London Book Fair 2011

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

London Book Fair 2011

Visited the London Book Fair @ Earl's Court on Monday 11 April.

Busy place, busy people.

Attended seminar 'Graphic Novels as Literature' chaired by Paul Gravett (Comica) with speakers:
Angus Cargill (Faber & Faber)
Dan Franklin (Jonathan Cape)
John Harris Dunning (writer published by Walker Books)
Kevin O'Neill Illustrator and Co-creater of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Wildstorm/DC)

The seminar panel held the position that graphic storytelling could be classed as highly as literature even classic in some cases. It was noted that a lot of snobbery against graphic novels was beginning to disappear as the medium grows and becomes identified with adult themes as opposed to Superheroes.

Books of note

Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
Jimmy Corrigan - Chris Ware
Footnotes in Gaza - Joe Sacco
Shortcomings - Adrian Tomine
Walking the Dog - David Hughes
Horace Dorlan - Andrzej Klimowski
Ghost World - Dan Clowes

No comments:

Influences and Inspirations

A new England
Alan Young my former tutor on degree course
Bernard Herrman Composer (Psycho, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Taxi Driver)
Black Narcissus Film 1947
Buster Keaton
Caroline May Thomson Soul-mate
Cathy Stocker friend of 40 years
David Beale lifetime friend and brother
Ennio Morricone Composer (Cinema Paradiso, The Thing and The Good the Bad and the Ugly)
Films Noir
Frank Augustus Hinds Grandfather R.I.P.
French Cinema
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue performed by Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock
Gil Scott Heron Poet and Visionary
Graham Joseph Wedge Father R.I.P.
Hogarth Father the of Narrative Illustration
Jack Cardiff Cinematographer and Film Director
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David
Jerusalem
Lee Wright my dear old friend R.I.P.
Michael Eade RIP my former art tutor at Secondary School (Masseread)
New York City
Richard Serra Artist
Riddley Walker novel 1980 by Russell Hoban
Sergio Leone Film Director (The Good the Bad and the Ugly, C'era una volta il West and Once Upon a Time in America)
Sound Design
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Teaching Visual Communication
Test Cricket
The Chauvet Caves in France
William Blake Visionary

Conferences, Exhibitions and Lectures attended 2014

June: Housewarming: Illustrator Talks series Roger Law in conversation with John Lloyd at The House of Illustration, London
June: Chris Marker: A Grin Without a Cat at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
May: Spitting Image: From Start to Finish at The Cartoon Museum, London
May: 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House, London
May: 'Pick Me Up' Design Festival at Somerset House, London
April: Phyllida Barlow commission at Tate Britain, London
April: Ruin Lust at Tate Britain, London
April: Richard Deacon at Tate Britain, London
April: Drawn To Drawing - The Art of John Vernon Lord at Illustration Cupboard, London
March: Bailey's Stardust at National Portrait Gallery, London
March: Jeremy Deller in conversation with Scott King at London College of Communication, London
February: Hannah Hoch at Whitechapel Gallery, London
February: Anglia Ruskin University MA Children's Book Illustration Degree Show at Candid Arts, London
February: Serco Prize for Illustration 2014 at London Transport Museum, London

Conferences, Exhibitions and Lectures attended 2013

May: Comica event Jaime Hernandez in conversation with Woodrow Phoenix at Institut Francais, London
April: MA Interim Show at BEACH London
April: Laure Albion Guillot (1879-1962) The Question of Classicism at Jeu De Paume, Paris
April: Adrian Paci. Lives In Transit at Jeu De Paume, Paris
April: Musee D'Orsay, Paris
April: De l’Allemagne, 1800-1939. German Thought and Painting, from Friedrich to Beckmann at The Lourve, Paris
April: AOI Event, The Art of London 2012: Illustrating Royal Mail’s Sports Stamps at Somerset House, London
April: 'Pick Me Up' Design Festival at Somerset House, London
March: The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns at Barbican Gallery, London
March: Sue Aldworth: The Portrait Anatomised PV at National Portrait Gallery, London
February: George Caitlin: American Indian Portraits at National Portrait Gallery, London
February: Barbara Nessim - An Artful Life PV at V&A Museum, London

