EVENTS AND ADDITIONAL FILMS
More to it than Meets the Eye Peter Doherty with Duncan Fegredo
Often overlooked, the colourist is a critical part of the comics creative process and team. One of the UK’s best-known colourists, Peter Doherty, will reveal why colour is an essential storytelling component with the aid of fellow artist Duncan Fegredo. Peter Doherty is an artist and colourist who is particularly known for his work on Judge Dredd. He is currently colouring Jupiter’s Legacy, a new epic tale by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely. Duncan Fegredo has illustrated comics for pretty much all major publishers and is probably best known today for his work on Mike Mignola’s Hellboy with whom he continues to 2pm Tickets £7 The Box collaborate to this day.
Crime Lords
Four of the greatest exponents of the crime/noir comics genre join Paul Gravett (author of The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics) to discuss their work and to interrogate the strengths and limitations of this genre in comic art form. An exclusive insight into the award-winning work of Ed Brubaker, David Lloyd, José Muñoz and Sean Phillips.
Brewery Arts Centre – Theatre
3.30pm
Tickets
£7
Watch them Draw
Jon McNaught Jon McNaught was the first Briton to win the Prix Révélation, The Best Newcomer Award at Angouleme, for his first full-length book Automne (entitled Dockwood in English) and was an Eisner Award nominee in 2013. “There are few younger comics artists with whom I feel a genuine aesthetic kinship but the radiant and glowing Dockwood is Jon McNaught’s loveliest argument for the beauty of simply being alive. It’s a gem” Chris Ware. Find out why.
The Box
3.30pm
Tickets £7
ADDITIONAL FILMS
The Crow 102 mins
(18)
Sat 19 Oct 2013 Based on the graphic novel by James O’Barr, this fantasy follows Eric Draven, a rock musician who is murdered along with his fiancée, Shelly, by a group of marauding thugs who terrorize the decaying city in which they live. Star Brandon Lee was killed while filming and like his father, martial arts superstar Bruce Lee, Brandon was fated to enjoy his greatest popular success after his premature death.
The Brewery Arts Centre: Screen Two
9.15pm
Tickets
£5
Cast: James O’Barr, David J Schow, John Shirley, Brandon Lee, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson Director: Alex Proyas Introduction: by Joel Meadows
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