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In Review: Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 years in Comics Exhibition at the Foundling Museum, London

In Review: Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 years in Comics Exhibition at the Foundling Museum, London

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15/3/19 House of Illustration - Refugee Crisis

Today Mia and I went up to London to have a look round some galleries and Camden Market to look at art and patterns that relate to our projects. The main place that interested me was the House of Illustration. There were four really wonderful exhibits which were so wonderful to see. The first was on the refugee crisis. This included art crates but refugees or people who had heard their stories. One piece that result caught my eye was Yousef in Hamelin, 2016 by Toby Morison. I loved the layout of the piece and the colours he had used. Another piece I loved was Childhood is Hope, 2016 by Asia Alfasi. The black and white comic conveyed so much emotion and so many messages for just one piece. The layout is really interesting too. There was also an animation that was really incredible. It zoomed in continuously on an image and went through a whole story. It was such an interesting use of animation and imagery, and it was so effective for conveying the story.

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I Need A Hero ‘DC’s’ ‘Superman’, was found by his adoptive parents; ‘Spider-Man’s’ parents die in a plane crash; ‘Batman’s’ parents are killed in a street robbery; and ‘Black Panther’ - whose mother dies soon after childbirth and whose father is killed - is known as ‘the Orphan King’. ‘Marvel’s' ‘X-Men’ experience both discrimination and social ostracisation. The superheroes’ early life experiences impact on their roles and the stance they take over good and evil in their comic lives. Explore the parallels between real-life foundlings and their illustrated counterparts through original artwork, contemporary digital work and examples of rare international comics. Plus, characters from early newspaper comic strips such as 'Japanese Manga’ and contemporary graphic novel protagonists.‘Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 years in comics’ has its origins in a site-specific work created for the museum in 2014 by poet, Lemn Sissay - ‘Superman was a Foundling' which is printed on the walls of the museum’s ‘Study Studio’. This is the first exhibition of its kind to explore the representation of foundlings, orphans, adoptees and foster children in comics, graphic novels and related art around the world, fittingly hosted in the former ‘Foundling Hospital’, London’s historic children’s home. Also on display are three brand-new commissions by comic artists Asia Alfasi, Bex Glendining and Woodrow Phoenix, all examining care identity and experience. ‘Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 years in comics’, ‘The Foundling Museum’, April 1 - August 28, 2022. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #love #orphan #foundling #adoptees #fosterchildren #superheroes #blackpanther #spiderman #superman #batman #lemmsissay #dccomics #marvel #xmen #foundlingmuseum #london #superheroesorphansandorigins (at The Foundling Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChCEZBosCEa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Illustration from the Refugee Crisis at House of Illustration!😍 2 Granary Square, King's Cross, London N1C 4BH 9th November 2018 @ 10:00 am - 10th March 2019 @ 6:00 pm An exhibition telling refugee stories, both observed and experienced first-hand. Multi-media work by 13 contemporary illustrators will include Olivier Kugler’s portraits from Calais and George Butler’s reportage from Syria, animation by Majid Adin and manga by Asia Alfasi. http://www.houseofillustration.org.uk . . . . . #BAM! #BAM!it #abstract #acrylic #art #artcall #arte #artgallery #artinfo #artist #artnews #artshow #artwork #callforart #colour #creative #drawing #drawings #fineart #graffitiart #graphic #graphicdesign #illustration #ink #ukart #singaporeart #painting #buyart #sellart #artsy #singapore https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp98tZJDXE1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ca4zpit69sz9

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The Plans for Rehavia

Begun in 1922, the Rehavia neighborhood served as a “garden suburb” for Jewish families of Jerusalem who sought to escape the crowded conditions elsewhere in the city. The Palestine Land Development Corporation purchased the land used for building from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate – which had acquired much land in the city during the 19th century and now found itself bankrupt in the 1920’s.

Rehavia was built in two stages during the British Mandatory period between 1925 and 1930.

The first stage, called Rehavia Aleph, was bordered by King George Street to the east, Ramban Street to the south, Ussishkin Street to the west, and Keren Kayemet Street to the north.

