Life Drawing with Alison Bechdel

The British Library have announced an online event with cartoonist Alison Bechdel - the link is here but I've also included the text below

Alison Bechdel gives this year’s Bryant Lecture in an evening of sharp wit which will most definitely pass the Bechdel Test.

This is an online event. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time.

The rescheduled 2020 Bryant Lecture.

Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist and creator of the Bechdel Test, a lens on cinema gender politics which has gained global recognition. Her work is preoccupied with the overlap of the political and the personal spheres, the relationship of the self to the world outside.

Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic memoir Fun Home, which was subsequently adapted as a musical and won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015. Fun Home was also listed by Time magazine as one of its 10 Best Books of the Year for 2006. This was followed by her second graphic memoir Are You My Mother?

Alison recently posted three different single comic strips for her Dykes to Watch Out For series: Pièce de Résistance,Tackles the Ides of Trump, and Ponders How to Unify a Divided Country. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, McSweeney’s, The New York Times Book Review, and Granta. In 2014 Alison was the recipient of the MacArthur 'Genius' Award.

Presented in association with the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library

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Details

Name:	Life Drawing with Alison Bechdel
Where:	Online
When:	Wed 17 Feb 2021, 19:30 - 20:30
Price:	Full Price: £5.00 Member: £0.00
Enquiries:	+44 (0)1937 546546 boxoffice@bl.uk

British Library forthcoming talks - part 3 - Digital comics

The 3nd and final talk at the British library this spring/summer...

Digital Conversation: Digital Comics

Wed 18 Apr 2018, 18:30 - 20:30

Venturing off the page: exploring multimedia, animation and new narrative forms

How are comics venturing off the page? Join us to explore the impact of new technologies on how we read, create and understand comics, chaired by John Freeman with Bryan Talbot, Yomi Ayeni, Kate Ashwin and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey.

In partnership with downthetubes.net

Link to the British Library website is here

When:	Wed 18 Apr 2018, 18:30 - 20:30
Price:	Full Price: £6.00 Member: £6.00 Senior 60+: £5.00 Student: £4.00 Registered Unemployed: £4.00 Under 18: £4.00 Friend of the British Library: £6.00
Enquiries:	+44 (0)1937 546546 boxoffice@bl.uk

British Library forthcoming talks - part 2 - Women Cartoonists

Another great sounding talk at the British Library - tickets on sale this week...

Women Cartoonists and Comic Artists
Fri 22 Jun 2018, 19:15 - 20:15

A celebration of the work of over 100 women artists spanning 250 years

The suffragettes’ use of cartoons and visual propaganda helped turn public opinion their way and from the 1920s, women cartoonists’ work began to appear regularly in newspapers. Nicola Streeten, Cath Tate, editors of The Inking Woman, and artist Kate Charlesworth discuss the history and politics of women’s comics.

Nicola Streeten is an anthropologist-turned-illustrator, cartoonist and comics scholar. She is the author of Billy, Me & You (Myriad, 2011) and co-founder of the international comics network Laydeez Do Comics. Her PhD from the University of Sussex is The Cultural History of British Feminist Cartoons and Comics from 1970 to 2010, with a particular focus on the use of humour. 

Cath Tate is an author of humourous books and has been publishing the work of women cartoonists for over 30 years, as featured in The Guardian. 

Kate Charlesworth was born in Barnsley and lives and works in Edinburgh. After art college in Manchester she began work as a freelance illustrator in London where she was part of (as it was then known) the ‘golden age’ of gay publishing. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and many other newspapers,
magazines, books, comics, exhibitions and electronic media, and she has drawn storyboards for Hot Animation and Aardman Animations. In 2014 she collaborated with Costa award-winners Mary and Bryan Talbot to illustrate Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, now translated into several languages.

Image: Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Mary M Talbot

When:	Fri 22 Jun 2018, 19:15 - 20:15
Price:	Full Price: £10.00 Member: £10.00 Senior 60+: £8.00 Student: £7.00 Registered Unemployed: £7.00 Under 18: £7.00 Friend of the British Library: £10.00
Enquiries:	+44 (0)1937 546546 boxoffice@bl.uk

British Library forthcoming talks - part 1 - Eddie Campbell

I've been scouring the British Library website to bring you details of forthcoming talks, here's the first one for you...

Explore the bizarre nature of romance and relationships in a mixture of comic strips and illustrated prose

Internationally bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger and her husband, graphic artist Eddie Campbell, discuss their new collaboration Bizarre Romance and other recent works. Chaired by international comics expert Paul Gravett.

Bizarre Romance is a quirky, irreverent collection that celebrates and satirises love of all kinds. It explores the good, the bad, the ugly and the just plain weird – with Niffenegger's sharp, imaginative prose and Campbell's diverse comic styles, always with a sense of humour and cosmic justice.

Eddie Campbell also discusses the discoveries in his other new book The Goat Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics (IDW), which throws new light on the rambunctious origins of American comics.

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects include a ballet, Raven Girl, in collaboration with Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet.

Eddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist, probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell (written by Alan Moore). Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus (aka Deadface), a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day.

Paul Gravett is a writer, historian and curator specialising in international comics. He has written Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics, Graphic Novels: Stories To Change Your Life and Comics Art, and edited 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die. He has curated numerous exhibitions in Britain and abroad, including retrospectives of Tove Jansson and Posy Simmonds, and co-curated Comics Unmasked: Art & Anarchy in the UK for the British Library, co-writing the accompanying book. His latest exhibition for the Barbican Centre, MANGASIA: Wonderlands of Asian Comics, coincides with a new book from Thames & Hudson.

Image: Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell © Audrey Niffenegger

When:	Tue 10 Apr 2018, 19:00 - 20:30
Price:	Full Price: £15.00 Member: £10.00 Senior 60+: £12.00 Student: £10.00 Registered Unemployed: £10.00 Under 18: £10.00 Friend of the British Library: £10.00