alasdair gray

Glasgow Art Fair Now back for its 15th year, Glasgow Art Fair has long painted a colourful canvas for those interested in buying and selling art, and this year looks set to be no different. Setting its trademark white tented pavilion in Glasgow's George Square, this year's Fair showcases 46 selected galleries from both at home and abroad, exhibiting work for sale by over 1000 artists. With prices ranging from £50 to £70,000, the GAF is pretty adept at offering something for all budgets, whether you are si  

A writers festival opens in Clackmannanshire today. Alasdair Gray, a Scottish and world writer will open the events with a reading and question and answer service at Alloa Library. The festival was first held in 2007 for one but this years event is happening over the full weekend.  

When David Gray finished the cycle of recording and touring for his 2005 album, "Life in Slow Motion," he sensed some changes were necessary. Not that what he was doing wasn't working. Gray had sold 12 million albums worldwide, scored three consecutive No. 1 albums in the United Kingdom and had plenty of success in the United States and other parts of the world.

I just rebuilt everything from the ground up   -David Gray

 

DC Comics has announced the new creative team for its Power Girl series. Writer Judd Winick and artist Sami Basri will take the reins on the title from issue #13, replacing Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Amanda Conner. "It is with great fear and excitement that Sami and I leap into this gig," Winick said.

It is with great fear and excitement that Sami and I leap into this gig   -Judd Winick

 

Alasdair Gray is best known as a novelist but his illustrations of his own books have long fascinated and delighted. Here you can see hundreds of artworks by Alasdair Gray , including some book illustrations , from 1950 through 2009. Here are a few of his works that I like: unfinished Scottish Society of Playwrights poster , Nina Watching the Simpsons , Erics Watching Television , Ice Age and Babylonian Science , theatre poster for A Clockwork Orange and the Scots Hippo series .  

At The Rumpus Ari Messer interviews the great Alasdair Gray .  

The posthumous papers of a retired Glaswegian schoolmaster and old-fashioned Socialist, John Tunnock, comprise most of Gray's book, which is jacketed with a lengthy quote from Will Self imploring that we should "cherish his works". So, what is there to cherish in the pages of this peculiar book? There is the exploration of what it means to construct a story at all, as Gray playfully puts together the life of John Tunnock, having ostensibly edited and collated his papers himself.