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Tuesday, December 22 2009

Happy Holidays!

Friends,
Wherever you are and however you celebrate this time of the year I wish you the nicest of times. And if you're finding it rough because of any or all of the disasters of the past 12 months - whether they be personal to you or common to those around you - then I hope it gets better for you soon. Good luck and Happy New Year!

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Friday, November 27 2009

Get Thee To Getxo

Friends,
Late notice I'm going to be at the Getxo Comic Con in Bilbao all this weekend, so, if you're close by, or want to get close by to say hi, please check out all the details on the event at www.salondelcomicdegetxo.net. As well as little ole' me and the many great Spanish artists and writers attending the show, you'll be able to meet and greet my excellent colleagues, Mark Buckingham and Dave McKean, so it's definitely worth making a trip to if you can!

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Tuesday, November 24 2009

Heavy Water

Friends,
Water-colour sketches from the Heavy Pencil event I ' performed ' at on the 5th November at the ICA are now appearing on eBay at http://shop.ebay.com/cheekyjoe/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340
As you know, they're on sale to support Cartoon Classroom - the non-profit website established to do general good for the study of cartooning and sequential art in the UK and Ireland, so please pass on the message of this auction to as many folks as you can who you think might want to acquire one or more of these sketches, and, if you want to bid for one yourself, try and offer as much as you can for it. Believe me, I won't be doing anything like them again to celebrate V For Vendetta!
Thanks : )

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Wednesday, November 11 2009

Books And Bangers

Well, having lit a few blue touchpapers last Thursday evening, I'm glad to say I didn't have to retire immediately after shaming myself in front of an audience. Though I can't say the fireworks were the most spectacular and glittering of Roman Candles ever seen, nor the bangers as loud as they might have been, they were certainly enough to entertain the bar crowd at the ICA, and enough, I'm sure, to have made the organisers pleased they'd invited me. The resulting water-colour sketches will be auctioned in support of Cartoon Classroom on ebay in the next few weeks, and you will, of course, be informed of exactly when. Dig into your pockets if you bid for anything from this one-off celebration, please. By what it offers and what it does, Cartoon Classroom champions our medium and everyone involved in using it. A detail from one of the sketches is below.
Tomorrow afternoon I'm signing again ( no, really? ). But I'm in the country for this one. Unbelievable, I know. I'm pleased to have been invited to a signing with John Higgins and some other good fellows of my acquaintance at Bookstack, 22 South Street, Worthing, East Sussex from 3.30 -5.30. If you're anywhere near or fancy a trip to the seaside, come along and say hi : )
Lastly, a great book I was introduced to recently needs your attention if you want to see some excellent comics work which has the added ability to persuade the general public that good sequential art can achieve much more than what it usually percieves such things can accomplish. Miss Moti and Cotton Candy by Kripa Joshi is a great piece of art and storytelling, and one of a series of such works of hers you should check out. More detail at Kripa's website www.kripakreations.com. Excerpt below.

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Thursday, November 05 2009

Flight To Portugal

Friends,
Amadora is my next destination - or escape route depending on how well I do at the ICA today - for the 20th international Festival of Comics and Cartoons of Amadora 2009. On Saturday, 7th November, I'm signing from 3-4, and on Sunday, from 4-6, at the CNBDI, Av. do Brasil, 52/A, 2700-134. Debates and exhibitions are no doubt included in the mix as they were the last time I was privileged to attend this regular fixture in Amadora's calendar of yearly events, but I can't give you details of a website to check for these things because I haven't been referred to one. Use your own detective skills if you'd like to find out more because I'm short of time for Googling this morning.
If you can make it along, be pleased to see you : )

