and David Roach, then John & Patricia Aggs, Adam Comica at the ICA Brockbank, Gary Northfield & Sarah McIntyre look at The DFC and 21st century kids’ comics. The Mall, London SW1. www.ica.org.uk Stripping Off: Erotic Comics, 16.00–17.00 Book online at www.ica.org.uk/comica An adults-only romp through X-rated comics with or call 020 7930 3647 Erich von Gotha, Lynn Paul Meadows, Garry Leach Exhibitions and Frederic Mullaly, hosted by Tim Pilcher. 14 – 26 November, Concourse Gallery, Free. Live From Kirby Plaza, 17.30–19.00 PoCom 2 – Potential Comics Continued Jack Kirby’s legend and legacy explored by Paul Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Le Gun’s Neal Fox, Bill Gambaccini, Paul Gravett, Chrissie Harper & Mike Bragg and more conjure up a wall-sized graphic Lake with live links to biographer Greg Theakston, story mind-map. artist James Romberger & archivist Rand Hoppe. Incredibly Strange Comics Sun 23 November, 19.30 – 21.00, Theatre Reel at the world’s weirdest comics: Leather Nun! Tickets: £10, £9 concs, £8 ICA members Amputee Love! Trucker Fags in Denial! and more! Shelton, Spain and Spiegelman Talks Reunited, the creators of The Freak Brothers, Trash- Comica Conversations: 3 Talks in 1 Afternoon man & Maus recall their early days and reveal their Sun 16 November, Nash Room new books Not Quite Dead, Che & Breakdowns. Tickets: £6 each, £5 concs, £4 ICA members, or Mon 24 November, 18.45 – 20.15, Cinema 1 Book All 3 for £15, £12 concs, £9 members Tickets: £10, £9 concs, £8 ICA members Dave McKean’s Imaginings, 14.00–15.30 Art Spiegelman: Portrait of the Artist... The indefatigable innovator talks about his latest The author of Maus talks to Posy Simmonds about projects, with Andrzej Klimowski. his latest compilation of comix old and new.

Between the Panels 3, 16.00–17.30 14 November 2008 Hannah Berry, Paul Duffield, Oliver East and Publishers’ Fair: Free Admission Marcia Williams divulge their creative secrets and Sat 22 November, 13.00 – 19.00, Nash/Brandon. the judges discuss and present the winner’s of The Comica Comiket Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Meet and buy from self-publishers and small press- Story Prize. es, watch them at work and join in. In Turning Classics into Comics, 18.00–19.30 association with London Underground Comics. Richard Appignanesi and Ian Edgington talk with ams their visualisers Mustashrik, Chie Kutsuwada and Films ( See website for times and prices) Ian Culbard, and John M. Burns, Jason Cobley and Naruto Anime Double-Bill: Sat November 22, eal Ad Mike Collins discuss their versions of Jane Eyre & introduced by Helen McCarthy. Also showing sepa- A Christmas Carol. rately: Sat November 29, Sun November 30. 20th Century Boys: Wed 26 November, 20.30 Mon 17 November, 19.00 – 20.30, Theatre Live-action movie of Naoki Urasawa’s manga. Tickets: £10, £9 concs, £8 ICA members Ian Rankin: Crime & Comics Sponsored by: li” by N by uhamma d A li” The crime writer shares his love of comics and his Hellblazer graphic novel debut with Toby Litt. Tues 18 November, 19.15 – 20.30, Nash Room Tickets: £10, £9 concs, £8 ICA members Alex Maleev: Master of Mood ArchetypesArchetypes The Daredevil, Halo and Stephen King illustrator talks with David Hine. Maleev signs with guests Ted Benoit & Emmanuel Guibert M “ S uperman vs. of over v.v. StereotypesStereotypes Comica Conversations: 3 Talks in 1 Afternoon Supported by Bloomsbury, Cinebook, Classical Sun 23 November, Nash Room Comics, The Erotic Review, First Second Books, Ilex a t t h e Tickets: £6 each, £5 concs, £4 ICA members, or Press, Jack Kirby Quarterly, London Underground Comics, Manga Entertainment, Orbital Comics, Book All 3 for £15, £12 concs, £9 members Penguin Books, Quality Communications, Great British Comics, 14.00–15.30 SelfMadeHero, Thought Bubble Festival, Titan Battle! Boyfriend! Roy of the Rovers! Re-live your Books, Verso Books and Walker Books. favourites with experts Steve Holland, David Leach etail from c from d etail c s, © DC Comi 14.45 Minority Reports Comica at the V&A Pat Mills, comics writer, and Derek To celebrate the National Art Library’s Liverpool, researcher, discuss black acquisition of major collections of comics, characters and other minorities in modern the first ever Comica Symposium and US/UK comics. Chaired by Paul Gravett. Evening Talk are being held on Friday 14 15.30 Coffee break November in the Lecture Theatre, Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington, London 15.50 From Hippies To Yuppies SW7. Book online at www.vam.ac.uk, Posy Simmonds on writing and drawing the email [email protected] British classes. or call 020 7942 2211. 16.35 Women Creators & Heroines Today One Day Comica Symposium Lise Myhre, strip cartoonist of Goth-girl Archetypes v Stereotypes Nemi in Metro, and Asia Alfasi, Muslim in Comics & Graphic Novels autobiographical graphic novelist, share Fri 14 November, 10.00–17.45, Tickets: £40, their experiences with Corinne Pearlman, £30 concs, £15 students. cartoonist for The Jewish Quarterly. Creators and experts examine the formations 17.15 - 17.45 Plenary Discussion, followed by and functions of archetypes and stereotypes, signings in the V&A Shop. racial, sexual, social and political, in British and American comics and graphic novels. Evening Talk Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie: Lost Girls 10.00 Coffee & Registration Fri 14 November, 19.00–20.00 10.30 Introduction by John Meriton Tickets: £8, £6 concs. Book the Symposium and save £2 on this talk. 14 – 26 November 2008 10.35 Art of the Century Legendary anarchist, occultist and comics Ian Rakoff on Stereotypes, Prejudice and writer Alan Moore and artist collaborator Grammar in Film & Comics Frame-Culture Melinda Gebbie discuss imagining the adult 11.20 Racial Stereotypes in Comics erotic lives of storybook archetypes Alice, Charles Dierick from the Hergé Studios and Wendy and Dorothy with Kevin Jackson. former director of the Comics Museum in Followed by signings in the V&A Shop. Brussels discusses Tintin in the Congo and racial stereotypes in comics. Comica at the 12.05 Supermen and Wonderwomen 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT. Doug Braithwaite, penciller on Justice, is Tickets: £3, £2 concs. Book online at www. interviewed by Richard Reynolds, author institut-francais.org.uk, email box.office@ of Superheroes: A Modern Mythology, about ambafrance.org.uk or call 020 7073 135o. changing representations from Superman to Ted Benoit & Emmanuel Guibert art Spiegelmanspiegelman Watchmen and beyond. Wednesday 19 November, 19.30-21.00 owns” “ B reak d owns” of over 12.40 Discussion Ted Benoit revives the thoroughly British detectives Blake & Mortimer and Emmanuel andand othersothers 13.00 Lunch (not included) Guibert illustrates the memoirs of American a t t h e 14.00 Women’s Roles in Comics G.I. Alan Cope. Two bande dessinée masters Eric Fernie, former director of the Courtauld interviewed by Ann Miller & Paul Gravett. Institute, assesses women in Rip Kirby, Dan For the full Comica programme visit Dare and other comics in terms of looks, www.paulgravett.com intelligence and courage and how they form part of the narrative or are independent of it. 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