Hi Ya’ll, Just back from holidaying and wanted to catch up on my (vastly overdue) blogging about two incredibly inspiring literary festivals I attended in the last couple of months. CROATIA AND...
YEEEHHHAAW! I am now officially funded by the Arts Council England. Our new graphic novel ‘Death of The Artist’ has received a grant. I am a very lucky girl indeed! A massive thanks to Nicola...
I was lucky enough to be invited by the British Council to the fantastic Kosmopolis literary festivalin Barcelona on March 14th-16th. It’s incredibly exciting to see more and more literary f...
http://www.karriefransman.com/barcelona-and-kosmopolis-literary-festival/
I heart Belgium. Honestly- where else are so many amazing comic artists and comic lovers packed into such a small place? in the last month I was lucky enough to be invited back twice for two diff...
http://www.karriefransman.com/back-to-brussels-for-passa-porta-festival-and-tag/
Goodness, have there been a lot of amazing events this month! The kick off of COMICA Festival in November unleashed a torrent of incredible exhibitions, talks, markets and awards which was follow...
The lovely folk at Comica festival joined forces with Foyles book shop to create a history of Foyles in comic form. I was invited to draw 2 panels alongside some amazing talent such as Steven App...
http://www.karriefransman.com/the-history-of-foyles-in-comic-form/
Just returned from the lovely Shamballa festival to find two of my comics articles have been published: The first is a 4-page article for the lovely Psychologies Magazine where I lived by four ru...
http://www.karriefransman.com/comic-articles-for-psychologies-magazine-and-the-new-statesman/
For those of you who didn’t know, I went fully freelance in April this year having finished my part-time 18 month comic youth project. I must admit I was pretty scared but it’s been a rollerc...
http://www.karriefransman.com/comics-for-the-telegraph-psychologies-magazine-and-strumpet/
I watched lots of interesting ‘customers’ while putting this display up at Gosh in the heart of seedy Soho. One who came to browse in the comic store while waiting for his slot in the brothel...
http://www.karriefransman.com/my-window-display-at-gosh-comic-shop-soho/
I recently published an illustrated article with The Guardian’s Comment is Free where I interviewed five graduates about the struggles of life post-uni: debts, being forced to live at home etc....
http://www.karriefransman.com/illustrated-article-for-the-guardian/