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1001 Comics: Coming to Cheltenham & Dundee!
Posted: October 13, 2011
I’ll be spreading the ‘gospel’ and exploring the massive brick-like guide I have just edited, 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die at two exciting events around the country later this month.
First up on Wednesday October 26, I will be speaking in the early afternoon at The Cheltenham Illustration Awards Presentation and Symposium Event at the Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham. I will be joining acclaimed artist, illustrator and RCA tutor Anne Howeson, and two representatives from Biografiktion, a young German illustration collective, all of us chaired by illustration educator Brian Love. This year’s Awards have been judged by Shaun Tan, whom I hugely enjoyed interviewing recently at Waterstone’s Piccadilly. Tickets to the Cheltenham event are only £15, (£10 for students) - click here to buy now!
Then the next weekend I am traveling all the way to the Scottish ‘capital of comics’, the birthplace of The Dandy and The Beano, home to publisher D.C. Thomson - Dundee in Scotland. I’ve been invited to their special Comics Day organised by Dr. Chris Murray as part of the Dundee Literary Festival. I am the opening ‘act’ at 11am for their Dundee Comics Day 2011 on the theme ‘Wot Comics Taught Me…’. There’s an impressive line-up of writers and artists presenting, including John Wagner, Frank Quietly, Cam Kennedy, Colin MacNeil and Robbie Morrison, plus Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering, creators of the Burke & Hare graphic novel, and Phil Vaughan and Jamie Bryan, who work on the interface between comic, computer games and animation. There’s also a Battlelines Exhibition, featuring artwork from Commando Picture Library, 50 years young this year, and the much-anticipated announcement of the Dundee Comics Prize Winners. It all takes place in the D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee. Tickets cost £10 all day, £5 for children under 13, and can be bought from the University’s Online Store.
Do come along if you can. I look forward to meeting you and sharing our passion for the wonders of comics!
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