The irreplaceable Mike Leader starts his irregular WAW+P podcast today, recorded live at Wilton’s Cafe in Hackney for London Fields Radio. Following on from our debut show in February he reboots the format – like Superboy Prime punching at the very barriers of reality – ahead of what will soon become a series of interviews,… [Read more…]
August 11, 2010
Hypercomics: The Shapes of Comics to Come featuring the work of Adam Dant, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Dave McKean and Warren Pleece opens tomorrow at the Pumphouse Gallery in Battersea, and it’s looking like it’ll be an outstanding show. Paul Gravett‘s curated the exhibition, and it’s a showcase of some of the areas that comics are… [Read more…]
July 27, 2010
While the main We Are Words + Pictures contingent took Latitude by storm, a small but significant splinter group – the X-Force, if you will – traveled out to a festival of their own at Legoland Windsor. The trio, consisting of Adam Cadwell, Kayla Hillier and Michael Leader, took up root in the Kickers tent… [Read more…]
July 26, 2010
We’ve been threatening to do it for ages and here it is… our summer soiree in the park on Saturday 14 August. Where: Green Park, London. When: From 13.00. Come along to Drop In + Draw and talk comics with us. A cordial invitation is hereby extended to one and all. WAW+P x
July 21, 2010
After we got a mention in What’s On Stage‘s review of Latitude and Tom and Edward both wrote up their experiences, we asked Anne Holiday to write a few words about the weekend… Bringing comics to festivals was an idea formed in 2009 after traipsing around fields across the country throughout the summer. Some festivals… [Read more…]
July 5, 2010
Image by Marc Sethi This morning we’re delighted to announce that We Are Words + Pictures will be heading to the Latitude Festival! We’re going to be doing an extended Drop In + Draw over the festival weekend in the heart of Pandora’s Playground, making comics and doodling away amidst a host of fantastic acts… [Read more…]
June 7, 2010
Some neat commentary from Tom about his thoughts on Digital Distribution, as well as a few questions about WAW+P from creators in general, prompts us to post a little about our new mission statement. In the top corner of the site you might have seen this appear in the last few days; We promote the… [Read more…]
May 1, 2010
Happy Free Comic Book Day! The best and brightest of the UK Comics have come together for the latest issue of Paper Science, released today…for free! That’s right, you can either pick up a limited edition copy of the newspaper at the stores below or download a copy from here under a Creative Commons license.… [Read more…]
August 11, 2010
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