Panel Borders: …for travel’s sake
In the last in a month of episodes of Panel Borders looking at depictions of travel in comic books and graphic novels, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of cartoonists whose small press and collected comics are all about travelling for the sake for it.
Oliver East discusses his Trains are… Mint trilogy of graphic novels, published by Blank Slate Books, which chronicle his walking along train lines from Manchester to Liverpool and across Germany, as well as his latest project Swear Down. Oliver has become part of the landscape itself, with the dissemination of his album covers for Elbow’s The Seldom Seen Kid and Build a Rocket Boys! on billboards, and Alex and Oliver discuss the marks that people leave on the environment such as these and the artist’s interest in graffiti.
Also, Alex talks to Kayla Marie Hillier about her web / self published comic Galavant which depicted her travels from Toronto to Manchester and back again, via South London, in the Winter of 2009 / 2010 and is available in a collected edition from the author.
Covers of Trains are… mint and Proper go well high by Oliver East / Galavant: January and collected edition by Kayla Hiller
(Originally broadcast 28/10/12 on Resonance FM)
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Links: Oliver East’s website
Blank Slate Books’ pages on trains… are mint, Proper go well high and Berlin and that
Wikipedia pages on Elbow’s The Seldom seen kid and Build a rocket boys!
Kayla Hillier’s website
Galavant website
Examples of Kayla’s appearances in Marc Ellerby’s Ellerbisms and Adam Cadwell’s The Everyday
Recommended events:
Celebrate Halloween at Orbital Comics
Featuring: Free comics, Face painting, costumes, zombie cupcakes, scary cocktails, Magick Eye exhibition and…
Nick Spenser signing Bedlam alongside an exhibition of artwork by artist Riley Rossmo, plus copies of Infinite Vacation and Morning Glories
5pm-7pm, Wednesday 31st October, Orbital Comics, 1-8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA
More info at: www.orbitalcomics.com/events
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
Gosh Comics Phoenix Comic activity day
On Saturday the 3rd of November Gosh are having three Phoenix artists – Neill Cameron, Lorenzo Etherington and Gary Northfield – come over and plaster our windows in cartoons and ink. If you’re aged between 6 and 13, come on down and draw some stuff with people who get to draw stuff as their actual job. It’s FREE! And you can ask them how to be a cartoonist. They’re captive and have to be nice to you!
November 3rd 2012, 1pm – 5pm, Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR
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
