Tag Archive | "Sean Azzopardi"

Eddie at Angou

Friday, February 3, 2012

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I love Sean Azzopardi‘s sketch of the brilliant Eddie Campbell at Angoulême at the weekend:

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Angouleme – Sean’s French Diary

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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Continiung our reports from this year’s Angoulême comics festival  which Wim kicked off live from the event on Friday, today we have a special treat as the excellent Sean Azzopardi, now a confirmed veteran of the BD festival, kindly agreed to give us his take on Angoulême from the point of view of an independent [...]

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Images of Angouleme

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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Good chum of the blog Sean Azzopardi was again at the Angoulême comics festival in France and he’s posted up a whole bunch of photographs so those of us who couldn’t go can at least have a glimpse of some of what it looked like:

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Eight Tablet Dream by Sean Azzopardi

Friday, December 23, 2011

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Eight Tablet Dream By Sean Azzopardi Sean Azzopardi ends the year with a comic very similar to the much enjoyed Nine Months Of Beige in July; another comic sitting somewhere between his longer, formal works and his sketchbook comics. There are dreamlike full pages of multiple imagery, sans panels, and we flow through the pages [...]

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Best of the Year 2011 – Sean Azzopardi

Thursday, December 8, 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from a long-time good chum of the blog – a writer, artist and keen supporter of the British small press comics scene, as well as an occassional contributor to this very blog (in fact he kindly penned a report on the Brit comics contingent’s trip to the [...]

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Malta Comic-Con – Sean’s report

Monday, December 5, 2011

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From some of our chums on Twitter it sounds like this year’s Malta Comic Con was again a huge and enjoyable success, not to mention being very popular with the Brit contingent who headed over to the sun-kissed, George Cross-winning island nation in the blue waters of the Mediterranean. Among the Brit comics contingent in [...]

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Sean’s having a Flashback…

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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Two weeks ago Flashback records hosted an exhibition organised by myself in partnership with We are Words and Pictures. The theme was music related  comics and so naturally a record shop was a good venue to exhibit the artwork in.  Not a typical gallery space – the general agreement was to fit the work around [...]

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We Are Words + Pictures Exhibition coming

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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Good chum of the blog Sean Azzopardi drops us a line to let us know that the very funky We Are Words + Pictures crew are planning a new exhibition and it sounds oh so damned cool: comics inspired by music. Among those with work on display will be Adam Cadwell, John Cei Douglas, Julia [...]

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Built Of Blood And Bricks

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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Built Of Blood And Bricks By Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi “Bricks are built from history And history is built in blood. That’s all that families are – blood that endures for a little while.” Dark. Very dark. And very, very good. Like Kieron Gillen says: “A nasty cackle of a book I recommend you [...]

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Turn Left

Thursday, August 4, 2011

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Turn Left was a multi-media garden party held at the Fleece station studios in New Cross. New Cross itself is home to a large tranche of cartoonist currently occupying the self publishing boon in London. Here is a quick list (please excuse any omissions): deep breath – Ellen Lindner, Sarah McIntyre, Gary Northfield, Howard Hardiman, [...]

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Nine Months Of Beige by Sean Azzopardi…

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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Nine Months Of Beige By Sean Azzopardi At first I thought Nine Months Of Beige was one of Sean Azzopardi’s sketchbook comics, but I was wrong, sort of. It’s part sketch book, part diary comic, part fictional stories – all concerned with Azzopardi’s move to Weston Park, a sleepy North London suburb. And the locale [...]

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The second annual Birmingham Zine Festival – special report by Lizz Lunney and Sean Azzopardi

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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The second Birmingham Zine Festival took place a couple of Saturdays ago, and although I missed it, organiser Lizz Lunney and attendee Sean Azzopardi were kind enough to send through a report and photos of what looks like another great event. All photos provided by Lizz, taken by Hellocatfood apart from screen print photo by [...]

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Necessary Monsters finally gets booked?

Sunday, July 17, 2011

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Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Sean Azzopardi’s Necessary Monsters series looks like it may finally be getting it’s long promised book release. And from a newly ressurected First Comics of all places. Yes, First Comics. As in American Flagg, Grimjack, Badger, Nexus et al. Seems they’re back. Daniel Merlin Goodbrey has a few details on the [...]

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We Are Words and Pictures – a special report from Sean

Friday, July 8, 2011

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We are Words and Pictures launched a window exhibition last Friday at the Bookartsbookshop in Hoxton. Organised by myself, with window dressing by Philippa Rice, it was another example of getting comics out into the public domain, beyond the normal comics community. Wawap have been active in music and poetry festivals and children’s workshops and [...]

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Talking about Blood and Bricks

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

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You may have seen Richard mentioning a couple of times recently about a mysterious new project, Built of Blood and Bricks, a collaboration between two of our most intriguing Brit small press comics creators, Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi, following on from their very successful collaboration with Sightings of Wallace Sendek. We were curious, naturally, [...]

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