Panel Borders: Hugo Tate
Continuing Panel Borders’ month of shows about the depiction of travel in comic books, Alex Fitch talks to the award winning cartoonist Nick Abadzis about the recent Blank Slate Books collection of his much loved strip Hugo Tate, originally serialised in Deadline magazine.
Alex and Nick discuss the autobiographic aspects of the serial, his experiences in the brief but influential wave of ‘adult’ British comics in the late 1980s and how the story reflects the difficulties of any Brit coming to terms with life in America.
Panel from Hugo Tate by Nick Abadzis
(Originally broadcast in an edited version 14/10/12 on Resonance FM)
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Links: Nick Abadzis’ website
Blank Slate Books’ page on Hugo Tate
Recommended events:
Nobrow at Foyles – Hilda and the Bird Parade Graphic Novel Exhibition, by Luke Pearson
Come and see the amazingly intricate original drawings from Luke Pearson’s latest instalment in the Hilda Series, Hilda and the Bird Parade, only at Foyles on Charing Cross Road
Address: The Gallery at Foyles, Third Floor, Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB
Admission: Free
Dates: 5th – 17th of October
Gallery Opening Times*: Mon – Sat 9.30am – 5pm, Sunday 11.30am – 5pm
*Please note that the Gallery may be closed when instore meetings and events are taking place
Who is Ana Mendieta? exhibition
Art from the graphic novel Who is Ana Mendieta? by Christine Redfern and Caro Caron is on display at Space Station Sixty Five gallery, Building One, 373 Kennington Road, London SE11 4PS
Exhibition runs until November 4th, more info at http://spacestationsixtyfive.com
Laydeez do comics, October 2012
Monday 22 October, 6.30 – 9.30pm
The Rag Factory 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ
Guests:
Simon Grennan, artist http://kartoonkings.com
Lucy Lyons, artist http://www.lucylyons.org/
Fay Trier, writer http://www.facebook.com/fayt35
Idle Hands Comix indiegogo campaign
Short film maker and illustrator Paul Cheshire is launching a new annual British comics anthology for 2013 and needs your help to fund it. Examples of his SF / LSD inspired work can be found at http://www.idlehandscomix.com and ‘perks’ for funding the 100-150 page anthology can be found at http://www.indiegogo.com/Idlehandscomixcampaign
