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For those of you (if there are any of you) waiting for the next instalment of my Painshill Park posts, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a bit longer. What with spending last weekend at Caption, where I took a lot of photos that needed going through, having other things I needed to get done by the end of this week, and having internetfail this week, I ( Read more... )

Some future events to look forward to:

April 24th-26th: Alex Milway's Crystal Palace Children's Book Festival, with loads of people from the Super Comics Adventure Squad (formerly of the DFC) and some fun-looking workshops.

May 3rd: the London Zine Symposium. I remember seeing loads of lovely handmade books and things there last year, so I'm sure ( Read more... )

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It's that time of the year again. That's right, it's time for The Thing on Saturday. Looks like it's going to be a good year again - this list of attendees doesn't even cover all of them.

In the nearby New Globe pub, those rebel reprobates from LUC are having their own breakaway event, SchmurgenCon. Looks like there'll be some good stuff on show, ( Read more... )

The APF on Sunday was pretty good fun, but I have way too many half-written posts I already want to finish, so I don't have time to say much about it. None of my photos came out, either. Fortunately, there are loads of reports up at Bugpowder, so head over there if you want to know what happened. Yay!

Also on the comics front: the latest Scott ( Read more... )

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As you can probably tell from these extensive notes, I had fantastically interesting day on Saturday, learning about new projects, thinking in new ways, and making new friends, and spending all of Sunday thinking about them and writing about them. As Matt Ward said in his summation of PaperCamp, it was a fantastic convergence of the digital world ( Read more... )

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So, there was this idea that Matt had, and I read about it and thought, oh, that's cool, I definitely want to go to that, and then forgot because I missed any more mentions of it. On Friday evening someone mentioned it on Twitter, and I remembered that I wanted to go. So, I wandered around the web in search of some information and came across the ( Read more... )