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Events

25 May
Aimée de Jongh: Drawing Where Cameras Are Forbidden at ILFD

Cartoonist Aimée de Jongh discusses the power of journalistic comics to show hidden places and previews her forthcoming graphic novel, inspired by her visits to refugee camps in Greece.

25 May
Aimée de Jongh, Xiaolu Guo & Clara Kumagai at ILFD

Contemporary takes on the classics have surged in popularity. Three creators discuss the inspiration to be found in the canon, and how modern retellings can transform our understanding of a novel.

24 May
Marije Tolman: A Mural for Merrion Square Park at ILFD

Help us make a mural for Merrion Square Park! Belgian Illustrator Marije Tolman will set a creative challenge for you to make your mark in this huge piece of participatory art.

11 Oct
Aimée de Jongh's Lord of the Flies

Aimée de Jongh's adapatation of William Golding's Lord of the Flies at Cheltenham Literature Festival

12 Oct
Lord of the Flies launch with Aimée de Jongh

Lord of the Flies launch with Aimée de Jongh at Manchester Literature Festival

28 Sep
Lord of the Flies – the Graphic Novel Launch

Launch in the North event with Aimée de Jongh

10-26 Aug
Edinburgh International Book Festival

From 10 to 26 August Scotland will be buzzing with literature during the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the largest literature festival in the world. Dutch literature will be represented by picture book author Mylo Freeman, comic maker and graphic novelist Typex and novelist Tommy Wieringa.

Books

Taxi!

Aimée de Jongh, one of the brightest new talents in Europe, creates her first autobiographical work, focusing on taxi rides from four cities: Los Angeles, Paris, Jakarta, and Washington, DC. Despite the stunning and detailed streetscapes she passes, de Jongh discovers she’s more interested in the cab drivers than the…

Andy

From the thirty-two canvas Campbell’s Soup Cans to the Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol’s silk-screen prints are the epitome of Pop Art: witty, gimmicky and unafraid of repetition. Obsessed with consumerism and the cult of celebrity, Warhol exalted the "surface of things" - and yet he was a man of deep…