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Criminal 7 – page 8 (LICAF 2024, Part 8)

Artists: Sean Phillips (Penciller) , Sean Phillips (Inker) , Ed Brubaker (Writer)

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Title:	Criminal 7 – page 8 (LICAF 2024, Part 8)
Artist:	Sean Phillips (Penciller)
Artist:	Sean Phillips (Inker)
Artist:	Ed Brubaker (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	155
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	10/3/2024
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[continued from the previous post]

Whilst waiting for the first set of questions to arrive I asked the young volunteer who had come with his father what his name was, and he replied that it was “Tadhg” which can be said in a couple of different ways but which he told me was pronounced “Teague” or if you prefer “Teeg”. Either way, it is an Irish name and not very common in the UK; I have never met anyone else with that name. It turned out to be spookily portentous.

The lights dimmed in readiness for the quiz at which point another party of four joined our large table to make up another team. Do you remember in school when you hoped that the most talented, brainy, popular pupil would be assigned to sit at the desk next to you? Out of the corner of my eye this new group seemed vaguely familiar and after my eyes had adjusted to the gloom I recognised them as Sean Phillips with his son Jacob, and their respective partners, who I remember seeing in the audience at the Sean Phillips onstage interview a couple of hours earlier. It was decided that our team would be called “Tadhg’s Team” and those who shared our table called themselves “The Phillipses”. After this I leant over and told SP that the young lad next to me was called “Tadhg” pronouncing it in the way I had been told. SP asked how it was spelt, after which he said, “Ahhh, differently,” and then proceeded to take out his phone and scroll down to a picture to show us. If you are versed in the Criminal universe you might hazard an informed guess as to what we were shown. I cannot confirm or deny what you think because of stringent confidentiality clauses which may or may not be relevant.

After that we hunkered down to the quiz which consisted of a number of suitably silly rounds. One was to identify from a sheet of paper the celebrities who had been caricatured in Viz during the course of its 40-year history; another was to name the original title of the famous pop songs which played over the PA system that were in a foreign language, then name the original artist, and also in which foreign language that version was in – I maintain that I did not get the last track’s language correct because it was in Mandarin Chinese and not Cantonese Chinese. By far the whackiest round was when each table was given six small bowls of potato crisps/chips and we had to discern which flavour each crisp/chip was solely by tasting it. Easy when it was Roast Chicken, but not so straightforward when it was Coriander and Lime.

When the scores were tallied up during the live music event Tadhg’s Team came a respectable fifth, not in a prize-winning position – only the winners came away with prizes – but creditable considering there were probably around twenty teams in all participating. The Phillipses did slightly better. They won the quiz and each trooped up to the podium to receive their prize – a Viz Comic hardback annual. Sean Phillips’ partner (who I think he had name-checked as Jeanette, although the spelling may be wrong, during his earlier interview) generously gave her prize to Tadhg, which he accepted gratefully. As the Phillipses got up to leave I congratulated SP on his success in the quiz and he said that he was a big fan of Viz Comic and had been a devoted reader. Yes, it was he who had had the edge.

I should like to thank the village of Bowness for the splendid time I spent there last weekend. The people there were friendly and helpful, from the academic with the beautiful cut-glass English accent who accompanied me and directed me from the bus station to the turning-off to the hotel I was staying at, to the boat trip veteran who advised me which position to occupy on the vessel to have the best experience of the outing, to the red-shirted festival volunteers some of whom were remarkably prescient, to the festival director, Julie Tait, who performs a mean karaoke even after a long day, to all the founder patrons of the festival, and, of course, Arts Council England. But I reserve my biggest note of thanks to Sean Phillips as without their presence at the event I would not have gone. It restored my faith in humanity to find that someone who is already a comics-creator superstar is generous, friendly and self-effacing (although he can hold his own as when he corrected his interviewer when they had underdeclared the number of Eisner awards he had won) and is on the brink of something even bigger when the Criminal series drops on Amazon next year. He is proof positive that with the right attitude and strong work ethic you can receive your just desserts in due course. Thank you! If you have ever considered attending LICAF, especially if like me you have never been to the Lake District in spite of spending my entire life in this country, then I cannot recommend it too highly. Best wishes to LICAF 2025.

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artless artmore
Member Since 2013

Posted on 10/4/2024

Poignant closeup of this tragic character. Love this series and hope there are more Criminal tales to come

Simon Ma
Member Since 2013

Posted on 10/4/2024

artless artmore wrote:

Poignant closeup of this tragic character. Love this series and hope there are more Criminal tales to come

Reading your comment and going through your extensive collection of Criminal pages reminds me I need to dig out those directory-size hardbacks and go through them again before the tv series airs. Sean Phillips said in his onstage festival interview that he is working on a full-length graphic novel featuring a number of the Criminal regulars. That interview has in the past few hours dropped on Forbidden Planet tv on YouTube, although it does seem to be 20 minutes shorter than the live running time so I am not sure what was edited out. Thank you for your comment!

artless artmore
Member Since 2013

1 - Posted on 10/5/2024

Simon Ma wrote:

Thanks so much for tbe pointer to that Forbidden Planet TV interview! It's clear that at least part of what they cut out was related to the Netflix Criminal adaptation, which somebody must have asked them to edit out to avoid spoilers.

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