The second stage was completed in the early 1930s, between Jabotinsky Street, Ramban Street and Gaza Street.

The Results

Originally, Rehavia was meant to be a tolerant and liberal Jewish community with a modern outlook. Rehavia became an upper-class Ashkenazi Jewish neighborhood, home to professors and intellectuals. Almost all of Rehavia’s streets were named for poets and sages who lived during the Spanish Golden Age. The modern “International” houses integrated local elements, Middle Eastern or ancient. The homes were built in Jerusalem stone. The streets were lined by trees public gardens, playgrounds and even a tennis court. Don’t forget the vegetable gardens. Due to the arrival of olimim – refugees/emigrees from Nazi Germany – Rehavia earned its nickname  “a Prussian island in an Oriental sea.”

Architect Richard Kaufmann designed Rehavia. He also planned many of Jerusalem’s neighborhoods, the plan provided for a central avenue – Ramban – crisscrossed by streets and Keren Kayemet, a curving street with many small shops.

Richard Kauffmann

This architect deserves a post of his own. His heritage helped create Zionist history. Richard Kauffmann was born in Germany. Arthur Ruppin met him in Germany and invited him to design new Jewish settlements in Palestine. Kauffmann immigrated to Palestine in 1920 and began his work as an architect. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “International Style” influenced Kauffmann’s work. The International Style was nicknamed “Bauhaus” in Palestine and many tour guides still call it so. In contrast to the usual style of Jewish building at the beginning of the century. Then Jewish building was arranged around closed courtyards. In contrast, the houses of Rehavia faced outward, to the outside world.

His “Bauhaus” style was very popular in Palesting and became basis of the White City, as Tel Aviv’s International Style architecture became known.

He designed, almost alone, new rural villages, kibutzim and moshavim in the Jezreel Valley: most notably Ein Harod, Kfar Yehoshua, Degania Alef, Kfar Yehezkel and Nahalal.

Kauffmann designed some new Israeli cities: Afula, Herzliya, Rehavia. His neighborhood include Beit Hakerem, Talpiyot and Kiryat Moshe in Jerusalem, and Hadar HaCarmel, Neve Sha’anan, Bat Galim and Central Carmel in the city of Haifa.

Quasi Government Institutions

Jewish National Fund purchased some of the land from the Palestine Land Development Corporation (PLDC). On this land the JNF built the Gymnasia Rehavia high school on Keren Kayemet Street, Yeshurun Synagogue on King George Street, and the Jewish Agency building at the corner of King George and Keren Kayemet Street. These quasi government institutions were meant to replace the Temple in the Old City. All these buildings overlook the Old City.

Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael Road

Keren Kayemet Street

At the corner of Keren Kayemet Street there is a three-winged structure National Institutions Building with a large open courtyard, designed by Yochanan Rattner, This building housed the Jewish Agency, the Jewish National Fund and Keren Hayesod. Rattner gave it slanted walls, as in the walls of the Old City. Rattner, who was the first head of the Hagana’s National Command, also designed the Geography building in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Aeronautics building of the Technion in Haifa, the Kefar ha-Yarok Agricultural School, Bet Berl, Midreshet Ben Gurion, the Reali School in Haifa, and Beit Yad LeBanim in Beer Sheva.

Menachem Ussishkin, head of the Keren Kayemet (Jewish National Fund or KKL) decided that the street with the KKL headquarters should be changed from Shmuel Hanaggid Street to Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael Street. He transferred the name Shmuel Hanaggid Street to a nearby block.

National Institutions Building

Palestine’s second modern high school, after Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv, the Rehavia Gymnasium, was built in 1928 on Keren Kayemet Street.

Rehavia Gymnasium

Ramban Street

8 Ramban Street: The Greek Orthodox Church erected the windmill on Ramban Street some 150 years ago. When in operation, it ground wheat from the fields in the area into flour to feed Orthodox pilgrims visiting the Holy City.

Windmill on Ramban Street

26 Ramban Street: Gad Frumkin, the only Jewish Supreme Court justice to serve during the British Mandate, built the lovely dwelling on the corner of Ramban and Rehov Ibn Ezra in 1924. The sign “Havatzelet” (lily) over the door at #26 was a gesture to his father, who published a historic newspaper of that name for over 40 years.

Menachem Ussishkin

32 Ramban Street: Many years ago, I live on Ussishkin Street as a student, but this Ussishkin tale is new to me. As the story goes, Menachem Ussishkin was chairman of the JNF for 20 years. He was housed in a grand two-story villa near the Old City Walls, built by Swiss missionary banker who called it “Mahanaim” for the biblical verse:

“When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” [Genesis 32:2]

So Ussishkin named that place Mahanaim (camp). In 1927, however, a severe earthquake damaged the British High Commissioner’s residence in Talpiot. The British commandeered Mahanaim and replaced Ussishkin with the commissioner.  Ussishkin inscribed the name “Mahanaim” over the door of his new home at #32 Ramban. He also managed to change the cross street named for Yehuda Halevi (a Spaniard, and one of the greatest Jewish poets of all time) to Rehov Ussishkin in honor of his 70th birthday in 1933.

Rabbi Yehuda Halevi was not forgotten by city fathers. When Jerusalem was reunified in 1967, the steps from Misgav Ladach Street to the Western Wall Plaza were renamed in Rabbi Yehuda Halevi’s memory. Historically, Rabbi Halevi was fatally run over soon after he immigrated to the Holy Land, while kissing the ground near the Western Wall.

14 Ramban Street: Rehavia’s first home, completed in 1924, is near the top of Ramban Street#14. It was built by Eliezer Yellin. Eliezer was the son of David Yellin. David Yellin himself was a grandson to one of the founders of Nahalat Shiv’a over half a century earlier. It was Eliezer Yellin who named the neighborhood for Moses’ grandson, “Rehavia”.

“The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer…and the sons of Eliezer were Rehavia the first. And Eliezer had no other sons; and the sons of Rehavia were very many” (I Chronicles 23:15–17).

Ibn Gabirol Street

14 Ibn Gabirol Street: The Ben-Zvi Institute of Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was founded by Izhak Ben-Zvi in 1947, for the purpose of research relating to the history, communal life and culture of the Jewish communities under Islam and in other countries of the Middle East and Asia.

Balfour Street

3 Balfour Street: The Bauhaus building at No. 3 Balfour (at the corner Smolenskin streets) was designed by Richard Kaufmann for the wealthy Aghion family from Egypt. In 1939-40 the Aghions let the house to exiled King Peter of Yugoslavia. Today it is the official residence of Israel’s prime ministers.

Beit Aghion Photo: Haimohana

Alfasi Street – Jason’s Tomb

10 Alfasi Street: A burial tomb from Hasmonean times (2nd century BCE) uncovered in 1956, its Greek and Aramaic inscription includes an epitaph to the unknown Jason. Jason was either:

A High Priest in the Second Temple, instated in 175 BC by Antiochus Epiphanes after he ascended the throne of the Seleucid Empire and Jason offered to pay him for the appointment.

Possibly a naval commander, based on the charcoal drawing of two warships discovered in the cave.

The tomb was discovered on Alfasi Street in the Rehavia in 1956. I lived on Alfasi Street in 1965-66. I prefer the priestly lineage for Jason so that would make us relatives.

Ben Maimon Street

6 Ben Maimon Street: In the year of 1930, in Alexandria, Egypt, a Christian-Arab lawyer, Nasib Abkarius Bay married the daughter of a well known ultra-orthodox family from Jerusalem, Lea Tenenboim. So, he built a large house in Rehavia Neighborhood in Jerusalem, across the street from and Terra Sancta College and what would become the Aghion’s home (the Prime Minister’s official residence). The home was named “Villa Lea”.  A year later, Lea sneaked out with a new lover to Egypt after spending a large sum of Abkarius`s money and left him broke and broken hearted. They divorced officially in 1945 and a year later Abkarius died poor and lonely. Later, the house was divided into three apartments. Through the years, Ethiopia Haile Selassie, David Hagoel, Eliezer Kaplan, Yosef Burg, Moshe Dayan and his daughter Yael Dayan have lived in Villa Lea.

