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Stripped Online STRIPPED ONLINE You can link directly to all online activity from our website home page www.edbookfest.co.uk Browse all events and authors in the programme on your mobile device at m.edbookfest.co.uk For exclusive interviews, previews, special offers and all the most exciting Stripped news www.strippedbookfest.com View videos of events and interviews with writers and artists on Youtube. View and share images of the Book Festival on Flickr. Follow @StrippedFest on Twitter. The Edinburgh International Book Festival will We invite you to join legends Neil celebrate its 30th anniversary in August Gaiman, Melinda Gebbie and Grant 2013. The centre piece will be four days Morrison; international stars Joe of events on comics and graphic novels to Sacco, Rutu Modan and Chris Ware; celebrate this unique literary form. We bring rising stars such as Glyn Dillon, together a range of writers and artists to Will Morris and Hannah Berry and take part in a specially curated programme, Scottish comics writers including from Marvel to manga, bande dessinée to the Robbie Morrison and Denise Mina. Beano, highlighting Scotland’s international They are joined by the creators of success. We will look at the rich heritage of British institutions The Beano and comics, the contemporary renaissance of 2000 AD as well as the latest comic graphic novels, and discuss how it opens up strip sensation The Phoenix, to reading and storytelling to new audiences, discuss the diverse world of comics young and old, from 3 to 103! and graphic novels. With more than 40 talks and workshops All events take place at the taking place in Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh International Book Festival there’s a riot of ideas for readers of every in Charlotte Square Gardens age. With an exhibition of great comic designs – see booking information on pages and a Mini Comic Fair featuring work from the 20–21 for more details. most exciting independent comic creators in Scotland, this is an experience no fan of comics or graphic novels can afford to miss. 20.30–21.30 19.00–20.00 MON 12 AUG Chris Ware The Skinny Event THE GRAPHIC NOVEL IN A BOX Joe Sacco & Chris Ware £10 (£8) REINVENTING COMICS £10 (£8) Creator of The Acme Novelty Library and Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, which won him the Guardian Joe Sacco and Chris Ware have become two of the world’s most First Book Award in 2001, Chris Ware discusses his celebrated graphic novelists by taking comic traditions and turning five-time Eisner-nominated Building Stories; an epic box set them on their heads. Sacco is the world’s first comic journalist; of pamphlets, broadsheets, posters and books, it brilliantly using his art to capture the realities of global political upheaval his redefines the format of the graphic novel. In this flagship illustrations portray the intimate and palpable stories of people and event Ware describes the ten year process involved in places caught in the crossfire. Ware’s understated suburban fictions constructing his masterpiece. have broken graphic novel conventions, even (in the case of his most recent work Building Stories) redefining the format of the book. In this event, they discuss the brilliance of bringing together word and image on the page. Joe Sacco is a leading ambassador for graphic novel reportage and established his international reputation with books such as Footnotes in Gaza and Palestine. His latest work, The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Event Journalism, is just as compelling: 20.30–21.30 through a series of powerful comic- Joe Sacco essays he explores the personal THE GRAPHIC TRUTH impact of conflict in places such as £10 (£8) Abu Ghraib, Iraq and Chechnya. 19.00–20.00 James Kakalios Have you ever wondered how Iron THE SCIENCE OF Man’s suit works or what enables SUPERHEROES Aquaman to breathe underwater? Physicist £10 (£8) James Kakalios has acted as a consultant on movies including Watchmen and The Amazing Spider-Man, making sure Hollywood gets the science right. Join Kakalios, your friendly neighbourhood physics professor and author of the wildly popular The Physics of Superheroes and The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, for a science lesson with a difference. 