To celebrate the reopening of London’s Cartoon Museum, they’re taking part in Open House Festival, enabling free entry this weekend (19th – 20th September 2020).
As well as offering the chance to visit the Museum for free, as part of the Open House weekend cartoonist Steve Marchant and Curator Emma Stirling-Middleton will be doing safely-distanced “show and tells” about some items usually kept in storage.
The annual Open House is run by Open City, a charity that works with architecture and urban design to make our built environment more accessible and inclusive.
The Open City team works to create and carry out a series of programmes including talks, workshops and festivals to make the experience of the city more engaging and accessible. They open up over 800 buildings every year and welcome 250,000 visitors to the Open House weekend.
The Cartoon Museum will re-open its doors to the public this Thursday (17th September), after nearly six months of enforced closure due to Coronavirus Pandemic restrictions.
• The Cartoon Museum is at 63 Wells Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 3PT. Check new opening times here | Donations still very welcome
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• Find out more about Open House here: open-city.org.uk
• Supporting fundraising for the Cartoon Museum, The77 will be donating 50% of the proceeds from issues 1 & 2 during September. You can purchase your copy now by emailing: The77Comic@gmail.com using the code CM20
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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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