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Your weekend comic events (north) – Thought Bubble…..
Thought Bubble, The Leeds Sequential Art Festival has been going on for a couple of days now, featuring some wonderful events across the city of Leeds. And tomorrow sees the centrepiece of the festival; the Thought Bubble comic convention. It features a host of comic creators with the complete list here and a lot of [...]
Continue reading...Your weekend comic events (south) – Comica’s final weekend…..
Friday, November 20, 2009
This weekend sees not one, but two great comic events. First up it’s the Comica 2009 final week – which looks rather good with a trio of conversations happening at the ICA: First up on Sunday 22 November; Reinhard Kleist, author of the great I see A Darkness, the biography of Johnny Cash, published recently by [...]
Continue reading...Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Over the last few months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions have been cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s good and bad about [...]
Continue reading...Thought Bubble on YouTube
Monday, November 16, 2009
The upcoming delight that is Leeds’ Thought Bubble comics fest is coming up very soon (next weekend, do let us know if you’re exhibiting your wares) and there’s now an official Thought Bubble YouTube channel (link via the Hi-Ex Twitter):
Continue reading...Comics, comics, comics….. This weekend: Comica. Next weekend: Thought Bubble
Saturday, November 14, 2009
This year’s Comica festival has, from all accounts, been it’s usual huge success, with exhibitions, events, screenings and the one day Comiket festival convention being particularly well praised – see the Guardian piece about it here. But Comica isn’t over yet – the events go all the way to the 26th November. Full details at [...]
Continue reading...Comica news – Graphic Short Story prize announced & Campbell and Brown in conversation
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Okay, the Comica festival happens all the way through November and full details are up at the Comica website. But here’s a recent announcement we wanted to share with you. Just confirmed is the news that Eddie Campbell (Alec, From Hell) will be in conversation with Scottish pioneer of stand-up comedy, Arnold Brown at Comica on [...]
Continue reading...Comics are Everywhere: a Conversation with Paul Gravett
Friday, October 30, 2009
Over the last few weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions have been cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s good and [...]
Continue reading...Comica and Thought Bubble 09 – November is full of comics
Sunday, October 25, 2009
With MCM Expo wrapping up this weekend it’s time to look forward to the next big comics events on the calendar, and November has not one, but two big Comic events: First up we have the annual Comica festival in London, curated by Paul Gravett. As usual the list of events stretches all the way through [...]
Continue reading...BICS exit interview with Shane Chebsey
Sunday, October 25, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...London MCM Expo – tomorrow
Friday, October 23, 2009
The newest regular feature on the comic calendar kicks off tomorrow. London MCM Expo is a huge thing, concentrating more on pop culture and sci-fi movies and TV than comics – as evidenced by the very long list of personalities that regularly clutter up this sort of show (I took a look at the media [...]
Continue reading...Are You Zine Friendly?
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Jimi Gherkin (see Matt’s recent interview here) tells us that Alternative Press are going to be hosting another night of Zines & Comics on the 12th November. It sounds like a very relaxed night with a communal table for small pressers to sell their work, a cake sale with free tea and even a knitting [...]
Continue reading...London MCM Expo 24-25th October
Saturday, October 17, 2009
We’re definitely in convention season here. First it was The British International Comics Show (Birmingham / BICS), now we have the new kid on the block; London MCM Expo. It’s not strictly speaking a comic con, but a bigger media event with a comic section attached. Having said that, the Comics Village section is getting [...]
Continue reading...You’ll Go Home Wanting To Make Comics: a Conversation with Patrick Findlay
Friday, October 16, 2009
Over the previous and the coming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate [...]
Continue reading...Bigging up the Scene: a Conversation with Jimi Gherkin
Friday, October 9, 2009
Over recent and upcoming weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s [...]
Continue reading...BICS 2009 – Pictures and things…..
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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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