London’s Cartoon Museum “Comics, So What?” project – also being run at the University of Dundee and at Staffordshire University, as Jeremy Briggs reported last month – kicks off this Saturday (7th March 2015), celebrating comics and graphic novels.
Take along your favourite story or comic with you to the Museum, and tell us why you love it. Hear from creators Hunt Emerson, David Lloyd, Karrie Fransman, David Hine, Zoom Rockman and Posy Simmonds. Or why don’t you and the kids try out one of the workshops with cartoonists Steve Marchant and Asia Alfasi.
The event also marks the start of the Cartoon Museum’s new Comic Creators project. With support from the Heritage Lottery Fund the museum will be able to build its comics collection and do more events and exhibition for all you comics lovers.
• This is a free event, running from 1pm – 5.30pm. Let the Museum know if you are coming though! The Cartoon Museum is at 35 Little Russell Museum, London, WC1A 2HH
• There are more details of Dundee’s Comics So What? on the event’s Facebook page and the whole project on the Cartoon Museum website.
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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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