Caption podcast: John Miers – The Tower of Babel
In the second exclusive Caption podcast, we have a recording of John Miers’ talk about his project The Tower of Babel which adapts the Book of Genesis as a giant silent comic that explores aspects of pre-written communication and language. Recorded at Caption small press festival, Oxford 2010.
Excerpt from The Tower of Babel by John Miers
Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.
Links: Download John’s powerpoint presentation, to accompany his talk
John Miers’ website
Wikipedia page on The Tower of Babel
Caption website
Listen to John talk about his work at Laydeez do comics
Recommended events:
Orbital Comics events
Karrie Fransman exhibition
This solo exhibition by comic creator Karrie Fransman‘s (The Guardian, The Times, Random House) plays with the boundaries of the comic medium by fitting comics in weird and wonderful places- dolls houses, jewellery boxes and quilts. With the advance of digital technologies, comics are escaping their paper covers and spilling out into the world, becoming visual and interactive.
To mark the opening of the exhibition, Karrie will be joined by Comics Journalist Paul Gravett and experimental comics pioneer Daniel Merlin Goodbery for a panel discussion on Thursday June 21st, at 7:30pm.
Exhibition runs from 22nd June – 19 July
Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H 7JA
Sina Sparrow exhibition at Blush Bar
Small press creator Sina Sparrow (aka Sina Evil) is exhibiting a selection of his recent comics work entitled ‘Girls and boys’, featuring deconstruction of homoerotic superhero art and homages to Donna Summer.
Exhibtion runs from 8th June – 8th August 2012
Blush Bar, 8 Cazenove Road, Stoke Newington, London, N16 6BD
North Finchley Comics Reading group
…meets every month to discuss a graphic novel from the library collection.
Hosted by Karen Rubins (Urban Beasts, Blood Magic).
This month: discussing Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware.
Friday 22nd June 2012
6:45 – 7:45pm
North Finchley Library, Ravensdale Avenue, London, N12 9HP
More info at: www.barnet.gov.uk
Gosh! comics signing – LXG: Century 2009
Alan Moore and Kev O’Neill will be signing copies of their latest League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic – Century: 2009 – in a four hour session at Gosh!, but come early to avoid long queues…
Also available, an exclusive UK hardback edition of LXG: The Black Dossier containing the long awaited 7″ vinyl single by Eddie Enrico and His Hawaiian Hot-Shots (a.k.a. Alan Moore and Tim Perkins).
Saturday June 23rd, 2pm – 6pm
Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR
Support Badger the movie
A London based documentary and animation team is bringing Howard Hardiman’s beloved comic Badger to life in a new animated film that will also contain footage of the process of making Howard’s comic and its relevance to mental health issues.
You can support fundraising for this project at http://www.indiegogo.com/Badgershortfilm with various incentives depending on the level of contribution.
