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Posy Simmonds & Luke Pearson Launch This Saturday’s Comica Comiket!
Posted: November 9, 2011
Who better to start our amazing Comica Comiket Independent Comics Fair this coming Saturday November 12th than this country’s much-loved doyenne of sequential art, Posy Simmonds? She has very kindly agreed to launch the day and officially open the Fair at 11.00am. Then Posy will be the first brilliant artist to kick off our all-day Drawing Parade, drawing live on stage with her artworks projected onto a giant screen for all to enjoy. Afterward she will be doing some short signing sessions of both her Jonathan Cape graphic novels, Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe, and the very first copies of Blank Slate’s outstanding anthology Nelson, on sale for the first time anywhere at the Comiket with all profits going to the charity Shelter. Posy can only be with us for the first hour or less, so make a point of being there in time for 11.00am when the doors of the Great Hall burst open!
Earlybirds will also get the chance to watch the rising prodigy Luke Pearson, famed for Hildafolk and Everything We Miss from Nobrow, who is next up in the line-up from 11.30am till noon. Luke will also be signing right after, so be sure not to miss his appearance.
Below you will find the complete timetable for the 2012 Drawing Parade - come along and enjoy the spectacle. We’ll have a seating area for you to sit in and relax and gaze in wonder at the fascinating artistry being created before your very eyes. And yes, the whole day is completely free, so come one, come all!
11.00-11.30:
Posy Simmonds (Tamara Drewe, Gemma Bovery, Nelson)
11.30-12.00:
Luke Pearson (Hildafolk, Everything We Miss)
12.00-12.30:
JAKe (Hellraisers, Mighty Book of Boosh, Nelson)
12.30-13.00:
Warren Pleece (Incognegro, Life Sucks, The Great Unwashed, Nelson)
13.00-13.30:
Sarah McIntyre (Vern & Lettuce, Morris the Mankiest Monster)
13.30-14.00:
Frederik Peeters (Sandcastle, Blue Pills)
14.00-14.30:
Sally Kindberg (The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of Knowledge)
14.30-15.00:
James Jarvis (De Profundis, Vortigern’s Machine)
15.00-15.30:
Karrie Fransman (The House That Groaned)
15.30-16.00:
Hannah Berry (Britten & Brülightly, Adamtine)
16.00-16.30:
Brecht Evens (The Wrong Place, Night Animals)
16.30-17.00:
Battle of the Eyes: Savage Pencil & Chris Long (Nyak-Nyak!, BOTE Prints)
17.00-17.30:
Roger Langridge (Snarked!, The Muppets)
