Thursday, January 14. 2010
Art For Art's Sake
The great sequential artist, Arthur Ranson, has an exhibition of work on show at Orbital Comics, 8, Grt Newport St, London, from 14th January to 14th February. Nearest tube stn : Leicester Sq. Opening times from Mon to Sat -10.30-7pm,except Thursday when closing is at 7.30. Sunday opening is 11.30-5.
Must be seen. So go and see it. More at www.arthurranson.com.
Must be seen. So go and see it. More at www.arthurranson.com.
Thursday, December 3. 2009
R Crumb Uncovered
Scream Gallery at 34, Bruton St, London, is showing R. Crumb Uncovered - an exhibition focussing on Crumb’s pen and ink strip work, but also including sketchbook pages, greeting cards, ink drawing on acetate, and one very rare oil painting.
The exhibition runs into December, and features all the iconic characters Crumb has created ; Mr. Snoid, Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural. We also have an image of the late singer and comic book fan, Janis Joplin, printed on a sheet of acid tabs and signed by Timothy Leary.
For any further information on the exhibition and pieces available to buy, please contact: nicole@screamlondon.com
Scream website : www.screamlondon.com.
Update : A section of the exhibition is remaining on show until early February.
The exhibition runs into December, and features all the iconic characters Crumb has created ; Mr. Snoid, Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural. We also have an image of the late singer and comic book fan, Janis Joplin, printed on a sheet of acid tabs and signed by Timothy Leary.
For any further information on the exhibition and pieces available to buy, please contact: nicole@screamlondon.com
Scream website : www.screamlondon.com.
Update : A section of the exhibition is remaining on show until early February.
Monday, October 12. 2009
Young Cartoonists Awaken!
Friday, October 9. 2009
Conference Call
News of a conference and exhibition in Cambridge from Sarah Lightman :
A one day conference, 'Women in Comics' will take place on the 25th October 2009.
With its unique collection of 20th Century Women's Art, The New Hall Art Collection provides the perfect venue for a gathering of practitioners, academics, curators and enthusiasts. Women comic artists will speak about their work, and broader discussion will include the representation of women in comics. The event will run as part of The Cambridge Festival of Ideas week and is supported by The University of Glasgow.
Speakers include; Dominique Goblet, Paul Gravett, Woodrow Phoenix, Corinne Pearlman, Kate Evans, Dr Mel Gibson, Sarah McIntyre, Dr Ann Miller, Asia Alfasi and many more. Details at :
http://www.art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/events/comics.html
Sarah Lightman will also be exhibiting 'In Memoriam', diary drawings from her on-going autobiographical graphic novel in The New Hall Exhibition Space, 19th October- 14th November 2009. www.sarahlightman.com
A one day conference, 'Women in Comics' will take place on the 25th October 2009.
With its unique collection of 20th Century Women's Art, The New Hall Art Collection provides the perfect venue for a gathering of practitioners, academics, curators and enthusiasts. Women comic artists will speak about their work, and broader discussion will include the representation of women in comics. The event will run as part of The Cambridge Festival of Ideas week and is supported by The University of Glasgow.
Speakers include; Dominique Goblet, Paul Gravett, Woodrow Phoenix, Corinne Pearlman, Kate Evans, Dr Mel Gibson, Sarah McIntyre, Dr Ann Miller, Asia Alfasi and many more. Details at :
http://www.art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/events/comics.html
Sarah Lightman will also be exhibiting 'In Memoriam', diary drawings from her on-going autobiographical graphic novel in The New Hall Exhibition Space, 19th October- 14th November 2009. www.sarahlightman.com
Tuesday, August 18. 2009
About Cartoon Classroom
About Cartoon Classroom.
Many of you who've visited this site will have noticed the Cartoon Classroom link which has resided for some time on the left of the News page. It is no longer a pre-register site - it will now direct you to the live site of Cartoon Classroom, which was launched on the 3rd October.
I encourage you to register on it if you're a professional cartoonist/comic creator, or aspire to being such, or are interested in the study of cartoon art as a teacher or educationalist.
Cartoon Classroom is the inspiration of Steve Marchant, a cartoonist and a teacher of cartooning, who began his tutoring career at The London Cartoon Centre - a charity-run, full-time evening school of cartoon and comic art creation, which I was involved with for many years before it ran out of funding. Efforts to raise cash for it were continued until it became obvious the Centre could not be resurrected and continued for any worthwhile period. It then became a matter of deciding whether to return these donations to their source, or - at the permission of the donors - to use them to initiate something else that might generally help the cause the Centre espoused.
Steve decided that a good extension of the service the school once offered would be a website which had the main aim of centralising access to all the various means of studying cartoon and comic strip creation which exist throughout the UK and Southern Ireland.
