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Comica ‘09: Online Interviews

Posted: November 20, 2009

Eddie Campbell sat down with Simon Hacking at this year’s Comica Festival at the ICA in London to discuss his new book Alec: The Years Have Pants and the significance of autobiography in comics. You can read the full interview at The Wall Street Journal.

Comica Director Paul Gravett also spoke with Simon about his ambitions for the Comica Festival. You can read the full interview at Simon’s blog Cartoons Are For Children.

Lightspeed Champion (aka Dev Hynes) and Savage Messiah (aka Laura Oldfield Ford) talk to Alex Fitch about the charity comics anthology Ctrl.ALt Shift Unmasks Corruption, which launched at Comica ‘09. You can hear the full podcast at Panel Borders.

On yesterday’s BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, Kirsty Lang is joined by Dave McKean, Apostolos Doxiadis, Ian Rankin and Joe Sacco to discuss the power of the comic book and the relationship between image and text. Listen to the programme on the BBC IPlayer (starts 13m 12s in).

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