Women in Comics & Sarah Lightman

A one day conference, ‘Women in Comics’ will take place on the 25th October 2009. With its unique collection of 20th Century Women’s Art, The New Hall Art Collection provides the perfect venue for a gathering of practitioners, academics, curators and enthusiasts. Women comic artists will speak about their work, and broader discussion will include the representation of women in comics. The event will run as part of The Cambridge Festival of Ideas week and is supported by The University of Glasgow.

Speakers include; Dominique Goblet and Paul Gravett, Woodrow Phoenix and Corinne Pearlman, Kate Evans, Dr Mel Gibson, Sarah McIntyre, Dr Ann Miller, Asia Alfasi and many more. For more details see

http://www.art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/events/comics.html

Sarah Lightman will also be exhibiting ‘In Memoriam’, diary drawings from her on-going autobiographical graphic novel in The New Hall Exhibition Space, 19th October- 14th November 2009.

Famous Artists Cartoon Course at Comicrazys

Continuing the series of lessons from the Famous Artists Cartoon Course over at Comicrazys comes lesson 15 – Props and backgrounds.

150 Million year old Squid Ink?

Check out this story from the BBC about paleontologists drawing with 150 million year old squid ink.

Astonishing.

Dave Gibbons talks tech

An interesting interview with Dave Gibbons of ‘Watchmen’ fame on the Guardian. He discusses the software and hardware that he uses as well as his influence on Comic Sans.

Arriving at a final cover

This post from Toma Hanuka at Tropical Toxic shows how many iterations of this cover design they went through. Toma works at the New York School of Visual Arts and is working on a graphic novel with his twin brother Asaf.

Submitting Cartoons

Mike Lynch opens up his email and answers questions on submitting cartoons to editors. This is nicely concise ‘get on with it’ advice – the kind of advice that is hard earned and not easily forgotten.

Maurice Sendak on Spike Jonze

Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak Featurette

2000AD Covers Uncovered

Pete Wells has a great blog where he uploads as many logoless 2000AD covers as he can. Interesting to see the artwork without any barcodes, mastheads etc. An exhilarating glimpse behind the magician’s cloth.

What’s on Earth Tonight?

Linked on Strange Maps, Abstruse Goose lets us in on what extraterrestrial viewers might be watching where they are.

Leah Hayes

Check out Leah Hayes’ lovely site. There is also an interview with her on Talking With Tim, and you can buy her books from Fantagraphics.