Not much time for a proper lunch because we needed to set up the panel / talks room for Karen Rubins' talk about her V&A residency - how she crafted her application and how it was that (she thinks) she came to be chosen, how the first few weeks have gone, and what plans she has for the remaining time and for after the residency ( Read more... )

For those who haven't seen all the tributes to Steve Whitaker, they may like to check these out:

Nick Abadzis (including a link to download a compo in tribute to Steve)
Andrew Littlefield
Martin Hand
Matt D'Israeli Brooker
Tony Keen - and his post about doing a commemorative BAPA for Steve. Please join in if you want - all welcome to share ( Read more... )

Very sad news to give. I had a phone call last night from percyprune - I believe he and Matt Brooker amongst others were phoning round to let people know of the unexpected death of Steve Whitaker ( Read more... )

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Welcome kazmantra, a Rubins come to visit our strange internet world! Hopefully we will soon have a full set of Rubinses.

Welcome Terry! syrtis

By the way, I love the way everyone's accounts of the weekend are popping up day by day, accreting whole layers of experience over the event...

Missed out from the previous entry: the two women from the French Institute who organized a couple of comics events earlier this year spoke earnestly with me for some time, as they are looking to organize ( Read more... )

...I skipped through a few Sisterson comics pages, and came across number 42, a significant number as we all know:

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Didn't manage to leave work as early as I'd've liked (surprise -- things have been busy recently) but got to the bus stop at about 7:30 trying to get to London for not much past 9. If the bus had been on time, it would have gotten me to the ICA at about 9:10, but I had to wait just over half an hour (bus is meant to be every 20 minutes at that time ( Read more... )

At the Bristol convention, John Anderson (Comics Forum) told me that there was someone else from OUP wandering around. And so it proved to be, once I got back to work and contacted her; someone in ELT who is responsible for purchasing illustration work is particularly interested in stuff to do with primary childrens' work. I haven't yet seen ( Read more... )