CAPTION, if you aren’t aware, is a long-running comics festival dedicated to the British independent and small comics press — and also the longest running comics festival in Britain by many years.
A week before the 2008 ‘Timewarp’ themed event, Andrew Luke ran some questions about the event around CAPTION regulars from early days to recent times, which you can read on the main downthetubes site.
As previously reported, CAPTION 2008 also has an affiliated art exhibition over August at The Jam Factory near Oxford railway station, and the event itself takes place this weekend at the East Oxford Community Centre on Cowley Road. 2000AD comics creator D’Israeli has just posted some pictures from the launch event here.
• Caption 2008: Timewarp runs on 9 – 10 August 2008 at the East Oxford Community Centre, Oxford.
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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