The Geek Syndicate have a nice, concise interview with Shane Chebsey, one of the organisers of the annual British International Comics Show looking back on BICS 2009 and looking forward to next year’s event:
” The feedback from all sectors has been overwhelmingly positive and for the first time since producing the show we have not lost any money. We are now in a very strong position to improve the show even more for 2010.
…Overall we are very happy with how things went. As I’ve already stated publicly, the launch party didn’t even resemble the event we actually booked and paid for, but the only way to deal with that is to learn from it and to make sure we book another venue next year. We will – as always be making changes next year. We never rest on our laurels and constantly try to improve the show. Many of these changes are in response to feedback from visitors and exhibitors etc but overall we are now very happy with the basic model we’ve adopted for the show.“
Lovely to hear from Shane that it’s not losing money! I have to say I really enjoyed the show (launch party troubles aside – but like Shane says, this was due to circumstances beyond their control etc etc) and I’m glad to hear that BICS will return in 2010. I’ll be there – hope to see you as well.
FPI posts: BICS part 1, BICS part 2, BICS links.
October 25th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Also nice to hear that the launch party wasn’t as planned. I’m pretty sure it was the ONLY thing people complained about (well, that and my icky tummy, but I may have been the only one complaining about that and it wasn’t Shane’s fault…)
-pj