Some images from the recent COMICA event - Posy Simmonds and Lizzy Stewart in conversation. This was at the Century club on 2nd March 2023, 7-8pm
"...eclectic and entertaining" - John Freeman (Down the Tubes), "...essential reading" - Hibernia Comics, "...always a good read" Graeme Neil Reid, "...a terrific blog" Ian Wheeler, "...one of my favourite sites on the web - always fascinating and informative!" Michael 'Judge Dredd' Carroll
Showing posts with label Posy Simmonds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Posy Simmonds. Show all posts
6 August 2023
COMICA - Posy Simmonds & Lizzy Stewart
27 February 2023
The Cartoon Museum Conference 2023
Just a reminder that this is today...and there are still tickets available
Tickets can now be booked (here) for the Cartoon Museum conference 2023. As it says here...
Join us at Cartoon Conference 2023 for ideas and inspiration for how you can use your skills to survive and thrive as an artist. Learn from industry experts and specialists.
Speakers include (we will add more details to the line up as we have them):
Posy Simmonds - Renowned for her witty satire, Posy has published numerous books for both adults and children and most recently won the Lakes Comic Art Festival Sergio Aragones Award.
Andy Oliver - Editor in Chief and site owner of the go-to site for comics fans: Broken Frontier. He champions small press, alternative comics and self-published comics and co-organises the UK's Small Press Day.
Society of Authors - 'Negotiating with publishers' - Join Nicola Solomon, Chief Executive of the SoA and discover phrases that are guaranteed to make money, how to get funding and negotiate, following the money and getting out when things go wrong.
Association of Illustrators - 'Publishing Contracts Masterclass' The AOI will guide you through copyright, contracts, rights, advances, royalties and important clauses to watch out for.
Sarah Akinterinwa - The first black British woman to be a New Yorker cartoonist, and creator of Oyin and Kojo. Her work is currently showing at The Cartoon Museum..
Shazleen Khan - A London based Illustrator specialising in Comics and Narrative work and creator of webcomic Buuza!
Jemma Webster Sharp -“Jemma's an exciting artist, with a pointillist style of rendering horrific sexual imagery, often in proximity to uncomprehending girlhood, reminiscent of eary Renee French or Melinda Gebbie”
19 January 2023
The Cartoon Museum Conference 2023
Tickets can now be booked (here) for the Cartoon Museum conference 2023. It's all day on Monday 27th Feb. As it says here...
Join us at Cartoon Conference 2023 for ideas and inspiration for how you can use your skills to survive and thrive as an artist. Learn from industry experts and specialists.
Speakers include (we will add more details to the line up as we have them):
Posy Simmonds - Renowned for her witty satire, Posy has published numerous books for both adults and children and most recently won the Lakes Comic Art Festival Sergio Aragones Award.
Andy Oliver - Editor in Chief and site owner of the go-to site for comics fans: Broken Frontier. He champions small press, alternative comics and self-published comics and co-organises the UK's Small Press Day.
Society of Authors - 'Negotiating with publishers' - Join Nicola Solomon, Chief Executive of the SoA and discover phrases that are guaranteed to make money, how to get funding and negotiate, following the money and getting out when things go wrong.
Association of Illustrators - 'Publishing Contracts Masterclass' The AOI will guide you through copyright, contracts, rights, advances, royalties and important clauses to watch out for.
Sarah Akinterinwa - The first black British woman to be a New Yorker cartoonist, and creator of Oyin and Kojo. Her work is currently showing at The Cartoon Museum..
Shazleen Khan - A London based Illustrator specialising in Comics and Narrative work and creator of webcomic Buuza!
Jemma Webster Sharp -“Jemma's an exciting artist, with a pointillist style of rendering horrific sexual imagery, often in proximity to uncomprehending girlhood, reminiscent of eary Renee French or Melinda Gebbie”
13 December 2020
The Devil's smell - an Inspector Montalbano case
Trailled by Paul Gravett on facebook some time ago (and then delayed for pandemic related reasons) 'The Devil's smell' comic has arrived!
My copy arrived yesterday (thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute in London).
If you go here you can see Paul Gravett and contributors like Matthew Dooley talking about this comic-y cultural crossover.
A4 sized, full colour throughout and with an international line-up of creators involved - of whom, to my shame, I only recognised the UK creators (Posy Simmonds, Matthew 'Flake' Dooley and Jon 'Kingdom' McNaught) - this looks great.
