Tag Archive | "Bristol Comics Expo"

The show must go on – prepping a small press outfit for Bristol

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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Today, with the annual Bristol comics gig bearing down on us (this very weekend), we have a special guest post from a good friend of the blog and a serious fixture on the UK Indy comics scene, Richmond Clements, who takes some time out of busy convention preperations to give us an insight into what [...]

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Comic News Insider’s Bristol blow out

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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Over on the Comic News Insider it’s a veritable Bristol blow out, with several podcasts up which include features from the recent Bristol comics expo, including interviews with Tony Lee, Emma Vieceli, John Higgins, Harry Markos and the panel discussion on comics podcasting from Bristol too, all now up on CNI, so head over and [...]

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Bristol in pictures

Friday, May 28, 2010

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Over on his always interesting Blimey, It’s another blog about comics site Lew Stringer has posted up a photo report on last weekend’s sun-drenched Bristol International Comic & Small Press Expo. (Artist Phil Winslade swaps brushes for guitar, Charlie Adlard hits the skins, Richard Starkings (in the hat) signs copies of Elephantmen and Mike Ploog [...]

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May Comic Events….. two busy weekends

Sunday, May 16, 2010

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Two big events coming up later in the month….. Bristol International Comic And Small Press Expo: Bristol is back to two days this year, including a couple of days for the Small Press Expo. Many, many guests and exhibitors (details here and here) including guest of honour Chris Claremont and the wonderful Pat Mills. Then, [...]

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Bristol International Comic & Small Press Expo

Monday, May 3, 2010

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The next event on the comic calender for 2010 happens later this month, and it’s one of the big ones – the Bristol International Comic & Small Press Expo. After last year’s smaller event, they’re back to the usual two day, two site event with the Manga & Small Press Expo happening over both days [...]

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Etherington Brothers Huuuuge Sketchbook to début at Bristol

Sunday, May 2, 2010

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The Etherington Brothers, authors of Monkey Nuts from the DFC (collection due out later in the year) are releasing a rather massive sketchbook deluxe volume of Lorenzo Etherington’s  El Sketchbook series, collecting the first 4 volumes and adding another 200 pages of extras. 600 pages for just under £25, pretty lovely. The sketchbook will be [...]

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For the Love of Comics: a conversation with Mike Allwood

Friday, August 14, 2009

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In the coming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As with the organisers of various British comic conventions talking to Matt Badham. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s [...]

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