Tag Archive | "Paul Gravett"

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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Busted Jesus Comix Play

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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Paul Gravett has posted up a review of a stage play which is based on the experiences of Mike Diana, an underground comics creator in Florida who was subject to a heavyweight legal assault by the authorities which, among other things, cost him his job and landed him on probation for years (remember, kids, you [...]

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Comics are Everywhere: a Conversation with Paul Gravett

Friday, October 30, 2009

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Over the last few weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions have been cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s good and [...]

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Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Fiction deadline extended

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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Due to industrial action by the Royal Mail the organisers of this year’s Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica short graphic fiction prize have decided to extend the deadline to allow for any delays that are outwith the control of entrants – the deadline now moves from September 25th to October 19th. The first couple of years of the [...]

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Joe Sacco in the UK

Sunday, September 6, 2009

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(Joe Sacco – in the flesh and as you probably know him.) In advance of the release of his latest book; Footnotes In Gaza (released December from Jonathan Cape), Joe Sacco is in the UK for a couple of appearances. He’s at Comica 2009 on September 29th and GOSH London on 30th September. Sacco may [...]

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Comics at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2009

Saturday, August 29, 2009

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Oh, it’s a lovely world we live in when something like this is now a regular thing. And equally nice that events  such as this aren’t entitled “Wham, Pow” or “Comics aren’t for kids anymore”. It seems that every week or so we’re drawing your attention to some new comics event or other, often taking [...]

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Eddie Campbell, Bryan Talbot at Comica 2010

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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The sixth Comica Festival, curated by Paul Gravett, takes place in London this November. Comica is a festival of many disparate events on comics and the artform, but always manages to get some particularly good guests and some very special events. For example…… From Paul Gravett’s Comica site: “Eddie Campbell is the first confirmed international [...]

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