There's more information on downthetubes, too.
As it says on that website...
Fenati has put together the work of fifteen comic book artists and graphic novelists to create a short story in comics, adapted from the novella by Andrea Camilleri L'odore del diavolo, first published in 1998 in the collection “A month with Montalbano”.
Drawing on his experience on the 2018 adaptation of Simonetta Agnello Hornby's best-selling novel La Mennulara (“The Almond Picker”), Fenati converted Camilleri’s short story into a comics’ script, tasking each of the cartoonists with the illustration of one single page. The result is surprising and wonderful.
The selected cartoonists are some of the most important new generation Italian ones, together with some very renowned British ones: Sergio Algozzino, Paolo Bacillieri, Alessandro Baronciani, Lorena Canottiere, Thomas Campi, Daniel Cuello, Matthew Dooley, Massimo Fenati, Gulio Macaione, Federico Manzone, Jon McNaught, Andrea Serio, Posy Simmonds, Alessandro Tota, Lucas Varela
15 June 2019
Masters of comics signing today
This is today, don't forget! See some of you there?
Gosh comics have announced (here) that they'll be having a signing to celebrate the publication of Joel Meadows book 'Masters of comics'...
As it says on the website...
To celebrate the release of Joel Meadows’ new book Masters of Comics, we’ll be hosting a signing with three of the incredible artists profiled in the book: Laurence Campbell, Posy Simmonds and Sean Phillips will be here (along with Joel) on Saturday June 15th, 1-2pm!
Similar to his 2008 book Studio Space, Joel has spent time in the studios of some of the most celebrated talents in the comics business, taking photos and conducting interviews.
“Readers are invited into the studio spaces of some of the most popular and prolific comic artists in the world. Through dynamic photography and exclusive interviews, Masters of Comics offers a rare, personal look at these artists' unique creative environments-spaces in which some of the greatest comics and graphic novels of the last fifty years took shape. Curated by Joel Meadows, editor of Tripwire Magazine, the book includes chapters on such legends as Milo Manara, Mike Kaluta, Walter Simonson, and more. The first in a series focusing on artists at work in a variety of mediums and industries, Masters of Comics offers a glimpse "behind the veil," shining new light on the artistic process, as well as providing a wonderful learning tool for aspiring artists wishing to learn from the greats.”
Laurence Campbell, a former 2000AD contributor, is a long-time artist on the Mignolaverse titles, notably now bringing the long-running BPRD saga to its close.
Sean Phillips has carved out a place as one of the preeminent crime storytellers in comics, particularly in his collaborations with writer Ed Brubaker. The new series of Criminal has just recently launched.
Posy Simmonds is the pioneering British graphic novelist behind classics such as Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe and her newest title Cassandra Darke.
Laurence, Sean and Posy are all featured in the book and will be appearing with Joel to sign here on Saturday June 15th, 1-2pm!
If you can’t make it but would like something signed, drop us an email to info@goshlondon.com to arrange a reservation or mail order. Copies of Masters of Comics can be pre-ordered via our webstore.
10 June 2019
Posy Postcards - part 3
The final selection of postcards acquired at the brilliant Posy Simmonds exhibitions at the House of Illustration (details here)
From Baker Cat
From Gemma Bovery
A poster image for the Angouleme comics festival
From Fred
You might recognise this from the opening credits to the Cranford TV series - but it's a Dorset landscape from Tamara Drewe
From Baker Cat
From Gemma Bovery
A poster image for the Angouleme comics festival
From Fred
You might recognise this from the opening credits to the Cranford TV series - but it's a Dorset landscape from Tamara Drewe
7 June 2019
Postcards - Posy Simmonds, part 2
Some more Posy postcards...all details of the exhibition can be found here
3 images from a 12-part series for The Spectator magazine...
...from an adaptation of Hillaire Belloc's Matilda, who told such dreadful lies
3 images from a 12-part series for The Spectator magazine...
...from an adaptation of Hillaire Belloc's Matilda, who told such dreadful lies
3 June 2019
Postcards - Posy Simmonds, part 1
So, I've been to the Posy Simmonds exhibition at the House of Illustration (details here) - and I'll post my thoughts soon - but for now here are just some of the great images that are available as postcards...
The cover of Gemma Bovery (an adaptation of Madame Bovary)
An image from Gemma Bovery (published 1999)
From Cassandra Darke (published 2018)
A 2007 image (from the Guardian) of Posy's workspace...
