CAPTION
A comics festival held in Oxford every summer since 1992.

Mad Science Caption!!

Join us in the East Oxford Community Centre for the ‘Mad Science’ edition of Caption, Oxford’s long-running small-press comics and minicomics convention.

31 July/1 August 2010 — Oxford

Special guests: Melinda Gebbie and Sydney Padua

Workshops by Al Davison and Jeremy Day

Mad Science Caption Timetable

Please note that this is an experimental schedule and may mutate on the day under the influence of strong chemical....

Saturday 31st July 2010

10.00 Doors open 10.00 - 12.00 Meet and Greet 10.30 - 12.00 Broken Picture Telephone game 10.00 onwards Dino-Saw-Us collectible sticker game 11.30 - 13.30 Dear God! What Have I Done? Workshop: It’s the End of the World, with Jeremy Day 12.00 Bar opens! 13.00 - 14.00 P.J.

Dono-Saw-Us at Caption 2010

DINO-SAW-US is an awesome sticker collector game that will next be played at Caption Convention 2010!

Caption is Dessert on North East Geek Feast Podcast

North East Geek Feast

Jay and Selina of the Caption 2010 committee were interviewed for episode 4 of the North East Geek Feast podcast.

Melinda Gebbie at Caption 2010

Melinda Gebbie was a fine artist who got in to comics when Lee Mars invited her to contribute to Wimmen’s Comix in the 1970s.

John Miers at Caption 2010

John Miers will be doing a talk about a large-format (70 cm × 99 cm) Babel, exhibited as part of last year's Comica, that uses a wordless pictorial language to interpret the biblical myth.

(a panel from Babel)

Dream Art Workshop with Al Davison

Al Davison is a comics artist, author, teacher, film-maker and performer. His workshops for Caption explore ways to retrieve dream narratives and express them in the waking world.

(banner from the Astral Gypsy web site)

The Comics Workshop that will End the World

2010 sees the return of Jeremy Day’s comics creation workshops.

‘Come along and join me for the comics workshop that will end the world—before the weekend's even begun. …

(Comics medly goes here)

Sydney Padua at Caption 2010

Sydney Padua has the distinction of having got in to webcomics by accident. Her day job is as an animator and story artist working mostly in visual effects in London.

More Mad Science Caption 2010 news...

So, we're very pleased to confirm lots more lovely guests:

Special Guest: Melinda Gebbie

Melinda started out in the American alternative comics scene in the 1970s and is now best known for her collaboration on Lost Girls with Alan Moore.

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