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His career began in the 1980s as he managed the Fast Fiction table at bi-monthly comic marts held in London'ss Westminster Hall . Dubbed "Man At The Crossroads" by Eddie Campbell for this in ''Alec: How To Be An Artist''. In 1983, Gravett launched ''Escape Magazine'' with Peter Stanbury, in an attempt to showcase the cream of the alternative cartoonists of the day. Under the Escape Publishing imprint, he co-published ''Violent Cases'' by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean , three volumes of Eddie Campbell's Alec between 1984 and 1986 and ''London's Dark'' in 1988 by James Robinson and Paul Johnson. The magazine lasted for 19 issues before closing its doors in 1989. ''The Comics Journal'' is quoted as saying of ''Escape'', "This now-defunct London based anthology remains one of the most sorely missed comics of all time not simply because of its tremendous track record of translating European comics but simply because it was always good in so many ways." From 1992 to 2001, Gravet was the director of the UK charity The Cartoon Art Trust , dedicated to preserving and promoting the best of British cartoon art and caricature and to establish a museum of cartoon art with gallery, archives and reference library. BIBLIOGRAPHY Gravett is the author of several non-fiction books on the topic of comics and sequential art, including:
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