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Hot news from Paul Gravett on another COMICA talk...
Paul Gravett is launching his latest book, Graphic Novels, in a very interesting-sounding event at the ICA in London. Check out the chance to see Junko Mizuno from Japan, along with slightly less far-flung visitors from Italy, USA, and France...

(NB you may be interested to know that Paul has dedicated this book to Andy R.)

A Comica Event at London's Instititue of Contemporary Arts

Wed 26 Oct, 7.30pm

Misfit Lit:
Conversations with Graphic Novelists

Nearly 20 years since the breakthrough of Art Spiegelman's Maus, who are the
next wave of emerging international graphic novelists? From V for Vendetta
to MirrorMask, can the individualist visions of comics creators survive the
Hollywood machine from page to screen?

Tonight's stellar panel includes: from the US Jessica Abel (Artbabe and La
Perdida (Pantheon), a semi-autobiographical thriller set in Mexico City);
Matt Madden with 99 Ways To Tell A Story (Penguin), a wild comics homage to
Perec's Exercises in Style; Italy's Igort, whose lyrical fumetti 5 Is The
Perfect Number (Cape) reinvents the neo-realist mafioso tragedy; Paul
Wright, Times cartoonist (whose eccentrically English debut from Jonathan
Cape is Smelling A Rat); Killoffer, the French Tarantino of autobiographical
comics (Typocrat) ; and Japan's mistress of creepy cuteness and fractured
fairytales, Junko Mizuno (Viz and Last Gasp). Chair: Paul Gravett, Comica
founder and author of Graphic Novels (Aurum).

£8, £7 Concs, £6 ICA Members
Nash Room

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