Alex Fitch has let us know about this week's radio show::

On air:

Panel Borders: Comic Book Caption(s)
Starting a month of shows about comic book shops, we have three interviews recorded at Oxford’s small press comics convention ‘Caption’. Alex Fitch talks to Doctor Who comic illustrator Al Davison, who runs a graphic novels and art supply shop in Coventry and to former Gay Comics writer Will Morgan, one of the proprietors of a comic book shop in Putney which specialises in classic British titles. Also, 2000AD artist P.J. Holden is interviewed by comics journalist Matt Badham, about the shops he frequented while growing up in Belfast.

5pm, Thursday 04/08/11, Resonance 104.4 FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com / podcast after broadcast at www.panelborders.wordpress.com

You can also listen to previous podcasts featuring Caption:

Interview with Selina Lock, Jeremy Day and Philippa Rice is here:
http://panelborders.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/panel-borders-women-of-caption/

Melinda Gebbie talking about her work is here:
http://panelborders.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/panel-borders-the-art-of-melinda-gebbie/

Hope to see lots of you over the weekend!

 The Time & Date:
10am - 11pm on Saturday 6th August.
10am - 5.30pm Sunday 7th August.
Bar opens at 12noon!

The Place:
East Oxford Community Centre
44b, Princes St, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 1DD

See the new Caption map (courtesy of Neill Cameron):


The Price:
£5 per day, pay on the door.

The People:
Blue Lou, INJ Culbard, Jeremy Day, Paul Gravett, Charles Cutting, Paul Rainey, Rol Hirst, Rob Wells, Paul Grist, Paul Duffield, Kate Brown, Alex Fitch, Andy Luke, Al Davison, Tony Hitchman & all you lovely attendees.

The T-Shirt:
Pre-order your Austerity Caption t-shirt, "Comics will set you free!" designed by David O'Connell
http://caption.livejournal.com/64907.html

How we're kicking things off:

Reuse, Recycle, Regurgitate with Jeremy Day

Which comics would you put in the blue box? From old favourites to
comics you wish had never been born, bring along dupes, copies or even
originals to be modified and mutilated in this open-access, drop-in
drop-out collage workshop -- no art skills required. Join us as we
remake comics history into brave new works of weird and twisted
genius.

Hope to see you there! Any questions just email us at caption@caption.org

This year we are asking people to let us know if they would like a t-shirt before we get them printed.

Cost £15

Printed on an ash colour 99% cotton t-shirt (the image above is a guide to give you an idea of what the finished product will look like, the t-shirt colour and logo size may differ slightly).

Product Sizes:
S, M, L, XL, XXL, 3XL
34/36, 38/40, 42/44, 46/48, 50/52, 54/56

Deadline for orders 29th July. Payment on collection of the t-shirt at Caption.

If anyone not attending Caption would like one let us know & we can probably work something out!
Please leave a comment below to place an order, or email caption@caption.org

 We are pleased to announce the last set of guests for Austerity Caption (6-7th August), East Oxford Community Centre.

Blue Lou - (http://www.bluelou.net/): political cartoonist and artist will be joining us for the whole weekend. She will also be providing a workshop as part of the Caption activities.

INJ Culbard - (http://strangeplanetstories.blogspot.com/): is best known for his work on the Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft adaptations for Self-Made Hero. Ian will be talking about his move from animation into comics, and his career so far.

Caption alumnus Jeremy Day will be getting the festivities off to a flying start on the Saturday with one of her fun workshops.

Paul Gravett - (http://www.paulgravett.com/): will be letting us know what it's like to spend a year in his life.

Charles Cutting (http://www.vincentfund.org.uk/home/) and Matt Dyson will be joining us for the Alternative Methods of Funding and Production Mega-Panel.

Rol Hirst (http://rolhirst.co.uk/) will be joining Paul Rainey and Rob Wells for their Comics On The Ration, (http://comicsontheration.blogspot.com/) talk.

And don't forget our previously announced guests:

Paul Grist, creator of Kane and Jack Staff.

Paul Duffield, manga creator and artist on Freak Angels. http://spoonbard.com/

Kate Brown, creator of The Spider Moon and Fish + Chocolate, http://danse-macabre.nu/index.html

Andy Luke, small press creator will be talking about his new comic Absence: http://absencecomic.com/ during Alternative Methods of Funding and Production Mega-Panel.

The wonderful Al Davison (http://www.astralgypsy.com/) will once again be running an art workshop, as well as bringing along stock from The Astral Gypsy shop. Al's workshops are always enjoyable, highly recommended, and suitable for artists of all levels.

Tony Hitchman will be providing one of his fun and entertaining quizzes.

 Here's the striking design for this years Caption t-shirt by tozocomic (David O'Connell).