Conferences, Exhibitions and Lectures attended 2012

December: Rasheed Araeen, Zero to Infinity at Tate Modern, London
December: William Kentridge - I am not me, the horse is not mine at Tate Modern, London
December: Suzanne Lacy - The Crystal Quilt at Tate Modern, London
December: Lis Rhodes - Light Music at Tate Modern, London
December: William Klein and Daido Moriyama at Tate Modern, London
December: Philip Glass at 75 The Barbican, London
November: The Serco Prize for Illustration 2012: Secret London at London Transport Museum, London
October: Tim Walker - Storyteller at Somerset House. London
October: Rashid Johnson - Shelter at South London Gallery, London
October: AOI Images 36, Best of British Illustration at Somerset House, London
August: Comica Event - Shaun Tan Artist Talk With Quentin Blake at St. Albans Centre, London
August: Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye at Tate Modern, London
July: Designing 007 - Fifty Years of Bond Style
July: The Genius of Hitchcock - The Lodger (digitally restored) new score by Nitin Sawhney performed by the LSO at Barbican, London
July: Clifford Chance Fifth Annual Transatlantic LGBT Art Exhibition, London Clifford Chance 2012 PRIDE Exhibition: LGBT and Sport
July: The Tanks - Art In Action at Tate Modern, London
July: Raindance Saturday Film School at Leicester Square Theatre, London
July: The Ideas Olympiad - David Bailey in Conversation with Tim Marlow & Bad Ideas - a lecture by Professor Robert Winston at Stratford, London
June: Pop Up Festival of Stories at Kings Cross, London
June: D&AD New Blood 2012 at Old Spitalfields Market, London
June: D&AD Student Awards 2012 Yellow Pencil Ceremony at Old Spitalfields Market, London
June: AOI Event - Illustration and the Children's Book Industry: Secrets to Success at Toynbee Studios Theatre, London
June: Pina Bausch Nur Du at Barbican Theatre, London
May: Gary Taxali My Feelings Like You at The Outsiders, London
May: Bauhaus - Life As Art at Barbican Gallery, London
April: Paul Bommer 'Umbra Sumus ( We Are But Shadows)' at Wilkes Street, London
April: Superheroes at Discover, London
April: From The Loom Room at Blackall Studios, London
April: Highgate Cemetery Tour, London
April: Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed at The Freud Museum, London
March: Caixa Forum, Madrid
March: Estación de Chamberí, Madrid
March: 100 Años En Femenino at Conde Duque, Madrid
March: Monumento En Recuerdo De Las Víctimas Del 11-M at Estación de Atocha, Madrid
March: Museo De América, Madrid
March: El Hermitage En El Prado at Museo Del Prado, Madrid
March: Chagall at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
March: Museo de la Escultura Abstracta, Madrid
March: Clotilde de Sorolla at Museo Sorolla, Madrid
March: Artist talks at Camberwell College, London - Matthew Richardson, Andrew Foster and Laura Carlin
March: An Alphabet of London by Chris Brown at CSM Lethaby Gallery, London
February: Zarina Bhimji at Whitechapel Gallery, London
February: MA Children's Book Illustration Graduation Exhibition at Folyes Gallery, London
January: Comica Event - Craig Thompson Talks With Marcel Theroux at St. Albans Centre, London
January: Cathy Stocker - Recent Land and Sea Scapes at Lauderdale House, London

