Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from Matthew Sheret, comics creator and also co-founder of the excellent Brit small press showcase We Are Words + Pictures as well as being behind the brilliant Paper Science anthology. FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 15, 2011
Paper Science Issue 5 – The Music Special By Philippa Rice, Marc Ellerby, Hannah Donovan, Edward Ross, Sarah Gordon, Josceline Fenton, Hugh ‘Shug’ Raine, Geof Banyard and Adam Cadwell. Cover by Kristyna Baczynski. Edited By Matthew Sheret The latest of the We Are Words + Pictures produced comic newspaper is a fittingly summery music special. 10 artists take a shot at something I think [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 9, 2011
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The latest We Are Words + Pictures radio show is up online – this time round it’s Howard Hardiman, artist of The Lengths and Badger: “Spring has passed, and now we’re in tropical monsoon season here in WAW+P-land. So WAW+P Radio host Michael Leader took shelter at the Old Police Station in Deptford, in order to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 8, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 18, 2011
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Happening right now.. … We Are Words + Pictures collective is at Interesting 2011 doing an all day Drop In & Draw event: “Interesting is one of a string of day-long conferences held at Conway Hall in London that feature the best and brightest of the internet getting on stage and revealing a bit about [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 13, 2011
The fourth issue of Paper Science is heading our way very soon. Sporting a splendid Luke Pearson cover and featuring lots of very good, some very familiar artists the whole thing has a Science Fiction theme. Editor Matt Sheret is promising an improved paper Science building on the success and making the planned four issues [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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Delighted to hear that we can look forward to more Paper Science in the coming months. We Are Words and Pictures confirmed that the next issue, Paper Science 4, is expected in April and have announced some of the creators who will be contributing to the issue, including some names that will be familiar to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 23, 2010
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The We Are Words and Pictures posse descended on the Latitude music festival recently, a fest known for not just the live music but incorporating all sorts of other artistic activities into the proceedings, like poetry, theatre and, as the guys showed, comics. A certain Mr Sheret, a well known itinerant doodler, has written up [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 20, 2010
Paper Science issue 2 Published by We Are Words + Pictures Paper Science is a comic anthology newspaper by the We Are Words + Pictures collective. Think of it as a newspaper sized relative to Solipsistic Pop and you’re along the right lines. Or just take a look at that gorgeous cover by Phillipa Rice [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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The problem with Free Comic Book Day, I’ve always thought, is that for an initiative that exists to promote comic books to the wider audience the actual comics involved are often too reliant on an existing knowledge of the medium. Which is why it’s always nice to see someone trying something a little different occasionally. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 12, 2010
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First up it’s the Alternative Press Fair on Saturday 13th Feb: “A day of zines, comix, poetry, radical literature, printmaking and anything else self-published! Then from 6pm there will be a birthday party to celebrate our 1st year – with music, spoken work, DJ’s and open mic. So come along and be a part of [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 30, 2010
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Last week we reported on the double Words And Pictures event taking place on Valentines Day this year; complete with a flyer for the evening event Modern Romance (comics, music, DJs) by Julia Scheele. Well, here’s her flyer for the day event: Part 1: 3-7pm – Drop In + Draw. A mini-mini convention with group [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 23, 2010
Stuck for something to do on Valentines Day? Or maybe you and significant other fancy something a little more unusual than a candle lit dinner? We Are Words + Pictures have the answer: Head down to Notting Hill Arts Club for two comics and music events Part 1: 3-7pm – Drop In + Draw. A [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 1, 2010
Courtesy of Matthew Sheret & Juia Scheele (of the We Are Words + Pictures Collective) - a perfect three pages of making comics about dancing, DJ envy and having a great time. Page 1 below, click through for the rest.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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