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Photo of David Shenton: Those Foolish things exhibition at Space Station Sixty Five / Various comics by Sina Sparrow

Photo of David Shenton: Those Foolish things exhibition at Space Station Sixty Five / Various comics by Sina Sparrow

Small press gay comics and zines: Continuing a month of shows about gay and lesbian comics, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonists David Shenton and Sina Sparrow about their work. Shenton discusses his plans for new cartoon work and his current exhibition ‘Those Foolish Things’, on display at Space Station Sixty-Five gallery in Kennington, South London; and Sparrow talks about his zine Art Fag and contributing to the forthcoming anthology QU33R.

The interview was originally broadcast 15th July 2013 on Resonance 104.4 FM (London).

• For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at http://www.archive.org

Links

• David Shenton’s website www.davidshenton.com
• Sina Sparrow’s website www.boycrazyboy.com

Related Events

David Shenton Exhibition: These Foolish Things

Until 27th July 2013, a href=”http://www.spacestationsixtyfive.com/how_to_get_here.php” target=”_blank”>Space Station 65 Gallery, Building One, 373 Kennington Road, London SE11 4PS
More info: www.spacestationsixtyfive.com

Shenton’s cartoons are often camp but they’re not just camp, and they’re not that awful apolitical offensive camp, but a light, knowing, meaningful camp; their first task is to entertain and to make the audience laugh – and often they do much more because the liberation politics that informs his work means that with the laugh there is an acerbic point – a wry observation on how we live or a satirical comment about society and a wider political context, contained in the lives and musings of plausible and likeable characters. Or sometimes it’s just a silly joke.

(Via Panel Borders.)



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