programme

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

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

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.

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. …

CAPTION 2009 Provisional Timetable of Events

Saturday 15th August 10:00 Caption opens: Meet and Greet & Art Activity 12:30 - 2:30 Zine Workshop 1:00 - 2:00 Talk on the history of gay & queer comics by Sina Shamsavari Sina has unfortunately had to cancel due to illness 3:00 - 5:00 Manga Workshop with Asia Alfasi 2:30 - 3:30 Karen Rubins talks about her V&A Residency 4:00 - 5:00 Dude, where's my con?

We have some guests and workshops confirmed for CAPTION 2009 ‘Away with the fairies’

Garen Ewing will be talking about his comic Rainbow Orchid published by Egmont, and will also be running a scriptwriting workshop.

As usual we are asking for art for the programme booklet/exhibition/auction, so get those pencils out and start drawing fairies, fairy tales, winged mythological creatures or anything else fairy-inspired.