Comic Creations: Bristol 2014
Tonight's Comic Creations was great. Talks were given from both experienced and debut graphic novelists.
There was a distinct difference between the older artists and ones in their 20's or so. Mainly that one group didn't have a clue what they should say but were forced to talk for half an hour, and the other had an abundance of material and things to discuss.
It was great getting an insight into their processes and their thoughts and feelings during such huge amounts of work.
Mary Talbot wrote Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, Bryan Talbot directed the layout and Kate Charlesworth illustrated. It took one year to write the script and one year to draw the entire novel.
The confusion and chaos of the riots were beautifully depicted, and the really graphic telling of the forced feeding, during the prison hunger strike, was pretty upsetting to see on the big screen with oodles of back story spoken into your ear.
I was late in realizing that whilst taking a picture of Mary and Bryan Talbot (left) I was also taking a picture of Richard Williams, one of the living legends of animation, creator of Roger Rabbit and author of The Animator's Survival Kit, engaged in their graphic novel.
Wonderful to see older people getting into comic books...
(Apologies for bad quality pics, only had my little mob...)
Book signings with Nick Hayes, Isabel Greenberg and Fumio Obata.
Steve Bell, a politically charged cartoonist since 1981 gave a seriously interesting and entertainingly hilarious talk about his work and experiences. By the end, captivated silence snapped into eruptive applause from every palm in the room, perfecting the evening.
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