Entries by Corinne Pearlman

Or (as cartoonist author Kate Evans writes) if you don't have an independent book retailer nearby, it's on amazon.co.uk!

It's my latest book The Food of Love and it's very useful if you are, or are about to become, a breastfeeding mother.

And other people like reading it too, including childless blokes, which surprised me, until someone pointed out that it has naked bosoms in.

As well as that, we have:

funky cartoons about babies
a step-by-step visual introduction to latching on a newborn
a little on the socio-political and historical context of breastfeeding in our society (just because I draw pictures doesn't mean I'm thick)
some sly digs at Gina Ford's Contented Little Bootcamp
stuff about why it's lovely to sleep with your baby
stuff about why it's really bloody annoying to sleep with your baby
the most comprehensive and readable chapter on breastfeeding complaints of any book in print (that's a challenge, there)
solutions for post-natal depression that could save your sanity
and The Mama Sutra - advanced breastfeeding positions
And, all this in a blingingly shiny gold book that is designed to stay open at the page, so you can read it with your hands full.

So I'd quite like you to:

buy the book (publisher: Myriad Editions, ISBN: 9 780954 930950)
or order it at your library, if you're too credit crunched for spare cash
and/or review it on amazon (I suppose, technically, you're supposed to have read it first)
and blog it, and recommend it to others, and buy more copies, and give them away
and forward this link to anyone else who might be interested.

The Food of Love - because babies don't act like Tiny Tears and we don't look like Barbie dolls.

Cartoon county members Tim Leopard and Fraser Geesin's new book, Dream Date is being published this month by Running Water Press. This amusing stocking filler will be launched on Tuesday 9th December at the Komedia Studio Bar. All the necessary information can be found here:

http://www.runningwateronline.co.uk/dreamdate.htm


The book launch (£2 entry) will be accompanied by live music from Bird Engine, Nervous Breakdown and Geesin and Leopard’s very own, Passiondale. Alcohol and complementary snacks shall be available and Dream Date itself will be on sale for the special price of £3 (rrp £4.99).

Do come along as both Tim and Fraser are desperate for people to come and enjoy themselves!

Don't miss out on the great events at the ICA for this year's comics season (tho Art Speigelman's appearances appear to be already sold out, sadly...): check out http://www.ica.org.uk/comics and curator Paul Gravett's site at http://www.paulgravett.com. On Saturday 22 November there's a comics self-publisher's fair - free admission - at the ICA, and you can catch local hero Tim Pilcher on a panel about Erotic Comics at 4pm on Sunday 23rd. Our man from Hastings, Zeel, is busily preparing for his Magic Lantern Lecture this Tuesday evening 18th November 7pm at University of Westminster, Upper Regent Street (turn up at 6- 630 for free tickets). Catch that if you can for “Work in progress toward a 7 minute zombies, mutants and humans wrestling in Orbit EPIC. it really does seem to be turning into a sort of mixture of COMICS, magic lantern show, web animation and avant garde jazz-metal.”

If you want to get away with murder, buy a car.

Why does road death result in more sympathy for the driver than the victim? This is the subject of Woodrow Phoenix's powerful new graphic work Rumble Strip, to be published by Myriad Editions on 12 June.

Woodrow will be talking about cars and cartoons with Lisa Holloway, Chair of Creative Brighton, at a special exhibition of art from Rumble Strip, for one night only.

Thursday, 12th June
Castor & Pollux, King’s Road Arches, Brighton beachfront
6.00pm for 6.30pm
Refreshments available

Rumble Strip will be available to purchase at a special discount on the night. Each copy entitles you to a chance to win an original page of Woodrow's stunning artwork.

Free event but booking essential. Phone 01273 720000
or email corinne@myriadeditions.com

Cartoon County meets every last Monday in the month (except Bank holidays) from 6pm upstairs at The Cricketers, Black Lion St., Brighton. Next meeting is Monday 31st March. Bring your work, bring yourselves, any time until closing.

FREE Shooting the Witness: Critical Drawing
Political Cartoon Gallery
32 Store Street
London WC1E 7BS
020 7580 1114 Tube: Goodge St
Friday 11th April 6pm—8pm
Free entry and refreshments but booking essential.

Twenty years after the Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali was shot dead in London, cartoonists Steve Bell, Kate Evans and Woodrow Phoenix debate the relative freedoms of drawing criticisms of politicians and politics around the world. Do try and get to this early evening event to see these stunning cartoons.
The debate is part of a commemoration of Al-Ali’s work at the Gallery showing until 19th April.