Keren Hayesod Street

2 Keren Hayesod Street: The Società di San Paolo of Milan built Terra Sancta College on Keren Hayesod in 1926. Critics called it the “Opera Cardinal Ferrari.” The designer of the building was the famous, Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi.

Shmuel HaNagid Street

26 Shmuel HaNagid Street: Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, a French convert from Judaism established the Ratisbonne Monastery in Rehavia. Work on the building began in 1874 on a barren hill, now in the center of  Jerusalem.

Ratisbonne Monastery

Rehavia Today

Today, offices replace families. Parking lots uprooted gardens. Now, new roads bisect Rehavia.

Rehavia, Jerusalem * The Plans for Rehavia Begun in 1922, the Rehavia neighborhood served as a "garden suburb" for Jewish families of Jerusalem who sought to escape the crowded conditions elsewhere in the city.

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Asia Alfasi links

SOURCES

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Alfasi

- http://www.outlineonline.co.uk/content/interview-asia-alfasi/art-reviews/111218/2471

- https://www.asiaalfasiart.com/

- https://www.instagram.com/asiaalfasiart/

- https://positivenegatives.org/artist/asia-alfasi/

VIDEOS

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxqlIiztr34

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDIhs8Rx9A8

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7nz0p0CfEc

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The 2018 iPhone Photography Awards Prove You Don't Need A Fancy Camera To Take Amazing Photos

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The 2018 iPhone Photography Awards Prove You Don't Need A Fancy Camera To Take Amazing Photos

Ever since the release of the first iPhone, the iPhone Photography Awards have honored the true masters of mobile photography. Now in its 11th year, we’re seeing just what some photographers can do with a camera they probably carry around all the time. While this competition is limited to those who use iPhones, there is a competition for mobile phone users as well, if you’re interested. 

This year’s winners were selected from thousands of entries and from photographers in 140 countries. The winning image, taken by Jashish Salam of Bangladesh and titled “Displaced,” shows a crowded refugee camp with Rohingya children watching a film about sanitation. Other awards included prizes for photographer of the year and 18 other categories like Nature, Children and Travel. 

Check out some of the winning images below and head over the iPhone Photography Awards site to see more. 

Grand Prize

Jashim Salam/iPhone Photography Awards

“Displaced” Rohingya children watching an awareness film about health and sanitation near Tangkhali refugee camp in Ukhia. Shot on iPhone 7

Photographer Of The Year

Alexandre Weber/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Baiana in yellow and blue” The picture was taken in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, spontaneously, after a truck drove by. The woman with traditional clothes of a “baiana” was looking after the truck, during her work break. Shot on iPhone 6S.

Huapeng Zhao/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “Eye to eye” Yantai Shandong province, China Shot on iPhone 6

Zarni Myo Win/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “I want to play” A young boy who lost his leg was watching his friends play soccer, and he said he wanted to play soccer if he could.  Yangon, Myanmar Shot on iPhone 7 Plus

Abstract

Glenn Homann/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Corrugations” Brisbane, Australia Shot on iPhone X

Edwin Loyola/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “The Union of Colors” Mall of Asia, Philippines Shot on iPhone X

Jedrzej Franek/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Collapcity” Pozna, Poland Shot on iPhone 6S

Animals

Robin Robertis/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Django” Carlsbad, California Shot on iPhone 7 Plus

Katie Wall/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “0 to not-quite-Seagull-speed in 60 seconds” New Brighton, Wirral, U.K. Shot on iPhone 7

Erica Wu/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Smiling Fox” Miyagi Zao Fox Village, Japan Shot on iPhone X

Architecture

Massimo Graziani/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Rampage” Rome, Italy Shot on iPhone 7 Plus

KuangLong Zhang/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “Jameh Mosque of Isfahan” Isfahan, Iran Shot on iPhone 7

Nasra Al Sharji/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Burj Khalifa Dubai” Sheikh Zayed Road Dubai Shot on iPhone 6

