FRIDAY 5TH AUGUST 2011

In the evening you will find some Caption Committee Members and Caption attendees at the Angel & Greyhound Pub www.youngs.co.uk/pub-detail.asp?PubID=355

SATURDAY 6TH AUGUST 2011

10.00 Doors open

10.00 - 12.00 Meet and Greet

10.30 - 12.00 Broken Picture Telephone game with Alex Williams

11.30 - 13.00 Reuse/Recycle/Regurgitate Workshop with Jeremy Day

12.00 Bar opens!

13.00 - 14.00 Paul Gravett: A Year in the Life interviewed by David O'Connell

14.15 - 15.15 Paul Grist: From New Eden to Castletown interviewed by Jay Eales

15.30 - 16.30 Blue Lou Art Workshop with Lou McKeever

16.45 - 17.45 Caption Art Auction with proceeds to the Caption Warchest

18.00 - 19.00 INJ Culbard: Mountain of Madness interviewed by Paul Gravett

19.00 - 21.00 Dinner Break

21.00 - 22.00 Reduced Heroes Quiz with Teeny Titan Tony Hitchman

23.00 Doors close

SUNDAY 7TH AUGUST 2011

10.00 Doors open

11.00 - 11.30 Sustainable Creativity with Michael Nobbs (virtually) & Selina Lock

11:45 - 12.45 Spoonbard versus Autojoy Paul Duffield vs Kate Brown, referee: Alex Fitch

13.00 - 14.30 Less Is More: Minimalist Art Workshop with Al Davison

14.45 - 15.45 Comics on the Ration LIVE! Paul Rainey, Rol Hirst, Rob Wells, Steve Miller

*** If you have comics and loot to reclaim from the Caption Table, can you please do so before 5 o’clock, to speed up the tidying up process ***

16.00 - 17.30 By Hook or By Crook - Alternative Methods of Funding/ Printing Mega Panel Paul Grist, Paul Duffield, Kate Brown,Andy Luke, Deirdre Ruane, Charles Cutting, Blue Lou and Matt Dyson. Jenni Scott (Moderator)

17.30 Doors close on another Caption!

Please note this is a draft schedule and may change on the day.

Click on map to see larger version on Flickr

This year we are asking people to let us know if they would like a t-shirt before we get them printed.

We are pleased to announce the last set of guests for Austerity Caption (6-7th August), East Oxford Community Centre.

Blue Lou - (www.bluelou.net/): political cartoonist and artist will be joining us for the whole weekend. She will also be providing a workshop as part of the Caption activities.

INJ Culbard - (strangeplanetstories.blogspot.com/): is best known for his work on the Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft adaptations for Self-Made Hero. Ian will be talking about his move from animation into comics, and his career so far.

Caption alumnus Jeremy Day (jeremyday.org.uk/) will be getting the festivities off to a flying start on the Saturday with one of her fun workshops.

Paul Gravett - (www.paulgravett.com/): will be letting us know what it's like to spend a year in his life.

Charles Cutting (www.vincentfund.org.uk/home/) and Matt Dyson will be joining us for the Alternative Methods of Funding and Production Mega-Panel.

Rol Hirst (rolhirst.co.uk/) will be joining Paul Rainey and Rob Wells for their Comics On The Ration, (comicsontheration.blogspot.com/) talk.

And don't forget our previously announced guests:

Here's the striking design for this years Caption t-shirt by David O'Connell.

To comply with our austerity theme we will shortly be asking for pre-orders or expressions of interest from those who would like a t-shirt, so that we only print as many as needed.

We are pleased to announce more guests for Austerity Caption (6-7th August), East Oxford Community Centre.

We will be joined by:

Paul Grist, creator of Kane and Jack Staff.

Paul Duffield, manga creator and artist on Freak Angels. spoonbard.com/

Kate Brown, creator of The Spider Moon and Fish + Chocolate, danse-macabre.nu/index.html

Andy Luke, small press creator will be talking about his new comic Absence: absencecomic.com/

Paul Rainey and Rob Wells will be representing Comics- On The Ration, comicsontheration.blogspot.com/

It's gonna be a great line-up and hopefully we'll have even more guests confirmed soon.

Confirmed Guests/Activities

• The wonderful Al Davison (www.astralgypsy.com/) will once again be running an art workshop, as well as brining along stock from The Astral Gypsy shop. Al's workshops are always enjoyable, highly recommended, and suitable for artists of all levels.
• Tony Hitchman will be providing one of his fun and entertaining quizzes.
• There will be a panel on Alternative Methods of Funding for comics.
• We'll be confirming more guests and activities soon.

Call for Artwork & Articles As usual we will be creating a souvenir programme and are looking for contributions from the comics community. You don't have to attending Caption to contribute, as in this year of Austerity we know not everyone will be able to make it along. All contributors will receive a copy of the programme.

Caption is the longest running comic convention in the UK, and we celebrate small press and indie press comics. Austerity Caption will be held on 6-7th August 2011, at the East Oxford Community Centre, Oxford, UK.

This year's theme is Austerity, as we thought this might be appropriate to the current climate in the UK!

Caption 2010 is now over, and as the dust settles some bloggers are a-blogging the event.

Here’s write-ups from the aforelinked Sarah McIntyre, committee members Selina Lock and Jenni Scott, and Sean Azzopardi. Some people are tweeting with the hashtag #caption2010 or commenting on the event page on Facebook.

Sarah McIntyre has posted Caption festival writeup, caricatures and photos on her blog.