Tag Archive | "Paul Gravett"

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen art exhibition & sale in Paris & Brussels

Friday, December 2, 2011

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(art in this post by and (c) Kevin O’Neill) Paul Gravett alerts us to a rare treat for comic art lovers and collectors – the brilliant Kevin O’Neill (interviewed on here recently by Pádraig) will be exhibiting and also selling some of his original art from the three most recent League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic [...]

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‘I can’t find my Girl Annuals’ – China Mieville and Paul Gravett at BD Passion

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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(China Mieville dans une conversation avec Paul Gravett sur la bande dessinée qui l’ont influencé á la Institut Français. Pics by James, click images to see the larger versions on Flickr) We sent James Bacon to the Bande Dessinée and Comics Passion festival and here is just a report on the first event…. I will [...]

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Great British Comics

Monday, October 10, 2011

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Paul Gravett is always worth reading, of course, but he has a particularly interesting column up on his site which touches on a subject dear to our hearts here: British comics. We try out best to sample comics from all over the word as best we can, but yes, obviously we have a bias towards [...]

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Upcoming for November: Comica Festival 2011….

Saturday, October 1, 2011

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The 8th (nearly) annual Comica Festival, curated by Paul Gravett, returns to London in November. As usual, it promises to be an involving and informed mix of all the best in comics. Taking place between the 3rd and 25th of the month, the events list is shaping up nicely; a premiere of the Warren Ellis documentary Captured [...]

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Kevin O’Neill and Melinda Gebbie at Soho Literary Festival

Friday, September 23, 2011

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Melinda Gebbie and Kevin O’Neill will be taking part in the first ever Soho Literary Festival at an event this weekend, in conversation with Paul Gravett as the Soho Theatre on Sunday 25th  from 9pm, should be pretty interesting. And also this weekend in London, don’t forget the Big Draw’s Big Splash for both adults [...]

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Fave comics from the Fabulous Fifties

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Paul Gravett, one of our finest ambassadors for the comics medium in Blighty, tells us that he is giving a free illustrated talk on Wokingham Library on Thursday 8th September from 7pm. The theme will be favourite comics from the 1950s and will take in comics as different as Asterix, Green Lantern, Dennis the Menace, [...]

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Pencil it! Comics at Westminster Libraries

Friday, March 4, 2011

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Tom Pearce drops us a line to let us know about some comics events coming up in Westminster libraries as part of a graphic novel season. The Westminster Reference Library will host a workshop concentrating on drawing and illustration techniques by Tom and Declan Talbert on Friday 25th of March from 5 to 6.30pm, followed [...]

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Comica Festival 2010

Saturday, November 27, 2010

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The annual Comica festival is reaching it’s final week, but the quality of the events doesn’t let up. Highlights for the week ahead include Paul Gravett: From Escape To Now – The man at the crossroads chats about Escape magazine and his current role - Monday, November 29. Bryan Talbot and Steve Bell – In Conversation [...]

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Comica Festival (5th November – 1st December)

Saturday, October 30, 2010

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The annual Comica festival, curated by Paul Gravett kicks off this Friday. As usual, it sees a host of comic related events, at a variety of locations around London. Full details on the Comica website, but selected highlights include: The “That”s Novel” exhibition featuring the work of a veritable who’s who of modern comics in [...]

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Opening this week: HyperComics

Monday, August 9, 2010

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Opening this week in Pump House Gallery in London’s Battersea Park is the Hypercomics exhibition, featuring work from Dave McKean, Adam Dant, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Warren Pleece, curated by Paul Gravett. Unlike a traditional, linear narrative followed straight, page to page, the idea here is that, like hypertext (or Hypercard for those of us [...]

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Simone Lia interview

Saturday, June 12, 2010

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A fairly long and informative interview with Simone Lia over at Paul Gravett’s site, and tying in with the Tate Britain “Rude Britannia” exhibition in which Lia provides visuals for the exhibition programme. Lia of course is the creator of a favourite book from a couple of years ago: Fluffy. Best bit of the interview? [...]

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Alan Moore at the Magus conference

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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Uonpop has a series of videos up from the Magus: Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Work of Alan Moore conference of Alan talking with Paul Gravett, enjoy! (tip of the hat to Murray Ewing via Garen Ewing for the links) Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5:

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How a comic is made

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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On Thursday 21st of January you can “discover the secrets behind writing and drawing comics, graphic novels and manga, revealed by creators featured in the ComiXmas Exhibition at a free event held at the LondonPrintStudio Gallery.” The event, chaired by Paul Gravett, will include Andrzej Klimowsk, Danusia Schejbal, Nana Li, Woodrow Phoenix and Brit comics [...]

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Escape is back….

Saturday, January 9, 2010

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This seems to have passed everyone by until the last few days, but Paul Gravett talked about the plans for bringing Escape back in 2010 over at an online interview with Dazed Digital back in mid November 2009. Escape magazine, and later Escape Publishingwere vitally important pieces in the jigsaw that saw comics recognised as [...]

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Tired of turkey? Nothing on TV? Try some Comixmas

Friday, December 11, 2009

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Paul Gravett brings us news over on his site of Comixmas; a free exhibition of comic art starting today and running until 6th February 2010 at the LondonPrintStudio Gallery, 425 Harrow Road, London, Comixmas: “ComiXmas: When Worlds Collide is an exhibition of fantastic images from contemporary comic books and graphic novels, featuring work by the [...]

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