B7 Media has announced at this year's Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Bowness-on-Windermere in England, that they are releasing an audiobook recording of Dave Gibbons' Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography The audiobook will be available exclusively to buy and download from Audioteria from December and will be available on other audiobook platforms from Spring 2024[...]
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At the last London Film And Comic Con, I found myself emergency-hosting The Dave Gibbons Autobiography Panel with Tim Pilcher, looking at the new book, Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography By Dave Gibbons It has now been published from Dark Horse Comics, and I have finally managed to make some sense of the very low-quality audio recording[...]
Dave Gibbons is the co-creator of Watchmen, Give Me Liberty, Kingsmen and creator of The Originals Pat Mills is the co-creator of 2000AD, Judge Dredd, Marshall Law and much more And also, a long time ago, they were the creative team, alongside writer John Wagner, and editor Dez Skinn for the Star Beast comic strip that[...]
Events include Dave Gibbons talking about his memoir Confabulations on the 24th of June and an Illustration Masterclass with Chris Mould for the 25th of June.
However, the choice of an AI Illustration for their promotion, when they are featuring actual human illustrators has not gone down well with a litany of protests on Twitter[...]
We assume he was talking about Pat Mills, John Wagner and artist Dave Gibbons, who first created Beep the Meep Now think about that Pat Mills and John Wagner are the creators of Judge Dredd for 2000AD, and Dave Gibbons not only drew Rogue Trooper for 2000AD but went on to co-create and draw Watchmen[...]
The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for April 2023, in which a new comic book convention comes to Battersea Park, Mark Stafford launches his exhibition, there are big signings at Gosh and Forbidden Planet with Garth Ennis, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Andy Diggle and plenty more besides But[...]
I get the feeling that this week may be quite Dave Gibbons-heavy As I finally manage to wade through the panel I hosted between Tim Pilcher and Dave Gibbons at LFCC last November, and from the Century Club Comica Panel with Brian Bolland and Dave Gibbons, as part of Paul Gravett's Comica events last week[...]
Watchmen was a comic book by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins You might have heard of it; it was quite popular Was turned into a movie, a TV series, toys, unauthorised prequels, sequels and eventually merged with the history of the DC Universe So what's next? Well, I may have some other gossip[...]
Brian Bolland and Dave Gibbons, talking to writer and critic Tim Pilcher, about their fifty-year friendship, after first meeting in a London comic book convention, also just down the road, in 1972 It's part of a series of events being hosted at the Century Club, Paul Gravett's Comica for 2023, and I'll be reporting on[...]
And now in March, it will host the long-awaited return of Comica, The London Comics Festival in association with VIP Brands Ltd and The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, a series of panels running in the evening through the month, with everyone from Armando Iannucci to Posy Simmonds, from Brian Bolland to Iain Sinclair, Dave[...]
Joining Sumner on the podcast are legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock; BBC presenter & wine expert Olly Smith, author, actor & MCU star Evangeline Lilly, comic book legend Dave Gibbons, West End theatre star Julie Stark, comics editor & creator David Leach and Titan Comics' marketing man and ComicBooks for Kids UK director Will O'Mullane[...]
This is an attempt to sift through them all and find the most relevant items.
What's FOC-ing this weekend?
Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography is an alphabetical indexed link of anecdotes from the life of Dave Gibbons and published by Dark Horse "A comprehensive, in-depth, and personal journey through the eyes of one of the world's most famous[...]
But it seems there is another moderation emergency and I will also be the moderator for the Who Watches Dave Gibbons panel at 3pm today A career retrospective and a plug for the upcoming book written with LFCC Comic Zone organise Tim Pilcher, I haven't actually read the book But my plan is to just[...]
Alice Oseman describes the book as candid writing, with playful artwork, and a riotous and a fearlessly real story of figuring out that you're trans – this book will bring hope and comfort to so many.
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London Film & Comic Con, Hammersmith Olympia, London, From[...]
As part of a massive auction of premium comic books and original artwork at Heritage Auctions, taking place today, with Bleeding Cool covering only a tiny smattering of it, we have one of those rarest things, a page from Watchmen #1 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons An iconic full shot of the Nite Owl[...]
At press time, stories will be created by a virtual who's who of writers and artists, including Brent Anderson, Sergio Aragones, June Brigman, Kurt Busiek, Howard Chaykin, Joshua Dysart, Mark Evanier, Emil Ferris, Dave Gibbons, Rob Guillory, John Layman, Gabriel Rodriguez, Stan Sakai, Louise Simonson, Walter Simonson, Chris Sprouse, Jill Thompson, Matt Wagner, Mark Waid,[...]
