Tag Archive | "Paul Gravett"

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 well [...]

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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 guest [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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Its Thursday and time for Alex Fitch to update us to some of the shows he’s involved with over the next week or so; as usual check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Strip!: Horrible Histories, this evening at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast after transmission on Panel [...]

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New Observer/Cape/Comics graphic short fiction competition announced

Monday, July 20, 2009

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Paul Gravett kindly drops us a line to let us know that this year’s Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica competition for short graphical fiction was announced in Sunday’s Observer. This is rapidly becoming a major event in the UK comics calendar, offering not just a chance for comics creators to try their luck but to also perhaps catch [...]

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