In September 2023 as part of the Lakes International Comics Arts Festival in Bowness Cumbria the very first Comics Show and Tell took place
In a room above the Arts Club nine comic book creators - Joe Latham, Rachael Smith, Lucy Sullivan, Lyndon White, Zara Slattery, Roger Langridge, John Allison, Dan Berry and David Gaffney -all read live from their latest works in progress alongside projected images. It was a relaxed event which audience members could drop in and out of as they felt and in the breaks and afterwards they could meet the artists too if they wanted and buy samples of work.
It was a unique cross-over bringing live literature and illustration together to celebrate the world of sequential art and David and Dan plan to bring it back again next year.
Comics Show and Tell - The Return! 2024!
YES - in 2024 we came back and did it all over again- this time with lots of new creators performing their work.
The event was in a new venue this time - Launderama- and it worked even better
Nine comic book creators performed - John Alison, Dan Berry, Kate Charlesworth, David Gaffney, Isabel Greenberg, Luke Healey, Aimee de Jongh, and Emma Vieceli. Bobby Joseph was ill on the evening but was replaced by the brilliant Kevin Raymundo from the Philippines
The performances went down very well, with an audience of over eighty people in the bigger venue of the Laundarama. Feedback was very positive with many suggestions for next time
This time we involved live music as well for two of the sessions and this all went smoothly and was a great addition to the format.
Emma Vieceli’s commission was a brand new unique visual and text performance piece involving original songs and music as well
Dan Berry produced two new pieces of work - a set of brand new visuals for the Whales Brain a short story by David Gaffney plus he produced a new work entitled Trash which featured him playing original live guitar with loops and effects alongside as him reading his story.
