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British Council & Museo ABC promote UK Comics in Madrid
Posted: March 1, 2012
Over two weekends this month, March 16th & 17th and March 23rd & 24th, The British Council is collaborating with the prestigious museum of art, drawing and illustration, Museo ABC in Madrid and cultural facilitators Ubik to celebrate contemporary UK Comics in a programme of talks, workshops and events. The Spanish public will be able to enjoy discovering Rob Davis’s hilarious graphic adaptation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote, with Doug Wallace from the publisher SelfMadeHero. Joining them will be illustrator William Goldsmith who will show his work from his Vignettes of Ystov and give a workshop for graphic creation.
On the second weekend, the renowned author Posy Simmonds will present her latest works, while the specialist Paul Gravett will talk about the Spanish edition of the 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die (Editorial Grijalbo, 2012). Also taking part will be the Manga Shakespeare illustrator Emma Vieceli, who will share her personal experience of adapting a classic of universal literature to comics, and writer and artist Woodrow Phoenix of Rumble Strip and Nelson, who will explain why these new graphic novels need new readers. All meetings will be moderated by expert Pablo Dopico de Godos and translated into Castilian. You can check out the whole programme (in Spanish) here.
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