Tag Archive | "BICS"

Well, what do you know – Birmingham will have a comic show this year.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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Yep, Birmingham will have a comic show this year, it just wont be the traditional 2-day British International Comics Show we’ve come to expect over the last few years. Instead, the city will be hosting the one day Birmingham Comicon in August. Put together by “International Comic Shows” (basically most of the team behind BICS), [...]

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Comics Launchpad launches….

Saturday, February 26, 2011

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There may be no BICS this year (maybe – see below – it’s officially “on hold”) …… but the organisers haven’t been putting their feet up. International Comic Shows (the group behind BICS) Comics Launchpad 2011 is being organised for June – a one-day conference for comic pros, aspiring artists and writers and anyone concerned [...]

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British International Comics Show 2010 – another great year, another great BICS (Part 2 – more photos and a link dump)

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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Before you read this, have a look a the first part of the BICS 2010 report. There were far too many pics this time, of far too many lovely people to fit into one post, so here are a few of the rest….. Rob Davies and Warwick Jackson Cadwell were there for the day, Warwick [...]

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British International Comics Show 2010 – another great year, another great BICS (Part 1)

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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This past weekend saw the 2010 British International Comics Show take place at Birmingham’s Millenium Point. And it was a really good comics show, pitched somewhere between the massive crowds of MCM and Memorabilia and more indie cons like Thought Bubble. BICS could do big movie star and sci-fi names if they wanted to – [...]

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New at BICS… Al Davison’s Hokusai Demons

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

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Al Davison’s latest graphic novel is available for the first time at BICS this weekend. Previews at Davison’s Facebook. It does look rather lovely though…. and here’s the trailer to show you exactly what I mean. (Alternative direct You Tube link)

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New at BICS (Upcoming – 16th – 17th October)

Sunday, October 10, 2010

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This weekend it’s the big annual British International Comics Show in Birmingham on 16-17th October. A host of big names will be there, and there’s always the possibility you may miss some of the marvellous stuff at smaller tables. Which is where we come in….. (Jason Cobley‘s Bulldog makes a triumphant return in Bulldog Clips [...]

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BICS Update – Jonathan Ross appearance…..

Saturday, October 9, 2010

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Well, it’s hardly a huge surprise and the rumours had always been around that Jonathan Ross was going to be making an appearance at the British International Comic Show. After all, his artist on the Turf series Tommy Lee Edwards was appearing and Ross is a well known comics fan himself. Then Edwards dropped out, [...]

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BICS 2010 site online

Thursday, May 27, 2010

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The new site for the British International Comics Show in Birmingham, one of the major highlights of the annual UK comics scene,  is now live online and already starting to list details such as some of the guests who will be attending, like Charlie Adlard, Charles Vess, Bryan Hitch, Hunt Emerson and Tommy Lee Edwards. [...]

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BICS 2010 confirmed

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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The British International Comics Show (BICS) has made its first official announcement for 2010 – the show will be taking place across the 16th and 17th of October at the Think Tank, Millennium Point in Birmingham, with guests from the UK, Europe, North America and Japan.  From the official description: “This year the guest list [...]

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BICS exit interview with Shane Chebsey

Sunday, October 25, 2009

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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 [...]

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BICS 2009: The Sarah McIntyre experience….

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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One of my favourite bits of BICS 2009 was to finally meet Sarah McIntyre, author of the much loved Vern and Lettuce and more recently Morris The Mankiest Monster (reviews here and here respectively). Sadly Molly wasn’t there with me, since she really, really loves Sarah’s work, but at least I got to briefly chat [...]

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BICS 2009 – Pictures and things…..

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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The British International Comics Show, as mentioned previously, was a huge success according to most of the reports I’ve read so far (the Launch Party gets universally panned, but the show itself was much loved). As is my want on Saturday and Sunday I wandered around with a camera, taking some photos. Most of them [...]

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BICS Links – Who’s saying what….

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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BICS links: we’ll keep updating these over the next few days – send us your link! More BICS stuff from the FPI Blog Comic Show part 1, Comic Show Part 2 (pics and stuff!), Alexi Conman: BICS Report. Andy Bloor: BICS Report. Andy Winter: BICS report. Birmingham Mail: BICS Report. Cy Dethan: BICS Report (done [...]

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BICS 2009 – a convention worthy of it’s British International Comics Show name. Part 1: The weekend.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Before I start this, an admission. I really, really need to learn how to take a better photograph. But thankfully, the Internet is awash with them. God bless the Internet for making me look less inept than I really am.  My photos are the badly lit, badly posed, blurry ones, the rest are all credited [...]

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Harker; BICS, Annotations and Issue Zero…

Friday, October 2, 2009

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I like Harker, the crime comic by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks. To see how much you merely have to trawl the FPI archive – start here. Well, this weekend at the British International Comics Show Vince Danks and Roger Gibson will be selling their hearts out, with (hopefully) issue 8 of Harker and copies [...]

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