Panel Borders: Jonathan Cape – Publishing Graphic Novels

October 3, 2008

Panel Borders: Jonathan Cape – Publishing Graphic Novels
Originally broadcast as part of “Strip!”, 04/09/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM

This is an uncut version of Alex Fitch’s talk with Dan Franklin, the head of Jonathan Cape, about their range of ‘Classic British Graphic Novels’, their Graphic Short Story competition, their successes publishing Bryan Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland and the recent reprint of The Tale of One Bad Rat and their past and future plans for printing albums of sequential art.

Visit the home of this podcast at archive.org

Links: Wikipedia pages on Bryan Talbot, The Tale of One Bad Rat and
Listen to / watch Alex’s interview with Bryan Talbot about The Tale of One Bad Rat
Jonathan Cape’s ‘Graphic Novels minsite’ and competition (see below)

3rd October at The Apollo West End Cinema, 19 Regent Street, London

Sci-Fi London presents Oktoberfest, a one day / all night genre film festival presenting the latest and best Sci-Fi, Horror and Fantasy entertainment including zombie, anime and Mystery Science theatre 3000 'all nighters' and UK premieres of new movies including Terra, Zombies Zombies Zombies (!), Strait Jacket and the pilot episode of J.J. Abrams' Fringe…
More info at www.sci-fi-london.com/festival/2008/oktoberfest

Sci-Fi London Oktoberfest logo

Plus: The Jonthan Cape / Observer graphic fiction competition is back on, with the deadline being 17/10/09 to design a short story in comic book form to fit two pages of The Observer…Jonathan Cape / The Observer graphic short story competition…

Jonathan Cape / The Observer graphic short story competition

Also: At Harrods, Knightsbridge, Rich Johnston has curated an exhibtion of original comic book art by industry luminaries such as Sean Phillips and Raymond Briggs, open from now until the end of October…
More info at www.comicbitsonline.com and at Sean’s blog

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