posted April 22. 2008:
From now on, we'll be posting our news, updates, work in progress, sketches, and more, to http://www.metaphrog.blogspot.com.
Below is our archive blog.
posted April 9, 2008:
The List have featured our forthcoming talk in their 600th issue, and kindly included a photo taken by our good friend Jim Taylor.
posted March 12, 2008:
Here's a flyer for our forthcoming workshop on May 23rd. Booking is essential for this free event. Call 0131 623 4675 or email events@nls.uk.
Further details of this workshop and of the Panel/Talk (on April 23rd) can be found in our last post, below.
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posted
February 29, 2008:
It's been a while since we've posted, we've been busy working
on the new Louis - Night Salad.
Here's
a couple of events we're going to be doing at the National Library
of Scotland this spring, as part of their series of events on graphic novels:
Talk/Panel Session: 'In conversation with metaphrog'.
Chaired by Lisa Otty, Graduate School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh.
When: Wednesday April 23 -
7pm.
Where:
National
Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EW.
Free admission
Workshop:
'Create your own comics' (for
ages 8-12, places are limited).
When: Friday May 23 - 2.30 pm.
Where: National
Library of Scotland,
George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EW.
Booking essential for this free event: events@nls.uk or 0131 623 4675.
These events are held in conjuction with the exhibition Local Heroes - The Art of the Graphic Novel which will take place at the National Library of Scotland from April 4th until June 1st 2008.
Alan Grant and Cam Kennedy, Frank Quitely, Gary Erskine, David Donaldson, and Dr Mel Gibson will also be doing talks, while curator John Birch will give a guided tour of the exhibition. Go to the link above for more detail.
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posted
October 25, 2007:
Here's
a few pics from our recent trip to SPX. We had a fantastic time
there, everyone made us feel extremely welcome. Many thanks again
to the Scottish Arts Council who made the trip possible.
Adhouse
were our neighbours at the show and proved to be great ones at
that! Thanks Chris for the roots music cds!!
John
with Larry Marder of Bean World, who was usually at the CBLDF
booth in front of us, but often popped up to our table for highly
enjoyable chats.
John
and Greg Bennett of Big Planet Comics plus tame bear after a night
of cool beers with the CBLDF's Charles Brownstein, also pictured
here with beard in the background.
The
metaphrog table.
Sandra
gets a quiet sip of morning coffee before the busy day.
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posted
September 2, 2007
We
wish to thank the Scottish
Arts Council for providing funding to support our forthcoming
trip to SPX,
The Expo.
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posted
June 11th 2007
Pictured:
12 original pages from Louis
- Dreams Never Die exhibited at Dundee University, Scotland
(May 4th - June 2nd 07), as part of the 'Biff!
Bam!! Crikey!!!: Comics As Design and Entertainment' conference
and exhibition:
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posted
May 31st 2007
THE
SPX ALBUM: interview compilation:
The
SPX album is a really funny compilation of snapshot interviews
of cartoonists and others during the 2002 SPX
expo, weaved together with music, by
Interview Records.
Interviewees include Scott McCloud, Sam Henderson, Bryan Talbot,
Roger Langridge, Jason, Bob Fingerman, Jon Lewis, metaphrog and
more...
'
Recorded at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda Maryland in 2002.This
album asks alternative comic book artists, writers and others
involved in the industry about their very first comic book..Making
comic books for the neighborhood and at the hair salon. Blowing
up their hometowns and interpreting Jaws without ever seeing the
movie..'
To
listen to the mp3 preview of the album from their website, please
click here.
www.interview-press.com
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posted
April 2007
CONFERENCE
& EXHIBITION:
Talk:
Meeting with Metaphrog:
As
part of the Six Cities Design Festival and the
'Biff! Bam!! Crikey!!!: Comics As Design and Entertainment' conference,
metaphrog will be presenting their work and talking about the
creative process applied to graphic novels.
When:
FRIDAY 25th MAY, 3.00pm
Where: D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre,
Tower Building, University of Dundee, UK.
The
Festival will celebrate the history of comics in Dundee and will
celebrate the 70th anniversary of DC Thomson's The Dandy,
as well as exploring comics as art, popular culture and design.
