Tag: Paul Gravett

SPX continues to ramp up announcements for its September 2023 edition – and here come the international special guests

Closing out Comica, McKean shared his experiences with AI art generators in working on his new book, PROMPT.

Comica Festival's anniversary season of events at London's Century Club continued last night with THEY SHOOT COMICS DON'T THEY - where producers discussed how they adapted comics properties to the big and small screen

Angoulême's fiftieth anniversary is here. We conducted a survey asking international pros in the comics space for their memories and we bring them all for your reading pleasure.

Posy Simmonds received the National Cartoonist Society's Sergio Aragones Award for Excellence in Comic Art in absentia last weekend at the UK's Lakes International Comic Art Festival

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If there was ever a reason to go to England, as if more than real mushy peas was needed, this summer's "Comic Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK" exhibition at the British Library is the one. Not only is it the biggest exhibit of British comics yet, it is by far the most official, and will be, I daresay, the most influential. Curated by Paul Gravett, along with John Harris Dunning, this is no mere "Oh look comics are cool!" exhibit, but a bracing investigation of the often transgressive gutter nature of comics in a specific culture. Since there is little chance I'll be able to go see it for myself before it closes on August 19th, James Bacon's photo heavy walk-through will have to do.

Well, speaking of wandering around the comics landscape, if there's one tour guide who seems to know what he's talking about, Paul Gravett is among the most intelligent and accessible comics critics and historians...