Historical

Caption 2010 is now over, and as the dust settles some bloggers are a-blogging the event.

Here’s write-ups from the aforelinked Sarah McIntyre, committee members Selina Lock and Jenni Scott, and Sean Azzopardi. Some people are tweeting with the hashtag #caption2010 or commenting on the event page on Facebook.

Sarah McIntyre has posted Caption festival writeup, caricatures and photos on her blog.

D’Israeli D’Emon D’Raftsman looks back on ten years of creating comics entirely in the informational womb of the computer—a practice he started with his comic strip for SpaceCAPTION1999.

Nuala from Sandman: The Kindly Ones, a convention sketch for CAPTION 2009 by D’Israeli; Sandman © 2009 Vertigo/DC Comics

We have sketchbooks in most of the rooms at CAPTION; just big ol' sketchbooks lying around with lots of pens and pencils and whatnot.

Photo by Garen Ewing

Sarah McIntyre gave CAPTION a great talk about children’s picture-books, comics, and the way each can draw on the other for inspiration.

Several people asked for a list of the books quoted during the talk, and she has obliged with a list at the end of this LiveJournal post.

Click on the pictures to see the first Broken Picture-Telephone game from CAPTION 2009.

Jenni Scott is posting her insider’s-eye-view of the event in daily instalments.

‘After popping into the town centre to get a new memory card and a bacon sammich from Browns in the covered market (right opposite the cake shop where the Caption birthday cake and Jeremy's Tatlin Tower wedding cake came from), I made it back to Caption in time for Kaz's talk about her current residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum.’

Read Anna Jay’s post about this year’s CAPTION on her blog Mondo A-Go-Go.

‘The cake, it does not lie. For Oxford’s Caption comics convention really was eighteen years old last weekend! As I’m yet to miss a year, mathematics would at this point seem to suggest that I have been to eighteen of them. …’

Read Gavin Burrows’s reaction to CAPTION 2009 on his blog Lucid Frenzy Jr.

We still have some t-shirts left from CAPTION2007. This year's design was done in two versions: dreamy white and nightmarish black.