Children

Melisa Barrilli/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Spray Fury” Toronto, Canada Shot on iPhone 5S

Dina Alfasi/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “Air” Skate park, Haifa, Israel Shot on iPhone X

Savadmon Avalachamveettil/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Twins” Fermoy, Cork, Ireland Shot on iPhone 7 Plus

Landscape

Charles Thomas/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Human vs. Nature” Between Nevada and Arizona Shot on iPhone 8 Plus

Asuman Robson/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “At Sycamore Gap” Northumberland, U.K. Shot on iPhone 7

Naian Feng/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “The Kerid” Kerid, Iceland Shot on iPhone X

Lifestyle

Natalia-Garcés/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Mrs. Sancheski” Alcalá de Henares , Madrid, Spain Shot on iPhone 7

泳桥 黄/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “Dreams in the basket” Heyuan, Guangdong, China Shot on iPhone 5S

Paolo Mestriner/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Enjoy the Summer “ Novalja, Croatia Shot on iPhone SE

Nature

Sukru Mehmet Omur/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Morning Fog” Toulouse, France Shot on iPhone 6S

Anton Kruglov/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “The Sand-snow river” Rosa Khutor Ski Resort, Sochi, Russia Shot on iPhone SE

Peng Ju Tang/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Serenity” Ilulissat, Greenland Shot on iPhone 7 Plus

News and Events

Mohammed Badra/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Iftar Amongst the Ruins” During a lull in the bombings, Syrians gather, seated on a long 1200-meter row of tables set up among the ruins of Douma, for a public Iftar, the evening meal at the end of the daily Ramadan fast. Shot on iPhone 7

Moises Silva/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “The Heat” Betim, Brazil Shot on iPhone 5S

Verónica G. Cárdenas/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Refugee Caravan” Members of the Refugee Caravan 2017 climb the border fence dividing Mexico and the U.S. to celebrate their arrival in Tijuana. Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico Shot on iPhone 6S

Other

Amy Nelson/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Sky Portal” Wright Brothers National Park, North Carolina Shot on iPhone SE

José Ignacio De Rocco/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “Lo de Gómez” Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Shot on iPhone 6S

Magda Lates/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Landing” Sucy-en-Brie, Île-de-France, France Shot on iPhone SE

Panorama

Mateusz Piesiak/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Icebergs” Iceland Shot on iPhone 6 Plus

Burcu Ozturk/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “Frozen Central Park” Central Park, New York City Shot on iPhone 7

Clifford Pickett/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Sunrise in Monument Valley” Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah Shot on iPhone 7 Plus

Travel

Anna Aiko/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Silk Road” Mongolia Shot on iPhone 6S

Zarni Myo Win/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “The Sculptor “ Ayeyarwady River, Myanmar Shot on iPhone 7 Plus

Soha Ghandour/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Red Stripes” Tyre, Lebanon Shot on iPhone 5

People

Jonas Wyssen/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Posers” Praia de Carneiros Pernambuco, Brazil Shot on iPhone 7 Plus

Lee Yu Chieh/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “Waiting” Cusco, Peru Shot on iPhone 6S

Pascal Desapio/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Night at the beach” Barcelona, Spain Shot on iPhone 7 Plus

Portrait

Scott Woodward/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Salamah” Ko Surin, Thailand Shot on iPhone 6S

KuangLong Zhang/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “The Tibetan Woman” Lhasa City, Tibet Shot on iPhone 7

Marina Spironetti/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Women of Gavoi” Gavoi, Sardinia, Italy Shot on iPhone 8