2 Please arrive in good time for events. Latecomers will not be admitted after the start of events and no refunds will be given. Box Office Hotline: 0845 373 5888 Online Box Office: www.edbookfest.co.uk 3 19.00–20.00 16.00–17.00 Melinda Gebbie developed her signature illustration style in the FRI 23 AUG Barroux & Cathy Brett Melinda Gebbie underground scene of 1970s San Francisco, contributing to LETTERS FROM LOST SOLDIERS SEX AND POLITICS all-woman anthologies such as Tits & Clits before moving to Thatcher-era London where 18.00–19.00 £4.50 £10 (£8) her autobiographical work was the subject of an obscenity trial. Today she discusses her Tintin, Dan Dare and Heath Robinson early feminist projects as well as her masterpiece, Lost Girls, a collaboration with Alan with John Fardell French writer and artist Barroux found the poignant diaries Moore who later became her husband. INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE of a First World War soldier in a Parisian skip. Inspired by the AND DEATH-DEFYING ADVENTURES often heart-breaking entries, he translated them into the 17.00–18.00 Paul Gravett has worked as a publisher, journalist, curator, writer and £4.50 visually stunning graphic novel On Les Aura!. Cathy Brett’s Paul Gravett broadcaster in the world of comics for over three decades. He published the latest illustrated novel Everything is Fine (and Other Lies I THE ULTIMATE HISTORY OF COMICS first Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean collaboration in his Escape Magazine in Join author-illustrator John Fardell as he takes a personal Tell Myself), tells the story of Esther, who discovers letters £10 (£8) the 80s and has since gone on to become an aficionado on Marvel, manga look at the work of his favourite cartoonists and comic strip sent by a soldier from the trenches to his sweetheart. Join and everything in between. creators: Hergé, William Heath Robinson, Frank Hampson, these two artist-authors to hear why they were inspired to Winsor McCay and others. Discover how these great masters write and draw the lives of soldiers. have influenced John’s work, and the useful tips he’s picked up 18.30–19.30 How do you draw decomposing flesh, empty white eyes and blackened and rotting teeth? (pinched!) from them. An inspiring event for young and old, comic Drawing the Living Dead Warren Pleece is a master artist when it comes to drawing the walking dead. He has strip fan or intrigued newcomer, budding artist, writer or with Warren Pleece contributed to 2000 AD, DC Comics and he created the illustrations for Darren Shan’s curious reader. A GRUESOME, BRAIN-EATING gruesome ZOM-B series. Get to grips with drawing the living dead yourself! WORKSHOP £4.50 13.00–14.30 The Art of Reading Graphic Novels with Paul Gravett READING WORKSHOP £15 (£12) Paul Gravett has 30 years of experience publishing and promoting comics and recently curated the mammoth 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die. In this workshop he guides you through the world of graphic novels and how to get the most from your reading. With an open discussion from the start, think pop-up book group: you can be a committed comic book fan or new to the genre; either way you will leave enlightened and inspired. 15.30–16.30 Will Morris & Edward Ross HOT NEW SCOTTISH TALENT £7 (£5) Two rising stars in British comics, Will Morris and Edward Ross get together for some serious graphic chat. Morris’ stunning debut graphic novel The Silver Darlings revisits an industry in decline to create a story that’s as much a coming-of-age tale as a tribute to Ayrshire’s historic fishing community. Packed with humour and pathos and rendered in Morris’ beautifully atmospheric ink-washed art. Ross has written and illustrated the fantastic series of cinematic comic book essays Filmish and One Hundred Tiny Moments from My Past, Present and Future. 4 Please arrive in good time for events. Latecomers will not be admitted after the start of events and no refunds will be given. Box Office Hotline: 0845 373 5888 Online Box Office: www.edbookfest.co.uk 5 19.00–20.00 Barroux & Daniel Hahn 10.00–12.00 The UK’s only weekly comic, The A TALE IN TRANSLATION The Phoenix Phoenix, launched over a year ago. French writer and artist Barroux £4.50 Comic Workshop With funny, anarchic and slightly found the diary of a First World War CREATE YOUR OWN surreal strips by the likes of the soldier in a skip and translated the EXTRAORDINARY COMIC STRIP Etherington Brothers and Chris incredibly honest and moving entries into a visually stunning £7 Riddell, comic fans won’t want to miss graphic novel, On Les Aura!. In conversation with fellow writer this event! Let illustrator and comic and translator Daniel Hahn, he discusses the process of creator Adam Murphy teach you the taking a diary, transforming it into comic form and then techniques to bring your amazing characters and translating it from French into English. An engaging and awesome stories to life. The perfect workshop for enlightening event for families and young adults. young comic creators. 11:00 – 18.00 Scotland’s Grant Morrison is one of 20.00–21.00 Edinburgh International Book Festival welcomes a Mini Comic Fair the world’s comic superstars. He has The Tangent Graphic Event selection of the most exciting independent Scottish THE BEST OF SCOTTISH Independent COMICS a formidable reputation for taking Grant Morrison comic book talent to showcase and sell their work at 5 Charlotte Square*, Free & drop-in classic heroes and reinventing them, HEROES UNMASKED a mini independent comic fair.
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