The Humber Mouth Literature Festival 2009 (4/7)

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Friday June 26

David Gaffney: Twenty-three stops to Hull Artlink 7.30pm £5 Box Office 01482 226655 Micro-fiction for the text generation, David Gaffney's compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving a trace memory of some new urban myth Ñ comic, absurd and disturbingly true. David has been visiting every town along the M62 between Liverpool and Hull and writing stories inspired by what he sees, hears and experiences for this Humber Mouth Special Commission.

David Gaffney is the author of Sawn-Off Tales, Aromabingo and Never Never. He was born in West Cumbria, studied in Birmingham and now lives in Manchester. He has worked as an English teacher, a film studies lecturer, holiday camp entertainer, a medical records clerk, a pub pianist, a debt counsellor in Moss Side, a legal consultant in Liverpool, and now works for a shadowy government organisation. 'Utterly brilliant. Hilariously demented and wonderfully succinct....This is writing at its best.' Graham Rawle 'David Gaffney writes truly 21st century stories for a fragmented and fragmenting world; they're short, snappy and utterly addictive' Ian McMillan Saturday June 27th

Workshop with Rupert Clamp - 'Paper, Scissors, Stone...' Artlink, 87 Princes Avenue, Hull 11.00am - 1.00pm and repeated at 2.00pm - 4.00pm Booking fee £5 per participant to be paid in advance. Please book places through Artlink directly Contact Katie Gill for enquiries: 01482 345104, gallery@artlink.uk.net

This workshop led by artist Rupert Clamp provides the opportunity for participants to explore playfully the relationships between newspaper stories, headlines and the images associated with them, in particular looking at how positioning, layout and context affect how we interpret a story or article. Drawing on the ideas and techniques of Rupert's work, along with other selected historical artworks, participants will be encouraged to combine and re-present contemporary newspaper articles, headlines and images to convey alternative interpretations. The workshop will begin with a brief introduction to Rupert's work, followed by a series of group and individual creative activities that explore related ideas. For instance, participants will consider how the same article can be presented and interpreted in different ways depending on the headline and images associated with it. We will look how the same story is presented in different newspapers; find our own headlines for newspaper articles and vice versa, use collage to add images into articles and there will be the possibility to create and photograph new images for articles using digital cameras. These activities, supported by group discussion, will culminate in participants producing their own finished artwork that will be scanned and printed as a newspaper story. No experience is required for this workshop. Suitable for adults aged 16+, there are 8 places available on each of the two sessions. All equipment will be provided.

Tim Quinn ARGH! The Ups and Downs of Life as a Comic Book Creator ArtLink, 87 Princes Avenue 7.30pm £5 Box Office 01482 226655 Celebrating 42,000 Years of Comic Books Stories told in pictures have been around for a long time...from prehistoric cave wall drawings through the Bayeaux Tapestry.

But it was those Masters of Mirth the Victorians who finally came up with the handy-dandy-sized comic book and a whole new astonishing art form was created. From the Penny Dreadful to today's 250 penny dreadfullers, comic book scriptwriter, illustrator and editor Tim Quinn takes you on a highly nostalgic trip down memory lane to meet some of the great and not-so great comic characters of the last 150 years. About Tim Quinn Tim also takes you behind-the-scenes from his days working for The Beano, Sparky, Bunty, Playhour, Jack & Jill, Buster, The Topper, the Daily Mirror's Jane and Garth, and America's finest Marvel Comics to running his own comic book company alongside the elder daughter of Enid Blyton. He will guide you through the creation of a brand new comic book character and reveal to you his own secret identity as that Supreme Speedster, Jet Lagg. Starting his career as a Ring boy at Blackpool Tower Circus, Tim Quinn then leapt back in time to work on BBC TV's Good Old Days music hall series where he started writing scripts for top comedians. It was a small jump into the world of comic books where he spent a happy thirty years as scriptwriter, illustrator and editor on such noted titles as The Beano, The Dandy, Sparky, The Topper, Buster, Whoopee!, Bunty, Jackie, Dr Who Magazine, and Whizzer & Chips before heading Stateside to work for the mighty Marvel Comics Group on the world famous Spider-Man, X-Men and the Incredible Hulk. Tim has also worked as a writer for the Guardian newspaper, editor for America's oldest publication The Saturday Evening Post and producer for LWT's The South Bank Show (amongst others producing a show on the history of Marvel Comics). Today he runs a management company for recording artists.

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