Cartoon County

John Higgins Talk - August 23rd

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2010-08-13T13:09:19Z

Garen Ewing Interview

(Fraser Geesin) — 2010-05-24T20:58:28Z

Last month's show and tell session with Julius Chancer creator, Garen Ewinghas been documented in podcast form over at Mindless Ones.

Unmissable Chancer

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2010-04-21T09:56:54Z

Author and sequential artist, Garen Ewing, the creator of the adventurer, Julius Chancer, in The Rainbow Orchid graphic novel, will be chatting about and showing his work at the Cartoon County meeting on Monday, the 26th April, upstairs at The Cricketers, Black Lion St, Brighton, at 7.30pm.

More on The Rainbow Orchid and Garen's other achievements at www.garenewing.co.uk. And visit the Gallery on this site for more examples of his work.

The Sky Crawlers at the NFT - this Friday 16 April

comicopera@btopenworld.com (Corinne Pearlman) — 2010-04-14T18:45:51Z

Watch out for the BFI Anime weekend in May http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/events/anime_weekend

and check out the Preview: The Sky Crawlers Fri 16 Apr 20:40 NFT1 - http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/film_programme/regular_strands/previews/preview_the_sky_crawlers

SICAF (Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival)

comicopera@btopenworld.com (Corinne Pearlman) — 2010-04-07T07:52:46Z

SICAF 2010 International Digital Cartoon Competition
: Chance to post your works on the www.toondosi.com

SICAF 2010 International Digital Cartoon Competition is sponsored by SK Telecom Toondosi (www.toondosi.com). The selected works for final competition will be presented on the Toondosi website. The Grand Prize, the Gold Prize, and the Creative Story Prize Winner will have opportunity to post their works on the website. Show your potentials in Web Cartoons, Scroll Comics, Mobile Comics, Digital Illustration, Creative Story. Make your dream come true!

Entry Deadline
Feb 24, 2010 - Apr 20, 2010

Categories
Web Cartoons/ Scroll Comics (Short Story, Long Story)/ Mobile Comics/ Digital Illustration/ Creative Story

* Prizes
Total 30,000,000\ (Grand Prizes 10,000,000\) Foreign exchange rate is subject to change. (Korean currency: Won)
-The Grand Prize and the Gold Prize Winner will have opportunity to post their works on the web-site (www.toondosi.com)
-The Creative Story Prize winner will have opportunity to post their works on the web-site (www.toondosi.com)
-All prize winners will be published on international advertisement booklets (English, French, and Japanese)

*All materials should be submitted to
- Official Website: www.sicaf.org
- For any questions, please contact: E-mail: digitalcartoon@sicaf.org Tel: 82.2.3455.8411
- Please submit your work to our official website, www.sicaf.org. (Off-line submission is not available.)
- The official languages of the competition are Korean and English.

In Support Of A Competition

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2010-03-24T08:57:40Z

Online charity Youthnet is running a competition for the 16-25 age group called ' Life Support : Change Through Art '. Comics, cartoons and illustrations are requested depicting what the recession means to those between 16 - 25. Entries can be new or existing pieces of work.

The overall winner will receive £1K towards their artistic development, and have their piece displayed with other shortlisted entries at an event held in London's Design Museum.

Entry details and other information at : http://www.thesite.org/lifesupport.

One of the entries so far is seen here.

Art For Art's Sake

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2010-01-14T09:58:09Z

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.

R Crumb Uncovered

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2009-12-03T14:29:01Z

Scream Gallery at 34, Bruton St, London, is showing R. Crumb Uncovered - an exhibition focussing on Crumbs 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.

Young Cartoonists Awaken!

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2009-10-12T12:12:44Z

The British Cartoonists' Association is looking for a Young Cartoonist Of The Year. Two, actually, as there are two categories - under 18 and under 30. Details from The Cartoon Museum site - www.cartoonmuseum.org. Get your skates on - deadline for entries is 5th November!

Conference Call

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2009-10-09T07:47:22Z

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

About Cartoon Classroom

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2009-08-18T17:25:24Z

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.

Heroic Attempt

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2009-08-17T16:26:55Z

Friends,
Just a note to let you know there's an excellent Heroes tv series print on ebay aiming to raise money for the excellent charity, Draw The World Together. It's drawn by the excellent Mike Collins and signed by many of the excellent cast of the show! Excellent, eh?

The item is at: http://www.facebook.com/l/;cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320411550592&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1182

Season Of The Python

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2009-08-04T20:23:14Z

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

Making A Change

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2009-07-11T07:27:08Z

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.

We Are Very Amused

LFORLLOYD@aol.com (David Lloyd) — 2009-07-06T08:35:38Z

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.