Comics

National Art Library comics & comic art collection

Until the mid 1980s, the National Art Library's coverage of comics and comic art was uneven and spasmodic, but the …

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Karen Rubins

Karen Rubins is a comics artist specialising in the manga style. She has a particular interest in mythology, dreams…

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'2000 AD' and the British comics industry

When 2000 AD first appeared in 1977, the market for British comics had been in steady decline since the mid 1960s. …

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A history of a night at the theatre

Drama in Britain grew of out church services at Easter from the 10th century onwards. By the 14th century mystery cycles of plays based on the Bible were performed outside the church by members of craft guilds in cities such as York and Chester. Each play was staged on a pageant wagons that processed through the streets.

Word & Image department

The Word & Image department (WID) is responsible for the Museum’s collections of prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, designs, computer art, books and archives, including 8 of the V&A’s 18 national collections. WID also leads on both the V&A and RIBA Architecture Partnership and the annual V&A Illustration Awards.

V&A Magazine

Free to Members and covering all aspects of the visual arts, the V&A Magazine is published three times a year and looks at architecture, design, craft, photography, fashion and fine art, taking the V&A's exhibition and display programme as its starting point.

The Gaberbocchus Press

Stefan and Franciszka Themerson founded Gaberbocchus Press in 1948 in London. It was the product of an artistic collaboration that had begun in Warsaw, where they worked together as experimental film-makers, and wrote and illustrated children's books. With Franciszka as artistic director and Stefan as editor, the Press published 59 titles in 31 years. From the start, Gaberbocchus was 'a vehicle for introducing new ideas', and specialised in intellectual avant-garde texts. These ranged from poetry and philosophical novels to unclassifiable combinations of text and pictures.