With stalls, exhibitions, and talks on comics by leading comics
scholars and historians, including Paul Gravett, Roger Sabin,
Chris Murray and more.
'Biff!
Bam!! Crikey!!!: Comics As Design and Entertainment' conference:
When: Fri 25th & Sat 26th May 2007
Where: D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building University
of Dundee, Scotland.
All Welcome!
Exhibition:
Original
artwork from their Louis series will be exhibited, along
with the work of Hunt Emerson, and of Lyall Bruce (of Sooper Double
D), Victoria Baker and Stuart David Fallon, three Dundee based
designers who have been selected to work on 'See New Worlds',
a comic commissioned for the Festival to highlight Dundee's visual
storytelling strengths and position within comic realms.
Exhibition
Launch: FRIDAY 25th MAY,
5.30pm.
Where: Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee, UK
Exhibition runs: 4 May - 2 June
Mon-Fri 9.30 am - 8.30 pm
Sat 9.30 am -4.30 pm
FREE
ENTRY
For
programme info and to book your place click here
Six
Cities Design Festival
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posted
April 2007
metaphrog
is featured in Character
Design for Graphic Novels by Steven
Withrow and Alexander Danner.
The book showcases character design from the world's leading
artists onscreen and on the printed page, and provides a hardworking
guide to the process behind the evolution and development of character
design, the key milestones of the art, the genre busters, and
the genre definers.
Featured artists include Bryan Talbot, Scott McCloud, Jason Little,
Craig Thompson, Jeff Smith,, Jeffrey Brown, Will Eisner, Matt
Kint and many more...
metaphrog
was also previously featured in Webcomics:
Tools and Techniques for Digital Cartooning by Steven Withrow
and John Barber, now being published in France by Atelier
Perrousseaux under the title: BD en ligne, La bande-dessinée
sur le web : outils et techniques.
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posted
Feb 2007
TALK:
Six
Cities Design Festival:
Comics As Design & Entertainment
The
Festival will celebrate the history of comics in Dundee as well
as exploring comics as art, popular culture and design.
metaphrog
will be presenting their work and talking about the creative process
applied to graphic novels, on Friday May 25th. More details soon...
Six
Cities Design Festival, Dundee.
May 25 to 26, 2007
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Posted
Feb 2007
WORKSHOP:
As part of the Live
Literature Scotland Scheme, metaphrog will be doing a workshop
on graphic novels, for children from St Lukes and Mayfield Primary
School.
Tuesday
6th March, 2pm.
Mayfield Library, Dalkeith, Scotland.
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posted
Dec 2006
METAPHROG
IN ANGOULEME:
Metaphrog
will be attending the Festival
International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême,
France, next January.
Metaphrog
wish to thank the Scottish Arts Council for their support in financing
this trip.
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posted
Nov 2006
METAPHROG
ILLUSTRATIONS ON ALTPICK.COM:
http://altpick.com/metaphrog
Altpick.com is the web source for creative talent & information.
SIGNING:
A last minute signing with metaphrog (Louis),
Paul Gravett
(Great British Comics), and Marc Baines (Kingly
Books):
Sat
Dec 2nd, 3-4pm
Hitherto at Tinderbox, 14/1 Ingram Street, Glasgow G1 (UK)
COMIC
EVENT REPORT:
Thanks to those of you who made it to the Glasgow event
at the Alliance Française/Goethe Institut (3rd - 4th Nov:
"Lost in Translation: Do Comics Need Language?", a talk,
panel discussion and comic workshop with Paul Gravett, Marc Baines,
Arne Bellstorf and metaphrog.)
Joe
Gordon at Forbidden Planet Edinburgh has kindly transcripted the
event online.
Paul
Gravett's talk:
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=1930
Panel
(with metaphrog, Arne Bellstorf, Paul Gravett, chaired by Marc
Baines):
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=1965
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posted
Oct 2006
Louis
- Lying to Clive on serializer.net:
Serializer.net,
the critically acclaimed site for art comics on the web, is reassembling.
Louis - Lying to Clive will run for 19 weeks, updated every Tuesday
from 24th October 2006.
