CAPTION

D’Israeli D’Emon D’Raftsman looks back on ten years of creating comics entirely in the informational womb of the computer—a practice he started with his comic strip for SpaceCAPTION1999.

Nuala from Sandman: The Kindly Ones, a convention sketch for CAPTION 2009 by D’Israeli; Sandman © 2009 Vertigo/DC Comics

We’ve suffered the attentions of some spammers recently, so I have enabled CAPTCHA service from Mollom. This works by analysing your posts to see whether it looks definitely spammy, definitely not spammy, or unable to decide—and only shows the CAPTCHA if it can’t decide. This will, I hope, reduce the annoyance factor of having CAPTCHAs added to the side. We’ll see how it goes.

We have sketchbooks in most of the rooms at CAPTION; just big ol' sketchbooks lying around with lots of pens and pencils and whatnot.

Photo by Garen Ewing

Sarah McIntyre gave CAPTION a great talk about children’s picture-books, comics, and the way each can draw on the other for inspiration.

Several people asked for a list of the books quoted during the talk, and she has obliged with a list at the end of this LiveJournal post.

Click on the pictures to see the first Broken Picture-Telephone game from CAPTION 2009.

Jenni Scott is posting her insider’s-eye-view of the event in daily instalments.

‘After popping into the town centre to get a new memory card and a bacon sammich from Browns in the covered market (right opposite the cake shop where the Caption birthday cake and Jeremy's Tatlin Tower wedding cake came from), I made it back to Caption in time for Kaz's talk about her current residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum.’

Read Anna Jay’s post about this year’s CAPTION on her blog Mondo A-Go-Go.

‘The cake, it does not lie. For Oxford’s Caption comics convention really was eighteen years old last weekend! As I’m yet to miss a year, mathematics would at this point seem to suggest that I have been to eighteen of them. …’

Read Gavin Burrows’s reaction to CAPTION 2009 on his blog Lucid Frenzy Jr.

We still have some t-shirts left from CAPTION2007. This year's design was done in two versions: dreamy white and nightmarish black.

We still have a few t-shirts left from CAPTION2005.

• One white t-shirt, size S
• Two white t-shirts, size XXL

(Design by Woodrow Phoenix)

Price is £5 plus postage - contact caption [at] caption.org for further ordering information.