Talk: Paul Gravett, Graphic Novels
Wednesday 8 August / 6.30pm / £3, £2

London-based freelance journalist, curator, lecturer, writer and broadcaster, Paul Gravett, visits MK Gallery on Wednesday 8 August, for a special evening talk on the world of graphic novels.

Gravett has worked in comics publishing and promotion since 1981. He has curated numerous exhibitions of comic art in Britain and in Europe, including 'God Save The Comics!', a survey of British comic art at the National Comics and Image Centre in Angoulême, France and the first exhibit devoted to the writer Alan Moore and his collaborators at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi, Belgium. As Project Director of The Cartoon Art Trust in London, he worked on tributes to Carl Giles and Charles Schulz, creator of Peanuts, and The 100 British Cartoonists of the Century. Since 2003, Paul has been the director of Comica, London's International Comics Festival, and author/editor of several best-selling books about comics, including his latest, 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die (2011).

Paul Gravett www.paulgravett.com

Comica Festival  www.comicafestival.com