Tag Archive | "Oliver East"

Swear Down

Friday, June 3, 2011

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One of our favourite creators, Oli East, has been busy posting up a series of pages from his new work, Swear Down. This isn’t a reference to some Mancunian version of a western show down involving naughty words instead of sixguns, as I first thought.  Oli explained it thusly: “the basic premise is I’m walking [...]

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Open Arms – another Elbow & East production….

Saturday, April 9, 2011

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Well, we knew he was responsible for the artwork throughout the new (and frankly rather excellent) Elbow album Build A Rocket Boys. We even knew he’d done some short animations for some of the tracks. But none of that prepared us for the new Elbow single; Open Arms, with video by Mr Oliver East. Excellent [...]

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Elbow and East again, but this time they’re animated…..

Saturday, February 26, 2011

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Oliver East has been taking time off the Trains Are … Mint recently to reprise his role as record sleeve artist for Elbow. The new album “Build A Rocket Boys” is out in March, with new single “Neat Little Rows” out 28th February. More details, and previews at the Build A Rocket Boys website. The [...]

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Oli East’s doing the Elbow thing again….

Sunday, January 9, 2011

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Yep, Oliver East (of Trains Are … Mint) is doing more work for Guy Garvey and Elbow. New album cover and singles covers.

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Oliver East Interview….

Sunday, December 12, 2010

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Over at The Comics Bureau there’s a nice interview with FPI Blog favourite Oli East. As usual, the artist on Trains Are Mint has some interesting and forthright things to say about his work and comics in general: Advice for aspiring future cartoonists: “Depends what they want out of it.  If you want to make com­ics [...]

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Berlin And That – end of the line for Trains Are … Mint.

Monday, August 23, 2010

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Berlin And That By Oliver East Blank Slate Berlin And That is the concluding volume in Oliver East’s Trains Are … Mint; his walking series that’s both an exploration of the wonders of everyday surroundings and a fascinating look at the artistic process. Back in my review of the first Trains Are … Mint volume I [...]

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Berlin and That exhibition pics

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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Artwork from Oli East’s recent Berlin and That was exhibited earlier this month in the J A Sinclair Gallery in Edinburgh; Andrew Gannon has the pics from the showing on his Facebook page. (artwork from various artists from Berlin and That, published Blank Slate, pic by Andrew Gannon)

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Trains Are … Mint – Berlin And That exhibition…

Sunday, April 25, 2010

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Oliver East’s latest Trains Are … Mint collection, Berlin and That is finally out very, very soon from Blank Slate Books. How soon? Well, these are the finished copies, opened fresh from the printers at East’s house…. To celebrate the release, there’s going to be a Berlin And That exhibition – the preview is this [...]

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Girl and the Gorilla, Psychiatric Tales and more, more, more….

Saturday, November 21, 2009

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Kenny of Blank Slate showed me the submission from Madeleine Flores a while ago. She’s a young cartoonist with a delightfully light style and a wonderful story – The Girl And The Gorilla. Well, the deal is done and Blank Slate Books is due to publish this in 2010. Madeleine’s post “The Most Awesome Thing [...]

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Proper Go Well High … Mint.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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Proper Go Well High by Oliver East Blank Slate (The full wraparound cover to Proper Go Well High) This is East’s second book; the first – Trains Are … Mint – was one of my books of 2008 (review) and I described it thus: “Sometimes a book just catches you perfectly, you fall into it’s [...]

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