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Comics Unmasked Special in Guardian Weekend Magazine!
Posted: April 25, 2014
A week today, Friday May 2nd, Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK opens to the public at The British Library, the biggest exhibition of British comics this country has ever seen! As part of the pre-promotion, co-curator John Harris Dunning and I helped The Guardian to co-ordinate more than twenty pages of totally original new comics by a stellar line-up of creators. Read more about it including Dunning’s introduction here.
Here are some previews of the first pages. Be sure to pick up multiple copies when they hit the newsstands tomorrow! They will also be going online throughout the weekend.
Roger Langridge (Fred the Clown) and Michel Faber’s (The Crimson Petal and the White, Under the Skin) created a political satire, “Art and Anarchy”:
Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife) and Eddie Campbell (From Hell) penned a modern tale of love and paranoia, called “Thursdays 6-8pm”:
“Masks”, by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) and Dave Gibbons (Watchmen) is a chillingly dark tale of maternal vigilantism:
Up-and-coming talent Christian Ward (Infinite Vacation) adapted Margaret Atwood’s short story “Freeforall”, a typically dystopian vision of love and marriage:
Dave Eggers wrote and drew his own comic, a tale of a lonely but impassioned bison, called “Having Renewed My Fire”:
AM Homes’s short story “Do you hear what I hear”, a chilling tale of an unwelcome phone call, was transformed into an astonishing comic by Frazer Irving (Batman):
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