Publishers of Graphic Novels and Fine Comics since 1998.
Are you sitting comfortably? Good: it’s story time with Simone Lia. That’s right, she’s going to read her latest book to you. The clever folks over at the Guardian have put together an audio slideshow of Please God, Find Me A Husband! including reading from Simone herself, and plenty of atmospheric sound effects. It’s the closest we’ll be to an ebook version, and what’s more it’s free.
I wish they’d do a version of Black Hole like this.
In Room 208 won the 2010 Graphic Short Story Prize and was drawn by Stephen Collins. It’s a strikingly weird tale of two lovers and their stay in a hotel. Stephen Collins regularly draws for the Guardian and is a pretty snappy dresser, too.
Martin Rowson was at the Guardian Open Weekend and taught the amassed throngs how to draw a caricature of David Cameron, among other things.
The Guardian invited artists and authors to redesign British and American bank notes. Posy Simmonds thought that sperm might become the new currency. Bet Keynes wishes he’d come up with that as a replacement for gold.
“He was trained as a journalist and singlehandedly created the genre of reportage in graphic-novel form. Immersing himself in a situation, his in-depth reports use the medium of sequential art – like “graphic novel”, the word “comics” is such a misnomer – to its full advantage, using the mix of illustration and text to convey complex issues very directly… The palpable sense of place and the feeling that we’re personally in the presence of the people who relate their experiences to him (and us) is a testament to his storytelling skills; his work is far more intimate than that of a filmed documentary.”
—Bryan Talbot on Joe Sacco, from the Guardian