The full list of its aims are as follows :
1) to put educational institutions in touch with cartoonists who teach this specialised art form on a part-time or full-time basis.
2 ) to document whatever is available through art colleges, workshops, recommended manuals and other media, which can help anyone studying to be a good cartoonist/comic creator.
3 ) to list all museums and galleries in its designated area which have comic/cartoon art on public view or in their archives, and to encourage those without any to acquire examples from local notable creators .
It's our intention that only a fraction of the information required for the site's operation will need to be supplied to the site by its administrators. Instead, details of courses, collections, locations and availability of tutoring will be added directly to the site by all those who use it. Ideally, it should be almost self-generating.
The most important thing for the site's effectiveness is that it offer comprehensive coverage of its target zone ; and for this to be achieved, we need to maximise our communication to all those institutions and individuals who'll make use of the site.
If you can, please help by contacting any person or institution you feel would add content to our database, and/or make use of it.
David Lloyd and Steve Marchant.
Many of you who've visited this site will have noticed the Cartoon Classroom link which has resided for some time on the left of the News page. It is no longer a pre-register site - it will now direct you to the live site of Cartoon Classroom, which was launched on the 3rd October.
I encourage you to register on it if you're a professional cartoonist/comic creator, or aspire to being such, or are interested in the study of cartoon art as a teacher or educationalist.
Cartoon Classroom is the inspiration of Steve Marchant, a cartoonist and a teacher of cartooning, who began his tutoring career at The London Cartoon Centre - a charity-run, full-time evening school of cartoon and comic art creation, which I was involved with for many years before it ran out of funding. Efforts to raise cash for it were continued until it became obvious the Centre could not be resurrected and continued for any worthwhile period. It then became a matter of deciding whether to return these donations to their source, or - at the permission of the donors - to use them to initiate something else that might generally help the cause the Centre espoused.
Steve decided that a good extension of the service the school once offered would be a website which had the main aim of centralising access to all the various means of studying cartoon and comic strip creation which exist throughout the UK and Southern Ireland.
The full list of its aims are as follows :
1) to put educational institutions in touch with cartoonists who teach this specialised art form on a part-time or full-time basis.
2 ) to document whatever is available through art colleges, workshops, recommended manuals and other media, which can help anyone studying to be a good cartoonist/comic creator.
3 ) to list all museums and galleries in its designated area which have comic/cartoon art on public view or in their archives, and to encourage those without any to acquire examples from local notable creators .
It's our intention that only a fraction of the information required for the site's operation will need to be supplied to the site by its administrators. Instead, details of courses, collections, locations and availability of tutoring will be added directly to the site by all those who use it. Ideally, it should be almost self-generating.
The most important thing for the site's effectiveness is that it offer comprehensive coverage of its target zone ; and for this to be achieved, we need to maximise our communication to all those institutions and individuals who'll make use of the site.
If you can, please help by contacting any person or institution you feel would add content to our database, and/or make use of it.
David Lloyd and Steve Marchant.
Monday, August 17. 2009
Heroic Attempt
Tuesday, August 4. 2009
Season Of The Python
Terry Gilliam Season At The BFI - 2 - 31 August
Animator, absurdist, anarchist, arch-fantasist: the many worlds (few of them our
own) of an ex-Python ...As we eagerly await his latest creation, the BFI takes a
peek into the career of director Terry Gilliam. Gilliam has never trod an easy
route, his career path more obstacle race than 100-metre dash, but the results -
11 feature films scattered over 35 years, all on view in this season - glitter
with ambition and glorious imagination... From The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen to Time Bandits from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to Jabberwocky.
For full listings go to http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/august_seasons/terry_gilliam
Animator, absurdist, anarchist, arch-fantasist: the many worlds (few of them our
own) of an ex-Python ...As we eagerly await his latest creation, the BFI takes a
peek into the career of director Terry Gilliam. Gilliam has never trod an easy
route, his career path more obstacle race than 100-metre dash, but the results -
11 feature films scattered over 35 years, all on view in this season - glitter
with ambition and glorious imagination... From The Adventures of Baron
Munchausen to Time Bandits from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to Jabberwocky.
For full listings go to http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/august_seasons/terry_gilliam
Saturday, July 11. 2009
Making A Change
Jinja Chameleon at Brighton Carnival
Creative Chameleon and Jinja Design - aka Caroline Coates and Rose Kigwana will be exhibiting their art as part of the Brighton Carnival tomorrow, Sunday 12th, at Brighton Carnival Village on Madeira Drive, Brighton, from 2-7pm.
They'll have a wide selection of paintings and hand-made cards including new art on the theme of carnival.
For more information on Jinja Design's lovely cards and how they raise money for a family in Uganda please visit www.jinja-design.com.
