#OPENCOMICS

The Guardian is running a project to showcase one page stories. It is called #opencomics

They have gathered a stellar review panel, with Benjamin Dix, John Harris Dunning, Paul Gravett, Bianca Jagger, Amruta Patil and Joe Sacco.

I contributed a story called "No Greater Love", and it is up now at the website. To have a look, please click here. If you are so inclined, hit "recommend". I'd appreciate it!

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART: JOE SACCO / CHRIS WARE

The new edition of The International Journal of Comic Art is out now. It has an article by myself in it. It’s a report on a talk given by Joe Sacco and Chris Ware at the Edinburgh Literary Festival in August 2013.

More details can be found here.

MEDIA SCANS

Some comics related articles from the December press...


















Starting off with a bumper review of the year section from The Times 05/12/09. This covers Joe Daly's The Monkey Double Happiness Book, Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadmitirion's Logicomix, Paul Hornschemeier's All and Sundry, Jason's Low Moon, Bruce Paley and Carol Swain's Giraffes in my Hair: A Rock 'n' Roll Life, Harvey Pekar's Working, Nate Powell's Swallow Me Whole and Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia.


















From The Telegraph 12/12/09, an interview with Alan Moore regarding his Dodgem Logic magazine.
















The Guardian 12/12/09 also reviews Logicomix, along with Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza and Gilbert Shelton's Fat Freddy's Cat.


















A more lengthy Footnotes in Gaza review from the Scotsman 19/12/09.

FRONT ROW

Just caught tonight's Front Row on Radio 4. It's definitely worth a listen. From the website description: "Kirsty Lang is joined by Dave McKean, Apostolos Doxiadis, Ian Rankin and Joe Sacco to discuss the power of the comic book and the relationship between image and text."

It's available to replay for one week only on the BBC website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ntdf8#synopsis















Panel from Radio: An Illustrated Guide by Jessica Abel and Ira Glass