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On Saturday 18th October, the inaugural Brighton Comics Fair, run by Cartoon County, will be taking place at The Open Market on London Road. Numerous local comic creators will be in attendance, selling their work and ready to chat with… Continue Reading →
As we approach the spooky season of Samhain et al., Professor Annebella Pollen is hosting a couple of conversations suited to this time of year. On Monday October 27th and Wednesday November 27th, these two upcoming talks include: Unsettling Encounters:… Continue Reading →
On Tuesday evenings from September 16th, Comics REG member Jon Mason will be running an online course for people who would like to know more about the history of British Myths and Legends. Topics include “Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain, The… Continue Reading →
On September 22nd, Grammy Award nominated music video director Dylan Southern will be talking about his love of comics, and his collaboration with Brighton based Graphic novelist Lucy Sullivan on the forthcoming film adaptation of Mak Porter’s acclaimed novella (Grief… Continue Reading →
At the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Bowness-on-Windermere later this month, Comics REG co-lead Alex Fitch will be interviewing acclaimed veteran Italian Comics Artist Lorenzo Mattotti, a pair of British Graphic Novelists, and co-presenting the Sophie Castille Award for… Continue Reading →
The Catalyst Club get-together in Brighton on Thursday September 11th features a talk by Comics REG co-curator Barbara Chamberlin into her research on comics, witch folklore and the landscape, plus additional talks by artist / comedian Tom Bass and performance… Continue Reading →
Animate Projects, in association with Brighton International Animation Festival, presents “All that is Solid” on Tues 2nd September, a selection of short films which set out to celebrate, subvert and confound expectations of what animation can be. These fifteen short… Continue Reading →
Comics REG member Professor Annebella Pollen is taking part in a panel discussion titled “What does it mean to be together?” on 6th September, which is part of a series of events accompanying the exhibition Sussex Modernism at the Towner… Continue Reading →
The guest at Cartoon County in August is Clair Waller, Digital Archivist at the Templeman Library, University of Kent. She’ll be talking about the University’s British Cartoon Archive, one of the special collections housed by the institution, and the current… Continue Reading →
The guest at Cartoon County on Monday 28th July is Sharon Browne-Peter, a science communicator who writes comics to spread awareness of Sickle Cell Disease. In The Crisis Saga, she mixes sci-fi and superhero tropes to make blood donation a… Continue Reading →
