Mad Science Caption: First Guests Confirmed
Sydney Padua will be joining us. Sydney is the creator of webcomic "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage", which sees Victorian scientists Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage fighting crime. Sydney also works as an animator. Read the comics at http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/
Al Davison will once be providing one of his fabulous drawing workshops, and bringing along stock from his Astral Gypsy Comic Shop. Al is also designing the Caption t-shirt this year. Al has recently been working on the IDW Doctor Who comic, Vertigo's House of Mystery and has released a new book Hokusai: Demons. More info on Al's work at Hokusai: http://astralgypsy.blogspot.com/
John Miers will be doing a talk about a large-format project called "Babel", exhibited as part of last year's Comica, that uses a wordless pictorial language to interpret the biblical myth. For more information on John see his website http://www.johnmiers.com/
Jeremy Day will kick Caption off on the Saturday morning with a workshop. More details to follow.
Tony Hitchman will be providing us with one of his fun quizzes on the Mad Science theme.
As usual we are looking for materials for the souvenir programme booklet, art show and/or auction. For more details email jay.eales@googlemail.com
We're also after volunteers to help out at the event, in return for free entry, so let us know if you'd be interested.
Mad Science Caption takes place at the East Oxford Community Centre, Oxford on Saturday 31st July and Sunday 1st August.