A heads up for this year’s Graphic Brighton festival which, as ever, has a great line-up of presentations, talks and academic panels, all taking place at the University of Brighton City Campus on December 13th and 14th. You can see the full programme on the Graphic Brighton site here. More info in the press release below!
This year’s tenth anniversary Graphic Brighton festival as ever mixes talks by comics studies academics with panel discussions by comic book creators. This year’s theme is Graphic Architecture – the depiction of Architecture in Comics – with comic book and graphic novel creators who have engaged with this theme in attendance including Karrrie Fransman, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Woodrow Phoenix, Clarrie Pope, Zara Slattery, and Myfanwy Tristram… As there is a cross-over between comics and architectural practice, several architects and interior designers who have turned their hand to comics, and are attending Graphic Brighton, include Henry Chebaane, Andrea Hoff, Sabba Khan, and Alison Sampson.
The festival is also proud to have Enrique Bordes, associate professor in the Department of Graphic Design at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and author of the seminal Graphic Architecture book Cómic, arquitectura narrativa as a keynote speaker, as well as Clari Searle (Coventry University) who is an expert in Comic Funnies, who will be running a workshop on “Humour and messing with architecture in comics”…
The event runs from 10am-6pm, on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th December in the Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton City Campus, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex BN2 0JY
Please book your free ticket via eventbrite.
