Today, with the annual Bristol comics gig bearing down on us (this very weekend), we have a special guest post from a good friend of the blog and a serious fixture on the UK Indy comics scene, Richmond Clements, who takes some time out of busy convention preperations to give us an insight into what [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 21, 2011
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Rejoice my Caledonian chums, for the extremely fine Scottish comics convention Hi-Ex will be returning to the Highlands next year! Organisers Rich and Vicky have announced after the hiatus this year Hi-Ex will return for its fourth edition on Saturday March 31st and Sunday April 1st 2012. Regular readers will know I’ve really enjoyed the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 7, 2010
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John Freeman at Down The Tubes picks up on some bad news from the Hi-Ex website – it looks like there won’t be an Inverness convention next year, I’m afraid, it looks like organisers Rich and Vicky just have too much on to be able to take on the massive amount of time and effort [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 4, 2010
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A comics Jam drawn at Hi-Ex from Sarah McIntyre, Jim Medway, Dave Shelton and Gary Northfield. You’re welcome.
Continue reading...Friday, April 2, 2010
Over the last weekend there were a number of comics and cartooning events in the UK, including Hi-Ex, The UK Web and Mini-Comix Thing, Schmurgencon and the Cartoonist Club of Great Britain had a bash to celebrate their 50th anniversary (this Thursday). We know lots of our readers will have been out and about at [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 29, 2010
On Saturday I took a very pleasant trip northwards from Edinburgh to Inverness to attend the third Hi-Ex, crossing over the mighty Forth Bridge (images of the 39 Steps playing in my mind as always when crossing this huge landmark which rears from the Forth like a Steel cousin to the Loch Ness Monster), around [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 27, 2010
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(looking down into the main space at Hi-Ex with all the dealers and artists – click the pics for the larger version on Flickr) Those of you who follow our Twitter feed will have already spotted that I am up in Inverness, capital of the Scottish Highlands, for this year’s Hi-Ex! comics con. The venue, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 19, 2010
Richmond Clements is one of the busiest men working on the British independent comics scene today. While holding down a full-time job, he manages to (co-) run a successful convention (Hi-Ex! in Inverness), co-edit several small press anthologies and has even, recently, been scripting various comic projects. Matt Badham caught up with him recently to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Dave Evans tells me that well known Brit small press gang FutureQuake Press will have several new issues of their 2000 AD themed titles out in time for this year’s Hi-Ex comics con the weekend after next in Inverness, including a new Dogbreath (with a cover by Neil Roberts), FutureQuake #15 (with a cover – [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 1, 2010
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Oh yeah, this month it’s Lawgiver to Hi-ex!
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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(signed original page of art from Grandville by and (c) Bryan Talbot) With the third Hi-Ex Highlands comics convention due to see a number of comics creators riding into Inverness on the backs of giant atomic mutant haggis in just over a month the website has up some of the fine goodies that have been [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Hi-Ex gets a nice mention on the BBC site for the teaming up of the UK’s biggest comics character, Judge Dredd, with one of the Scottish Highland’s best known inhabitants, Nessie, courtesy of the pens and brushes of Colin MacNeil: (Nessie and Dredd – with Ro-Jaws! enjoying a spot of fishing on Loch Ness in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Today’s Best of the Year guest is not only well known for his contributions to the UK small press comics scene but for co-founding and co-organising a rather splendid new comics convention in what some might have thought an unusual location, Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, which has rapidly garnered plaudits and is carving itself [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The BBC website reports that the Hi-Ex comics convention held for the last two years in the heart of the incomparably beautiful Scottish Highlands has secured some funding from the Highland Council. I know organisers Rich and Vicky have been campaigning hard with the authorities, pointing out the event’s success in bringing in audiences and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 31, 2009
In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider [...]
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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