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May 22, 2010

This was a paper I wrote at university on Merlin Carpenter. While I never saw the show in person, having read a short review of it in Art Forum I couldn't get it out of my head until I wrote about it.

January 14, 2010

Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption: Joe Sacco Interview

A selection of the world’s most compelling graphic novelists and comic artists are to collaborate with experimental youth initiative Ctrl.Alt.Shift, to create a limited edition comic book Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption which aims to highlight corruption as both the cause of poverty and a barrier to overcoming it.

Comprising original work from leading comic artists, satirists and creative figures from around the world including USA, South Africa, India, Sweden, Serbia and the UK, Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption will engage and challenge the issues of social injustice in a bid to politicise a new generation of activists through the medium of popular comic culture.

A selection of the world’s most compelling graphic novelists and comic artists are to collaborate with experimental youth initiative Ctrl.Alt.Shift, to create a limited edition comic book Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption which aims to highlight corruption as both the cause of poverty and a barrier to overcoming it.

December 27, 2009

PICASSO WAS CRAP

The hard task of achieving nothing. The intrinsic value of beer. Oh my god what happened to all my metaphysical certainties.

The other day I got together with some artist friends to discuss the possibility of putting on a show. We met at a pub and drank beers and tossed ideas into the air where they vanished wonderfully in front of our eyes. In the end we left the table with a few words and an image signifying the productive futility of our process. Engineers and economists would have been unconsolable at the outcome, but as artists, we were quite encouraged to have worked so hard and ended up with nothing – it’s