Jonathan Cape Graphic Novels

To celebrate the May release of Stephen Collins’ brilliant hirsute graphic novel, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, we at Cape Graphic Novels thought we knit our own beard. (Obviously.)

It’s already quite sizeable and is growing by the hour (though we’re not yet sure as to how evil it really is). We feel that the world needs more beards though, so we will be awarding an original artwork by Stephen to the person/team who produces the most extraordinary Gigantic Beard whether it be real, knitted or moulded. It can be evil or nice, that’s up to you. Runner-up will receive a signed print.

Update us with your growing beards on Twitter at @CapeGN or email us at capegraphicnovels@randomhouse.co.uk

This competiton is open to UK residents only. The winner will be announced on 9th May 2013.

Hope y’all had a good weekend. This Monday’s treat is our second Q&A: this time with Warren Pleece. Montague Terrace - a book created with his brother, Gary Pleece - was published last Thursday.

1.      What was the first comic you drew about?
I probably did loads of half baked comics as a kid, though I remember a one page sci-fi effort heavily influenced by Star Wars and 2000AD when I was about twelve. I think the story was incidental to drawing loads of spaceships and square jawed pilots. Years later when we started our magazine, Velocity, in our early 20s, we’d write stories about dysfunctional American families, terrible Beat poets, rubbish Rock bands and dodgy 70s comedians. Happy stuff.

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