The programme for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival was announced last week, featuring some 900 participants over two weeks, making it, probably, “the biggest book bash on Planet Earth” according to Forbidden Planet International’s Joe Gordon. There isn’t as… Read More ›
Katie Green
Katie Green guest at Glasgow’s Aye! Write festival
Author Katie Green will be giving a talk in Glasgow as part of the upcoming Aye Write! and Scottish Mental Health and Arts Festival, on Friday 18th October. Lighter Than My Shadow is Katie Green’s new graphic novel about how… Read More ›
Top 10 Most Popular Stories so far this week
Just for fun, here’s a list of our most popular stories this week so on downthetubes in order of popularity, omitting ‘landings’ on our home page… The Daily Mail’s Doctor Who newspaper strip that never was Ten Questions: Lighter Than… Read More ›
Paul Gravett’s new ‘Comics Art’ book out in time for Lakes Festival
“Comics are not funny any more. Well most of them are not,” says Peter Stanbury in a plug on his web site for Comics Art from Tate Publishing, by Paul Gravett and him — as designer. Officially due for release on 7th… Read More ›
Ten Questions: ‘Lighter Than My Shadow’ creator Katie Green
Lighter Than My Shadow, on sale now from Jonathan Cape, is a powerful, thought-provoking hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness, an exposure of those who are so weak as to… Read More ›