To comply with our austerity theme we will shortly be asking for pre-orders or expressions of interest from those who would like a t-shirt, so that we only print as many as needed.

 

Caption is the longest running comic convention in the UK, and we celebrate small press and indie press comics.

This year's theme is Austerity, as we thought this might be appropriate to the current climate in the UK! So, this could cover anything from the cheapest way to produce comics, to comics about self-sufficiency/grow your own, to revolutionary thoughts caused by austerity... however you want to interpret the theme.

I you have any ideas for things you'd like to see at Austerity Caption, or would like to be involved, then just let us know.

As usual we won't be having dealer/exhibitor tables, but will instead run the Caption table. This allows you to drop off your comics, we'll sell them for you for a 10% fee of anything sold, while you enjoy the rest of the con... or just sit in the bar!

More news on guests, workshops & panels will be added as we confirm items.

Attendance fee is £5 a day (to be confirmed), or you can volunteer to be a gopher during the weekend for free entry.

Suggestions, queries and contact: caption@caption.org

(Caption Flyer by David O'Connell - tozocomic  )

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. Holden Interview
14.15 - 15.15           Melinda Gebbie Talk
15.30 - 16.30           The Future Is Now - Webcomics Panel with P.J. Holden, Sydney Padua, David O’Connell, Dino-Saw-Us, Paul Duffield,                                        Paul Gravett (chair)
16.45 - 17.45          John Miers Talk
18.00 - 19.00          Caption Art Auction, with proceeds to the Caption Warchest
19.00 - 21.00           Dinner Break
21.00 - 22.00           Mad Science Quiz  with Titanic Tony Hitchman
23.00                         Doors close

Sunday 1st August 2010

10.00                        Doors open
11.00 - 12.00          DFC Library Panel with Sarah McIntyre, Kate Brown, Neill Cameron
12.15 - 13.15          Paul Cornell Q & A
13.30 - 15.00          Al Davison Art Workshop
14:00 - 15.00          Sydney Padua Interview
15.15 - 16.15          Darryl Cunningham Interview: interviewed by Sarah McIntyre

*** If you have comics and loot to reclaim from the Caption Table, can you please do so before 5 o’clock, to speed up the tidying up process***

16.30 - 17.30         Comics as Mind Control Panel with Melinda Gebbie, Darryl Cunningham, John Miers
17.30                       Doors close on another Caption era!

We're pleased to announce that the DINO-SAW-US sticker game (as seen at the UK Web & Mini-Comix Thing & the MCM Expo) will be joining us at Caption: http://dinosawus.blogspot.com/

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

As Caption is a convention that has a communal stall rather than separate artist stalls we have changed the game slightly...

Artists and Collectors- to be involved simply come along to Caption on 31st August/1st July and visit the Dino-Saw-Us area. Your Caption guide will contain your collectible sticker passport page. We will be there armed with blank stickers to draw and swap with other people. We will also have a limited number of specially printed Caption stickers! Draw a sticker and swap this for a sticker by another artist/collector and if you collect ten or more you will get a prize! Those who already have Moo stickers can bring those along too.

It's fun! And cool. And maybe you'll make some new friends.

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We're also very excited to hear that the final part of Paul Rainey's long comic project "There's No Time Like the Present" will be launching at Caption. If you're not already reading There's No Time Like the Present, why not? Find out more and read the first 39 pages for free at http://www.pbrainey.com/tntltp.htm

We're just finalising the timetable for the weekend and will release that in the next few days.

Tickets will be available on the door: £5 per day/£10 for weekend. I'm afraid we don't offer concessions, as we feel the door price is very reasonable.

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luv & jellybabies
Selina
Caption: http://caption.org

For anyone interested in exhibiting artwork and/or donating artwork to the Caption auction then we are always to accept artwork on the day (Sat 31st July).

However, if you'd like your artwork to appear in the Mad Science Caption 2010 souvenir printed booklet then we will need a 300dpi scan, or hard copy of the artwork by 13th July.

Any queries to jay.eales@googlemail.com

We are also experiencing a few problems with the Caption website at the moment, so you can also check the
:Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=401447532588&ref=ts
: Livejournal: http://community.livejournal.com/caption/

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luv & jellybabies
Selina
The Girly Comic
http://www.factorfictionpress.co.uk/
http://caption.org

Caption 2010 has been confirmed as being the Saturday 31st July & Sunday 1st August at the East Oxford Community Centre.

The theme is Mad Science!

All ideas based around the theme welcome. Get those pencils going...

We will be running the Caption comics table as usual, so if you have comics to sell just bring them along to the event and we'll sell them for you for a 10% fee.

If you are interested in being on a panel, doing a talk, running a workshop or being on the Caption Committe then please contact selina.lock@googlemail.com

If you are interested in providing artwork or articles for the Caption Programme Booklet then please contact jay.eales@googlemail.com