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A COMICA REVIEW BY:

JOEL MEADOWS


Joel Meadows is the author of Studio Space. Joel attended the Extraordinary Gentleman event, with Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill being interviewed by Christopher Frayling on June 2, 2009. The following review appeared on his blog Walls & Bridges.

MAGIC MOMENTS
On Tuesday night, I went to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century interview at the ICA, hosted by Christopher Frayling who interviewed Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill. Part of Paul Gravett’s Comica series of events, cultural historian Frayling made an excellent interviewer as some talks and interviews I’ve seen with Moore have been overly fawning but he asked intelligent and balanced questions. Moore and O’Neill came across pretty well and they seem to have a good chemistry. The room was packed and we discovered certain things that I was unaware of, like the fact that Alan Moore is a big fan of the film Performance (a film that my cousin Stanley Meadows has a small but pivotal part in) and we discovered that he is doing new Bojeffries comics with Steve Parkhouse. There was a signing afterwards which was busy but the queue wasn’t as huge as it was at the Gosh signing Moore did back in April this year. There’s always something interesting in Comica’s raft of events and the series has become a valuable addition to the London comic-related calendar. I took quite a few photos at the event, so here’s a selection of the ones that worked…

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Reviews

"I had a wonderful time and really enjoyed the presentation. It was so impressive!"
Helen McCarthy

"...hearing literary translators talk about their work reminded me of the immense difficulty, creativity and importance of the task."
The Financial Times

"...Comica continues to be a must-visit destination each year..."
Joel Meadows

"...another very successful event providing a wonderful voyage into the world of graphic literature."
Dominique Le Duc

"When the event was over the audience was left wanting more."
Liban Diriye

"...one of the cultural highlights in London's graphic novel calendar."
Joel Meadows

"A Comica event - but at the V&A?!"
Jinty

"The epitome of geekchic, it's most definitely worth checking out."
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"I was about to fall off my chair from overstimulation."
Sarah McIntyre

"Comica... continues to heap cultural credibility onto this once maligned art form."
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