Creative Chameleon and Jinja Design - aka Caroline Coates and Rose Kigwana will be exhibiting their art as part of the Brighton Carnival tomorrow, Sunday 12th, at Brighton Carnival Village on Madeira Drive, Brighton, from 2-7pm.
They'll have a wide selection of paintings and hand-made cards including new art on the theme of carnival.
For more information on Jinja Design's lovely cards and how they raise money for a family in Uganda please visit www.jinja-design.com.
Monday, July 6. 2009
We Are Very Amused
Karen Rubins is Comics Artist In Residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from 1st July. Good news for sequential art and sequential artists everywhere.
From Karen :
The residency programme in general is pretty new, they've only been going for about a year or two, and this is the first Comics-themed residency they've had. We're going to be doing quite a few comics events here, mostly in the Autumn, and I'll keep you informed about those as and when I get the info.
The residency was announced last year and I think the V&A received around 150 applicants! The application process involved quite a few questions, each of which required something like a mini-essay. There was a presentation and interview stage for the final five back in February. In general, the Residency programme is there so that the museum can be involved with the creating and making, and not just the appreciation, of design - to have a live creative space so that visitors can really engage with the design process and discover disciplines and crafts that they may not have had a chance to think about before.
Go and visit!
Check out the details on this and Karen's other work at www.kazmantra.co.uk.
From Karen :
The residency programme in general is pretty new, they've only been going for about a year or two, and this is the first Comics-themed residency they've had. We're going to be doing quite a few comics events here, mostly in the Autumn, and I'll keep you informed about those as and when I get the info.
The residency was announced last year and I think the V&A received around 150 applicants! The application process involved quite a few questions, each of which required something like a mini-essay. There was a presentation and interview stage for the final five back in February. In general, the Residency programme is there so that the museum can be involved with the creating and making, and not just the appreciation, of design - to have a live creative space so that visitors can really engage with the design process and discover disciplines and crafts that they may not have had a chance to think about before.
Go and visit!
Check out the details on this and Karen's other work at www.kazmantra.co.uk.
Friday, June 12. 2009
Grand Opening
Tuesday, May 26. 2009
Strip For Shakespeare
Saturday 30 May from 1.30 – 4pm is Manga Shakespeare Day
Join ILYA, artist on the new Manga edition of King Lear, and Emma Vieceli, artist on Much Ado About Nothing, for a fascinating and dramatic afternoon of exhibits, talks and slideshow presentation.
Get the inside track on how they present William Shakespeare's characters and storylines in their new Manga Shakespeare graphic adaptations, published by Self Made Hero.
http://www.mangashakespeare.com/books.html
SKETCHING! SIGNING! STUFF!!!
ALSO: A character-from-Shakespeare design competition, open to all, free to enter, with PRIZES! Bring your pens and ideas.
Other Manga Shakespeare artists will also drop by.
Free to all with the price of admission to the Cartoon Museum
ADMISSION
£5.50 Adults
£4 Concessions
£3 Students with valid student ID and Art Fund Members.
Free to Under-18s and Friends of the Cartoon Museum.
Children 12 or under must be accompanied by an adult.
Museum Hours 10.30-5.30.
Make a Day of it!
The Cartoon Museum35 Little Russell Street
London WC1A 2HH
Tel: 020 7580 8155
http://www.cartoonmuseum.org
Join ILYA, artist on the new Manga edition of King Lear, and Emma Vieceli, artist on Much Ado About Nothing, for a fascinating and dramatic afternoon of exhibits, talks and slideshow presentation.
Get the inside track on how they present William Shakespeare's characters and storylines in their new Manga Shakespeare graphic adaptations, published by Self Made Hero.
http://www.mangashakespeare.com/books.html
SKETCHING! SIGNING! STUFF!!!
ALSO: A character-from-Shakespeare design competition, open to all, free to enter, with PRIZES! Bring your pens and ideas.
Other Manga Shakespeare artists will also drop by.
Free to all with the price of admission to the Cartoon Museum
ADMISSION
£5.50 Adults
£4 Concessions
£3 Students with valid student ID and Art Fund Members.
Free to Under-18s and Friends of the Cartoon Museum.
Children 12 or under must be accompanied by an adult.
Museum Hours 10.30-5.30.
Make a Day of it!
The Cartoon Museum35 Little Russell Street
London WC1A 2HH
Tel: 020 7580 8155
http://www.cartoonmuseum.org
Friday, May 22. 2009
Pix Elated
An exhibition of art inspired by video games is on show at the Brighton Fishing Museum for three days from today, organised by Atom Fire Productions - www.atomfireproductions.com. Includes work from the Cartoon County network of cartoonists and comic artists, including me : )
For those unfamiliar with Brighton, the Fishing Museum is on the beach and appropriately opposite the Ship Hotel on the seafront above it.
