CAPTION 2002

Saturday 17 / Sunday 18 August 2002

Oxford Union Society, St Michael's Street, Oxford

WORKSHOP RESULTS

Application form (PRINT this and post it to us with a cheque made out to CAPTION.)

Learn to draw minicomics for the Little Black Books exhibition.

Order Zip Gun Presents: Noir, an anthology produced to launch at Caption.

Okay, Kid, listen up. CAPTION is the UK's longest-running small press and alternative comics convention. Every year it fills up the Oxford Union buildings on St Michael's Street Oxford OX1 with an even worse sort of punks and reprobates than usually frequents such a dive. The beer's cheap, and the people are cheaper. They sell comics there, too. Lots of Comics. Weird comics, blue comics, obscure strange old new comics. If you take them yours, they'll sell them, too.

There's Panels, talks, workshops, shows, some sort of charity auction (all donations gratefully received) and a big bar. But none of that matters for now. What we're talking is the exhibition, a big corridor Full of dangerous comics, and we want one of them to have your name on it. Something twisted, disturbing, dark and decidedly noir. your own little black book. You know how to make one, don't you? You just put pen to paper and scribble.

This year, CAPTION celebrates Noir. As Noir is a classic genre, so we celebrate a classic format: the minicomic. Mini, as in A6 (105×144 mm) or smaller, comic, as in 2 or more panels/pages. So you want to know if you can break the rules. Well, that's only to be expected. you can break the rules, you can always break the rules. But please. Try to have a good reason. You don't want to draw. You can't draw. Well, I disagree, but I won't argue. You don't have to draw. Put together a small book of evidence, writing, or collage instead. I always find the soap opera pages in TVQuick especially inspirational. It's up to you. Sequential art is a broad church. I'll leave it to you to define the boundaries. Just remember -- you're making a noir minicomic. So let's have no hearts and flowers. That's so ... last year. Minicomic variations: classic 16pp, 4p folded, crossover folded, zig-zag folded, square stitched, or just draw two panels on the back of your form!

CAPTION 2002 IS on 17-18 August 2002. The site's open 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Finding the place is easy. The address is the Oxford Union, St Michael's Street, Oxford OX1. It's 3 mins walk from the bus station, 7 from the train station, right by Oxford's main shopping street. Buy tickets in advance for cheap rates, or on the door if you prefer. Membership in advance costs £9 (£6 unwaged). On the door it will be £12.