Tag Archive | "Graphic Short Story Prize"

Director’s Commentary – Julian Hanshaw

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

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Animator and illustrator Julian Hanshaw first popped onto our radar screens when he won the annual Observer/Cape/Comica short graphic fiction award in 2008 for Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms, which was as visually unusual as the landscape and historic artefacts it rendered (the slowly crumbling 1930s ‘sound mirrors’, a semi successful precursor to the radar [...]

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Teapot Therapy

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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We do like a good cuppa, that’s what other nations say about the Brits, and actually as national stereotyping goes it is fairly accurate, we do indeed like a good brew (and preferably a biccy to dunk as well, please) and it is an almost universal British response to almost any situation, be it welcome [...]

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Graphic Short Story Prize 2011

Monday, November 7, 2011

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Nearly missed this, but the Observer announced the winner of this year’s Cape/Comics/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize yesterday. This fifth year of the prize pulled in over 200 entrants and the standard was apparently very high, I’m pleased to hear, meaning the judges – David Nicholls, Bryan Talbot, Rachel Cooke, Dan Franklin, Paul Gravett and [...]

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Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize for 2011

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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Paul Gravett kindly lets us know that the Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story competition and prize will be continuing this year, the fifth time it will have run, which is good news for Brit comics and comics creators. I did worry that in our current climate of slashing cutbacks that something like this might have been [...]

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The 2010 Observer/Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story Winner is…..

Sunday, November 7, 2010

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The annual Comica/Observer/Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story Prize winners were announced today online and in the Observer newspaper. The 2010 winner is Stephen Collins, someone already much loved by us on the FPI blog for the work we’ve seen in Solipsistic Pop. His winning entry, entitled In Room 208, is published in today’s Observer. There’s [...]

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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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The Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize

Thursday, September 30, 2010

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There’s just under a week to go until the deadline for this year’s Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize, a happening which has now become a bit of an annual event among the UK comics folks. It’s been great to see this becoming more established and it is a terrific opportunity for the talent in [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – David Enker, Sally Romagueras, John Riordan, Nigel Gilbert and Paul Francis

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. More of the “non-winners” of the Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize. …… (David Enker – The Sleeper.) (John Riordan – Olympus School) (Nigel Gilbert – Starcross’d) (Paul Francis – Tower Hamlets.) (Sally Romagueras – My White Dad) And The Winner Isn’t: Introduction to the idea. And [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Francesca Cassavetti, James Milroy, Paul Shinn, Moel Fox, Aidan Potts

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Last weekend we extensively covered a lot of the “non-winners” of the Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize. The plan was that we’d just do those few posts and move on. Except all this past week I’ve been seeing more and more of the entries crop up [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Jim Medway & Andi Watson

Sunday, November 8, 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. To end our little look at the great works entered for the Graphic Short Story Prize we have two familiar names to the regular readers of this blog. First up Jim Medway, who comes up with the beautiful and frankly hilarious Paul Crystal, Graphic Designer. But, [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Sion Smith & Charlotte Rose, Mickey Lam & Hannah Forward,

Sunday, November 8, 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Fire Sermon by Sion Smith and Charlotte Rose (available as an free ebook here) – a very different style from a lot of the entries it seems, and Sion says on the Tales From The Zodiac Lung blog that “they were obviously looking for something very [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Laurie J Proud, Maddy Vian, Khaled Abou Alfa & Dan Archer

Sunday, November 8, 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Three very different styles on show with these entries, first up is Laurie J Proud’s entry Aubrey, which brilliantly features the line “We moved away in 1948 after Dad went mad and burned the shed down”. And then there’s Maddy Vian‘s IDEAS – Maddy is very [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Hugh Raine, Matilda Tristram & the mystery that is Thorsten Sideboard.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Hugh Raine up first, whose very funny comics we featured here, with his entry Maryl. Following that is Matilda Tristram’s entry Sloth and Spiders and finally for this post, from the ever growing Flickr group here’s the entry by “Thorsten Sideb0ard“. I’ve looked but I can’t [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – David Litchfield, Key NG and Martin Simpson.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Three very different styles on show with these entries, first up is David Litchfield’s entry Bill and Joyce, which I found from the developing Graphic Short Story Prize Flickr group. And then there’s Flu Fighters by Key NG. And finally we have Martin Simpsons Tinned Peaches [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Jason Cobley & Paul Harrison Davies, Natalie d’Arbeloff & Frances Castle

Saturday, November 7, 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Next up we have the entry from the writer and artist team of Jason Cobley and Paul Harrison Davies – a reworking of their Hugo The Zombie strip from the Accent UK Zombies special. Following that we have the entry by illustrator Frances Castle as she [...]

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