Tag Archive | "Joe Sacco"

Joe Sacco talks to Roger Sabin

Monday, January 11, 2010

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In case you missed it the Comica site flags up a transcript of the interview Roger Sabin conducted with the brilliant Joe Sacco during 2009’s Comica events, just before Sacco’s new Footnotes In Gaza was due to come out from Cape (a highly recommended read); if, like me, you didn’t read it when it was [...]

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Footnotes

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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I’m currently reading Joe Sacco’s Footnotes In Gaza, which has just been published in the UK by Cape. I’m taking it slowly, partly because it is a large graphic novel, partly because its the sort of material you shouldn’t rush through; its been a while since I read Sacco and I’m being reminded that among [...]

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Interviews with Messrs. Campbell and Sacco anyone?

Sunday, November 29, 2009

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It’s Sunday morning and you really don’t want to get out of bed to pick up the Sunday papers yet but fancy a bit of entertaining reading? Ah, we have the perfect solution. (Joe Sacco photograph by Richard Saker from the Guardian website.) First up a quick interview in the Guardian with Joe Sacco, discussing his [...]

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Bryan Talbot brings Grandville to Gosh!

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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London’s Gosh! Comics has the brilliant Bryan Talbot in store on October 10th from 2 to 4pm to sign copies of his new graphic novel Grandville, a wonderful steampunk, anthropomorphic, alt-history, science fiction, crime-conspiracy tale about to be published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse in North America. And as Richard already mentioned [...]

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Joe Sacco in the UK

Sunday, September 6, 2009

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(Joe Sacco – in the flesh and as you probably know him.) In advance of the release of his latest book; Footnotes In Gaza (released December from Jonathan Cape), Joe Sacco is in the UK for a couple of appearances. He’s at Comica 2009 on September 29th and GOSH London on 30th September. Sacco may well [...]

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New Observer/Cape/Comics graphic short fiction competition announced

Monday, July 20, 2009

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Paul Gravett kindly drops us a line to let us know that this year’s Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica competition for short graphical fiction was announced in Sunday’s Observer. This is rapidly becoming a major event in the UK comics calendar, offering not just a chance for comics creators to try their luck but to also perhaps catch [...]

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