Tag Archive | "exhibitions"

From our continental correspondent – comics in Belgium? Political turmoil!

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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(A quick note in advance : if you’re not familiar with Belgium’s constitutional setup, read up here – and don’t laugh, this is serious) It seemed like quite a good idea : let’s put up an exhibition in the Flemish Parliament buildings celebrating that artform that our country is rightly famous for: comics. And so [...]

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Exhibitions: the Vice Illustration Show

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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Coming up this month, the Vice magazine gang have the Vice Illustration Show kicking off in the Pure Evil Gallery in London’s Shoreditch (108 Leonard St) from 17th of May to the 2nd of June, and includes prints and original art from the likes of Johnny Ryan, Cei Willis, Jonny Negron and Krent Able. (Above: [...]

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Comics and art – James talks to Rian Hughes about Image Duplicator

Monday, May 13, 2013

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Image Duplicator 16th to the 31st May Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H When I first saw ‘Whamm’ by Robert Lichtenstein as a child, and I suspect it was in London, somewhere like Athena, I wanted to know what comic it was from, and I could never get my head around the explanation [...]

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Upcoming: Tripwire 21, launch and exhibition

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

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Well sadly the Kickstarter for Tripwire 21 didn’t make its goal, despite a lot of continual effort from editor Joel Meadows and support from all over the comicsphere. But despair not, for Tripwire 21 is still going to be published via more traditional channels. In fact there will be a launch night at London literary [...]

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Awards: Manga Jiman winners announced

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

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The nice folk at the Embassy of Japan in London kindly dropped us a line to let us know they have posted up the results of their annual Manga Jiman comics award, which, now in its sixth year, has become one of the fixtures on the UK comics calendar. This year the winning entry was [...]

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Art: exhibition of William Simpson’s work at Belfast’s W5

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

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(above, creators David Benioff and DB Weiss depicted by William Simpson in Game of Thrones battle gear) Artist William Simpson, well known to comics readers for his work on a number of major strips for various publishers, including Hellblazer, Vamps (I loved Vamps! I’m reliably informed a couple of his Vamps designs were inspired by [...]

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Comics: the art of Alex Ross at the Norman Rockwell Museum

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

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Heroes & Villains: The Comic Book Art of Alex Ross Exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum. Stockbridge, Mass, USA. (Alex Ross, “JLA: The Original Seven”, 2000, courtesy of the artist, ™ & © DC Comics. Used with permission.) Two hours west of Boston, deep into the New England countryside where the land is known as [...]

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Comics: digital art for exhibition

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

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Marko Ajdaric drops us a brief note about a new approach some of his fellow comics lovers in South America are trying out – digitally ‘signed’ art sent to them for display. The idea seems to be to find a way to show off comic artwork but in places where it previously wasn’t feasible to [...]

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Comics: the Dandy exhibition in Dundee

Friday, December 7, 2012

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The University of Dundee’s resident comics and expressive shirts expert, Doctor Chris Murray, alerts us to a new exhibition in the city which is home to publisher DC Thomson: opening on Saturday 8th at 2pm at the University of Dundee’s Tower Building the exhibition celebrates the seventy five year history of The Dandy comic and [...]

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Art: the Enchanted Forest

Monday, November 19, 2012

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Now this is just gorgeous work -The Wren and the Bear; Emmeline Pidgen created it and it will be part of the Enchanted Forest exhibition, celebrating two hundred years of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm in Foyles bookstore, London, from November 29th to December 7th. (via Emmeline’s Facebook, where you can see a bigger [...]

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