Anime Architecture Exhibition at the House of Illustration

The House of Illustration is a great gallery that holds some wonderful exhibitions. I've been to a few but when I heard that they were going to be holding the UK’s first ever exhibition of handmade background illustrations for classic sci-fi manga and anime films, including works from Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Patlabor: The Movie and Metropolis I was sold! I was a huge manga nerd in my teens and so the chance to see some of the original artwork is too good to miss out on.

The exhibition will run from 26 May to 10 Sep 2017 and I will definitely be going. The link to purchase tickets are below.

House of Illustration Exhibition : Comix Creatrix 100 Women Making Comics

There was controversy recently when the top French comic award panel for Grand Prix d'Angouleme created a 30 strong list of nominees, all male. Now without being accused of being a Social Justice Warrior this seems very unusual, in a recent article I wrote how the top selling New York Times comic artist was a female, Raina Telgemeier. This fact seems to be forgotten in the public realm with many assuming it is the big names like Alan Moore, Mark Millar, Scott Snyder or Brian K. Vaughan. There are many females out there contributing greatly to comics and there always have been; Rumiko Takahashi, Posy Simmonds, Marjane Satrapi and Tove Jansson to name a few. To miss out so many talented comic creators and artists seems egregious to say the least. However, the House of Illustration is hosting an exciting exhibition looking at the role of women in the creation of comics as a medium. The exhibition will run from 5th Feb to 15th May and I will be heading down to give it a look. I'd recommend that you do too as I went for the Quentin Blake and Ladybird Books exhibitions and loved them. Every-time I've visited I've had a great time and I'm sure this time will be no different.

Ladybird Books Exhibition in London

For people of a certain age Ladybird Books bring back fond memories of reading and childhood. The Ladybird books were much loved due to their wonderful text but more importantly due to the wonderful illustrations. Well in celebration of Ladybirds 100 years of publishing House of Illustrations in Kings Cross, London is holding an exhibition and organising many events to commemorate this momentous event. The exhibition is running from now until 27th September. For more details check out the video below and check out the link underneath that for details on tickets and when the events runs.