Pomp? I do! a short trip to Paris for a long show
I found a way to cope with the FOMO of missing LICAF 2024… Eurostar to Paris for the astounding Comics On Every Floor exhibition at Centre Pompidou. MORE
Comics is… an ionic theory
Historically, one of the biggest handicaps to Comics being treated as Art is the instant commercialisation of the form from the early days of mass media. What if Comics (big C) is not the same as comics (little c)? MORE
Is that all there is? where next for Comics?
The MCU bubble will burst eventually and comics will drop out of the conversation again. Now is the time to tell people that not every comic has to be a story MORE
Dusty breadmAIkers: Polly(anna) put the kettle on and decided that AI was not a threat to Art
For a while, it’s Cool Things every day, but turning Cool Things into a coherent film or a book or a story takes time and a lot more attention than pushing a button. MORE
Comics Weekender: I may have just lived my best Comics Weekend in the healthiest order!
Four days. A Venn Diagram of comics types. Luckily it ended with children so I couldn’t escalate my drinking as I would have don if the schedule had bee reverse MORE
AI should have sent a poet: another go at talking synthetic art
So I went to a Comica talk on AI by Dave McKean and adjusted my thinking again MORE
Me, Myself and AI: thirdsies on synthetic art
“if you could script it and indicate what figures and objects went where, would you let the AI finish it off as a digital assistant?” MORE
A.I. LET GO: the robots are coming to take us away
Computers are replacing artists all over the shop… aren’t they? These thoughts were put down on 07/09/22. they will evolve!. MORE
REDACTED COMICS: Alpha
How much can you take away from an existing comic and still have a story worth reading? … MORE
TEDx SPRINTS: Delta-2 – pass it on
One of my favourite projects in 2021 was at TEDx SPRINTS ~ a creative bootcamp where visual artists have 48 hours to produce an artwork on a specific issue. All works are then published under an open license, so that activists, nonprofits and educators globally can use them in their future campaign work. In this instance it was to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis… MORE
ROY: a consideration in comics
Roy Lichtenstein appropriated what he considered debased source material from pulp and newsprint origins and blew them up in the process of transposing them to an exalted medium. And then selling them at deluxe prices. In Roy, I appropriated images from the 20th century high art canon and reduced and translated them to a debased medium … MORE
