Caption, Oxford's annual small-press comics convention, was held in the Oxford Union Society, Oxford, England on the 18th and 19th of August 2001. These are Damian's photos -- or at least a few chosen from the mass of snaps taken on a borrowed Mavica (digital) camera.
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Setting up the exhibit of auction artwork.
Jeremy Dennis
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On Saturday afternoon we had an auction of donated artwork to raise money for cartooning classes.
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One of Damian's tasks during the week before Caption is making the badges for convention members.
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Damian used his ancient Macintosh Performa 5260 to design this year's badges.
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A guillotine is an invaluable tool for the home mini-comic maker and proves useful when making badges as well.
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Discussion panel on moderin romance.
Jean-Paul Jennequin
Paul Gravett
Alex Williams
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Paul Gravett
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Jeremy is no longer officiallyon teh committee but is still in charge of setting up the mail-art exhibition.
Jeremy Dennis
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The theme of the exhibition this year was romance.
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Rachael House inspects her own paper cuttings.
Rachael House
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The Caption table collects attendees zines for sale on their behalf.
Jo Charman
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The front desk
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Sonia X
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Rowland Willets
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Signing a copy of the PANTS ANT comic
Woodrow Phoenix
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Richard Starzeki
Andrew Richmond
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Sunshine, beer and sketchpads in the garden on Sunday afternoon.
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Setting up the Smallzone stall.
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Shopping at Howard Stangroom's Capricorn Comics table.
Rachael House
Jeremy Dennis
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The Caption table, where Caption's gofers sell your minicomics on your behalf.
Tom Anderson
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Before the James Kochalka Puppet Theatre can perform, they have to build their giant cardboard puppets. At CAPTION they invited random artists from the bar to help them out.
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They had a list of how many puppets they would need -- so many robots, so many monkeys, a Kurt, a Courtney, ...
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Once painted they have to be cut out.
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Monkeys
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Robots!
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After the performance, the tattered remnants of the puppets are scattered about the "stage".
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The audience are allowed to take home any of the puppets they think are still intact enough!
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At the start of Andy Robert's workshop, the participants gather around the big table in the Morris Room.
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Andy was talking about objects, and what we need to do to depict them in a cartoon. Unfamiliar objects need more detail to describe them.
Andy Roberts
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workshop starts with everyone in the audience writing the name of their favourite cartoon character on a bit of paper -- some of whi8ch are then drawn from a hat. Jean-Paul thus found himself portraying Hutch Owens.
Jean-Paul Jennequin
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Boy genius Dexter.
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Niall became Hobbes the tiger.
Niall
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Woodrow depicts the turbulent first date of Hobbes the tiger and Wile E. Coyote.
Woodrow Phoenix
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The James Kochalka Puppet Theatre generously donated some extra props to the effort.
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Jeremy distributes plot pointsto each team from beer glasses standing in for hats.
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The Pen-and-Ink team throash out the details of their story.
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Improvised scenery discovered by the digital camera team's location scouts.
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A few ingenously placed props transform the sunny garden in to a grim border-post.
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Terry Wiley + lampshade = Galactic Emperor
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How did the estranged couple get reaquainted? They both won prizes in the Emperor's erotic film contest.
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"No wait, what's my motivation?"
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Pursuit!
Jenni Cole
Sonia X
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The Pen and Ink team still found good use for their props. Ian models for Andy.
Ian Snell
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One of Jeremy's wigs and a peper moustache transforms Alex in to a romantic lead!
Alex Williams
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"I always wanted to do a death scene."
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Cunningly disguised as Peter Cushing.
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The climax of the Polaroid photostory: the lovers are stapled together -- how romantic!
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The digital photos are 'pasted' together with HTML.
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Andy had to pencil and ink six whole pages while everyone else was out taking photos.
Andy Roberts
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Wigs!
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The Polaroid photos are pasted up and the captions written.
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Looking at the resulting strips.
Jeremy Dennis
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The ultimate self-motivated workshop -- scribble pads scattered about the bar and outside tables.
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