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Article: Paul Gravett - Man at the Crossroads
Posted: January 19, 2014
Muchas gracias to the Spanish poet and comics connoisseur Ana Merino who has written this very kind, blush-making profile entitled Paul Gravett’s Love of Comics for the Spanish literary magazine Leer in their October 2013 issue, No. 246. Here’s my translation:
The British world of comics over the last three decades has found a key intellectual figure in Paul Gravett. The whole of sequential art needs to nurture not only the graphic voices of its authors, but also the reflexive efforts of its scholars and supporters. Paul Gravett is a model to copy for his transnational commitment, his energy and his activism, in dialogue with many of the territories which have now been consolidated by comics.
The canonisation of comics in the literary and cultural context has been a slow and complicated process. The Paul Gravett of the Eighties was a passionate young man who promoted the self-published work by new artists at alternative fairs. Eddie Campbell, for example, pays tribute to him in his Alec story How to be an artist, converting him at the decisive moment into “The Man at the Crossroads” (below), who provides the young artist the possibility to show his comics on the [Fast Fiction] stand at [the Central Hall Marts in] Westminster to reach a wider audience. Their friendship is confirmed, and we discover that Gravett’s alter ego has a very refined taste in comics, and he educates new generations artists by offering them key comics to read. Read the rest of this profile and Richard Graham’s interview with me here…
Read The Blog At The Crossroads here.