Shooting the Witness is an exhibition of sixty original drawings by the Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al-Ali, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of his assassination in London.
Naji Al-Ali was one of the most prominent cartoonists in the Arab world – during his lifetime, he drew around 15,000 cartoons, on average two a day.
Sarcastic, poignant and perhaps too bold, Al-Ali's cartoons were drawn from his experience as a refugee since childhood. Naji Al-Ali had no political affiliations and the absence of slogans and dogma in his work brought both success and criticism. His bold and illustrative cartoons, widely published in Arab newspapers over the past 20-30 years, revealed the tragic state of the Middle East. The artist combined art and political satire in work that remains as relevant today. His character Hanthala, a boy who never grows up, always remains with his back to the viewer, a witness of the occupation by Israel and the complicity of the west, as well as the absence of democracy, widespread corruption, and gross inequality in the Arab world. He was said to have antagonized virtually everyone in the Middle East, leading to his unsolved murder in 1987.

For the first time, Naji Al-Ali’s original cartoons are shown in London, at the Political Cartoon Gallery, in cooperation with the SOAS Palestine Society, the Nakba60 group, Cartoon County and the family of Naji Al-Ali. The show runs until 19th April.

The Political Cartoon Gallery, 32 Store Street, London, WC1E 7BS. Tel.: 0207 580 1114 Open Monday to Saturday 10am to 5.30pm

A fantastic opportunity for a cartoonist-in-residence at Buckinghamshire County Museum in Aylesbury, who are looking for an artist/cartoonist with a strong interest in drawing and social comment, to make observations on contemporary life in the market town Aylesbury, from initial sketches to finished exhibition of work. “The Residency will coincide with an exhibition of Victorian Narrative Painting at the Museum (April - July 2009). The successful artist will have a developed personal vision and at least 15 years' experience. He or she must be a good communicator and able to engage with museum visitors of all ages. ” For more information, contact Alexandra MacCulloch, Keeper of Art, Clothing and Textiles, 01296 624 519, amacculloch@buckscc.gov.uk

Paul O'Connell's The Sound of Drowning #10 is out this week, available to buy online -
www.soundofdrowning.com - and will be making its public debut this
Sunday at the London ICA's Comiket Small Press
fair as part of this years Comica season (curated by Paul Gravett).
Paper Tiger comix will be there too as will fellow Brighton comics
artist Dan Locke with new issues of his comic 'Green'! Come and say hi!

http://www.ica.org.uk/Comica%20Comiket+15108.twl

www.soundofdrowning.com

Edited by Richard Cowdry and featuring work by himself plus Peter Lally, Bird, Mardou & Fortenski, Tim Levin, Trevor Carolan and J.Edward Scott, this comic will please underground comix fans, alternative comics readers, and curious outsiders and misfits alike.

Two issues have been produced so far and are for sale in around 50 shops throughout the UK, or you can buy them direct from the Bedsit Journal website with FREE postage and packing!

www.bedsitjournal.com

"Just picked up a copy of your tawdry little magazine, from a shop called 'Gosh' in London, and found it deeply amusing. I larfed till I barfed! 'Bedsit Life', 'Psycho City', and especially 'Fashionable Fascism' all brilliant - in a slash-your-wrists kind of way. Keep up the good work."
-ROGER SABIN, AUTHOR OF 'ADULT COMICS: AN INTRODUCTION' AND 'COMICS, COMIX, AND GRAPHIC NOVELS'.

"Just to let you know that I came across the issue No2 of Bedsit Journal, it's a great work! I really enjoyed reading your stuff, and a magazine in general... There's not so much interesting new stuff around, so it was really refreshing to read it (How to Succeed at Failure works great!)."
- ALEXANDER ZOGRAF, AUTHOR OF 'REGARDS FROM SERBIA'

The Bedsit Journal is for ADULTS ONLY.

One of the exhibitions that we have been planning (for years! - but we hope this is REALLY going to happen next year at the Political Cartoon Gallery in London) is a show of the work of Palestinian cartoonist Naji el Ali. On 29th July it will be 20 years since he was gunned down on a London street by an unknown assassin. The BBC is paying tribute to him on their website at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6911815.stm

Here's a cheering thought for all aspiring newspaper strip cartoonists. Arctic Circle is Alex Hallatt's comic strip about three penguins who emigrate to the Arctic. It was picked up by King Features Syndicate in the US and will start appearing in newspapers next month. Check out www.moontoon.com. Alex, now located much nearer the Antarctic, in NZ, says: “All those years of working for the Argus in Brighton were great training!”

