Tag Archive | "Jonathan Cape"

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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Walking The Dog – an exercise in making comics?

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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Walking The Dog by David Hughes Jonathan Cape David Hughes is too close to fifty, out of shape, drinking way too much and really needs to get out and take some exercise. At least that’s what his doctor tells him, Hughes isn’t so convinced. But his family come up with a perfect Christmas present in [...]

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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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And the 2009 Observer/Cape graphic short story prize winner is…….

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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The annual Observer/Cape graphic short story award prize winners were announced today online nd in the Observer. The 1st prize was awarded to Vivien McDermid with her story “Paint”. Described as a “vividly captured and tender story” that was a “touching portrayal of mother with a small toddler“. Vivien will receive a cheque for £1000 [...]

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Bryan Talbot’s Steampunk menagerie – welcome to Grandville

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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Grandville by Bryan Talbot Jonathan Cape “An anthropomorphic steampunk detective thriller” – Bryan Talbot. Which pretty much sets the scene for Grandville quite nicely. Talbot’s no stranger to steampunk, having given us the trailblazing, way ahead of it’s time Luther Arkwright, but Grandville takes it a step further and mixes his beautifully rendered steampunk visions [...]

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Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Fiction deadline extended

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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Due to industrial action by the Royal Mail the organisers of this year’s Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica short graphic fiction prize have decided to extend the deadline to allow for any delays that are outwith the control of entrants – the deadline now moves from September 25th to October 19th. The first couple of years of the [...]

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Tamara Drewe heading for the big screen

Thursday, September 3, 2009

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The BBC reports that the award-winning graphic novel Tamara Drewe is heading to the big screen. The tale of relationships, jealousies, loves and lust in a small English village sparked by the arrival of a vivacious young woman – the eponymous Tamara – was the creation of Posy Simmonds, one of the most interesting female [...]

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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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Another day at the office – I Like My Job

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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I Like My Job by Sarah Herman Jonathan Cape Here’s a strange one. What exactly is it that marks some proposal out for publication at one of those “proper” book publishers and not others? I ask this not to cast aspersions on I Like My Job but just to try to illustrate some of the [...]

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