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Bar Shorts returns to the Garden Cinema with an afternoon celebrating the artists who move fluidly between two worlds: the flicker of film and the stillness of the graphic novel page. From Frame to Page brings together some of the UK’s most inventive animation voices to explore how their storytelling evolves when the camera stops rolling and the pen takes over.

Tickets here:

https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/bar-shorts-presents-from-frame-to-page-animators-who-became-graphic-novelists/

The afternoon features award‑winning animator and model‑maker Astrid Goldsmith author of The Crystal Vase. Astrid’s debut graphic had already been critically claimed and explores the world of family. Graphic novel stalwart Lucy Sullivan whose amazing book, Barking, explores mental health. It’s artwork went onto to become inspiration for Dylan Southern’s film adaption of Max Porter’s The Thing With Feathers. The storyteller, Greg McLeod, part of the duo The Brothers McLeod will be taking about his debut graphic novel which he is currently Kickstarting called The Existential Musings of Mee and Burd. Finally Writer and director Chris Shepherd, the author of Anfield Road and Bar Shorts co-creator will be sharing the creative leaps, stumbles, and revelations that shaped their journeys from animated filmmaking to graphic narrative.

Across the afternoon, guests will screen a selection of their short films before diving into the worlds of their graphic novels — discussing character, structure, world‑building, and the surprising ways animation informs the drawn page (and vice versa). Expect candid stories, practical insights, and the kind of creative honesty Bar Shorts is known for.  A rare chance to see how animators reinvent themselves as authors — and how stories transform when they shift medium. An afternoon for filmmakers, illustrators, readers, and anyone who loves watching creativity evolve.

After the screening the artists will be selling their books in the bar.