[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-comiket-comics-wall":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"The entrance corridor to the Institute of Contemporary arts hosted a marvellous exhibition of comics, created on the spot, during the day's \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/festival/festival_detail/comica_comiket1/\">Comiket\u003C/a> small press fair. A conflicting date with my book club meant I didn't arrive in time to take a turn, but I had great fun browsing the wall's panels, all based on \u003Ci>Watchmen\u003C/i> quotations. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comica_wall3-375b1b2318.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Ci>Jeremy Day (\u003Ca href=\"http://cleanskies.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">cleanskies\u003C/a>) picking the nose of \u003Ca href=\"http://burnt_jamb.livejournal.com/\" class=\"lj-user\">burnt_jamb\u003C/a> Marc Ellerby's drawing.\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comica_wall4-50dac63bbb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's a little selection:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comica_wall2-c95c916c7b.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comica_wall5-a8373a825c.jpg\">\\r\n\u003C!--more More drawings under the cut-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comica_wall8-004512f335.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comica_wall6-3335f17471.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comica_wall9-0f562c40b9.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/comica_wall1-e5f675f660.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nTomorrow night (Tuesday) I'm going to be at the ICA again for the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.comicafestival.com/index.php/festival/festival_detail/ctrl.alt.shift_unmask_corruption/\">Music & Comics Night\u003C/a> with Woodrow Phoenix as one of the DJs on duty. (He likes his high-brow music, does Woodrow, and mocks me mercilessly for my old lady taste, but he is still my friend so I will go, and I'm sure it will be good.)\\r\n\\r\nHey, have you seen, the FPI blog is running this great series called \u003Ca href=\"http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/and-the-winner-of-the-capeobserver-2099-graphic-short-story-prize-isnt/\">\u003Ci>And the winner of the Cape/Observer 2099 Graphic Short Story Prize ISN’T………\u003C/i>\u003C/a> I really hope the contributors get an exhibition of their work, so many of their comics are AMAZING. Keep checking back, they're posting new ones every day and it's a real window into some of the best comics being made in Britain right now.\\r\n\\r\nThe Independent on Saturday ran an article about Comica called \u003Ca href=\"http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/modern-comic-genius-the-graphic-art-thats-not-just-for-geeks-1816598.html\">Modern comic genius: the graphic art that's not just for geeks\u003C/a>. I picked up some amazing comics from Denmark at Comiket, but I left them at the studio so I'll blog about them another time.","2009-11-09T22:21:00.000Z","comiket-comics-wall",[],"comiket comics wall",1776628733566]