The cover of Gemma Bovery (an adaptation of Madame Bovary)
An image from Gemma Bovery (published 1999)
From Cassandra Darke (published 2018)
2 May 2019
Masters of Comics signing is announced
Gosh comics have announced (here) that they'll be having a signing to celebrate the publication of Joel Meadows book 'Masters of comics'...
As it says on the website...
To celebrate the release of Joel Meadows’ new book Masters of Comics, we’ll be hosting a signing with three of the incredible artists profiled in the book: Laurence Campbell, Posy Simmonds and Sean Phillips will be here (along with Joel) on Saturday June 15th, 1-2pm!
Similar to his 2008 book Studio Space, Joel has spent time in the studios of some of the most celebrated talents in the comics business, taking photos and conducting interviews.
“Readers are invited into the studio spaces of some of the most popular and prolific comic artists in the world. Through dynamic photography and exclusive interviews, Masters of Comics offers a rare, personal look at these artists' unique creative environments-spaces in which some of the greatest comics and graphic novels of the last fifty years took shape. Curated by Joel Meadows, editor of Tripwire Magazine, the book includes chapters on such legends as Milo Manara, Mike Kaluta, Walter Simonson, and more. The first in a series focusing on artists at work in a variety of mediums and industries, Masters of Comics offers a glimpse "behind the veil," shining new light on the artistic process, as well as providing a wonderful learning tool for aspiring artists wishing to learn from the greats.”
Laurence Campbell, a former 2000AD contributor, is a long-time artist on the Mignolaverse titles, notably now bringing the long-running BPRD saga to its close.
Sean Phillips has carved out a place as one of the preeminent crime storytellers in comics, particularly in his collaborations with writer Ed Brubaker. The new series of Criminal has just recently launched.
Posy Simmonds is the pioneering British graphic novelist behind classics such as Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe and her newest title Cassandra Darke.
Laurence, Sean and Posy are all featured in the book and will be appearing with Joel to sign here on Saturday June 15th, 1-2pm!
If you can’t make it but would like something signed, drop us an email to info@goshlondon.com to arrange a reservation or mail order. Copies of Masters of Comics can be pre-ordered via our webstore.
25 November 2018
Gilbert Shelton & Posy Simmonds at the British Library this afternoon
Cartoon Cats: Gilbert Shelton and Posy Simmonds
Website link is here but details are reproduced below anyway...
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Discover the felines of the graphic novel world
A conversation between two leading artists about their own cat characters and others: Gilbert Shelton, American cartoonist and creator of Fat Freddy's Cat, and Posy Simmonds, British graphic novelist, newspaper cartoonist, writer, and author of Fred and Baker Cat.
Images © Gilbert Shelton and Posy Simmonds
Details
Name:
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Cartoon Cats: Gilbert Shelton and Posy Simmonds
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Where:
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Knowledge Centre
The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB Show Map How to get to the Library |
When:
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Price:
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Full Price: £15.00
Member: £15.00 Senior 60+: £12.00 Student: £10.00 Registered Unemployed: £10.00 Under 18: £10.00 |
Enquiries:
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+44 (0)1937 546546
boxoffice@bl.uk |
29 October 2018
Cassandra Darke - Posy Simmonds' new graphic novel
The first pages from Posy Simmonds' new graphic novel, Cassandra Darke, were premiered in The Guardian this weekend - for anyone who missed out here you go...part 1...more tomorrow
7 September 2018
Comics talks at the British Library this autumn (1)
Cartoon Cats: Gilbert Shelton and Posy Simmonds
Website link is here but details are reproduced below anyway...
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Website link is here but details are reproduced below anyway...
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Discover the felines of the graphic novel world
A conversation between two leading artists about their own cat characters and others: Gilbert Shelton, American cartoonist and creator of Fat Freddy's Cat, and Posy Simmonds, British graphic novelist, newspaper cartoonist, writer, and author of Fred and Baker Cat.
Images © Gilbert Shelton and Posy Simmonds
Details
| Name: | Cartoon Cats: Gilbert Shelton and Posy Simmonds |
|---|---|
| Where: |
Knowledge Centre The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB Show Map How to get to the Library |
| When: | - |
| Price: |
Full Price: £15.00 Member: £15.00 Senior 60+: £12.00 Student: £10.00 Registered Unemployed: £10.00 Under 18: £10.00 |
| Enquiries: | +44 (0)1937 546546 boxoffice@bl.uk |
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