Lee O'Connor (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} leeoconnor) wrote,@ 2007-12-07 23:48:00 |
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Well, the Institute of Contemporary Arts panel was flippin' great. Many thanks to everybody who turned up and sold it out! I was a bit nervous, but I thought I managed to engage the audience pretty well.
Here's a few photies.
One side of the Nash Room Lecture hall at the ICA, before everybody turned up. Friendly tech guys can be seen rummaging about checking everything works.
The view out from the balconies of the Nash Room, of The Mall. Trafalgar Square is off to the left, and Buckingham Palace is down the road on the right.
See just how exciting it was... Heh. That's me in the white shirt, writer Sean, then Ruth from War on Want and Paul Gravett on the far right. I don't have any photos of us talking at the event, but I've nicked this one off Sean. We're working on getting some from War on Want, who were snappin' away while we were gabbin' away.
The book on sale in the ICA bookshop! And sign copies of it in the bar afterwards we certainly did.
Scan of the ICA's events programme with - unlikely as it seems - some of my artwork alongside Posy Simmonds'. Will wonders never cease?
We've been getting some great press for the book, which just goes to show what the Press Officer of an International charity can do for your project. Look! We were in The Guardian Guide, where they used the cover to the Iraq book to sum up the whole of the ComICA 2007 festival. Blimey.
The book's being reviewed by Paul Gravett in the December issue of Plan B Magazine. There have been reports on the book on; BBC Arabic, Reuters (In Korean!), United press International (UPI), the multi-lingual Euronews, French news service France 24, and on the radio in Austria and in print in Dubai! Apparently, we were nearly on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, too. Click all those links above for articles and videos (of Sean looking glamourous in Gosh Comics in London, talking about the book...) The nice little promo video used was put together by a lovely fellow called Adib at... Al-Jazeera.
So...
The book's out now. and y'know what..? It's available to buy from from the War on Want website, and the Boychild Productions website. It's also in the December issue of Previews, on page 350 or so, under Boychild Productions, order number DEC07 3504.
G'wan and give the gift of charitable comics this year.
