Tag Archive | "Oli East"

Oli on Leeds Alternative Comic Fair

Monday, April 30, 2012

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Oli East reports from manning his own and the Blank Slate table at the weekend’s Leeds Alternative Comics Fair; apart from brisk business Oli seems delighted that he has now mastered the convention thing of an artist being expected to to a quick doodle when asked to sign one of their books. This may or [...]

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Oli art for sale

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

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Oli East is selling some original art and has a selection up on his blog to check out now. It’s not just a chance to pick yourself up an original East, proceeds from the sales will go to help fund Oli’s next trip, which I’d imagine like many of his previous expeditions will end up [...]

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Tom talks to Oli

Monday, January 16, 2012

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Not content with a long series of very thorough and well thought out interviews running daily through the festive holiday season the excellent Tom Spurgeon posted another excellent interview yesterday and it is with one of our faves – comics creator, walker, artist, animator and creator of rock album art and master of Lego (well, [...]

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Anders Nilsen in Nottingham

Monday, October 17, 2011

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The excellent Anders Nilsen has been over doing a short UK tour to support the launch of his massive Big Questions graphic novel (just out from the nice folks at Drawn & Quarterly). One of his stops was at Page 45 in Nottingham and good chum of the blog Oli East was there and managed [...]

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DC’s new 52 – decent read and a substitute for ciggies?

Thursday, September 8, 2011

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Today we have a guest review from one of our consistent fave creators, writer, artist, cool dad and chum of rock stars, it’s that man Oli East. Breaking his long fast away from the capes and tights Oli’s curiosity has been drawn to the relaunch of the DC universe with the wave of #1 issues [...]

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Director’s Commentary: Giving the Elbow

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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Today we’ve got a not-quite-comics-but-related story for you, direct from the pens and brushes of one of our fave creators, the very fine Oli East. Now we know and love Oli for his wonderful and unusual Trains Are Mint comics (which have been collected by Blank Slate). Regular readers of the blog will also know [...]

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Not One For Knocking Off: Badman, Duff, Porcellino and Santoro in Manchester

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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The excellent Oli East takes time out from rubbing shoulders with rock star royalty as he brings his artistic skills to bear once more for Elbow,  to alert us to an upcoming exhibition which sounds ace, featuring, as it does, Derik Badman, Malcy Duff, John Porcellino and Frank Santoro. Not One For Knocking Off #2 [...]

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When comics got the rock vibe

Monday, January 17, 2011

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(Charles Burns provides the art for Iggy Pop’s Brick by Brick, back from the days before iggy was busy schilling for insurance companies – really, Iggy, the last one we’d have believed would do that…) CBR’s Comics Should Be Good column is delving into the realm where music and comics art combine, with a look [...]

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Oli East speaks

Monday, November 15, 2010

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Oli East talks about his Ignatz-nominated Trains Are Mint comics with Sophie the ‘QunoSpotter’ in this short video interview (link via Tom Spurgeon):

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Pigeons on the roof

Monday, October 11, 2010

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Oli East says he has pigeons on his roof. He’s lucky, I have bats in my belfry…

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Trains Are Mint #7 online

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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Oli East tells us that the seventh Trains Are Mint is now online, totally free for you to go an read. Got to say I’m impressed with TAM #7; we’ve noted on here several times that Oli just keeps improving as time goes by, but I have to say I’m finding this issue, which is [...]

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Trains Are Mint has new engine shed

Monday, July 12, 2010

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Oli East notes on his blog (in-between watching football players dash around to the enchanting vuvuzuela sound) that he’s set up a new home for Trains Are Mint. The new site is still under construction but Oli has already put up issue 6 of Trains Are Mint for you to enjoy reading, so go and [...]

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Oli East and friends exhibiting in Manchester this week

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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As Richard noted at the weekend Oli East has the third of his Trains Are Mint series from Blank Slate, Berlin and That, coming out this week, and to go along with it there’s an exhibition of artwork from Oli and his friends who contributed to the work, opening this week in Manchester. For this [...]

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Not One For Knocking On – self published comics exhibition

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Not One For Knocking On is the name of a forthcoming comic art exhibition which Oli East is going to be curating at the Rogue Artists studios gallery and project space in Manchester this November. Its all drawn from self-published creators and the artists to be featured include Blaisse Larmee, Malcy Duff, Warren Craghead and [...]

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Trains are Mint #6 online now

Monday, March 1, 2010

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Oli East tells me that he has a new issue of  his Ignatz-nominated Trains Are Mint series (issue #6) completed and with actual paper issues costing a fair bit to do these days he’s gone online instead with it, with the whole issue available on his site for you to enjoy gratis, which is pretty [...]

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