Boxes of Books

Boxes Of Books

Big thanks to Stephen Marchant for donating his comic book collection.

What an exciting start to the academic year as we received an email from Stephen Marchant, Curator and teacher of the Cartoon Museum in London.   Steve was moving house and as a result he had to get rid of his extensive library of comic reference books. Hi comics he donated to GOSH comics in London, but where better to send such an excellent supply of literature, than the only Cartoon and Comic Arts course in the UK.

The books included those of Harvey Kurtzman, Robert Crumb, Jack Kirby, Eric Stanton, Will Eisner, Posy Simmonds, Andrew Loomis, Steve Ditko and Ronald Searle to name a few.  

StokeCon #4 Sold out

StokeCon#4

I'm happy to say that the next StokeCon on Sunday 17th April has already sold out. This time cartoon and Comic arts have a larger presence at the event. Not only is there more artist that ever attending the event but also the Comic Arts award has a dedicated area where the next generation of comic artist will be selling their work.

 

 

You can see some of the student artwork which is gracing the front cover of the event. We asked the students to draw some of the guest who were attending the event. The idea is we get the artist and the guest to sign the artwork and then raffle it off.

 

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Cartoon & Comic Arts 

Exhibition at London Cartoon Museum 

This year saw the Cartoon & Comic Arts second lot of students to graduate and we also had an attempt to display their work from the degree show in the capital city at the Cartoon Museum. With the Help of Sarah Batten, who did a lot of the work, I turned up with Becci Such and Emma Buxton. 

We met Alice who is the liaison person for the lottery grant which the museum had secured and was keen to meet the students and see the work. She passed on some real helpful tips. Also there was Steve Marchant, ex Beano Artist and assistant at the museum.

From Left to right Becci Such, Steve, Sarah, Alic and Emma Buxton at the event.

Some of the work on show at the museum along with the comic books that you can have a look through below.

Special thanks for the Museum who managed to get some beer from their sponsor, and American beer Company whose labels are design by Ralph Steadman. We might ask them if they could sponsor the next Cartoon and Comic Art event!!!

 While in London we ended up in Forbidden Planet. 

Becci and Emma Found themselves in the Manga Section of Forbidden Planet and suddenly there is a problem.

 Which Manga book should Becci buy... Over to you Emma

This is the book Becci recommended for me to get for the Cartoon Award.

Finally we ended up in China Town. Many thanks to Steve and Sarah who came out on the town with us and kept us entertained and informed about the museum and beer sponsorship.