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
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.
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/
