Panel Borders: Drawing and painting comics

December 2, 2013 — Fine art and comics

Pages of comics by Al Davison, Hannah Eaton, Vicky Stonebridge, James E Snelling

Drawing and painting comics: Starting a month of shows about creators who use fine art in their work, guest presenter Richard Reynolds (FRSA) discusses art techniques used in strips and graphic novels with artists Al Davison, Hannah Eaton, James E Snelling and Vicky Stonebridge.
Al discusses relearning to draw comics after suffering bouts of blindness and hand paralyses, Hannah talks about the fine art training that contributed to her first graphic novel, James explores his parallel art careers in trompe l’oeil interiors and comic books and Vicky demonstrates the use of painting and ceramics in her site specific sculptures, photographs and sequential art. Recorded at Caption Festival, Oxford, Summer 2013. Originally broadcast Monday 2nd December 2013, on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)

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Links: More info about Richard Reynolds
Info about Al Davison’s work and shop in Coventry
Hannah Eaton’s website
James E Snelling’s website
Vicky Stonebridge’s website

Listen to previous podcasts featuring Al Davison and Hannah Eaton / Richard Reynolds discussing re-appropriation of art in comics with Rian Hughes