The Comic Book Project at the Collective Gallery

The Comic Book Project is one of those rare initiatives bringing together the panoply of talent of Edinburgh in August 2007 across the various festivals.  A celebration of contemporary comic book art, the project united comedians with artists, words with the visual arts, film with publishing and performance with pictures.  

The first in a unique programme of events produced by the Collective, this project was in association with Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Traverse Theatre.  It was the only project to appear within four of the Edinburgh Festivals.

The project examined the relationship between modes of performative practice within visual art, theatre and comedy, commissioning a series of new works produced collaboratively by a diverse range of practitioners.

The programme emerged thematically from a new publication titled 'Our Comic Book', edited by project curator Mel Brimfield (published by Revolver, Frankfurt). Theatre makers, comedians, writers and cartoonists are invited to contribute works based loosely on generic comic strips, such as Romance, Superhero, Football and Horror.

Highlights include collaborations by novelist and screenwriter Jake Arnott (The Long Firm, Johnny Come Home) and painter Geraint Evans, and comedian Simon Munnery (Alan Parker Urban Warrior, League Against Tedium) and cult NY cartoonist Mark Newgarden (inventor of The Garbage Pail Kids).

For more information, please visit the Collective Gallery website.