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Thursday, October 29 2009

Knights Of Malta

Friends,
Two venues to tell you about this posting where you can find me signing, drawing and talking about my work, though not necessarily doing all three at the same time.
This coming weekend - 31st October and 1st November - I've been invited to Malta for their very first Comic Convention along with my esteemed colleagues and Knights of The Drawing Table, Mike Collins, Tim Perkins,Warren Pleece, and Sean Azzopardi. I'm pleased to say that I'm constantly seeing enthusiasm for strips in their many forms initiating new events like this one in new places on the map where nothing similar has occurred before, confounding all the predictions that many people working in this business once made that we'd all be buried by the spectacle and gloss of the computer games industry. Well, good art and storytelling in any form has the ability to survive any attack on a creative level, and, thankfully, there's still enough of it being produced by enough skilled people in this medium to stimulate continuing passion and interest in it from new audiences all the time. Details of the Malta event can be accessed via www.maltacomic-con.com.
And on the 5th of November evening, I'm opening this year's Comica season at the Institute Of Contemporary Arts in London with a 3-hour stint drawing - and maybe painting - for public display in a celebration of V for Vendetta. This a free event, as you'll see from ICA's info below, but the bar will prefer you to buy a few drinks for the privilege of attending, I'm sure. And you can bring your own ' towering pencil ' to the task of drawing V or anything else you fancy after I've supplied whatever fireworks I can manage to ignite in the evening. More detail is available from http://www.ica.org.uk/Heavy%20Pencil%3A%20V%20for%20Vendetta+22211.twl.
Come and say hi if you can make it to either of these events : )

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Wednesday, October 14 2009

Where Am I?

Friends,
Not quite knowing where I am at any point in time may well become a constant state of mind over the next few weeks with a bunch of trips coming up that take me around various places in Europe for signings and suchlike - but the cause of my mental confusion is rather more prosaic right now, as I'm still busily working at trying to contact many different lists of individuals and associations in my duty to spread the word of Cartoon Classroom. Jumping from one necessary contact to another, and trying to tweak the messages we're sending out about it for maximum effectiveness in all cases is kind of disorienting...
But the announcement of the new site at the Birmingham Con went swimmingly at the end of an hilarious comics quiz game Steve Marchant staged and performed which got everyone in a happy and receptive frame of mind to learn about something serious. Of course, I don't need to tell you all any more about the site now, because you can just go there and see it for yourself. But I will repeat that if you feel you should register with it, do so, and/or if you feel you can help tell people about it, do so. It's a great cause for you to support.
But back to upcoming signings and such : the first is this weekend in Bergamo, Italy at Arcadia on Saturday 17th. Details at www.nuvoleshop.com. If you're nearby, I hope to see you : )
More from me next week about further travel and other things, but right now there's someone else I've got to talk to about Cartoon Classroom...

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Tuesday, September 29 2009

Birmingham Blast-Off

Friends,
Cartoon Classroom is launched at the Birmingham International Comics Show on Oct 3rd at 3.30 as seen below! I'll be there - though not in costume. And, as usual, I'll also be doing some official signings at the show from 12.30-1.30 on Saturday 3rd, and at 2.30-3.30 on Sunday 4th, if you'd like to come and say hi - and why wouldn't you? Details on the show at www.thecomicsshow.co.uk.
I'll also be at the Asylum Books table from around 4.30 onwards on Sat, and again for an unspecified period on Sunday. You'll see me too at various times on the Cartoon Classroom table - though my specific task there will be to tell folks about the site, not my brilliant career!
I think I said all I needed to in asking for help from all of you in my posting about Cartoon Classroom previously. If there is any way you can help us spread the word of the site to all those who should hear about it and use it, please do so. We need your assistance.
See you at the weekend!

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Monday, September 21 2009

Forbidden Thursday

Friends,
Not much time to update recently, I'm very sorry to say. I am determinedly and tenaciously concentrating on helping the launch of Cartoon Classroom - the very valuable new web site I described in a previous posting - and there's been little time for other, less-urgent, pursuits. I've just got to tell you about being in London this week, though, at Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue, on Thursday 24th from 6pm onward for a signing of the Absolute V for Vendetta. If you're going to buy one, you might as well buy one there, and get me to make it a little easier for you to sell on to someone if you fall on hard times in the future. I hope you're all holding up well in the middle of this tough period, and I wish you all the best of luck in continuing to do so.
Lastly, for now, let me appeal again to you to help Cartoon Classroom if you can. Any contacts or information you might have that will enable us to reach all the people the site is designed to assist would be greatly appreciated. We're getting lots of help now, but more is needed and would be very welcome. It launches on October 3rd at the Birmingham International Comics Show. And more on that as we get closer : )

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Friday, September 11 2009

Lest We Forget

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