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 [...]
Continue reading...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:
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 17, 2011
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. [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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:
Continue reading...Saturday, November 5, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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, [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 16, 2011
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The latest in a rather impressive list of regional comic events was announced this week – Canny Con: “The Canny Comic Con is a little festival of comics and sequential art. It will be held at Newcastle City Library all day on Saturday 10th December 2011. “Whilst it won’t be on the same scale as some of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 14, 2011
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The Bristol Comics Expo, long a major fixture on the UK comics event calendar, is returning to its spiritual home of Brunel’s Passenger Shed at the Temple Meads rail station (a very handy venue for out of towners as the train station is literally next to it and the shuttle bus from the airport goes [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 9, 2011
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Less than two months to go before this years Thought Bubble Festival, but things are certainly falling into place. The anthology Thought Bubble comic is due out at the start of November in all good comic shops, the guest list is growing ever longer with highlights including Posy Simmonds, Tim Sale, Adam Hughes, Jeff Lemire, Cameron [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Last Saturday saw the annual (well, hopefully) Leeds Alternative Comics Fair set itself up again. And yet again, I couldn’t make it. I think I’m fated never to get there. So whilst I spent Saturday shivering and filling a bin with snotty tissues, the good folk of Leeds had fun. Luckily, Hugh Raine agreed to [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 2, 2011
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Next weekend – a diverse line up at the Institut Français.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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