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11pm – midnight GMT (UK time)

I discuss Grand Theft Horse alongside G. Neri with new readers from the Comic Book Club in Toledo, OH.

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4pm – 5.30pm GMT (UK time)

Join the Award-Winning authors and illustrators of the Children’s Book Creators for Conservation (CBCC) in a special webinar benefitting South Africa’s wildlife.

Here is a one-time opportunity to learn new ideas, methods and approaches to creating nonfiction picture books from seven of the most successful book creators in publishing AND help save South Africa’s wildlife at the same time. In this fast and fun, 90 minute event we will cover every facet of the creation process from research and ideas to creating and selling your book. Above all, you will discover how to take known facts and transform them into a true story that is uniquely yours — exactly what agents and editors are searching for.

Led by the amazing group Children’s Book Creators for Conservation, this webinar will be full of unique insights and take aways. This is a charity event with $30 of your registration fee going directly to Wild Tomorrow, a nonprofit working to restore wildlife and wild places in South Africa.

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The First Graphic Novel Award 2023 is a partnership between The Cartoon Museum, publisher SelfMadeHero and independent graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman, with generous support from the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) and the bks Agency.

The shortlist is as follows: Florrie by Anna Trench, The Hiraeth Club by Gareth Cowlin, Mrs Thorwald by Cathy Brett, Zayani Zam by Mereida Fajardo, The Noisy Valley by Myfanwy Tristram, The Infinite Benefits of Shame by Corban Wilkin, and Bone Broth by Alexander Taylor.

The winner will be announced at Waterstones Piccadilly on Monday 11 December 2023.

Tickets available at Eventbrite.

Attendees can take an epic journey back in time to a prehistoric world now lost to ice, with this sneak preview of the giant screen adventure, Dinosaurs of Antarctica. Meet the scientists, Libby Ives, Dr. Patricia Ryberg, Dr. Nathan Smith, G. Neri, and Corban Wilkin who explored the frozen continent’s glaciers on a quest to uncover its secret past, and learn how to draw a dinosaur with the award winning team behind the comic, “The Time Traveling Dinosaur Detectives of Antarctica.” (Panel details: “Dinosaurs of Antarctica” – 3:15PM – August 21 – Room 144AB)

Join this year’s shortlisted entrants for the award announcement, and hear from previous years’ award winners including Emily Haworth-Booth and Corban Wilkin in conversation with Paul Gravett at Orbital Comics, Covent Garden.

Comics artists James McKay and Corban Wilkin collaborate live on information comics with people from the world of outreach and public communication of science, highlighting the possibilities of using comics as a communication tool for science education.

I join a mini-conference of comics artists and visual communication researchers to workshop the state and status of comics as a form of communication, and demonstrate the application of information comics with a live and improvised info-comic drawing based on a randomly-chosen Wikipedia article…

Awards night at Thought Bubble Festival convention weekend in Leeds’ Royal Armouries convention centre.

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The nominees for the third annual British Comic Awards were announced last Friday, and it's a noticeably more mixed bunch of books than previous years. The awards are divided into five categories: Best Book, Best Comic, Young People's Comic Award, Emerging Talent and Hall of Fame; the latter is decided upon by the members of the committee, whilst the Young People's Comic Award is voted upon by children in participating schools. Winners for the remaining 3 categories are chosen by a panel of judges. The award ceremony takes place on the Saturday evening of Thought Bubble comic convention, one of the UK's premier festivals. (comicsalliance.com)

I join a panel of scientists and engineers from the University of Leeds who are launching Dreams of a Low Carbon Future, a graphic novel created in collaboration with comic artists, writers and schoolchildren.

We explore the important issues facing our society today — such as what could happen if we don’t adapt to climate change, and what could utopia actually look like if we somehow got everything right.

Moderated by Paul Gravett.

SelfMadeHero presents … Glynn Dillon, Joff Winterhart, Corban Wilkin and Toby Litt – the Literary Arena

It’s about time that illustrators took centre stage at a literary festival, and SelfMadeHero, the graphic novel publisher, have installed three of their best, and brought along Toby Litt for kicks. If you’re a keen reader or illustration-curious then this is a rare treat.

For the sixth year in a row, The Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize discovers some of the most promising upcoming talents in British comics and once more we’ll be exhibiting the finalists, this time in the 3rd Floor Gallery at Foyles. The winner’s four-page story will be published in The Observer newspaper next Sunday, November 4th. But you can find out who has won on Friday, November 2nd, at the Opening Night of Comica at Foyles, on Friday November 2nd from 6.30-9pm.

The night includes a panel with judges Rachel Cooke, Dan Franklin and Paul Gravett.

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The winner of the Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Competition 2012 has been announced.

Corban Wilkin was announced as the recipient of the award on Saturday (November 3) night, reports the Forbidden Planet International blog.

He received the prize for his four-page tale of "friendship, obsession and alien landings", But I Can't. (digitalspy.com)