Conferences, Exhibitions and Lectures attended 2011

December: Private Eye - The First 50 Years at V&A, London
December: The House of Annie Lennox at V&A, London
December: Power of Making at V&A, London
December: Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990 at V&A, London
December: Paul Noble - 'Welcome To Nobson' at Gagosian Gallery, London
December: Audrey Niffenegger lecture at Camberwell, London
November: Jonathan Barnbrook lecture at LCC, London
November: Wunderkabinett an Exhibition of Work by Mr. Paul Bommer at Wilkes Street, London
November: Comica 2011/ Comiket at Bishopsgate Institute, London
November: Ghosts of Gone Birds at Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London
November: NoBrow 6 at DreambagsJaguarshoes, London
October: Simon Roberts - We English at Flowers (East), London
October: Nicola Hicks - Aesop's Fables at Flowers (East), London
October: Gabriel Kuri - Before Contingency After the Fact at South London Gallery
October: 'Making Great Illustration' Book Launch at The Cartoon Museum, London
September: Dave McKean's Magic of Reality Exhibition at Foyles, London
September: Mind Over Matter Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways (part of London Design Festival 2011) at Kemistry Gallery , London
September: Ben Newman - MASKS (part of London Design Festival 2011) at NoBrow Gallery, London
September: Tony DiTerlizzi in conversation with Chris Riddell at Foyles, London
September: Origin The Contemporary craft fair (part of London Design Festival 2011), London
September: Informational City (part of London Design Festival 2011) at LCC, London
September: The Worlds of Mervyn Peake at The British Library, London
September: Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it at The British Library, London
August: Taryn Simon at Tate Modern, London
August: Miro at Tate Modern, London
August: Shaun Tan in conversation with Paul Gravett at Waterstones Piccadilly, London
August: Shaun Tan at The Illustration Cupboard, London
August: Images 35 at Southbank Gallery, London
August: Comics & Conflicts Conference at The Imperial War Museum, London
August: Comma 37/ Comma 38 Gereon Krebber & Arnaud Desjardin at Bloomberg Space
August: Fred Sandback at Whitechapel Gallery, London
July: Junya Ishigami: Architecture as Air at Barbican Curve Gallery, London
July: Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century at Royal Academy of Arts, London
July: Summer Exhibition 2011 at Royal Academy of Arts, London
July: D&AD New Blood at Truman Brewery, London
June: Barbarana Showcase at The Stables Market, London
June: Buddha Hype at The C.A.M.P. London
May: Handborn at HOTEL ELEPHANT, London
May: Monsterville launch at Discover, London
May: Tracey Emin: Love Is What You Want at The Hayward Gallery, London
May: Life Drawing and Painting Exhibtion at Candid Arts Trust, London
May: Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock + The 39 Steps at Barbican, London
May: Serco/ Tfl River Thames Competition at London Transport Museum
May: Open Studios Spring 2011 at Make Space Studios, London
April: Philip Taaffe at Gagosian Gallery, London
April: The London Book Fair 2011 at Earl's Court, London
April: 'Hello, Goodbye' at CSM Lethaby Gallery, Southampton Row, London
April: 'All Hail the King' at Resistance Gallery, London
April: 'Magnitude Nine' at Blackall Studios, London
March: John Makepeace – Enriching the Language of Furniture at Somerset House, London
March: Pick Me Up Contemporary Graphic Art Fair at Somerset House, London
March: Hoppé Portraits - Society Studio & Street at National Portrait Gallery, London
March: Norman Rockwell's America at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
March: London Comic & Small Press Expo 2011 at Goldsmiths University, London
March: Facts About Apps - The Big Write at Discover, London
March: Drawing Fashion at Design Museum, London
March: Brit Insurance Design of the Year at Design Museum, London
February: Matt Cruickshank at NoBrow, London
February: Watercolours at Tate Britain
February: Paul Gravett talk: 21st Century Comics at Islington Central Library, London
February: Falmouth Illustration: The Retrospective at The Illustration Cupboard, London
January: Shadow Catchers at Victoria and Albert Museum

