Tag Archive | "Guardian"

Please, God, Find Me a Husband…

Friday, April 27, 2012

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I totally missed this a few days ago, but the Guardian posted up the excellent Simone Lia narrating the first part of her brand new graphic novel Please, God, Find Me a Husband (just published by Cape) in an audio-slideshow format online.

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Graphic memoirs

Thursday, April 19, 2012

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Over on the Guardian Bryan and Mary Talbot select out ten of their favourite graphic biographies/memoirs (as well as briefly tackling the inadequacy of the catch-all term ‘graphic novel’, especially when dealing with non fiction works). Bryan says that the idea was only to pick from works which were full length works and while I’m [...]

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Rowson and Bell at the Guardian’s Open Weekend

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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The Guardian newspaper – often a very good supporter of comics and graphic novels, as well as being home to some of the best editorial cartooning in the UK – is holding an Open Weekend at the end of March (Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th). There will be a wide variety of events, talks, workshops [...]

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Claiming back your cartoon work

Friday, September 16, 2011

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The Bloghorn posts on a disturbing topic – organisations shamefully appropriating another’s work then re-using it without permission or payment. We know this sort of thing goes on in all sorts of media (a friend of mine told me how recently he discovered the Spanish version of Rolling Stone passed off one of his music [...]

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How to draw bunnies

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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Artist and comics creator Simone Lia is the guest tutor on the Guardian’s How to draw… slot this month and here she is on the Guardian yesterday teaching just how to draw bunnies! Neat! (thanks to Jamie Smart and Gary Northfield for the link tip, picked up when they both should have been working but [...]

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Artists pick their favourite graphic novel creators

Thursday, July 14, 2011

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The Guardian has a cool article up, The Artists’ Artist: Graphic Novelists (yes, I know, we can all quibble about the term ‘graphic novelist’, but remember it is just a handy label, not a definition). In it six very fine artists – Peter Kuper, Bryan Talbot, Posy Simmonds, Ariel Schrag, Martin Rowson and Lynda Barry [...]

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Simone Lia’s “A Well Oiled Mind”

Sunday, April 17, 2011

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Simone Lia tells a short tale of oil nightmares in “A Well Oiled Mind” over on the Guardian Online as part of their Oil Stories series of short fiction.

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Steve Bell on drawing Cameron

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

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The Guardian‘s Steve Bell, one of the best political cartoonists in the biz, talks about how a cartoonist finds a distinctive look for the public figures they have to depict, creating a visual shorthand for the person, in this case then leader of the opposition, now Prime Minister, David Cameron and his ‘condom head’: “When [...]

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Mr Fry’s biography

Monday, October 18, 2010

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That man Tom Gauld makes me chuckle once more with this, his cartoon from Saturday’s Guardian: (art by and (c) Tom Gauld)

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Sacco’s The Unwanted

Monday, July 19, 2010

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The always excellent Joe Sacco featured in the Guardian at the weekend with The Unwanted, covering the emotive and controversial topic of immigration, especially waves of illegal mass immigration as desperate people flee poverty, hunger and war in many African states and try to cross over to Europe, with the small but proud islands around [...]

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Steve Bell on the church cover-ups

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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The great Steve Bell bang on the money as usual with his cartoon in today’s Guardian on the child abuse by clergy and subsequent cover-ups by the church in Ireland (thanks to Chris Williams’ Twitter for the link): (by and (c) Steve Bell, published by the Guardian)

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Beauty and the Beast

Friday, October 23, 2009

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Eleanor Davis was asked by the Guardian newspaper to create some artwork for a series they are doing on fairy tales, including some illustrated booklets. I’ve a permanent soft spot for illustrated fairy tales – they must be among the first artworks we see as very young children, art depicting fantastical worlds of the imagination [...]

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Drawing and Painting guides in the weekend Guardian

Friday, September 18, 2009

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This isn’t exactly comics news, but I imagine quite a few of our readers might be interested to know that the Guardian and Observer are following this week’s British comics giveaways with the Guardian and Observer Guides to Drawing and Painting, produced in collaboration with the Slade, this weekend in the Guardian on Saturday and [...]

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Free comics this weekend in the Guardian and Observer

Friday, September 11, 2009

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Starting tomorrow (Saturday 12th) and continuing for the whole subsequent week the Guardian (and on Sunday the Observer), will be giving away reprints of classic British comics, from sporty boy’s own stuff like Roy of the Rovers to girl’s faves like Bunty and perennial kid’s (and big kid’s!) favourites like the immortal Beano. From the [...]

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