Spring Comica Comiket Set for 21 April 2012
We’re ALL looking forward to London’s brilliant new Spring Comica Comiket, a bubbling Independent Comics Fair to be held on Saturday April 21st 2012, 11am-6pm, admission free, at the Bishopsgate Institute, Liverpool Street in...
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Comica Comiket Autumn 2011
The Autumn Comica Comiket was the sixth one-day comics and art fair, and took place in November—it was better than ever, with the best of New British comics creators under the chandeliers at the spectacular Great Hall in the Bishopsgate Institute in London, UK— the excitement was palpable—no-one really wanted to go...
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Great British Comics
Peter Stanbury designed and co-wrote Great British Comics: Celebrating a Century of Ripping Yarns and Wizard Wheezes with Paul Gravett for UK publisher, Aurum Press. Korky the Cat was chosen for the front cover of the book as sole representative being the epitome of cheeky mischief and British comics fun. So many books about comics attempt to present a pantheon of characters that bewilders the reader....
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Escape Magazine: Issue Two
When issue two of the A5 Escape Magazine burst forth with a wrap-around cover by Rian Hughes, not only did it have interviews with Glen Baxter and the reclusive Mark Beyer, but it sported a 8-page section of 3-D...
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Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life
Peter Stanbury designed Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life, a book written by Paul Gravett for Aurum Press in London. The cover is by the American illustrator and comic-book artist Daniel Clowes. Daniel provided a photocopy of the line illustration which had been mislaid and Peter recoloured it as it had originally appeared on...
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The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics
Peter Stanbury designed this book, edited by Paul Gravett, for Constable & Robinson as part of their long-established line of anthologies....
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The Leather Nun and Other Incredibly Strange Comics
The Leather Nun, as it is titled in the UK by Aurum Press, and titled Holy Sh*t: The World’s Weirdest Comic Books by St Martin’s Press, in the United States. Designed by Peter Stanbury, and written with his good friend Paul Gravett, they explore a rare collection of astonishing, weird and tasteless comic-books and their...
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