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 comica festival 04: confessions and convictions
 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Comics come of age at London’s ICA. After a hugely successful first year in 2003, the Comica festival is back at the ICA and The French Institute in London, and it continues to heap cultural credibility onto this once maligned art form. This year, the theme - Confessions & Convictions - highlights the trends towards autobiography and political commentary prevalent in the medium at the moment.The veritable smorgasbord of tip-top talent on offer includes Chris “Jimmy Corrigan” Ware and the legendary comic artist Seth, in conversation for the launch of the Comic Edition of supercool US lit journal, McSweeney’s. Steve Bell chews the fat with Bittercomix - whose radical strips were instrumental in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa - and the Serbian artist Aleksandar Zograf. Look out too, for talks featuring Sylvain Chomet (Belleville Rendez-Vous) and Craig Thompson, creator of the epic Blankets, set to be the biggest thing since Jimmy Corrigan. On film, there is the European premiere of The Mindscape Of Alan Moore, director DeZ Vylenz’s audience with the fascinating creator of From Hell and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Halloween Shorts: Enchanted & Slanted - The World of Comics On Short Film features exclusive screenings from artists such as Collective regular David Shrigley, Dave Cooper and Tony Millionaire (check his Maakies and Sock Monkey sites), who use Flash sites to display their work. Also on the Halloween menu are works by the man behind Gorillaz, Jamie Hewlitt, plus the award-winning Chasing Kevin by Scott Cramer and Randy Appell, which follows a filmmaker’s journey to become the next Kevin Smith. A mouth-watering prospect then, all in all. Oh, and there’s also the chance to see Herge’s Adventures of Tintin on the big screen. It’s enough to make a grown man cry. Comica Festival: Confessions & Convictions is at the ICA, 05-13 June 04.
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