Tag Archive | "London"

Hugo Tate launch in Gosh tomorrow

Friday, May 11, 2012

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A reminder to London peeps, the excellent Nick Abdzis has been sent back to these shores for a short while and will be in Gosh in London tomorrow, Saturday May 12th from 7 to 9pm for the launch of the much anticipated new collected edition of his Hugo Tate series by Blank Slate Books.

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Extraordinary Gentlemen at Gosh

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Yes, those extraordinary gentlemen, Messrs Kevin O’Neill (well known ittinerant artist) and Alan Moore (five times winner of the All-Northampton Mighty Beard Champion), will be returning to London’s fine Gosh Comics emporium of four-colour delights to mark the publication of the third and final part of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy, with the [...]

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ELCAF is coming

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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Coming on June 17th the first East London Comics and Arts Festival, ELCAF! Splendid Brit Indy comics publisher Nobrow asks “With a poster like this how can you not all want to come?” And you know what, they’re right! And if the art isn’t enough to get you going, how about this – from the [...]

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To do this weekend: Comiket!

Friday, April 20, 2012

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Comics peeps in that London – Comiket tomorrow from 11am to 6pm, admission free: top indy comics, living drawing and more, a perfect day out no matter the weather, if you’re in town give ‘em some love.

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BD Passion site is live

Thursday, April 19, 2012

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The site for this year’s BD Passion event celebrating French and British comics culture is now live and choc-full of details of some great bande dessinee gigs in the heart of London. Taking place over May 24th to the 27th, the festival will include a reading group with Paul Gravett (doubtless in his full Jackanory [...]

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“Hey! Who’s This Guy?”

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

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The fine Nobrow comics and art folks are hosting an exhibition of crafted work by Louise Evans, better known to many of us as the Felt Mistress, in their London outlet. Not strictly comics, but Louise has a big following among many of the UK comics creators on the scene because she creates such fab [...]

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Mark your London diary: Tom Gauld at Gosh! tomorrow, Tripwire on Saturday, Simone Lia in April

Thursday, March 8, 2012

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The brilliant Tom Gauld will be in fine London comics emporium Gosh! this Friday, 9th March, from 6.30pm to celebrate the publication of his new book from Drawn & Quarterly, Goliath; he’s already popped into the store to create some fab artwork on the shop windows and even do a quick interview: And the very [...]

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The London guide to comics

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

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This fab illustration by blog fave Karrie Fransman for Time Out details not just where to buy comics – including the fabulous crop of British independent comics publications from the likes of Nobrow and Blank Slate as well as self-published works which have been rocking our reading world – but also the embracing of comics [...]

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Hugo Tate launch at Gosh

Thursday, March 1, 2012

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We’ve been blogging about how delighted we are at the prospect of a long-overdue collection being published of Nick Abadzis‘ brilliant Deadline strip Hugo Tate (available now for pre-order) – the nice folks at Blank Slate are bringing this unusual slice of Brit comics history out this spring and the equally nice folks at Gosh! [...]

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Comix Reader launch at Gosh

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

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The third issue of the very fine Comix Reader collection is being launched at London comics landmark Gosh! on Friday 2nd of March from 7 to 9pm, along with an exhibition which runs from March 2nd to the 9th. Paul O’Connell kindly sends us along a sneak peek at the collaborative contribution he made to [...]

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Manga Jiman competition and exhibition

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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The Embassy of Japan and partners have again organised the now traditional annual Manga Jiman competition for new manga comics talent in the UK. The award ceremony is due to be held this Friday in the Japanese Embassy in London, where the final selection will be made. Competing for the top prize (a return trip [...]

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Craig Thompson in London

Friday, January 27, 2012

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Regular fave with the blog crew Sarah McIntyre was at Monday’s Comica event with the brilliant Craig Thompson in London; she has a report on it with photos up on her blog and, Sarah being Sarah, she, of course, sketched a bit of the evening too and posted the rather lovely results up:

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Tatsumi exhibition at the ICA

Friday, January 13, 2012

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London’s ICA will be screening the excellent new Tatsumi film by Eric Khoo, based on the work and life of the legendary manga creator Yoshihiro Tatsumi, from today. And alongside the film screenings the ICA is also hosting a free mini exhibition of work which includes never before seen material, concept art and new illustrations [...]

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Craig Thompson at Comica

Friday, January 13, 2012

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Paul Gravett reminds us that Comica has a corker of an event coming up this month – the excellent Craig Thompson (who created one of my favourite comics works, Blankets) is in town to promote Habibi and will be giving an illustrated talk, then talking about his work with Marcel Theroux, to be followed by [...]

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Knitted Nelson

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

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I love this – the talented @deadlyknitshade – who has previously terrorised London’s Natural History Museum with her huge crocheted squid – with a knitted version of Nel from Blank Slate Books’ fabulous Nelson graphic novel. Pic by the sparkly Sarah McIntyre, snapped at the Cartoon Museum’s Nelson art show. Now we want them to [...]

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