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London is Comics City: Things To Do This Week!
Posted: September 9, 2013
There’s no shortage of fantastic comics culture events over the coming week here in the capital. Tomorrow, on Tuesday 10th, The Special Relationship offers Hot Live Graphic Novel Action at this monthly literary evening with William Goldsmith, Hannah Berry, S.J. Harris, Tom Humberstone & Toby Litt at The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4RH. Doors open 7.15 for 7.30pm start and tickets cost £5.
Wednesday 9/11 brings the first Graphic Justice Conference organised by Thom Giddens during the day, as well as Comics Gosh!p graphic novel reading group at Gosh! in Soho from 7pm, looking at Glyn Dillon’s Nao of Brown & new anthology Wu Wei. Gosh! also has a signing Friday 3-4pm with Oliver Jeffers, while on Saturday with Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy are signing 1-2pm at Forbidden Planet.
Saturday 14th is also the date for your diary for the opening of Unfold, a celebration of contemporary artist books and book design at London Print Studio on the Harrow Road as part of London Design Festival. Meet artists 2-6pm and party at the opening 6-8.30pm. And the Whitechapel Gallery from September 13-15 hosts the London Artists Book Fair. Who wants a quiet weekend?!
And next Monday September 16th, comics finally invade the classy London Design Festival, with Baxter & Bailey’s exhibition Sequential City, from September 16 to 22 (excl 21) at 6 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NU. Originals and prints by 2012 Costa biography prize-winner Bryan Talbot, Hannah Berry, Woodrow Phoenix, Rian Hughes, Gary Northfield, Sarah Mcintyre, Garen Ewing, Robert Ball, Simone Lia, Paul Duffield and Kate Brown. All their work is on the theme of London and many of the artists contribute to a short film to accompany the exhibition by Rob Chan at Bokeh.tv. Read Creative Boom‘s preview here.
Later on Monday evening, you could go along to Laydeez Do Comics back at Foyles in Charing Cross Road with guest presenters Ginny and Penelope Skinner, collaborators on Briony Hatch from Limehouse Books, writer and artist Wallis Eates, and from Beijing comic artist Coco Wang.
To keep up with the busy, buzzing scene, in London and also across the UK, Europe and elsewhere, check out the constantly-updated Things To Do Events Listings Page on this site. And if you want your comics event listed and linked there, contact me via this site with details.
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