Conferences, Exhibitions and Lectures attended 2010

December: LCF Forum For Drawing - Posy Simmonds at LCF
November: That's Novel! ...lifting comics from the page!!! part of COMICA '10 at London Print Studios
October: Eadweard Muybridge and Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain
September: Tamara Drewe Film Talk and Screening (with Stephen Frears, Posy Simmonds and Alison Owen), Barbican
May: Audrey Niffenegger, Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes at Cochrane Theatre, London
April: Brian Bolland in conversation with Roger Sabin at Central Saint Martins
April: Van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde at Tate Modern
April: Ronald Searle, Graphic Master A 90th birthday celebration at The Cartoon Museum, London
March: The Big Picture, part of 'The Big Write' at Discover, London
February: Hvass + Hannibal ‘Losing the Plot’ Exhibition, Kemistry Gallery
February: Susan Aldworth ‘The Portrait Anatomised’ Thai Theatre LSE

Conferences, Exhibitions and Lectures attended 2009

December: Robert Kusmirowski ‘Bunker’ Exhibition, Barbican
November: Tara McPherson and James Jean, Comica ICA
November: ‘Anish Kapoor’ Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts
October: Audrey Niffenegger, Bloomsbury Theatre (Foyles)
October: ‘Javier Mariscal’ Exhibition, Design Museum
September Joe Sacco (Interviewed by Roger Sabin), Comica ICA
September: Dorian Gray Film Talk and Screening (with Oliver Parker, Toby Finlay and Colin Firth), Barbican
July: A.O.I. Images 33 Best of British Illustration, London College of Communication UAL
June: Shaun Tan, The Illustration Cupboard
May: Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neil (interviewed by Sir Christopher Frayling), Comica ICA
May: Synecdoche New York Film Talk and Screening (with Charlie Kaufmann and Samantha Morton), Barbican
February: Adrian Tomine (interviewed by Toby Litt), Comica ICA

