Tag Archive | "Julian Hanshaw"

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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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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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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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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