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Drawn out and painted pink

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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Its the last few days of Drawn Out and Painted Pink at the Drill Hall in London’s Bloomsbury. It’s an exhibition of cartoons by Kate Charlesworth and David Shenton; from the description; “Kate and David have led overlapping cartooning lives during which they have, by default, documented a cultural history through 1970s’ gay life, pretty [...]

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Ronald Searle exhibition at the Cartoon Museum

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Coming up soon, the Cartoon Museum in Little Russell Street, London, celebrates the 90th birthday of cartoonist and St Trinian’s creator Ronald Searle with an exhibition kicking off on the 3rd of March and running through to the 4th of July.

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BAM manga festival

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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Paul Fisher, a library development officer in the London borough of Bexley, tells us that a group of otaku – the Bexley Manga Network – are planning a festival of anime and manga for February, with plans for manga workshops, a ninja school, cosplay (of course!), screenings of classic anime at the nearby Cineworld and [...]

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Comica Comiket this weekend

Friday, November 6, 2009

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Its Comiket time this weekend! Back and now relocated to the ICA’s ground floor theatre which allows for even more space for exhibitors, some fab talent from the British small press comics scene will be there, check out some of the folks on the list: Aben Maler & Steffen P. Maarup, Alternative Press,  Jimi Gherkin, [...]

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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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Open studio at the V&A

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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Karen Rubins, one of the resident artists at the Victoria & Albert, kindly drops us a line to let us know of some upcoming dates; on Sunday 16th Karen will be holding another open studio (from 1 to 4pm) demonstrating how to create comics art to coincide with a visit by Laura Child, creator of [...]

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