Louis - Lying to Clive was originally self-published in print
in 2001.
Louis - Red Letter Day, which was serialized on the site during
2003, will also still be available to read on
serializer.net.
Other
creators on serializer.net
include Tom Hart, Nick Bertozzi, Jen Sorensen, Eric Milikin, Sam
Henderson, Matt Feazell, Matt Bors and many more!
Please
be sure to visit!
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posted
Oct 2006
Louis
short story in Variant:
Louis
- The Round the World Rug Race
is
published in Variant #27 winter 2006. The 12 page black and white
short story
previously appeared in the US anthology "SPX 2003: a sequential
arts travelogue".
Variant
is a free UK newspaper for culture and the arts.
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posted
Oct 2006
Comic
Event:
metaphrog
will be attending the two day event at the The Alliance Française
/ Goethe Institute, Glasgow:
"Lost in Translation: Do Comics Need Language?".
The event with talks, panels, discussions, comic workshop.
Guests include Paul Gravett, Marc Baines, Arne Bellstorf.
The Alliance Française
/ Goethe Institute
Glasgow - UK
Fri 3rd Nov - Sat 4th Nov.
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posted
July 2006
Find
us on MySpace:
www.myspace.com/metaphrogcomics
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posted
June 2006
Louis Short story:
Louis et
la Boite à Chant is appearing in the Franco-Belgian anthology
Anthologie
de BD Britanniques Contemporaines, published by I.M.A.
The metaphrog short story is featured along with twelve other
British artists.
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posted
Jan 2006
Louis on the cover of Variant:
Variant
25 Spring 2006, the free newspaper for culture and the arts in
the UK.
View
cover
Also featured in this issue:
Mr Hebbly, not a golfer, an illustrated short story by
metaphrog.
Read
stroy
www.variant.org.uk
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posted
Dec 2005
Louis in The Big Issue:
The Big Issue in Scotland has published
an
exclusive metaphrog short story in their
special Christmas issue entitled
Louis and the
Box of Song.
Read
it online now:
English version:
www.louisandfc.com/louisandtheboxofsong.htm
French
version:
Louis et la Boite à Chant.
www.louisandfc.com/louisetlaboiteachant.htm
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Festival:
Metaphrog will be attending the
Festival International de la Bande Dessinée
d'Angoulême, France(25/01/06 to 29/01/06 ).
Metaphrog wish to thank the Scottish Arts
Council for their kind assistance in providing
us with a travel grant.
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posted
Nov 2005
New
Louis:
Metaphrog are currently working
on a new Louis project...
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posted
Oct 2005
New Shop:
simbioticstore.com
is now operating
our new online shop, www.simbioticstore.com/metaphrog/
You can now buy online with all major credit cards, switch
and other debit cards, or alternatively, still send a cheque.
simbioticstore.com carry thousands of products from record labels,
musicians, venues, promoters, designers, photographers and artists.
New
Prints:
5
new prints from metaphrog.
View on original
art and prints page.
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posted
Jun 2005
A Traveller's Tale:
The anthology Autobiographix
(Dark Horse)
is to be published in Spain and Italy by Ediciones
Glenat and Kappa
Edizioni respectively.
The anthology comprises short stories by Frank Miller, Will Eisner,
Sergio Aragonés Eddie Campbell, Jason Lutes, Atan Sakai, metaphrog,
and more.
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posted
Apr 2005
Exhibition:
ROAR
6th May to 2nd June
An exhibition
of original pages of art, comics and graphic novel work by Scotland
based creators spanning from Electric Soup, including work by
Shug, Dave Alexander, and early rarely seen Frank Quitely work;
up until contemporary work by The Freedom Collective, Ben Simpson,
the Northern Lightz team and Franco-Scottish duo metaphrog. Underground
and adult comic content plus gallery, shop and archive library,
opening event will see writer Grant Morrison on the decks.
Private
view:
7 - 9pm Thursday the 5th of May
Opening hours:
9am - 5pm weekdays
12noon - 6pm on Saturday.
DGP Studio and Space,
32 St Andrews Street in Glasgow's Saltmarket, UK..