As Jeremy Briggs first reported last month, Glasgow Film Festival ambassador and local superhero Mark Millar and artist Bryan Hitch are to helping to kick ass with Kapow!@GFF – Glasgow Film Festival’s film strand next week, dedicated to graphic novels,… Read More ›
Events
Tartan Bucket Prize Winning Strip In The New Beano
About this time last year the Dundee University Humanities Department, in conjunction with DC Thomson, launched the Tartan Bucket Prize competition to create, write and illustrate a new Beano and Dandy style children’s humour comic strip. At the conclusion of… Read More ›
Cartoon Museum honours ‘Her Maj’
London’s Cartoon Museum will be celebrating the Diamond Jubilee with a humorous history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Her Maj: 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the Queen (1 February – 8 April 2012) will offer a gallery… Read More ›
“The Invisible Artist” film released
The Invisible Artist from Northern Visions NvTv on Vimeo The comic booklet: once a mass market media form, some would argue it has all but disappeared from newsagents shelves in the last 20 years – but comic creation continues apace… Read More ›
Comics @ Glasgow Book Festival
Aye Write!, Glasgow’s Book Festival, run by Glasgow Council’s libraries department at the Mitchell Library is much smaller than Edinburgh’s International Book Festival but normally turns up some comics talks and this year is no exception. Writing For Graphic Novels… Read More ›
Comics @ Glasgow Film Festival
Last year the Glasgow Film Festival at the Glasgow Film Theatre brought writer Mark Millar on board to curate a comics creators and movies strand which included amongst others a talk by artist/writer Dave Gibbons and screenings of Luc Besson’s… Read More ›
Celtic Conventions: Hi-Ex and 2D Return In 2012
We missed out on mentioning Hi-Ex 2012 in our run-up to Christmas so let’s set the record straight now. The fourth Hi-Ex will be taking place on Saturday 31 March and Sunday 1 April on the banks of the river… Read More ›
Halo Jones stage play poster
Here’s the poster for the new Ballad of Halo Jones play at the Lass O’Gowrie in Manchester which we plugged recently. The art is by Adrian Salmon, who’s been a regular contributor to Doctor Who Magazine for many years, and… Read More ›
John Ryan exhibition in Rye
For anyone venturing to the south east corner of England there’s an exhibition of Captain Pugwash creator John Ryan‘s work at Rye Art Gallery until mid February 2012. John Ryan, the author, illustrator and animator, who died in 2009 in… Read More ›
‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ exhibition invades Europe
An exclusive “selling exhibition” of art from Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen saga opens later this month in various continental locations. In close collaboration with Alan Moore, acclaimed writer of Watchmen, From Hell and V for… Read More ›