Tag Archive | "Jonathan Cape"

The Tale of Brin and Bent and Minno Marylebone

Monday, April 30, 2012

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I know very little about Ravi Thornton and Andy Hixon‘s upcoming The Tale of Brin and Bent and Minno Marylebone which Cape are publishing this summer, other than what the description says. But look at that cover. Yes, I know, we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover and all that, except I can tell [...]

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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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Guy Delisle on tour

Thursday, April 12, 2012

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One of the comics works I am most looking forward to this spring is Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, coming from D&Q in the US and Canada and Cape in the UK. I love the unassuming and unpretentious way in which Delisle actually lets himself live in the other culture that he [...]

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Dotter of her Father’s Eyes….

Thursday, March 8, 2012

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Dotter Of Her Father’s Eyes By Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot Jonathan Cape Mary Talbot’s father is described on the very first page as “my cold mad feary father“. It sets a tone, establishes the essence of James S. Atherton, noted Joycean scholar, and writer of perhaps the greatest book on Finnegan’s Wake published. [...]

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Art of Pho – now in motion

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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The Observer/Cape/Comica award winning Julian Hanshaw drops us a line to alert us to a rather fun adaptation of his unusual and rather cool graphic novel The Art of Pho (published by Cape), into a motion comic. It’s a pretty neat adaptation with some interactive elements – you have to put the key in the [...]

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Director’s Commentary – Mary Talbot

Friday, January 13, 2012

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I’m always fascinated to learn more about how works of art come into being, be it comics, books, films or any other medium; I find it often informs my reading of a text more, allowing me to appreciate more elements and aspects of it. One of the pleasures of editing the FP blog is that [...]

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Shorties…. the Jonathan Cape graphic short story collection…

Sunday, November 13, 2011

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Jonathan Cape are celebrating 5 years of their Graphic Short Story Prize by releasing Shorties! – a 125 page e-book collecting together both the winning entries from the first 5 years and a selection of the best entries selected by Bryan Talbot. The collection cover is of course by Adam Cadwell, whose thoughts on it, 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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Grant morrison signing in Glasgow

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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Scottish superstar comics scribe, the one and only Grant Morrison, will be returning to one of his old haunts where he’s picked up many a comic, Glasgow’s Forbidden Planet International on Buchanan Street (right by the Underground station). Grant will be signing copies of his upcoming book Supergods; I’ve been lucky enough to see a preview [...]

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Mister Wonderful

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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A new collection of Daniel Clowes work coming soon from Jonathan Cape? Oh yes, indeedy! Mister Wonderful: a Love Story, collects the tale first serialised in the New York Times Magazine, plus some forty pages of new material, following Marshall: middle-aged, unemployed and divorced, waiting nervously for a blind date with Natalie, a woman his [...]

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Hark…. and rejoice. Beaton gets drawn and quartered.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

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Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant webcomic has long been something a lot of us have been enjoying, particularly in it’s collected highlights package from 2009 that is Never Learn Anything From History. She’s slowly been making her name, building up fans, from in and outside comics and we all knew it wouldn’t, shouldn’t be long before she [...]

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Grandville teaser

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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Jordan Smith has made a new, very cool trailer for Bryan Talbot’s upcoming Grandville, Mon Amour, which is one of the books this winter that I am most looking forward to reading.

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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 Art Of Pho – Hanshaw’s flawed yet beautiful debut

Monday, July 19, 2010

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The Art Of Pho by Julian Hanshaw Jonathan Cape Julian Hanshaw’s The Art of Pho is his debut graphic novel, reward for his beautiful winning piece for the 2008 Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story - Sand Dunes And Sonic Booms. It draws direct inspiration from Hanshaw’s time in Vietnam, a time he obviously loved, and every bit [...]

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The Comica/Observer/Cape Graphic Short Fiction prize 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010

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This year’s Comics/Observer/Jonathan Cape graphic short fiction prize is open for entries, with this year’s judges including Audrey Niffenegger, David Hughes, Rachel Cooke, Dan Franklin, Suzanne Dean and Paul Gravett. First prize is £1000 and publication of the winning four page comics short in the Observer (so a good chance to show of both your [...]

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