The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

The second annual Birmingham Zine Festival – special report by Lizz Lunney and Sean Azzopardi

The second Birmingham Zine Festival took place a couple of Saturdays ago, and although I missed it, organiser Lizz Lunney and attendee Sean Azzopardi were kind enough to send through a report and photos of what looks like another great event. All photos provided by Lizz, taken by Hellocatfood apart from screen print photo by [...]

Upcoming – This Weekend – Birmingham Zine Festival

Fun starts tonight and carries on right through the weekend! Click on the link for more details.

Caption wants YOUR art…. and more guest news

That’s a cracking T-shirt design for this years Austerity themed Caption. Happening 6th August, Caption has announced a few more guests/attendees, including Paul Grist of Kane and Jack Staff fame, Paul Duffield (Freakangels), Kate Brown (with her new book Fish + Chocolate), Andy Luke (Absence), Paul Rainey, Rob Wells will be representing Comics- On The Ration, Meanwhile, the [...]

Manchester – home of the big drink ‘n’ draw & Matthew Badham, interviewer at large….

Manchester Comix Collective is hosting the first BIG Drink ‘N’ Draw on the 30th June at the Sandbar, Manchester: “As always the Drink ‘n’ Draw will be FREE to attend, and we’ll have the usual drawing games, FREE snacks AND pizzas, FREE comics at the Comic Swap table, materials provided and 10% off at the [...]

Happening Tomorrow….. Glasgow & Birmingham comic events:

Two things happening next weekend: Glasgow Comic-Con – guests include Frank Quitely, David Lloyd, Mark Millar, Alan Grant, Jon Haward, Gordon Rennie, Gary Erskine, Martin Conaghan, Dan McDaid, Colin McNeil and more. Comics Launchpad in Birmingham is a one day conference event for comic pros and aspiring creators run by International Comic Shows (the group behind [...]

MCM London Video

The MCM London Expo crew has posted up a brief video from the recent, very well received show (you can read a report on the event from James here on the blog): MCM London Comic Con May 2011 from MCM EXPO GROUP on Vimeo.

Upcoming – next week: Glasgow Comic Con Festival & Birmingham Comic Launchpad….

Two things happening next weekend: Glasgow Comic-Con kicks off on Monday with a series of events (above, and more details at website) culminating in a one day Con featuring guests including Frank Quitely, David Lloyd, Mark Millar, Alan Grant, Jon Haward, Gordon Rennie, Gary Erskine, Martin Conaghan, Dan McDaid, Colin McNeil and more. Meanwhile, Birmingham hosts its [...]

Glasgow Comic Con Festival

The new Glasgow Comic-Con is fast approaching, due to hit Scotland’s largest city on Saturday 18th of June in the Mackintosh Church Arts & Heritage Centre, with guests including Frank Quitely, David Lloyd, Mark Millar, Alan Grant, Jon Haward, Gordon Rennie, Gary Erskine, Martin Conaghan, Dan McDaid, Colin McNeil and more (naturally we’ll have a table [...]

Warrior-Con – July

There are large scale conventions and there are small scale conventions. And they both have their merits, and they can both be enjoyable. Well, here’s a very small scale one – Warrior Con. 60 people will fit into The Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester on Saturday July 2nd for a celebration of 30 years of [...]

Tomorrow: 2D Festival, Northern Ireland

Poster by Rufus Dayglo. Guests include Mick McMahon, Mark Chiarello, David Hine, Mike Collins, Glenn Fabry, Denise Mina, Dave Taylor, Garry Leach, Rufus Dayglo, Rob Davis, Gary Erskine, Will Simpson, Phil Winslade, Nick Roche, Garry Northfield, Jim Medway, Davy Francis, Trisha Deery, PJ Holden, Stephen Downey, Kevin Logue, Joe Campbell, Danny McLaughlin, Neill Cameron, D’Israeli, Bec Hill. Details on the 2D website.

Comic Cons – in pictures!

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 [...]

James reports from the MCM Expo at Excel London

James Bacon had the pleasure of diving into the geek pleasure garden that is the London MCM expo, a haven for comics, gaming and science fiction fans, over the bank holiday weekend and he’s very kindly sent us a report and pics from the gig: It’s a grey Friday afternoon. The May bank holiday doesn’t feel [...]

Upcoming: 2D Festival

Northern Ireland’s 2D Festival returns in 2011 with a cracking poster from Rufus Dayglo and a very impressive lineup: Mick McMahon, Mark Chiarello, David Hine, Mike Collins, Glenn Fabry, Denise Mina, Dave Taylor, Garry Leach, Rufus Dayglo, Rob Davis, Gary Erskine, Will Simpson, Phil Winslade, Nick Roche, Garry Northfield, Jim Medway, Davy Francis, Trisha Deery, PJ Holden, Stephen Downey, Kevin Logue, Joe Campbell, Danny McLaughlin, Neill Cameron, D’Israeli, Bec Hill. The festival is organised by the Verbal Arts Centre, an [...]

Caption – in this age of austerity….

The UK’s longest running convention is the small scale festival that happens in Oxford. Caption celebrates the world of comics from a very unique viewpoint, eschewing the world of big budget superheroes for the smaller scale. In years gone by we may have called this small press, or alternative. But seeing as the work in [...]

This weekend -MCM London Expo & the International Alternative Press Festival