In Orbit
From Paul O'Connell :
The Stool Pigeon is delighted to present an exhibition of comic art at
Orbital Comics, London, from August 19 to September 18, featuring full-page
strips, cartoons and visual gags from throughout our six-year history alongside
original artwork, line drawings and sketches.
The Stool Pigeon is a bi-monthly, free, fully independent and
award-winning music newspaper based in London and available across the UK. Each issue
contains an exclusive eight-page comics section, recognised for
producing some of the best underground comic art in Britain today. This exhibition
is a chance to put that work in its own context, away from the paper’s music
journalism, and included in the show are all our regular comic strip
writers and cartoonists — Krent Able, Paul O’Connell and Lawrence Elwick
(Charlie Parker ‘Handyman’), Martin Kellerman (Rocky), Richard Cowdry (Down
Town), Luke Pearson, Moochowski, Babak Ganjei (Hilarious Consequences),
Dave The Chimp, Mickey Gibbons and others.
The Stool Pigeon is delighted to present an exhibition of comic art at
Orbital Comics, London, from August 19 to September 18, featuring full-page
strips, cartoons and visual gags from throughout our six-year history alongside
original artwork, line drawings and sketches.
The Stool Pigeon is a bi-monthly, free, fully independent and
award-winning music newspaper based in London and available across the UK. Each issue
contains an exclusive eight-page comics section, recognised for
producing some of the best underground comic art in Britain today. This exhibition
is a chance to put that work in its own context, away from the paper’s music
journalism, and included in the show are all our regular comic strip
writers and cartoonists — Krent Able, Paul O’Connell and Lawrence Elwick
(Charlie Parker ‘Handyman’), Martin Kellerman (Rocky), Richard Cowdry (Down
Town), Luke Pearson, Moochowski, Babak Ganjei (Hilarious Consequences),
Dave The Chimp, Mickey Gibbons and others.
About Face
Paul Stapleton has a new book out :
I've finally finished Facebook The Comicbook 2: Achievements, and very nicely it has come out as well. The recurring theme of the book is chasing obscure achievements that don't matter while your life goes down the toilet. In addition it also touches on people 'liking' conversations for no reason, Bejewelled Blitz addiction, punctuation pedants, and the real reason Facebook keeps mucking about with our privacy settings. There's even a spanky set of "cut out and lose" fact cards about the differing types of Facebook freak.
More on http://www.pogscribbles.org
I've finally finished Facebook The Comicbook 2: Achievements, and very nicely it has come out as well. The recurring theme of the book is chasing obscure achievements that don't matter while your life goes down the toilet. In addition it also touches on people 'liking' conversations for no reason, Bejewelled Blitz addiction, punctuation pedants, and the real reason Facebook keeps mucking about with our privacy settings. There's even a spanky set of "cut out and lose" fact cards about the differing types of Facebook freak.
More on http://www.pogscribbles.org
Comics & Conflict 19th & 20th August Imperial War Museum
There's an amazing line-up this coming weekend at the Comics and Conflicts Conference (Pat Mills, Garth Ennis for a start), organised by comics radio presenter Alex Fitch, Ariel Kahn (Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Roehampton University) and Paul Gravett (Comica Director). Cartoon County members might want to get along to the panel on Saturday with fellow Brighton cartoonists 
Sean Duffield, Dan Locke and Ben Naylor talking about the anthology War: The Human Cost that they have all contributed to (and Sean has heroically edited and brought to print). This is an excellent book and worth getting whether or not you can get to the Museum next Saturday. Word has it that Francesca Cassavetti is going to bring along her mother who kept a diary during the war - Francesca created a beautiful comic based on this.
Info from Alex Fitch at www.panelborders.com/events / tickets at: http://wartime.iwm.org.uk/?page_id=13 (scroll down to find tickets for individual events)
Article and links from Paul Gravett here:
http://www.paulgravett.com/index.php/articles/article/comics_conflicts/
Sean Duffield, Dan Locke and Ben Naylor talking about the anthology War: The Human Cost that they have all contributed to (and Sean has heroically edited and brought to print). This is an excellent book and worth getting whether or not you can get to the Museum next Saturday. Word has it that Francesca Cassavetti is going to bring along her mother who kept a diary during the war - Francesca created a beautiful comic based on this. Info from Alex Fitch at www.panelborders.com/events / tickets at: http://wartime.iwm.org.uk/?page_id=13 (scroll down to find tickets for individual events)
Article and links from Paul Gravett here:
http://www.paulgravett.com/index.php/articles/article/comics_conflicts/