Recently Tim Pilcher and Dave Gibbons collaborated on the How Comics Work volume looking at the nuts and bolts of creating comic books Now Tim Pilcher is collaborating with Dave Gibbons on his new autobiography from Dark Horse Comics, Dave Gibbons' Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography And as part of the sales pitch for the book, Gibbons[...]
Today sees Heritage Auction lists, individually, all twelve issues of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, the comic book that changes the medium Once seen as the holy of holies And for a comic that I picked up in the bargain bins in the early nineties, every issue selling for above its cover price –[...]
So much heart."
And it will also contain a pin-up by Dave Gibbons or his most famous creation, Rorschach from Watchmen The first time he has returned to the character for DC Comics/Warners for over a decade And a tribute that comes from the heart.
Batman/Catwoman Special pin-up by Dave Gibbons
BATMAN CATWOMAN SPECIAL #1 (ONE SHOT) CVR[...]
The Hard Agree podcast team announce their latest annual Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol charity podcast, this year in support of the Binc Foundation's Comic Book United Fund.
Evangeline Lilly & Dave Gibbons Perform A Christmas Carol For BINC
A Hard Agree Christmas Carol is the Christmas 2021 edition of Hard Agree's annual yuletide charity podcast, featuring host[...]
Now his friends and colleagues have completed the comic book in tribute and in memory of their friend, with Bernard Chang, Shawn Crystal, Mitch Gerads, and Dave Stewart completing the story, including tributes by Lee Bermejo, Denys Cowan, Dave Gibbons, Becky Cloonan, Klaus Janson, Dave Stewart, Rick Leonardi, Chris Batista, Dani, Tamra Bonvillain, Ibrahim Moustafa,[...]
And a page from Watchmen #8 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is up for auction from Heritage Auctions right now, with bids of $18.500 at the time of writing and destined to sell for an awful lot more when it goes under the hammer between the 18th and 21st of November – which will[...]
Tom Brevoort, Marvel Executive Editor and Senior Vice President of Publishing, posted the original artwork of one page by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons from one of Marvel's publications at the time, Heroes, in which the events of the destruction of the World Trade Center, were seen in the context of other events of such[...]
The artwork, by Dave Gibbons, from a script by Alan Moore. The first currently has bids taking the total price to $11,100, the second higher still at $18,600, at time of writing While the first of the V For Vendetta pages by David Lloyd and Alan Moore, feature the breakdown of Lewis Prothero, V delivering his[...]
But there are also a few notable names missing…
Suicide Squad screencap
John Ostrander (above) – creator of the modern-day Suicide Squad, co-creator of Amanda Waller, John Economos, Flo Crawley, and Briscoe.
Luke McDonnell – artist on the original Suicide Squad series, co-creator of John Economos, Flo Crawley, and Briscoe.
Ross Andru – co-creator of Rick Flag, co-creator of original[...]
Here are details of the main exhibitors, but there's also Dave Gibbons, Garry Leach, Shaky Kane, Brian Bolland, and more.
Billy Chainsaw is an internationally collected, British contemporary Pop artist whose work uses a fertile mix of pulp and the arcane to engage with ideas of mortality, magick and sensuality Through his transformative art Chainsaw has developed a personal[...]
DC Universe: Legacies, published in 2010 by DC Comics, just before the big reboot, includes this story that reunited Watchmen's artist Dave Gibbons with the late Len Wein, the editor of Watchmen A Challengers Of The Unknown 8-page story, the full original artwork from that issue is up for auction The auction ends at 11:00[...]
Joe Kubert and Jaime Hernandez, Dave Gibbons and Jack Kirby, as well as the likes of Bob Kane and Joe Orlando, Murphy Anderson, Ramona Fradon, Gil Kane, Jim Steranko, and Gene Colan, Michael Kaluta, P Craig Russell, Jim Starlin, Jim Aparo, and Frank Thorne, Bill Sienkiewicz, Matt Wagner, Howard Chaykin, and Brian Bolland.
History Of DC[...]
And there are some real bargains to be had – from early Kingsman art from Dave Gibbons, to Alan Davis' Excalibur, Simone Bianchi's Thor, Jaime Hernandez's Whoa Nellie, to when Kevin Smith wrote Batman drawn by Walt Flanagan, though in the two remaining days they may go a lot higher Still, you have to be[...]
The final page of Watchmen sees Dan Dreiberg and Laurie Juspeczyk meet up again, after learning, courtesy of Rorschach that Eddie Blake, The Comedian has