Why graphic novels are more than picture perfect

Four leading political cartoonists reveal what inspires them.

Some images from the DIWO and the Dark Mountain exhibition & Performance - some of my drawings on the wall - here and here.

Guantánamo Boy, a novel that pulls no punches in its depiction of the torture, isolation and injustices suffered by prisoners at the notorious camp. The book focuses on Khalid, an ordinary 15-year-old from Rochdale who spends his time playing computer games, hanging out with his mates in the park and wishing he had the guts [...]

Japanese bookstores are preparing for what they expect to be the publishing phenomenon of the year: Das Kapital – the manga version.
“The comic, which goes on sale early next month, plays into a growing fascination among Japan’s hard-working labour force with socialist literature and joins a collection of increasingly fierce literary critiques of the [...]

Nice composition - why do I like it? the ornamental stuff at the bottom seems to make it work. Not sure about the use of a photo, I wouldn’t do that personally though why not. The copyright stuff is probably an attempt to seem anti corporate, where it’s actually just a decorative thing. I also [...]

Physical 3D landscape terrain models generated by datasets relating to the frequency & position of urban crimes. the precise statistics are provided by the police. each individual incident adds to the height of the model, forming a mountainous terrain. the resulting “Mountain Fear” objects do not describe an ideal other-worldly space separated from lived reality, [...]

Visited the Science Museum today and just by chance saw an called “Listening Post” - by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin.
Interesting to me because it explores some of the ‘networked’ story things that interest me - and is doing some of the things I do - taking fragments sampled from live chat rooms, bulletin [...]

Some nice generated GD pictures here.

The “output-gallery contains datascapes generated by users from input-gallery and a set of filters, using for example Apache log files or texts from mails currently circulating on the network”. The imagery and concept reminds me a lot of my wreckers project from early last year, and also corrugation street, 2005.

7 FEBRUARY with KATE PULLINGER & CHRIS JOSEPH
“I have finished my weekly supermarket shop, stocking up on provisions formy three kids, my husband, our dog and our cat.  I push the loaded trolley across the car park, battling to keep its wonky wheels on track.  I pop open the boot of my car and then for [...]