Tag Archive | "Garen Ewing"

Rainbow Orchid Volume 3 Preview

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

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Garen Ewing’s ligne claire adventure serial The Rainbow Orchid reaches it’s final volume next year. Publication date for the final volume from Egmont is April 2012, but in the meantime Garen’s begun putting preview material up online: From Garen’s blog: “The Rainbow Orchid volume three preview starts today! Click here to see the first strip, with [...]

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Speech Balloons talks to Garen Ewing

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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Paul Birch at the Birmingham Mail’s Speech Balloons column talks to one of our very favourite creators (and jolly nice chap), Garen Ewing about his wonderful Rainbow Orchid: “Paul: Do you feel you’ve learned from the experience of doing the series, grown as a creator and a person? Garen: Yes, there’s no doubt about that. [...]

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Musical stamps

Thursday, February 24, 2011

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The Royal Mail has just issued a set of stamps celebrating popular stage musicals. Garen Ewing is rather pleased that among them is one for Return to the Forbidden Planet, featuring his artwork, along with Leigh Gallagher‘s take on the immortal Rocky Horror Show. Sudden urge to sing a song. And take a jump to [...]

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Upcoming – Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival – Oct 23rd

Sunday, October 17, 2010

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Another week, another event, they certainly come thick and fast in Autumn don’t they? This coming Saturday – October 23rd – it’s Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival, with a series of workshops and events happening at Upper Norwood Library and  Bookseller Crow Bookshop. Of course, like any of these events there are lots of doubtless ood book [...]

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More (and Moore) from the Edinburgh Book Festival

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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As well as the Martin Rowson and Garry Trudeau events with Steve Bell at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last week (see here) there were several other comics folk present at the world’s biggest literary fest, including Garen Ewing, Sarah McIntyre and oh yeah, there was some bloke called Alan Moore… It was a sold [...]

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Books! Comics! Writers! Artists! Readers! The Edinburgh Book Fest begins!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

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Edinburgh is already heaving with the Fringe well underway – August is Festival time and a city already awash with global tourists are joined by legions of Festival goers, almost doubling the population. Today another major festival landmark begins as our friends in the 2010 Edinburgh International Book Festival open proceedings (excellent YA fantasy author [...]

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Red and yellow and green and blue – he can paint a Rainbow (Orchid)

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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We have a lovely treat for you today as Garen Ewing becomes the latest comics creator to give us a ‘director’s commentary’, talking us through the creation process for some of the pages of the new second volume of his wonderful Rainbow Orchid (which, as regular readers will know, has been a complete favourite with [...]

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Self publishing

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

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Garen Ewing points us to his brother Murray who has posted up a two part look at the advantages and perils of self publishing, detailing the various steps he took, from trying to find an affordable way to create print-ready PDF pages to sourcing a publisher for his Alice at R’lyeh booklet that was also [...]

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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Moore, Trudeau, Bell, Banks and more

Friday, July 30, 2010

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August is all but upon us and in the city of Edinburgh that means the world’s largest arts festival is about to take off. The population of the city almost double between tourists, festival goers and performers on every corner and during two weeks of that month long circus of every conceivable kind of artform [...]

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Bastille Day

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

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Since today is the 14th of July (le quatorze Juillet), which marks the Fête Nationale – more commonly known as Bastille Day in the Anglophone world – we thought that was a perfect excuse (not that we need one, usually) to celebrate some of the great comics work which comes out of the French language [...]

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Rainbow Orchid Volume 2 – The (continuing) Adventures of Julius Chancer

Monday, July 5, 2010

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Rainbow Orchid Volume 2 by Garen Ewing Egmont Let’s get the obvious thing out of the way first with Rainbow Orchid Volume 2, something that I’ve already seen mentioned several times in some so-so reviews of the book online. This is the middle bit of a three part series and as such it slows down the [...]

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aah! Bristol – Garen Ewing brings us Rainbow Orchid a month early & Glenn Dakin posts on Spider-Man

Saturday, May 1, 2010

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Here’s a great ad from Garen Ewing trailing his appearance at Bristol International Comics Expo on 22nd May. His publishers Egmont have released 50 copies of The Rainbow Orchid just for the day – a whole month before the official release. A superb ad for Bristol and a fantastic reason to get in line for [...]

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Hay Festival Comic Events

Saturday, April 24, 2010

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This years Hay Literary Festival takes place from 27th May – 6th June. And it’s rather embraced comics this year – or perhaps, looking at the comic related events it’s more accurate to say that the book publishers who have a hand in Graphic Novel publishing have decided to heavily promote their comics at the [...]

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Cartoon County

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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Garen Ewing will be the guest at the next monthly Cartoon County (the Sussex Cartoon and Comic Strip  Artists Association) in sunny Brighton, where he will be talking about the Rainbow Orchid (a long-time favourite of the blog crew) on Monday 26th of April, with the event kicking off at 6pm in The Cricketers on [...]

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One for the diary – Rainbow Orchid Volume 2

Saturday, April 10, 2010

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Over on his blog Garen Ewing has posted the cover and release details of the second volume in his three part Rainbow Orchid series of graphic novels. Volume 2 will be out on the 5th July 2010 and Garen is promising that Volume 3, with all new material, will be out in 2011. I know [...]

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