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Comics Trying To Escape

Published Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:35:13 -0500

Last updated Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:23:49 -0500

It's about time for Bleeding Cool to start the run up to its traditional (as in, for the second year) most comprehensive independent coverage you'll find to the largest English language comics art festival in the world.

Because ComICA 2010 from the Institute Of Contemporary Arts is on its way.

The London Print Studio has launched the opening salvo with That's Novel: Lifting Comics From The Page, curated by Paul Gravett, an exhibition that will form the hub of this year's events.

An exhibition of current innovation in comic books, both original and digital, printed and specially prepared, this includes Philippa Rice's characters literally emerging in cardboard from the two dimensional panels, or Karrie Fransman's three dimensional doll sets to tell sequential stories.

The exhibition also includes the work of Brick, whose Depresso comics are used to help people dealing with depression, sequential street art from the streets of Rio de Janeiro by Tito na Rua, the transformation from comics to TV with the Walking Dead and Channel 4's online strip serial Alien Ink from Pulp Theatre. The show is divided into Retellings – reinterpretations of existing stories, Identities, focused on individual characters, Biographies on true lives, Testimonies on autrobiographical narration, Premonitions, a look into our future, Allegories, with stories parallel to our own,

Creators include Nobrow, John Miers, David Bircham, Gary and Warren Pleece, Sean Michael Wilson, Chie Kutsuwada, Mustaskrik, David Quantick, Savage Pencil (including his work from Dodgem Logic), Will Bingley, Anthony Hope-Smith, Darryl Cunningham, John Hicklenton, Metaphrog, Paul Rainey, Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard,

I n association with this exhibition, the London Print Studio are launching an internship in comics and comic production, for "five enthusiastic 21-25 year olds from a variety of backgrounds who are interested in a career in comics, arts education, publishing or illustration" to be mentored by a number of professionals in the industries. Apply here, you've got a week.

You should be able to find the place easily enough, the windows facing the street have fifteen characters from the exhibition placed in situ in the road outside the exhibition.

The show runs now until the 18th December at the London Print Studio, 425 Harrow Road, London W10 4RE. Appropraitely next to Meanwhile Gardens. ComICA starts from the 5th November.

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