Cuts, which showcases the work of 16 young illustrators using the visual medium to pass comment on the savage public spending cuts the current coalition government seems to enjoy telling us we so desperately need (hmm, perhaps we might believe them if we didn’t see senior bankers [...]

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Marriage and cartoons

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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With the royal wedding bearing down on us (evoking tired sighs or excited yipes depending on your viewpoint) the BBC site has a slideshow of the state of matrimony as seen through the lens of the cartoonist over the centuries, from the modern (the upcoming royal wedding comic, give me strength…) to rather classier work [...]

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An Angoulême parody

Friday, March 11, 2011

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BoDoi has a post up on the BD exhibition at Angoulême which shows off parodies of famous comics from Europe and the US, from Cowboy Henk to Peanuts (channeling Kafka no less!) to a very naughty version of the Smurfs. Go and have a browse through them for a good giggle! The exhibition runs until [...]

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More than just the Beano

Friday, February 18, 2011

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The Auld Kirk Museum in Kirkintilloch, on the outskirts of Glasgow, has a new comics themed exhibition, following on from their recent showing of Edd’s Heads, the caricatures and cartooning of Edd Travers. From the descritpion: “With the birth of Eagle in 1950, British comics entered their heyday. Boys’ and girls’ comics sold in their [...]

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Gag me With a Toon

Friday, February 11, 2011

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LA Weekly’s Style Council reports from Meltdown Comics‘ Gag Me With a Toon 3 exhibition, which features a bunch of artists, including Jhonen Vasquez, Jessicka Adams, Roman Dirge, Jim Mahfood and more. The idea is to create modern art inspired by the classic cartoons the artists remember from childhood, which can lead to works like [...]

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