Paul Gravett

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Paul Gravett is a British journalist , author, curator and broadcaster who has worked in comics journalism since 1981.

Paul Gravett has been a comics journalist since the early 1980s, writing for The Guardian , Blueprint , The Comics Journal , Comics International and Dazed & Confused , among others . He was the editor of the comic magazine Pssst! and escape . He also curates exhibitions on comics and wrote a number of specialist books or worked on them as editor. The most important exhibitions included an exhibition on the history of English comics at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême and the annual comics exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts . In 1992 he became chairman of the Cartoon Art Trust.

bibliography

  • Manga - 60 years of Japanese comics . Harper Design, 2004. Dt. Egmont Manga & Anime, 2006.
  • Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life . Aurum Press, 2005.
  • Great British Comics (with Peter Stanbury) Aurum Press, 2006.
  • The Leather Nun and Other Incredibly Strange Comics . (with Peter Stanbury) Aurum Press, 2008.
  • Holy Sh * t! The World's Weirdest Comic Books . (with Peter Stanbury) St Martin's Press, 2009.
  • 1001 Comics You Should Read Before Life Is Over . (Ed.) Universe Publishing, 2011. Dt. Ed. Olms, 2012.
  • Comics Art . Tate Publishing, 2013.
  • Comics Unmasked . (with John Harris Dunning) The British Library, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manga - 60 Years of Japanese Comics , 2006, blurb on the author.
  2. ↑ 1001 Comics You Should Read Before Life Is Over , 2012, p. 955 (text on the author).

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SURNAME Gravett, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century