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Festival de la Bande Dessinée de Bassillac et Auberoche

So, while the Lakes International Comic Art Festival was buzzing online over the weekend, we were off to France for a festival that was taking place (almost) as normal. The organisers in Périgord had decided to go ahead with the … Continue reading →

Festivals coming up in October!

Three events are going ahead next month! The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is taking place online. And it’s free, folks! Bryan Talbot and the Locations of One Bad Rat, filmed last month, will be available to view online from … Continue reading →

A Spanish RAIN and a Norwegian Dotter

Two more lovely covers! Ediciones La Cupola published their excellent Spanish version of Rain this summer. It’s available from them directly here. More of a surprise was a fine Norwegian edition of Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, just published by … Continue reading →

An Italian Dotter and a new French Red Virgin

Two superb new covers! The publisher of Louise Michel: La Vierge Rouge (the French edition of The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia) is putting out a soft-back edition later this year. It’s coming out in time for the … Continue reading →

Forum on climate change and the cultural sector

Happy new year all! Our first event of the year is at the university here in Sunderland next week. If you’re in the northeast, you may be interested in attending. We’ll be doing a short presentation on our graphic novel … Continue reading →

RAIN featured in the Journal of the Landscape Institute

Landscape is a professional journal for landscape architects and its latest issue is devoted to Climate and Biodiversity Emergency. In it, there’s a double page spread about our new graphic novel Rain, appearing straight after a feature on the work … Continue reading →

Raining in on the RAIN launch!

Here are some photos of the official launch of Rain. We were at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, presenting to a full house in Kendal’s Council Chambers last month: James Robertson was also recording the talk. There’s a whole … Continue reading →

Language and Gender 3rd edition – now available!

The new edition of my book on gender and language came out today. Here’s what I have to say about it on the publisher’s blog: Language and Gender 3rd edition On the whole, a productive year…     Cartoon by … Continue reading →

October RAIN forecast

Get ready for RAIN! Our latest graphic novel launches in October. First we’ll be introducing RAIN with an illustrated talk at London’s Cartoon Museum. Then in Kendal the Lakes International Comic Art Festival will be hosting the official launch and … Continue reading →

Dublin Worldcon 2019

So, we came back from Dublin Worldcon late on Monday. Our initial reason for being there was to attend the amazing Worldcon Philharmonic Concert. As I explained in my last post, the programme included three short movements of an ambitious … Continue reading →