Paper Tiger Comix 4 is OUT NOW! The latest issue is the biggest & boldest
tiger yet! 100 page perfect bound book, glossy high quality interior, 5 art
cards, 21 track CD and badge.


All professionally produced for the highest quality!The content is the most diverse yet; underground & alternative comics mixed with surreal art. Contributions have come from Lorna Miller (WITCH), Fiona Smyth (Nocturnal Emissions), Richard Cowdry (The Bedsit Journal), Terry Wiley (Sleaze Castle), Vince Packard (cannibol.com), Paul O Connell (The Sound Of Drowning), John Chandler (Boobytrap/ Draw Or Die), Dan Locke (Green), Lawrence Elwick, Clive Scruton (Pograzye 23/ Reservoir), Steve Tillotson (Banal Pig), The Hermit Design, Al Frank (Tad Martin), Hurk (Me God/ Wreck Show/ Che Fly), Julie Klausner (Animal Party/ Racist Kitty), Cyriak (Beastenders / Farm Of Fear/ Meow!), Bird (Tales From The Cosmic Mountain), Harry Flay (What Lies Within), Captain Dan (Now That I Know), Matilda Tristram (Gum/ Afoot books), Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Robert S Brown, Erica Ilcane, Emanuele Kabu, Jake Blanchard, Jon Bienart, Deborah Valentine, Bernard Dumaine, Paulo Cunha, Bunny Mazhari, Sean Duffield, Laird Polland,
Heiko & many more.

The CD, consists of 21 tracks of underground music spanning many genres, but quirky, interesting & weird, just like the comic and features brilliant tracks by:Mama Shamone (recent myspace "artist of the month"), Oom (Series 8), Rup (Zebra Traffic), The Meow Meows, Tits Of Death, Spookey, Waxed Apple, Hakuna Pesa, Bumblebee, Melophonic, Cagedbaby, Cyriak, Bearbot, Sebastien, Like The Animal You Are & Acampante.

The pack also comes with 5 Art Cards & 25mm Tiger Button Badge!Limited to only 1000 copies, when it's gone it's gone!

You can see a slideshow of some of the pages from the comic on the website (see link below)The comics retail for £6.99 in UK shops, but you can get it for only £5.50 on the website, shipped
to anywhere worldwide from here: http://www.papertigercomix.com

Illustrators Evening:
Children's Books vs. Graphic Novels: Drawing the Line
With Tim Pilcher (chair), David Lloyd, Kate Evans and Ilya
Don't miss this opportunity to support comics creators and gurus at the Brighton Festival!!
Comic books, graphic novels and Japanese Manga today represent a multi-million dollar global market. Yet for the uninitiated they often remain a beguiling read. Putting the record straight are David Lloyd (world renowned co-creator of V-for Vendetta with Alan Moore); writer, editor and comic industry guru Tim Pilcher; international comic book creator Ilya (Manga Drawing Kit, End of the Century Club); and queen of comic book reportage, Kate Evans, author of Copse, whose recent comic book about climate change, Funny Weather, is published by Brighton-based Myriad Editions.
Friday 18 May, 7.30pm
Old Market Arts Centre, Hove
Adult
Tickets £7 (£6 concessions) from Brighton Dome Ticket Office (01273) 709709
Part of the Festival's popular Illustrators Evenings, this panel event is the only billing for the cartoon medium in the month-long artsfest, so make an evening of it and meet up with other Cartoon County folk in the bar/cafe before or after.

My Artist's Open House exhibition is now in its fourth year. This year I've been playing around with Mod related comic cuts in bold acrylics. There are also light hearted pieces paying homage to Jazz muscians. My work is on show with the Degenerates, a pop art co-operative producing work fine art prints & screen prints of iconic British rock acts & poets, and Tim Fawcett, whose work fuses fine art techniques with comic & political satire.

The house is open from 11am to 6pm each May weekend at 2 Dorothy Road Hove BN3 7GR tel no 01273 423137 There is usually parking in adjacent streets & we'll have tea, coffee & cakes available if you ask nicely.

The Artists Open House season runs alongside the Brighton Festival Fringe each May. This year I'm part of a trail, Hangleton Actually.

My Open House group/trail : http://www.hangletonactually.co.uk/home.html
Artists Open House Web site: http://www.aoh.org.uk/2006/
My web site: http://www.descarts.com
My Cartoon archive: www.cartoonstock.com

Cartoonist John Ireland has an exhibition at Start Gallery, Church Street, Brighton until 25 November. He'll be there in person next Saturday 25 Nov. Mainly caricatures of celebs from the TV Times in pen and watercolour...