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\"Boat<\/a>
\nCartoons and comics strips can often be seen in some surprising places, but probably none more so than this boating shelter in Battersea Park, London.<\/b><\/p>\n

The comic artists Sean Azzopardi, Joe Decie, John Cei Douglas, Ellen Lindner, Douglas Noble and Paul O\u2019Connell drew eight different short comic strips about a fictional 1974 rock concert in the park. These have been enlarged and pasted on to the shelter and can be read in any order.<\/p>\n

Cartoons outside the printed page do have to compete with some “real world” factors though. And in this case it’s not graffiti, as you might expect, but a staggeringly large colony of spiders!<\/p>\n

The boating shelter strips accompany the Hypercomics<\/a> exhibition which is at the nearby Pump House Gallery.<\/p>\n

\"Dave<\/a>
\nThe show features four rooms by four artists, Adam Dant, Warren Pleece, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, and Dave McKean, above.<\/p>\n

It’s very much an experimental exhibition, with comic strip narratives spiralling off in all kinds of directions and intersecting with the building itself.<\/p>\n

Like any experiment it’s not wholly successful, some of the strips are far to wordy to be exhibited on walls. But McKean’s room worked brilliantly and was the stand-out for me, telling a compelling story with beautifully drawn comic frames alongside sculptures, photography and masks.<\/p>\n

Hurry if you want to see this show though: it finishes on Sunday, September 26: Hypercomics: The Shapes of Comics to Come<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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