Sunset

Sara Ronkainen/iPhone Photography Awards

First Place “Dandelion sunset” Jyväskylä, Finland Shot on iPhone 5s

Cocu Liu/iPhone Photography Awards

Second Place “Chasing Light” San Francisco, United States Shot on iPhone 7 Plus

Ruslan Zabulonov/iPhone Photography Awards

Third Place “Sunset vibes” Kiev, Ukraine Shot on iPhone 6

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#Amnesty

Many women are forced to cope with fear and violence in Greece’s overcrowded refugee camps. Approximately 60,000 refugees and migrants are stranded there because EU leaders have made it impossible for them to travel further north. Most live in appalling conditions. Camps often have poor lighting and lack separate toilets or showers. This is a particular worry for women and girls: “We stay in groups and only go to sleep when we are really tired,” said one woman with a six-year-old girl. “At night we don’t leave our tents and our children are forced to go to the toilet inside.” In response, Yezidi women in one camp formed a “protection circle” to protect themselves, going to the toilet in groups and looking after each other because the authorities aren’t doing enough to help. © Asia Alfasi/PositiveNegatives/Amnesty International

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London's Foundling Museum announces "Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 Years in Comics" exhibition

London’s Foundling Museum announces “Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 Years in Comics” exhibition

London’s Foundling Museum has announced their major exhibition this summer as Superheroes, Orphans & Origins: 125 Years in Comics. It will include three new artistic commissions by comic artists Asia Alfasi, Bex Glendining and Woodrow Phoenix. New York World’s Fair Comics 1940, published by DC Comics. Batman, Robin, and Superman appear together for the first time on this cover by Jack Burnley,…

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New on Broken Frontier

New on Broken Frontier:

Hatchlings - Manga Jiman Winners Come Together in the First Cross#atch Anthology

Cross#atch are a small collective of five manga creators from a variety of cultures who all share the experience of success in the UK Manga Jiman short story competition. Their anthology comic Hatchlings showcases some of those contest entries and collects four tales that serve as an...

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Create the Break, a British professional development course for emerging comic artists, announced

Create the Break, a British professional development course for emerging comic artists, announced

Well, there’s no end of great comic-related news today. After months of planning behind the scenes, the launch of ‘Create the Break’ has been announced – a professional development course for emerging comic artists based in the West Midlands. Marvel artist John McCrea will be running the course with awesome artists Laura Howelll, Dave Gibbons, Asia Alfasi, Dave Gray, Keith Burns, Jordie Bellaire,…

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By Gum! What a Grand Comics Exhibition at Woking's Lightbox

By Gum! What a Grand Comics Exhibition at Woking’s Lightbox

Art by Asia Alfasi © Asia Alfasi /Lightbox Tuesday 9th August saw the official launch of “The Story of British Comics So Far: Cor! By Gum! Zarjaz!” at the Lightbox in Woking, which runs until December. By Gum! co-curators Paul Gravett and Hamish MacGillivray. Photo: Richard Sheaf Co-curators Paul Gravett and Hamish MacGillivray  gave an insight into the genesis of the exhibition and of their…

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The Story of British Comics So Far opens at Woking's Lightbox

The Story of British Comics So Far opens at Woking’s Lightbox

Art by Asia Alfasi © Asia Alfasi /Lightbox Yesterday saw a new exhibition open at The Lightbox gallery and museum, Woking that we highlighted earlier this year, which will take visitors on an interactive journey through the past, present and future of sequential art. The Story of British Comics So Far: Cor! By Gum! Zarjaz! (6th August 2016 – 31 December 2016) reveals how and why visual…

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In Review: Malta Comic Con 2015

In Review: Malta Comic Con 2015

Guests and Malta Comic Con 2015 team. Photo: Carl Farrugia Photography Despite some organisers concerns over a change of venue, Malta Comic Con 2015 proved a roaring success for organisers, with numbers up 30 per cent on last year from around 1400 to over 1800 attendees. Based on what I saw as a guest, the event, enjoying its seventh year, delivered the goods in terms of providing a platform for…

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Malta Comic Con's Massive Guest List Just Gets Bigger, adding Erskine, Langley and many more

Malta Comic Con’s Massive Guest List Just Gets Bigger, adding Erskine, Langley and many more

The star-studded guest list for this year’s Malta Comic Con has been accelerating so fast over the last couple of weeks we’re only now catching up with recent announcements. Although there’s some disappointing news that artist Jon Haward has had to pull out of this year’s event for personal reasons, there’s a huge range of comic creators from across Europe set to head to the island for the event,…