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Hypercomics: Next Event, Online Artists’ Talks, Reviews & Interactive Microsite!
Posted: August 24, 2010
Last Sunday’s Comica Comiket at the Hypercomics exhibition at the Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park was a wonderful occasion, bringing together self-publishers and independent presses and connecting them to the public. Highlights included two artists’ talks now posted onto YouTube, one by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey (Part 1 & Part 2), the other by Dave McKean (Part 1 & Part 2), a popular drop-in workshop run by the wonderful We Are Words + Pictures team (see the results here), and the first demonstration of the iPad applications developed by Redrawn from the works by Dant, Goodbrey, McKean & Pleece. The Hypercomics programme of events continues this Thursday 26 August with a screening of Richard Linklater’s innovative adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s ‘A Scanner Darkly’. Hypercomics exhibition officer Nick Kaplony will be introducing this at 6.30pm at Clapham Picture House.
A bit further ahead, on 15 September, as part of the SW11 Literary Festival, Hypercomics Curator Paul Gravett explains how comics are broadening their content and appeal and developing into 21st century graphic literature, both on the printed page and in digital media, in an illustrated lecture entitled More Than Words Can Say: The Future is Graphic. Tickets cost £4 and the exhibition is opening specially in the evening from 6.30pm, with the talk starting at 7pm.
Hypercomics has been previewed and reviewed in several reports viewable online including Design Week, Creative Review, Dazed Digital and Mindless Ones. Also now up on the web is a brand-new microsite www.hypercomics.info which offers you the chance to contribute to expanding aspects of the Hypercomics exhibition online. Adam Dant invites you to illustrate the front cover or interior illustrations to one of his strange corpo-geographical books. Daniel Merlin Goodbrey asks you to step inside his Archivist’s dream and imagine what he sees waiting for him from the top of a tower of filing cabinets. Can you visualise the headspace of one of Dave McKean‘s characters and are they Victim, Witness or Perpetrator? Or how about your own character expressing themselves with a speech bubble containing an image instead of words, the way Marvo the Magic Bunny does in Warren Pleece‘s Montague Terrace? Send in your pictures by emailing them to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and you too can be part of Hypercomics!
