Brideshead Revisited is maddeningly slow – just like real life

Brideshead Revisited is maddeningly slow – just like real life

Brideshead Revisited first aired in America in the winter of 1982. I was in art school then, and living with my parents because we couldn’t afford the extra expense of me living on my own. I had never travelled outside my country; I grew up in Chicago and all my ideas about the rest of the world came from reading books. The only thing I had read by Evelyn Waugh was a short story, “The Man Who Liked Dickens”.

Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover

Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover

Audrey has written a forward and has work in Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover, a newly released (July 26, 2016) book which highlights decades of Penguin Classics' book cover designs. This book is perfect for illustrators, graphic designers and anyone who is interested in book design.

Eddie Campbell and Chris Staros in Conversation this Saturday at CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

Eddie Campbell and Chris Staros in Conversation this Saturday at CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo

CAKE is proud to announce that Eddie Campbell—the creator of the autobiographical Alec, the mythic Bacchus and, with Alan Moore, the classic graphic novel From Hell—and Top Shelf Productions publisher Chris Staros will be taking part in a conversation about their twenty years of work together.

Dames, documentary and dissent: 200 years of women in comics – gallery

Dames, documentary and dissent: 200 years of women in comics – gallery

The Guardian has posted a gallery of comics created by women as part of it's review of the Comix Creatrix show at the House of Illustration: 

Comix Creatrix: where women artists and stories are the big draw

Comix Creatrix: where women artists and stories are the big draw

Tola Onanunga has recently written a piece for The Guardian about the Comix Creatrix show at the House of Illustration, where Audrey is exhibiting excerpts from The Night Bookmobile. Here is an excerpt: 

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row: The Art of Book Cover Design

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row: The Art of Book Cover Design

Audrey was recently interviewed for the BBC Radio 4 show Front Row, on the book cover designs of Suzanne Dean. While most recently, the two collaborated on the design of Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories, Suzanne's designs for the UK editions of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry have become classics.

7 Novels That Took Their Authors Years To Write (To Make You Feel Better About Not Finishing NaNoWriMo)

7 Novels That Took Their Authors Years To Write (To Make You Feel Better About Not Finishing NaNoWriMo)

E. Ce Miller of Bustle.com, while lamenting the fact that she did not complete her novel in thirty days, finds hope as she lists seven authors which took their sweet time: