Comic books, animation, music, multimedia and other new ways of telling stories have not only changed the face of our popular culture, they now define it.
GRAPHIC celebrates this brave new world in a weekend of specially commissioned productions – with musical responses to graphic art & stories, workshops, panels, a film program, a games exhibition and an animation competition.
In 2010 the festival boasted such names as Neil Gaiman, Kevin Smith and Gary Groth. Other highlight events included the Anime classic Akira with a live rescore by Regurgitator; Oscar Winning animator Shaun Tan’s animation The Arrival screened with live score by Ben Walsh and the Orkestra of the Underground; and the big one – Neil Gaiman in the Concert Hall reading a new unpublished work.
There’s never been a weekend like this before at Sydney Opera House, or anywhere else in Australia. It will be a unique celebration of culture at it’s coolest, when GRAPHIC takes over this town again in August 2011.