Tag: graphic novel
Events
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…