AN UNUSUAL PLACE FOR COMIC ART
Yesterday I went to the penultimate day of the original comic art exhibition at Harrods on Brompton Road in Southwest London. Lying In The Gutters columnist Rich Johnston had organised this small get-together as he was one of the people responsible for the exhibition. You may or may not be surprised to hear that, even though I've lived in London all my life, this was the first time I'd ever stepped foot in Harrods. I wandered through the Food Hall a little bit and it made me think that I should come back at some point to have a proper look. Monday was a pretty entertaining day all round: I went to see The Brothers Bloom, the new film from the director of Brick, Rian Johnson, which was disappointing but I had the whole afternoon to kill before I went to Harrods and bumped into Jill Thompson, who was in town for her signing at Gosh last Saturday. I had never really spoken to her before even though I was familiar with her work (Scary Godmother, Sandman) and, as I was at a loose end, I took her to Soho, Covent Garden and Chinatown, which was a lot of fun. She was very nice and I'm sure we'll be doing something on her work at some point. The exhibition contained a page of The Killing Joke by Brian Bolland, the first appearance of Judge Dredd by Carlos Ezquerra, Watchmen by Dave Gibbons and more. Frazer Irving, whose Judge Death was represented there, Chris Weston, who had a page of his Filth in the room too and a few other people came along like my friend David Baillie, Kieron (Phonogram) Gillen. Here are a few photos I took earlier in the afternoon around Trafalgar Square of the newly-cleaned St Martin-in-The-Fields and a few at the event…