For anyone interested in exhibiting artwork and/or donating artwork to the Caption auction, part of Mad Science Caption 2010 at the East Oxford Community Centre on 31st July - 2nd August, the organisers tell
downthetubes they can accept artwork right up to the opening day of this ace British small press event.
However, if you'd like your artwork to appear in the
Mad Science Caption 2010 souvenir printed booklet then they will need a 300dpi scan, or hard copy of the artwork by 13th July. Any queries to jay.ealesATgooglemail.com.
Guests already lined up include
Sydney Padua, animator and creator of the superb webcomic,
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage (sample above), which sees Victorian scientists Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage fighting crime;
Al Davison, who will once be providing one of his fabulous drawing workshops, bringing along stock from his Astral Gypsy Comic Shop, and is also designing the Caption t-shirt this year; and
John Miers, who will be doing a talk about a large-format project,
Babel, exhibited as part of last year's Comica, that uses a wordless pictorial language to interpret the biblical myth.
Jeremy Day will kick Caption off on the Saturday morning with a workshop;
Tony Hitchman will be providing us with one of his fun quizzes on the Mad Science theme.
This year's Special Guest is
Melinda Gebbie, who started out in the American alternative comics scene in the 1970s and is now best known for her collaboration on
Lost Girls with Alan Moore;
Sarah McIntyre will be interviewing
Darryl Cunningham about his new book
Psychiatric Tales and his other work; and
2000AD and incoming
Strip Magazine UK artist
PJ Holden, will be talking about digital comics.
Other guests are
Paul Duffield, artist on Warren Ellis'
FreakAngels, who will join the webcomic panel,
Neill Cameron and
Kate Brown, who will be talking about their DFC Library books,
Mobot High and
Spider Moon.
• Caption report they are also experiencing a few problems with the Caption website at the moment, so you can also check the Facebook Event page or Livejournal site for the latest news.
