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Best of the Year: Simon Gurr

Thursday, December 16, 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from Bristol-based artist Simon Gurr, who has created art for comics and for fine art, including the well-regarded Darwin graphic biography last year for the special Darwinian anniversary celebrations. Let’s see what Simon has been enjoying in 2010: Good evening / bon soir / kalispera. Here are [...]

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Best of the year: Simon Gurr’s picks

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

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Today’s guest blogger for our annual Best of the Year is comics creator and illustrator -- not to mention historical world traveller now (following his Darwn comics biography with some actual globe trotting in Darwin’s footsteps) -- Simon Gurr: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months [...]

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Of voyages, Beagles, Darwin and comics

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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You might remember earlier this year illustrator and comics creator Simon Gurr worked with Eugene Byrne on a comics biography of Charles Darwin which was given out to school children and others to encourage more reading of the natural sciences and to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin. Now on his blog [...]

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Famous Bristol natives

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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Simon Gurr, who collaborated with Eugene Byrne on the special (and well received) Darwin graphic biography for the great scientist’s 200th anniversary earlier this year, has been chosen for a high profile public artwork celebrating famous Bristolians: “Bristol Festival of Ideas and Bristol Cultural Development Partnership recently announced that Simon Gurr, Bristol artist and illustrator, [...]

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