Tag Archive | "exhibition"

The Art of Fishtown

Monday, January 24, 2011

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Kevin Colden tells us that he’s going to be giving a rare exhibition of some of the art from his acclaimed, Eisner-nominated graphic novel Fishtown on Saturday February 12th from 6 to 9pm at South Philly Comics, 1621 E Passyunk Ave, Philadelphia (yes, Kevin will be in attendance).

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Ink and the Bottle – Drunken Cartoonists and Drink in Cartoons

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

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Ink and the Bottle is a new exhibition opening to day in the Cartoon Museum in London, billed as “a merry exhibition on the pleasures and perils of the ‘demon drink’ starting with a swig of gin from Hogarth and Cruikshank.” Bloghorn reports that the exhibition also includes works from Heath Robinson, Giles, Gillray, Royston [...]

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Edd’s Heads

Monday, November 1, 2010

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While I was home visiting my dad at the weekend we got down to see Edd Travers‘ exhibition of caricatures and cartooning I mentioned last week (see here) at the Auld Kirk Museum in Kirkintilloch (on the edge of Glasgow). There were some very cool works on display (I thought Edd’s version of Matt Smith [...]

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Edd’s Heads

Monday, October 25, 2010

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Those of you who have been with us for a good while might recall way back in 2006 I blogged about a collection from the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio called Fizzers, a book from Mercat Press which showcased caricatures and cartoons of famous Scots by the various artists in the Studio. In a rather nice [...]

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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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Treasures from across the continent

Friday, October 15, 2010

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Until the end of this year, Belgium acts as President of the European Council.  On that occasion, the Belgian Comics Centre presents a rather exquisite collection of original comic art by fifty creators from all over Europe. World famous cartoonist like Alain de Saint-Ogan, Hugo Pratt or Hergé share the walls of the exhibition with [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Art Trek 7

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

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Mekanik Strip is not just the best (or at least the coolest) comics store in the fair city of Antwerp, it’s also a quite unique gallery which regularly showcases artwork by some of the world’s most famous cartoonists, as well as graphic art by up and comic artists, illustrators and designers. Every year Belgian artist [...]

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Opening this week: HyperComics

Monday, August 9, 2010

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Opening this week in Pump House Gallery in London’s Battersea Park is the Hypercomics exhibition, featuring work from Dave McKean, Adam Dant, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Warren Pleece, curated by Paul Gravett. Unlike a traditional, linear narrative followed straight, page to page, the idea here is that, like hypertext (or Hypercard for those of us [...]

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Malcy Duff, Prints of Darkness

Friday, July 30, 2010

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Caught the viewing of the Prints of Darkness album cover art exhibition in the Edinburgh Printmaker’s Studio I blogged about a few days ago and met local comics creator Malcy Duff; I had no problem recognising which art in the gallery came from Malcy, unsurprisingly. The exhibition runs until the 4th of September in the [...]

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Prints of Darkness

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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Malcy Duff gives us a heads-up to a new exhibition at the Edinburgh Printmakers studio and gallery, which includes album cover artwork by eleven Scottish artists, including Malcy. The exhibition runs at the Printmakers on 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, until September 4th; check the site for more details of the exhibition and various related events.

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Cycling in London

Friday, July 9, 2010

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The Guardian reports on an exhibition hosted by the London Transport Museum on a theme of cycling in the city, environment and health. Out of over a thousand entries some fifty have been selected for exhibition, including one by one of the talented UK small press comics community, Luke Pearson. And as a bonus his [...]

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Julie Doucet prints exhibition in Brighton

Saturday, May 1, 2010

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April Williams kindly drops us a line to let us know that the excellent Julie Doucet currently has an exhibition running at the Castor + Pollux on Brighton’s Lower Prom. The show contains linocut illustrations by Julie that were created for Chroniques de New York by Jean-Francois Jouanne. If you are in the Brighton area [...]

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Oli East and friends exhibiting in Manchester this week

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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As Richard noted at the weekend Oli East has the third of his Trains Are Mint series from Blank Slate, Berlin and That, coming out this week, and to go along with it there’s an exhibition of artwork from Oli and his friends who contributed to the work, opening this week in Manchester. For this [...]

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Stomach Pump and the Salford Zine Library

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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Craig Barr and Matthew Walkerdine drops us a line to let us know of  some upcoming ‘zine goodness happening in Salford next month, with the Stomach Pump exhibition which showcases  “a collection of over 400 mimeographed and xeroxed zines, publications and mixtapes featuring fandom, letters and science-fiction commentary dating back nearly 40 years.” Alongside this [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Rabagliati in Paris

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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The following may be a bit of old news for some of you, but it got lost in the barrage of news that was waiting for me when I opened up my Google Reader on Easter Monday and I’d imagine some readers won’t have seen it yet either: The Centre for Canadian Culture (Centre Culturel [...]

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