Mindless Ones

Here’s June’s Cartoon County podchat.  This month’s speaker was Steve Carroll who has been working on Once Damaged, the account of one disabled woman’s ordeals and triumphs. The discussion went into some interesting areas regarding the sensitive nature of the piece. Most vocal in the discussion are David Lloyd, Paul Rafferty, Nye Wright, Dan Locke.
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Cartoon County is an association of over 100 cartoonists and comic artists in the Sussex area. Our regular meetings are usually on the last Monday of every month at The Cricketers, Black Lion St, Brighton, from 6 til late. If you’re a cartoonist or a comic artist, or use those particular styles of drawing in your work as an illustrator, animator or storyboard artist, you are very welcome to join us.  next meeting Monday 5th September.
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Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her Monday Morning strip here.
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Are you sitting comfortably? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin.

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The remains of PAGE 53

You can see from the film that not only is Terner in a similar get up to his real life counterpart, but that Orlando and Charlie Watts share the same tailor too.

Here’s a song some of you might know…. And that’s just it: like Sympathy For The Devil itself (indeed, the titular Devil himself) Terner’s song never speaks its name, so it may as well be called Sympathy For The Devil too (2). Moore probably intends it that way, the song being just another of the Devil’s disguises, changing shape with whatever reality it finds himself in this time, fictional, real or otherwise, but the beat remaining the same. It occurs to me, actually, that Satan is a League character par excellence, in that one dare not speak his name directly for fear of drawing his attention and so he must be referred to via hints and clues…..

At first it seems there’s a delicious irony in all the peace signs appearing when the song starts up, until one considers…

Part 6:

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Who are Cindy & Biscuit? Why don’t you find out for yourself?

And don’t just take my word for it. Look here, here, and here! for further proof!

So, it kind of started like this between he and me, yr ever-lovin’ Botswana Beast, the O-rriginal Eyeball, and there’s more but I’m fuctifano how to get all these trackbacks on the twtr, so look for yourselves, if you really want. Joel (that’s his tumblr) is a pwopa Marxist on the speed-dial and who knows; maybe he can diagnose and cure comics’ endemic corporate thievery better than a ragtag bunch of libertarians? My inclination’s to think this eminently likely.

Dare you look ahent the curtain, at a world inverted?! Come then, brave traveller, beneath the cut!!

Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her Monday Morning strip here.
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A reminder that Comics & Conflicts is going ahead at the Imperial War Museum, London, Friday August 19th and Saturday August 20th, and it’s jam packed with interesting stuff.

Guests include Garth Ennis, Pat Mills, David Collier, Mikkel Sommer, Sean Duffield, Dave Turbitt & Adrian Searle, Eileen and Francesca Cassavetti. Last-minute extras David Blandy and Inko, creators of the anime-collage autobio-documentary and manga-inspired comic CHILD OF THE ATOM

The event also features a full-day academic conference, talks and panels, a comics workshop, free film screenings from 4.30pm on the Saturday of the documentary Comics Go To War

Plus art exhibits of Joe Colquhoun’s originals from Charley’s War and more.

Alex Fitch is hosting a special Comics & Conflicts preview broadcast from 8-9pm Tuesday 16th on Resonance FM.

Full details and links to book are here

A feature article on the main guest creators is here

Part 5:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Who are Cindy & Biscuit? Why don’t you find out for yourself?

And don’t just take my word for it. Look here, here, and here! for further proof!

( Plus here’s a nice review from Caleb Mozzocco, one of my favourite comics bloggers:

Danny Noble’s cartoon diary of abstinence. You can also read her Monday Morning strip here.
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