Spend the day at the seaside and check it out.
For those unfamiliar with Brighton, the Fishing Museum is on the beach and appropriately opposite the Ship Hotel on the seafront above it.
Spend the day at the seaside and check it out.
Saturday, May 2. 2009
Home And Away
In Brighton, Ben Naylor has art for sale at the Hanover Community Centre, Southover Street, as part of Brighton's regular May Festival Open House multi-exhibition event, from 11am till 6pm every Saturday and Sunday of the month until the last weekend.
More details on these Open House exhibitions can be acquired from http://www.aoh.org.uk/artists-open-houses.
In London, Paul O'Connell is at 2009's London Zine Symposium, a free event being held tomorrow at The Rag Factory,16-18 Heneage Street, London, E1 5LJ.
http://londonzinesymposium.lasthours.org.uk/
On sale will be limited copies of The Sound of Drowning 12 - http://issuu.com/soundofdrowning/docs/sod12 -
the last few copies of Green Sea Days with artwork by Dan
Locke, and also some copies of a brand-new book called Johnnny Three N's.
Exhibitions
Paul's also featured in a couple of forthcoming exhibitions. At the ArtLexis gallery in NewYork, and as part of The Newstead Short Story Tattoo - http://www.nsst.org.au/ - near Melbourne, Australia, where 'Grandad' - written by Paul and illustrated by Dan Locke is being displayed.
'Grandad' can also be found in the 10th anniversary special of the European comics anthology MIlk & Woda, out this month -http://www.cookieluck.ch/milkandwodka/
Interview
Lastly, an interview with Paul can be found at Dogmatica -
http://dogmatika.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/not-waving/
More details on these Open House exhibitions can be acquired from http://www.aoh.org.uk/artists-open-houses.
In London, Paul O'Connell is at 2009's London Zine Symposium, a free event being held tomorrow at The Rag Factory,16-18 Heneage Street, London, E1 5LJ.
http://londonzinesymposium.lasthours.org.uk/
On sale will be limited copies of The Sound of Drowning 12 - http://issuu.com/soundofdrowning/docs/sod12 -
the last few copies of Green Sea Days with artwork by Dan
Locke, and also some copies of a brand-new book called Johnnny Three N's.
Exhibitions
Paul's also featured in a couple of forthcoming exhibitions. At the ArtLexis gallery in NewYork, and as part of The Newstead Short Story Tattoo - http://www.nsst.org.au/ - near Melbourne, Australia, where 'Grandad' - written by Paul and illustrated by Dan Locke is being displayed.
'Grandad' can also be found in the 10th anniversary special of the European comics anthology MIlk & Woda, out this month -http://www.cookieluck.ch/milkandwodka/
Interview
Lastly, an interview with Paul can be found at Dogmatica -
http://dogmatika.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/not-waving/
Wednesday, April 29. 2009
Strips For Sale
Jessica Kemp will be offering Burlesque pin-up prints for sale as part of the Lycanthr Open House alternative Craft and Fetish Market at the Caroline of Brunswick on the 9th and 30th of May.
The Lycanthr open house is an alternative art exhibition featuring new work by:
Mahni Dare – Mexican-Voodoo-Gothic-Kitsch
Ron Fitton & Colin Everett (Darkwolves) – Fantasy/ Horror Digital Painting
Chrissie Nicholson-Wild - Red Fetish Art
Natasha-Slater Bowen – Fix Alternative Photography
Vikki Yeates – Gothic Art
www.myspace.com/carolineofbrunswick
Jessica will also have prints for sale on the weekend of the 9th-10th May at the Bristol International Comic Expo - www.fantasyevents.org
http://www.redbubble.com/people/McSchmesh
The Caroline of Brunswick
39 Ditching Rd
Brighton
BN1 4SB
01273 624434
The Lycanthr open house is an alternative art exhibition featuring new work by:
Mahni Dare – Mexican-Voodoo-Gothic-Kitsch
Ron Fitton & Colin Everett (Darkwolves) – Fantasy/ Horror Digital Painting
Chrissie Nicholson-Wild - Red Fetish Art
Natasha-Slater Bowen – Fix Alternative Photography
Vikki Yeates – Gothic Art
www.myspace.com/carolineofbrunswick
Jessica will also have prints for sale on the weekend of the 9th-10th May at the Bristol International Comic Expo - www.fantasyevents.org
http://www.redbubble.com/people/McSchmesh
The Caroline of Brunswick
39 Ditching Rd
Brighton
BN1 4SB
01273 624434
Eat Here Or Take Away
The acclaimed work from Kate Evans on breastfeeding is in the stores now...
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