Tag Archive | "Bristol"

Comic Cons – in pictures!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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Comics creator, snapper, gentleman and all round good chap Sean Azzopardi has taken a lot of photos at the many comics conventions and festivals he’s been to, from Bristol, Brimingham and Caption and Comica to Angouleme, Stripdagen, Malta and TCAF. Now he’s brought all his photo sets from the various conventions, covering several years and [...]

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Bristol Comic Expo 2011 Panel Report: “What’s the point in small press superheroes?”

Monday, May 23, 2011

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Daniel Clifford, co-creator of the Sugar Glider comic, had an idea for a panel at the recent Bristol Comic Expo: “What’s the point in small press superheroes?” And he was kind enough after the event to agree to writing up the panel for us here on the blog. Thanks so much too him for the [...]

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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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Jamie Hewlett exhibition in Bristol

Monday, January 11, 2010

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You might remember a while back I blogged about Oxfam looking for a venue in the Bristol area to exhibit artworks by Tank Girl/Gorillaz’ Jamie Hewlett. Jamie “accompanied international development agency Oxfam to Char Atra in Bangladesh, which was struck by Cyclone Aila, in late 2009. The trip inspired him to paint nine very large [...]

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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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Famous Bristol natives

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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Simon Gurr, who collaborated with Eugene Byrne on the special (and well received) Darwin graphic biography for the great scientist’s 200th anniversary earlier this year, has been chosen for a high profile public artwork celebrating famous Bristolians: “Bristol Festival of Ideas and Bristol Cultural Development Partnership recently announced that Simon Gurr, Bristol artist and illustrator, [...]

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