Oh lucky geekdom, we seem to have moved in just a few years from having a handful of comics events to having a whole multitude to choose from, from small and intimate Indy themed gatherings to large US style ones which also embrace gaming as well as TV and film science fiction and fantasy. Into [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Saturday 20th saw the first Edinburgh Toy and Comic Mart organised by Hero Conventions, which took place in the RAF Club on Hillside Crescent, a short walk from the city’s busy Princes Street. It was a fairly small, low-scale but friendly and open (not to mention free!) gathering. Inside the tables were set up in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 19, 2013
Perhaps not on the same scale as Comica in London this weekend, but there is still plenty of comics fun to be had in one of the other capital cities of the British Isles this weekend, with the free Edinburgh Toy & Comic Mart this Saturday from 11am to 4pm in the RAF Club on [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 17, 2013
This summer sees the welcome return to one of the oldest continual fixtures on the British comics con calendar, Oxford’s own Caption, which returns to the East Oxford Community Centre on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th of August. The site doesn’t seem to have been updated yet, but Charles Cutting was kind enough to drop [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 11, 2013
Coming up on Saturday 20th April from 11am to 4pm is the Edinburgh Toy & Comic Mart. As well as dealers table with a variety of collectables, toys and comics there will be guests – including David Barras and Scott MacKay who created the cracking Electric Man movie, Simon Furman, John Paul Bove and Ferg [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The second East London Comic and Art Festival (ELCAF) is coming on Saturday 22nd June; there’s a call for submissions and the poster for this year, by Andy Rementer (who will also be the festival’s artist-in-residence), has been revealed – more details available on their site here. ELCAF 2012 from Nobrow Ltd on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Thursday, April 4, 2013
Last Saturday the free Dundee Comic Expo, organised by Phil Vaughan and Chris Murray (well-kent faces on the Scottish comics scene), took place in Dundee University, helping to fill the springtime comics hole left by having no Hi-Ex this March, and I headed up from Edinburgh, crossing two of Scotland’s great rivers that help carve [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 30, 2013
Happening in bonnie Dundee this very day, the Free Dundee Comic Expo – Bryan and Mary Talbot, David Lloyd, Karrie Fransman, Gary Erskine, Team Girl Comics, talks, workshops, film screenings (like the Judge Minty fan film), dealer tables and more at the University of Dundee from 11am to 4pm today.
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 27, 2013
A reminder to Scottish readers or anyone heading north of the border this Easter holiday weekend – although we don’t have a Hi-Ex comic fest this spring the gang at comics-friendly Dundee Uni have some four colour fun for us with the Free Dundee Comics Expo on Saturday 30th of March from 11am to 4pm. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The other week, I came across a flyer for Glasgow’s Collectormania. Amongst its ‘star-studded guest list’ it boasted two members of the Harry Potter cast, who would be happy to sign autographs – for just ten pounds a pop. The problem is, I don’t even know who these guys played in Harry Potter. In fact, [...]
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