In his latest strip about the Tay Bridge disaster David Robertson finds a connection between the bridge and spiders!?!
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Month: November 2017
Comics Club Blog – November Comics Challenge
Our pals at Comics Club Blog asked us to do their Comics Challenge for November. We thought it was a great chance to share the workshop that we have been doing for the Being Human Festival and inspired by Gulliver’s Travels. Click on the links to try it out for yourself, and while you’re there check out all the cool stuff they have been up to!
Swift at 350 – comic launch!
Come along on Saturday to find out the winners of this year’s Dundee Comics Prize!
We are delighted to invite you the launch of Swift at 350, a comic that responds to the work of the world’s greatest satirist. The event takes place this Saturday (25th November), and promises to be a lot of fun! Part of the Being Human Festival of the Arts 2017, the occasion is inspired by Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel, Gulliver’s Travels.
Saturday 25th November 2017
6.00 – 8.00pm
Dundee Comics Creative Space
Professor Chris Murray will give a brief overview of some of the wonderful adaptations of Swift’s work in comics, and the winner of the Dundee Comics Prize will be announced. The creators of the stories that appear in Swift at 350 will discuss their contribution, and every attendee will be able to pick up a free copy of the comic. Come meet the creators and learn more about the process of bringing ideas to life in the comics form. There will also be a wine reception.
Tickets are free, and can be booked through this link.
Follow the Dundee hub of the Being Human Festival on Twitter @HumanDundee and on Facebook for the latest updates. In addition to University and local news outlets, we recently featured on a special edition about Gulliver’s Travels for Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3.
Please share this event with anyone who may be interested, and bring along friends and family on the day.
Look forward to seeing you there!
The Imaginarium – Being Human Festival
DCCS is running comics workshops as part of the Being Human Festival from 2-5pm on 22nd November in the Dalhousie Building room 2S14, University of Dundee. Details below. All Welcome!
What is the Google brain doing to our imagination? Are lie detectors always honest? What is bullet time? What is monster theory?
The Imaginarium, a showcase for the arts and sciences, comprises eight rooms in the Dalhousie Building at the University of Dundee stuffed with ongoing, drop-by activities (i.e. come by when you can). Ushers will be available to take you on a tour of the different rooms on the day itself.
(1) Telling Tall Tales (a creative writing workshop with Eddie Small) (2G14: 4-6pm)
(2) A Pop-Up Psychology Lab (1LG03: 2-5pm)
(3) The Mega-Knitting Room (2G13: 2-5pm)
(4) The VR Museum (2S17: 2-5pm)
(5) The Comics Studio (with pop-up book-making) (2S14: 2-5pm)
(6) A Gulliver’s Travels Art Installation (2S16: 2-5pm)
(7) The Green-Screen Film Studio (in the Drama Studio: 2-5pm) and
(8) The Imaginarium Lightning Lectures (Lecture Theatre 1: 2-5pm, details below).
Various rooms will also include looped film screenings, such as Dame Sue Black’s Martian Autopsy and various classic animations of Gulliver’s Travels.
The Imaginarium Lightning Lectures –
2pm to 2.45pm
Daniel Cook (English) – Introduction
Keith Williams (English) – A Quick History of Bullet Time
Nicholas Wade (Psychology) – The Science and Art of Vision
3pm to 4.45pm
Karen Petrie (Computing) – The Growth of Artificial Intelligence
Hope Roulstone (English) – On Monster Theory
Anna Robb (Education) – Why All Schools Should Be Art Schools
4pm to 4.45pm
Dominic Smith (Philosophy) – The Tay Bridge Disaster
Roger (Ruo-Qian) Wang (Civil Engineering) – Crowd-sourcing Data and Urban Flooding
Adam Cuthbert (English) – On Camera-Eye and the Stream of Consciousness
This event is part of the University of Dundee’s Being Human Festival of the Humanities series Jonathan Swift at 350: lost and found
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Charlie Adlard talk at DCCS
Acclaimed comics artist, and the UK’s Comics Laureate, Charlie Adlard will be in Dundee at 6pm on Friday 10th November 2017 to give a talk on his career, and his work as Comics Laureate.
Charlie is best known as the artist of the hugely successful comic, The Walking Dead, which has been adapted into a massively popular television series. He has also worked on comics such as 2000AD, The X-Files, and various titles for both Marvel and DC.
The event, which is open to the public, will start and 6pm in Dundee Comics Creative Space and will take the form of a Q&A session, chaired by Professor Chris Murray, followed by a wine reception. If you’d like to meet Charlie Adlard and learn about his work in comics, and as Comics Laureate, please confirm attendance at our Facebook events page.
Dundee Shmundee #8
Here is the latest in our occasional webcomics series from our Ink Pot artists.
David Robertson finds out what the eels think about the Tay Bridge disaster!
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GULLIVER’S WORLDS at Dundee Science Centre
Gulliver’s Worlds
4th November 10am-5pm
Dundee Science Centre
DCCS will be at Dundee Science Centre tomorrow running comics workshops during the Gulliver’s Worlds day of events (part of the Dundee Science Festival and the Being Human festival). There is a full day of events from 10am-5pm. Our artist/facilitators will be there between 10am-noon and 2-4pm. Come along and invent some wonderful creatures and make some comics!
Join Gulliver on his journeys through different worlds!
Follow the story of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ as written by Jonathan Swift and take a fresh look at our Environment from different perspectives.
What does it feel like from the perspective of a giant, do we realise how small we actually are and what might life look like if it were to exist somewhere else in the universe?
Find out all about these different ‘points-of-view’ – both in this world and out!
Dundee Comics Creative Space 