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Last year, London's Century Club on Shaftesbury Avenue hosted the long-awaited return of Paul Gravett's Comica, The London Comics Festival with everyone from Armando Iannucci to Posy Simmonds, from Brian Bolland to Iain Sinclair, Dave McKean to Dave Gibbons, from Lizzie Stewart to Lucie Arnoux and Lucy Sullivan[...]

Paul Gravett has curated a new exhibition on Asian comic books for The Barbican, Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form which has just opened in The Bowers in Santa Ana, California Created in close collaboration with a diverse team of over twenty international advisors, it has more than 500 featured works, including delicate Japanese[...]

Paul Gravett is co-curator The Angoulême Comics Festival runs from today until the 28th. Here are a few more examples of her work.   It is possible that having a Pompidou, Paris exhibition of her work helped As well as having adapted a French classic novel into an English classic graphic novel (and movie)[...]

This week he launched the book at the London Cartoon Museum, with all sorts of folk in attendance, Garth Ennis, Roger Langridge, Oscar Zarate, Jason Atomic, Lucy Sullivan, Tim Pilcher, Ed Ilya, Paul Gravett, Tony Bennett, Jess Kemp, Zoom Rockman, David Hine, Rian Hughes and more, to celebrate Martl's glossy-papered achievement.  Here is his three-minute[...]

It is curated by friend of Bleeding Cool and comic book expert extraordinaire Paul Gravett. Zoom Rockman/JW3 PR Described as an offspring of da Vinci and Hogarth, award-winning 22 year-old satirist, editorial cartoonist, puppet maker, comic book writer, artist and publisher, and animator Zoom Rockman, invents his new art technique combining – puppetry, the science of engineered[...]

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 it at length, but for now, I thought you might like a gallery of pages from the two books than ran during their talk And which I managed to snap most of[...]

Tuesday, 28th of March, 6,30pm £12. Comica was co-created in 2003 by Paul Gravett and John Harris Dunning for the Institute of Contemporary Arts It continues as part of the annual Observer/Faber/Comica Graphic Short Prize, founded in 2007, and as the regular Comica Social Club in London Comica, The London Comics Festival, at The Century Club is[...]

Tuesday, 28th of March, 6,30pm £12. Comica was co-created in 2003 by Paul Gravett and John Harris Dunning for the Institute of Contemporary Arts It continues as part of the annual Observer/Faber/Comica Graphic Short Prize, founded in 2007, and as the regular Comica Social Club in London Comica, The London Comics Festival, at The Century Club is[...]

The new edition of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics for January 2023, with comic reading clubs, Paul Gravett talking about Tove Jansson, the launch of the Hope Road comic book and the mysterious Troopers. Thursday, 5th of January Troopers from 7pm Those who know, know. Tuesday, 10th of January Comic and Graphic Novel Readers Club, 7-9pm, [...]

Comica organiser Paul Gravett sent the following to Bleeding Cool this morning. We are very sorry to say we have had to postpone the Comica Scarycat Comiket for 1 November 2014. This has never happened in all the years since 2003 when we began. We are re-planning an event for the spring of 2015. Our summer Comiket at the[...]

If I was in London this weekend, I would be going to the British Library for the Comica Weekend. But I'm not. I'm in Banbury recovering from surgery. I'd

Tickets will sell out fast, £10 (includes refreshments) Friday 18th July Posy Simmonds and Steve Bell in Conversation British Library, 18.30-20.30 – Book now Posy Simmonds is one of the widest read and best-loved of all British illustrators and graphic novelists. She is joined in conversation by Steve Bell, lead political cartoonist for The Guardian, and best known for the satirical strip IF… The International Graphic Novel[...]

We also experienced some decline in sales through independent stockists," the company said Thursday. Games Workshop said that it expects to benefit from the more focussed selling operation and lower cost base, although profits will remain under pressure while it implements these changes TO THE MANOR BORN Do you want to persuade Lego to make a Wayne Manor[...]

Anyone care to translate the flag? COMICS LIBRARIAN Paul Gravett writes; First announcements and first image (Dave Gibbons' cover to The Trials of Nasty Tales from 1973, below) are out this week from The British Library in London about their exciting forthcoming exhibition on British comics John Dunning and I are co-curating Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in[...]

Now it's preserved for posterity in a beautiful double-gatefold volume collecting all the strips in a deeply satisfying smorgasbord, along with a spicy side order of analysis. Contributors to the new fifth issue of The Comix Reader are a rogues gallery of the UK's funniest, edgiest and weirdest cartoonists, such as Elliott Baggot, Alex Potts, Mike[...]

Comics Art is a new book by British comics expert, curator and historian, Paul Gravett, published on 7th November by Tate Gallery. Richly illustrated with many images taken from original artwork and rare artifacts, Comics Art gives a fascinating, accessible guide to some of the special properties of sequential art, such as panels, page layouts, speech[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; It was appropriate that the first event I was attending at Stripped, the comic book strand of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, would be by comic historian/ journalist/ publisher/ editor /man at the crossroads, Paul Gravett Who could be better to open the strand than the man who has[...]

With tutors including the bestselling author and graphic novelist Audrey Niffenegger and comic book critic, historian and author Paul Gravett, you'll learn about the unique possibilities the format offers, how to find and work with an illustrator, how to plan an original narrative or adapt an existing text, and how to visualise the finished pages[...]

Chris Ware, Joe Sacco, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Paul Cornell and Posy Simmonds are taking are part in Stripped as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Other names include Denise Mina, Paul Gravett, Melinda Gebbie, Warren Pleece, Roger Gibson, Chris Riddell, Jon Naught,  Stephen Collins, Robin and Lorenzo Etherington, Robbie Morrison, Jim[...]

Starts in forty minutes, runs through the day… On Wednesday, Posy Simmonds, creator of Tamara Drewe and Gemma Bovary, appears at Foyles, talking with Comica's Paul Gravett. On Thursday, premier homoerotic comics artist Oliver "Zack" Frey, talks with with writer Roger Kean, at Foyle's, followed by a signing. Thursday also has a screening of the documentary The Art[...]

Chris Thompson writes; The Marvel Now! odyssey continues as Taylor & I set our sights on A+X #1 and Wolverine & The X-Men #19 (which was a surprise inclusion under the Marvel Now! banner this week). Then I conduct an in-depth interview with Paul Gravett to discuss the early days, his place in the comic industry, his[...]

Here's the list of events… Friday 19th August: 9.00am – War Comics Conference opens; coffee and registration 10.00am – introductory talk by MARTIN BAKER and ROGER SABIN about the depiction of war in the Guardian's comic strip Doonesbury 11.00am – choice of parallel sessions: REPRESENTING TRAUMA (Chair, Ariel Kahn) / ETHNICITY, NATIONALISM AND REPRESENTATION (Chair, Paul Gravett) 12.20pm – Lunch 1.20pm –[...]

 But Paul Gravett sold me with his answers to Rich's questions today  Part of it's his approach to the task, and part of it's the sheer scope of it — I love the idea that you could read about one of the entries a week and spend close to 20 years working your way through[...]

Paul Gravett is one of the most influential people in comics His Fast Fiction stall at London comic marts sold many self published works and his publishing efforts, including Escape magazine, saw the publication of early works from the likes of Neil Gaiman, Eddie Campbell, Dave McKean, James Robinson, Rian Hughes, Shaky Kane, Woodrow Phoenix,[...]