Simone Lia – new blog, new book… just not soon enough!

Richard — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:02:14 +0000

Simone Lia, creator of the oh so heartbreakingly lovely Fluffy (review) and the ever so fun Sausage & Carrots (review) for the DFC, has a shiny new blog. It’s full of fun stuff and some really lovely artwork such as the piece below, available to you as part of a Christmas card set (why not think of it as getting ready for Christmas 2010?)

There’s also the news that she’s busy working on a new graphic novel, no title or schdule yet, but given Simone’s track record, I’m looking forward to whatever she comes out with. The art below seems to hint that it’s some kind of eco-Christian music odyssey or perhaps a very strange drug trip? Or perhaps we shouldn’t try to work out an entire story from one panel?

And whilst on the subject of Simone Lia, can we all start getting in touch with the DFC library people and ask them when her Sausage & Carrots strip is going to be published? Obviously it’s not the right size for the album format DFC library books they’ve announced so far, but what about a lovely landscape A5 hardback? That really would be lovely.

New Observer/Cape/Comics graphic short fiction competition announced

Joe — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:02:45 +0000

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 the eye of a major publisher (last year’s winner, Julian Hanshaw with the intriguing Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms, now has a book deal with Cape). The top prize is a cool £1, 000 and publication of the winning story in the Observer, while this year’s judges consist of Joe Sacco, Simone Lia, The Observer’s Rachel Cooke, Jonathan Cape’s Dan Franklin, Random House’s Suzanne Dean and Paul Gravett; the deadline is September 25th, while the winning entry will be published in the Observer Magazine (meaning some good exposure not just for the winner but for comics to a wider, generally non-comics readership, which has to be good for the medium) on November 1st and the award will be given during Comica in November. You can still read Sand Dunes on the Guardian website.

(a frame from last year’s Observer winner, Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms by and (c) Julian Hanshaw)

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Simone Lia – new blog, new book… just not soon enough!

New Observer/Cape/Comics graphic short fiction competition announced