Laydeez do podcasts: Trina Robbins Q and A
Complimenting our inaugural podcast, we have an additional companion recording of the Q and A that veteran Underground Comix creator and historian Trina Robbins gave at Laydeez do Comics in September 2010 with questions by Woodrow Phoenix and Paul Gravett among others. Introduced by Sarah Lightman, recorded and edited by Alex Fitch.
Laydeez do comics, September 2010, photo by Nicola Streeten
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Listen to Trina Robbins talk about the history of women in comics
Info about Laydeez do comics
Glenn Baxter in Cork Street
Beloved British newspaper cartoonist Glenn Baxter has a new exhibition in London of his inimical one panel gags of whimsy and surrealism.
Flowers Central Gallery, 21 Cork Street London W1S 3LZ
8th Feb – 3rd March 2011
More info at: www.flowersgalleries.com and www.glenbaxter.com
Laydeez do Comics Small press special:
The monthly event for female (and male) comic book creators, fans and critics meets on the last day of February with a special event devoted to small press creators. Former London Underground Comics creators Francesca Cassavetti and Sean Azzopardi talk about their work, Karrie Fransman introduces the five young graduates who are interning at the London print studio working on an ambitious comics anthology and running workshops for young members of the local community and ‘Tower of Babel’ illustrator, John Miers who was featured at last year’s Comica, talks about his process.
Guest Speakers:
Francesca Cassavetti – Illustrator and comics creator
Sean Azzopardi – Web comics creator and graphic novelist
London Print Studio Comics Collective
John Miers – Illustrator and Comics creator
Monday 28th Feburary, 6.30-9.30pm, The Rag Factory, Heneage Street, (off Brick Lane), London E1 5LJ
London Comic and Small Press Expo March 12th, 2011
“The capital’s Bohemian comic show” brings you “all the best that the Indie, Small Press and Web Comix world has to offer.” – David Hine and Shaky Kane will be talking about their work and exhibitors include Yuri Kore, Timothy Winchester, David O’Connell, Sarah McIntyre, Hugh Raine, Luke Pearson, Edward Ross, Rob Jackson, Dan Berry, Douglas Noble and many more…
Goldsmiths University, New Cross, London
March 12, 2011- 10am to 5pm – more info: www.thefallenangel.co.uk
followed by…
Comica Conversation: Lorenzo Mattotti and Dave McKean
Mattotti and McKean discuss their visionary approaches to comics with Paul Gravett in the first of this year’s Comica events.
Tickets only £3, bookable online.
Great Hall, Goldsmiths University, New Cross, London
March 12, 2011 – 6pm to 7.30pm – more info: www.comicafestival.com
