Tag Archive | "conventions"

A surprising nightmare in Boston

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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I am in Boston, New England, at Arisia, a science fiction convention with over 3,000 people along, where science meets adventure, and it’s definitely great craic. It’s similar to conventions in the UK, only they embolden their membership and encourage a real sense of fun here. The convention is fantastic, four days of continuous activities, [...]

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Dan Berry’s off to Angoulême… and we can follow his progress

Sunday, January 22, 2012

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Yep, Dan Berry, of the recently enjoyed After We Shot The Grizzly, is taking himself off to the Angoulême Comics Festival this week, to soak in the atmosphere and enjoy the build up to next week’s festival. Lucky so and so. Angoulême is of course, the biggest and most important of the European Comics Festivals, [...]

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For your spring diary – Hi-Ex

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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(Highlands superhero Nessie, along with Tank Girl, Dredd and Dennis the Menace, art by Tanya Roberts, TG (c) Martin & Hewlett, Dredd (c) Rebellion and Dennis is (c) DC Thomson) Richmond Clements and Vicky Stonebridge drop us a line to update us to the latest details for the return of the Hi-Ex comics con in [...]

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Our canny man James heads to the Canny Comic Con

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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Look, it’s real simple: if we the consumer don’t go or don’t buy things which are pretty cool, then at some stage they won’t exist. Although this is in no way the only motivator I had on Saturday as I boarded a train for a journey of over three hours, it was at the back [...]

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Malta Comic-Con – Sean’s report

Monday, December 5, 2011

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From some of our chums on Twitter it sounds like this year’s Malta Comic Con was again a huge and enjoyable success, not to mention being very popular with the Brit contingent who headed over to the sun-kissed, George Cross-winning island nation in the blue waters of the Mediterranean. Among the Brit comics contingent in [...]

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Thought Bubble – James’ take

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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It’s a misty chilly morning in Leeds, but Scarlet Witch strikes quite an image as she walks towards Tesco’s, neon yellow and bright green, vividly startling at half past nine on this achingly early Saturday morning of Thought Bubble. She is flanked by three other costumed, crusading comic fans and so my pilgrimage north to [...]

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Comics in Libraries panel

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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The Comicsprof YouTube channel has several segments of video up recording a panel discussion at MIX 2011 on a subject we’re rather keen on round here, comics in libraries: part one: part two: part three: part four:

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Thought Bubble 2011 Thoughts…. Part 1 – General Thoughts, Saturday, mostly Savilles Hall…..

Saturday, November 26, 2011

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Last weekend was the now annual Thought Bubble Comic Convention, taking place at the end of a week of comic activities and events in the Comic Art Festival. Molly and I headed across to Leeds for the Saturday, thinking we might only do one day, but, as you’ll find out, Molly decided very early on [...]

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Just one more thing to do this weekend at Thought Bubble…..

Thursday, November 17, 2011

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I’m busy planning how on Earth I’m going to get round the 180+ stands at this weekend’s Thought Bubble convention when I may only be there for 6/7 hours on the Saturday. I’d love to go on Sunday as well, but life… life…. life…. It just bloody gets in the way of fun and comics. [...]

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New For Thought Bubble

Saturday, November 12, 2011

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Nelson By (deep breath)…… Paul Grist, Rob Davis, Woodrow Phoenix, Ellen Lindner, Jamie Smart, Gary Northfield, Sarah McIntyre, Suzy Varty, Sean Longcroft, Warwick Johnson–Cadwell, Luke Pearson, Paul Harrison–Davies, Katie Green, Paul Peart–Smith, Glyn Dillon, I.N.J.Culbard, John Allison, Philip Bond, D’Israeli, Simone Lia, Darryl Cunningham, Jonathan Edwards, Ade Salmon, Kate Charlesworth, Warren Pleece, Kristyna Baczynski, HarveyJames, Rian Hughes, Sean Phillips & Pete Doree, Kate Brown, Simon Gane, Jon McNaught, Adam Cadwell, Faz [...]

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Game on – MCM London

Friday, November 11, 2011

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Westminster News Online reports from the recent MCM London expo – it appears to be mostly from the gaming point of view rather than the comics and science fiction aspect of MCM, but still worth a look:

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Events Round-Up – November

Saturday, November 5, 2011

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The latest round up of the various comics, zines and related events coming up (caveat – this isn’t intended to be an exhaustive list, nor will it include individual store signings  etc etc)… Demoncon 2: Maidstone, UK, 6th November Thought Bubble: Leeds, UK, 14th – 20th November 2011 (including 2 day convention 19th/20th Nov) The Canny [...]

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Comica 2011… starts November 3rd

Sunday, October 30, 2011

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The Comica poster from Nobrow, art by Isaac Lenkiewicz. This year’s Comica festival takes place across November with the usual impressive line-up of events, conversations and launches. This year’s festival is in association with Nobrow Press, who have several events, exhibitions and launches across the month. And they’ve also contributed rather an attractive (and very Nobrow styled) poster, with [...]

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MCM Comic Con in London this weekend

Thursday, October 27, 2011

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This weekend sees soemthing of a double-header event in London, with the MCM Expo and also the Memorablilia event taking place in the city’s Royal Victoria Dock from the 28th to the 30th of October. There’s the now famous Comic Village, which boasts a good mix of the professional comics folk and the small press, [...]

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Upcoming: MCM Expo

Sunday, October 23, 2011

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The regular MCM Expo Event has rolled around again – and it’s happening all next weekend. The event itself is absolutely huge, but it’s made up of a number of different cons all rolled into one, with stars of film and TV appearing alongside a big computer games expo and an ever-growing Comics Expo. Since [...]

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