What's On

• Past Event

  In Conversation with comic designers CHIP Collective

  Online

  Join designer Catriona Laird from CHIP Collective to hear more about their route into working into comic illustration, design education and forming creative collectives.
• Past Event

  Drawing for Comics and Graphic Novels

  Join former V&A Comics Artist in Residence Karen Rubins on this four week evening course and learn to draw for comics and graphic novels. You will discover the history and context of comics, and how the very best tell stories through this dynamic and engaging medium. Exercises will include observational drawing, cartooning, sequential illustration, storytelling and using word and image. Develop your own visual style and narrative voice as you create your own pages of artwork.
• Past Event

  Designing Games: Karen Rubins and Matteo Menapace

  Join us for a conversation with Karen Rubins, V&A Comics Resident 2010, and Matteo Menapace, upcoming…
• Past Event

  How Queer Everything Is To-day: Zine Workshop

  V&A South Kensington

  Rachael is a legend of the comic strip and queer zine scene, creator of the auto-bio series ‘Red Hanky…
• Past Event

  Manga Jiman Pop-Up at Young V&A

  Young V&A

  pop-up table in the Town Square to celebrate the launch of the 18th Manga Jiman, a renowned annual comic…
• Past Event

  Carved: The Laughing Netsuke

  This curator-led gallery talk focuses on an exquisitely carved netsuke in the shape of a comic mask,…
• Past Event

  Beano: A Manual for Mischief

  2018 marks eighty years of continuous publication for the much loved comic.…
• Past Event

  Teen Takeover: Animate, Photograph, Create!

  Young V&A

  range of new skills, work alongside other young people and meet creative professionals specialising in comic…
• Past Event

  Screening: Comedians

  Trevor Griffiths’ groundbreaking 1975 play tells of a group of budding comics, who are hoping to impress…
• Past Event

  June Whitfield in Conversation

  Join the comic actress for an engaging look at her extensive career, in celebration of the V&A's recent…
• Past Event

  Race, Games and Play: Black Representation in Childhood

  your memories of childhood learning, creativity and development, through our talks and debates with comic…
• Past Event

  Electric Feels

  V&A South Kensington

  Share your hopes in a comic or make your own predictions with a custom tarot deck.…
• 

  Past Event

  Opera Weekender: Garsington Opera presents Handel's Semele (screening)

  “Comical and clever.” – Financial Times…
• 

  Past Event

  Opera Weekender: Guildhall School of Music and Drama presents The Phantom on Film

  adaptations (from opera to cabaret, and from horror films to telenovelas) with particular reference to comic…
• 

  Past Event

  Upstart: Design Your Future

  Young V&A

  Working alongside comic designer Sonia Leong you will discover what kind of creative you are and explore…
• 

  Past Event

  Career insight: Exploring careers in Visual Storytelling

  V&A South Kensington

  Tosin’s love for the visual storytelling in video games and comic books directly inspires their more…
• 

  Past Event

  Career insight: Exploring careers in Visual Storytelling

  Online

  Tosin’s love for the visual storytelling in video games and comic books directly inspires their more…