#comic creations

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BW’s Worldbuilding Project Day 18: Divided

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Batman upcycled comic lightswitch plate https://www.etsy.com/listing/234089698/batman-light-plate-upcycled-comic

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Mary and Bryan Talbot

Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is a gripping inside story of the campaign for votes for women and the latest collaboration from Costa Award winners, Mary and Bryan Talbot. They discuss the role of the graphic novel in educating and bringing history to life.

Part of Comic Creations 2014.

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Nick Hayes created a stunning visual language for the critically acclaimed The Rime of the Modern Mariner, an updating of Coleridge’s famous poem. Hayes now introduces his visual biography of the singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie and talks about bringing a legend to life on the page.

Part of Comic Creations 2014.

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Steve Bell is the award-winning political cartoonist known for his left-wing views and excellent, grotesque and sometimes controversial caricatures. He talks about his work and the art of parody, pastiche and satire.

Part of Comic Creations 2014.

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More Audio Recordings

We've been busy uploading more audio recordings to SoundCloud, including some from the May programme. Click on the event title to get the link.

Anthony Townsend - A New Civics for Smart Cities

Antonia Fraser - Perilous Question: Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832

Comic Creations 2013

Daniel C Dennett - Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Darcey Bussell - A Life in Ballet

David Quammen - Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Eric Schlosser - Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

George Saunders - Tenth of December

Hillel Schwartz and David Hendy - On Noise

Ian Buruma - Year Zero: The History of 1945

Lee Smolin - Time Reborn: From the Crisis of Physics to the Future of the Universe

Margaret Atwood - Maddaddam

Margaret MacMillan - The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace For the First World War

Michael J Sandel - What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Patrick Marnham and Manu Riche - Snake Dance: The Invention and Consequences of the Atomic Bomb

Rachel Cooke - Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties

Rebecca Solnit - The Faraway Nearby

Simon Garfield and Shaun Usher - Letters Evening

Tim Dee- Four Fields

Tony Benn - Interview

Tracey Thorn - Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star

Viv Groskop - I Laughed, I Cried: How One Woman Took on Stand-Up and (Almost) Ruined Her Life

The World at War

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Comic Creations

As part of the build-up to the Jonathan Cape Graphic Novel Evening (25 October), we invited students from UWE to submit designs for posters advertising the event. The winner was Tudor Morris. The runners up were Julie Sinderberry and Jacob M Wolf.  You can see their designs below. Ours thanks go to UWE staff and students and our congratulations to Tudor.

Tudor Morris

Julie Sinderberry

Jacob M Wolf