stripped Archives

First off, you should know that this new series Stripped is based on a Scandinavian television series The premise behind it is that a person or couple has everything stripped away from them for 21 days This includes clothing, furniture, money, cell phones… everything It's then all placed in a storage unit some miles away[...]

But even he was really pushing it to the limit at the Stripped strand of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Not content with multiple press interviews, co-interviewing with Grant Morrison, hosting evening events, taking over the Book Festivals twitter stream, four talks and at least SIXTEEN hours of signing he also helped organise the whole[...]

And who hadn't been invited to the Stripped strand Turns out that because it's a Book festival the organisers are only allowed to invite creators who have material that is either published or collected in a book format, this is fair enough but surely an exception could have been made for a panel celebrating a[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; While this may have been physically the last talk at the Stripped stand of the Edinburgh International Book Festival it had such a bum note and was so out of touch with the spirit of everything and everyone else that I'm dropping this report randomly in during the run[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; For the next talk at the Stripped stand of the Edinburgh Book Festival it was appropriate that it was wholly different from Rob Davis and Martin Rowson's discussion of heavyweight literary adaptation Instead we were in the world of deeply personal work, talking to Glyn Dillon and Jon McNaught[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; Looking at the massive amount of notes I (attempted) to take at the next talk at Stripped, the comics strand of the Edinburgh Book Festival, I realised we were in a totally different territory to the other talks as it was double the rest and was utterly scrawled[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; Just one of the fantastic things about the Stripped strand at the Edinburgh International Book Festival has been how it has celebrated comics in all of it shapes and forms And one of those most vibrant and exciting forms is the small press self published comic, with a[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; Now this was one talk I was really looking forward to at the Stripped strand at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Rutu Modan and Leanne Shapton And why was this one of the ones I was really looking forward to? Well I don't know about you I'm fed up people[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; For the second last talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festivals Stripped strand's Sunday programme I'll be honest I was starting to flag, not through boredom But purely because I think I'd mainlined so much comic's discussion my synapses were fit to burst with the amount of in depth[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; For the first talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Sunday programme what better a way

Well that's exactly the task that Stephen Collins and Tom Gauld had to do at the first talk at the Stripped strand at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday lunchtime. Compared to the previous evenings events it was a much smaller crowd for this event with about forty people in the Peppers tent with the[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; For the final talk on the Saturday night at the Edinburgh International Book Festival we had what

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; There may have only been about 50 people who had made the effort to turn out for the Robbie Morrison

Morrison was heard to be discussing "The Imagination and Fifth Dimension" with many of the fans. There the first night of the Stripped strand at the Book Festival ends Now normally this would be more than enough for comics fans But this was only the warm up There was a massive 35 or so events still[...]

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[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; As part of the Stripped strand at the Edinburgh Book Festival Graphic Scotland held an awards ceremony for the inaugural 9th Art Awards  last night, as some of you may know the 9th Art is a French term that describes comics as being the ninth type of art. Graphic Scotland[...]

Laura Sneddon's full interview with Grant Morrison is on YouTube, as part of Edinburgh Book Festival's Stripped event, and why he's at the show. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJjWcOVBQkw[/youtube] Highlights include the word that Morrison listened to heavy metal music when writing Batman, he describes Annihilator with Frazer Irving as his "next Big Personal Thing" which will be followed by "something[...]

I noted the other day how the latest episode of New Tricks used a number of comic book creator names. But who did "Skinner" refer to? Well, could be

Normally the Book Festival focuses on purely the written medium with a few comics related events thrown in, mainly focusing on creators who cross borders of the medium such as Neil Gaiman and local creators (admittedly massive names) such as Grant Morrison and Mark Millar. But this year the organisers have decided to go big and[...]

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[...]