Tag Archive | "Victoria & Albert"

50 years of Private Eye covers

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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The BBC has an article up celebrating 50 years of Private Eye‘s distinctive covers, complete with their trademark comics style speech bubbles overlaid on a new story photograph. I’m of the personal opinion that satire is the best defence in any democracy for keeping free speech free, for making sure ‘our betters’ don’t get above [...]

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Last Open Studio days at the V&A

Friday, December 4, 2009

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Karen Rubins six month residency at the Victoria and Albert is coming to an end, but she still has a final set of Open Studio days to come this weekend, Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th, from 1 to 4pm. The collaborative comics experiment Stories for Humanity: Contemporary Comics has now been taken down, but Karen [...]

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Open studio at the V&A

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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Karen Rubins, one of the resident artists at the Victoria & Albert, kindly drops us a line to let us know of some upcoming dates; on Sunday 16th Karen will be holding another open studio (from 1 to 4pm) demonstrating how to create comics art to coincide with a visit by Laura Child, creator of [...]

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