Conferences, Exhibitions and Lectures attended 2008

Narrative Structures - Key Creators

Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve • Scenes from an Impending Marriage • Shortcomings • Sleepwalk • Summer Blonde
Alan Lee – The Hobbit • The Lord of the Rings
Alan Moore – From Hell • League of Extraordinary Gentlemen • Lost Girls • V for Vendetta • Watchmen
Alex Maleev - The Crow • Daredevil
Alison Bechdel – Dykes to Watch Out For • Fun Home
Andrzej Klimowski - Horace Dorlan • The Depository A Dream Book • The Master and Margarita (with Danusia Schejbal) • The Secret
Art Spiegelman – Maus: A Survivors Tale • MetaMaus • In The Shadow of No Towers
Audrey Niffenegger - The Adventuress • The Night Bookmobile • The Three Incestuous Sisters
Bill Griffiths – Zippy the Pinhead
Bill Sienkiewicz - Big Numbers • Elektra: Assassin • Moon Knight
Brian Michael Bendis – Daredevil • Goldfish • Secret Invasion • Siege
Brian Talbot - Alice in Sunderland • Grandville: Mon Amour • Memento
Charles Burns - Black Hole • Fear(s) of the Dark • Skin Deep • X’ed OUT
Chip Kidd - Dark Knight Strikes Again • The Complete Schulz
Chris Onstad – Achewood.com
Chris Riddell - The Graveyard Book • Muddle Earth • Ottoline and the Yellow Cat • Pirate Diary
Chris Ware - Acme Novelty Library • Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth • Lint
Craig Thompson – Blankets • Goodbye, Chunky Rice • Habibi
Daniel Clowes – David Boring • Eightball • Ghost World • Wilson
Dave Gibbons - Give Me Liberty • Watching the Watchmen • Watchmen
Dave McKean – Arkham Asylum • Cages • Celluloid • The Magic of Reality • MirrorMask • The Savage
David B - Black Paths • Epileptic
David Hughes - Walking the Dog • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (with Jan Needle)
David Mazzucchelli – Asterios Polyp • Batman Year One • City of Glass
Ed Brubaker – Criminal • Incognito • Sleeper
Edward Gorey – Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey • Cats and Dogs
Frank Miller – 300 • Daredevil • Sin City
Frans Masereel - Passionate Journey • The City • The Sun
Gerald Scarfe - The Wall
Gilbert Shelton - Fat Freddy's Cat • The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Grant Morrison - The Invisibles
Harvey Kurtzman – MAD
Harvey Pekar – American Splendour
I.N.J. Culbard - A Study in Scarlet • At The Mountains of Madness • The Hound of the Baskervilles
Ivan Brunetti – Haw! • Schizo
Jack Kirby – Fantastic Four • New Gods • The Eternals • X-men
Jaime Hernandez - Love and Rockets
Jamie Hewlett - Gorillaz • Tank Girl
Joe Kubert - Fax From Sarajevo
Joe Sacco – Footnotes in Gaza • Notes From A Defeatist • Palestine • Safe Area, Gorazde
John Howe - Lord of the Rings • Lost Worlds
John J Muth – M • Moonshadow
Julie Doucet – Dirty Plotte • My New York Diary
Kent Williams – Blood A Tale • The Fountain
Kyle Baker – Nat Turner
Lorenzo Mattotti - Fear(s) of the Dark • The Raven • Stigmata
Luke Pearson - A Graphic Cosmogony • Everything We Miss • Hildafolk
Lynd Ward – God’s Man • Mad Man’s Drum
M. K. Perker - Air • Cairo • Insomnia Café
Marjane Satrapi – Chicken with Plums • Embroideries • Persepolis
Melinda Gebbie - Lost Girls
Neil Gaiman – Coraline • The Graveyard Book • Stardust
Osamu Tezuka – Astro Boy • Kimba the White Lion
Posy Simmonds – Gemma Bovary • Tamara Drewe
Raymond Briggs - Ethel and Ernest • When the Wind Blows
Robert Crumb - American Splendour • Heroes of Blues, Jazz, & Country • The Book of Genesis
Rutu Modan - Exit Wounds • Jamilti and Other Stories
Sara Fanelli – Pinocchio • Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I Am • Wolf!
Saul Steinberg - View of the World from 9th Avenue
Scott McCloud – Making Comics • Understanding Comics • Zot!
Sean Phillips – Criminal • Incognito • Intersections (with Duncan Fegredo) • Sleeper
Seth - Clyde Fans • It’s A Good Life If You Don’t Weaken
Shaun Tan – Tales from Outer Suburbia • The Arrival • The Lost Thing
Simone Lia - Fluffy
Tom Gauld – Hunter and Painter • The Gigantic Robot • Guardian’s of the Kingdom
Tony diTerlizzi - The Spiderwick Chronicles • WondLa
Will Eisner – A Contract with God • Eisner/Miller • Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative • The Spirit
Yoshihiro Tatsumi – A Drifting Life • The Push Man and Other Stories

Narrative Structures - Publishers

Abrams
Alternative Comics
Atlantic Press
Buenaventura Press (Kramers Ergot)
Cinebook www.cinebook.com
Dark Horse Comics www.darkhorse.com
DC Comics
Drawn and Quarterly www.drawnandquarterly.com
Fantagraphics Books www.fantagraphics.com
First Second www.firstsecondbooks.com
IDW Publishing www.idwpublishing.com/
Jonathan Cape (Random House) www.randomhouse.co.uk/
Lulu (Self-publishing)
Marvel Entertainment
McSweeney's
Pantheon Books www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/
Raw Books and Graphics
Self Made Hero www.selfmadehero.com/index.php
Titan Books
Top Shelf www.topshelfcomix.com
Vertigo www.dccomics.com/vertigo
Walker Books www.walker.co.uk/graphicnovels
Yale University Press

Narrative Structures - Awards

3X3 Magazine of Contemporary Illustration www.3x3mag.com/callforentries.html
Association of Illustrators Images Awards www.aoiimages.com/competition.htm
Eisner Comic Industry Awards www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_eisners_main.shtml
Hugo Awards www.thehugoawards.org/
Ignatz Awards www.spxpo.com/?tag=ignatz
Society of Illustrators http://societyillustrators.org/index.cms
The Harvey Awards www.harveyawards.org/history.html
Victoria & Albert Museum Illustration Awards www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/events/illustration_awards/index.html

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Wednesday, 13 April 2011