The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced artist Bryan Hitch as its final major guest for its weekend-long event in Kendal, Cumbria in October – making a very rare comic convention appearance in the UK. In an interview for Cumbria Live, online today… Read More ›
(With thanks to Tony Esmond): Chaos City Comics has announced a major signing event on Saturday the 12th July 2014 from 1.00pm onwards featuring five comic creators including Dave Gibbons and MontyNero, co-creator of the just-released Death Sentence from Titan Comics…. Read More ›
With the passing of the fourth Glasgow ComicCon, it’s gratifying to see that this convention continues to build on previous year’s successes. With the release of the ComicCon from the Contemporary Centre of Arts, this year’s event spread to… Read More ›
MCM Comic Con is back in Manchester …and this time it’s for the whole weekend. Following last year’s record attendance, MCM Manchester Comic Con returns to Manchester Central bigger and better than ever. Running over a full weekend for the… Read More ›
Bryan Lee O’Malley, creator of the award-winning Scott Pilgrim series, is set to undertake a major signing tour of UK and Ireland in August to coincide with the release of his much-anticipated new graphic novel, SECONDS. SelfMadeHero, the independent UK… Read More ›
This weekend sees the first ever HamCon – the Halifax Anime and Manga Convention (Saturday 5th July and Sun 6th July 2014), organised by young adults but not exclusively for young adults… but the Tour de France, which starts in… Read More ›
As part of its current exhibition, “Never Again! World War I in Cartoon and Comic Art“, London’s Cartoon Museum is publishing a number of cartoons and comic strips in its online “1914 Day by Day” project. The online exhibition… Read More ›
Alongside the British Library’s “Comics Unmasked” exhibition – which runs until 19th August – there’s a range of limited edition merchandise on offer, some of it inspired by the show itself, including t-shirts featuring the promotional character created by Jamie… Read More ›
Monty Nero will be signing the collected hardcover of Death Sentece at the Forbidden Planet Southampton Megastore on Friday 4th July from 6 – 7.00pm, and will be joined by artist Mike Dowling for a signing at Forbidden Planet London… Read More ›
Celebrate all things Doctor Who at Forbidden Planet later this month, when Rob Williams and Al Ewing sign the store’s exclusive Variant Cover of Doctor Who 11th #1 in Bristol on 26th July from 3 – 4pm. (yes, we… Read More ›
Following the success of last year’s event, the CamCon team have announced that a third one day convention celebrating all things geeky will be held once again at the Junction in Cambridge on 30th August 2014 – and the guest line up… Read More ›
The Prince’s Drawing School, Shoreditch has announced a one week Drawing Stories: Comics and Graphic Novels course later this month, taught by Emily Haworth-Booth, the winner of last year’s Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize This one week course, is suitable for both beginners… Read More ›
Bryan Lee O’Malley, creator of the international bestseller Scott Pilgrim, is set to make his literary festival debut at this year’s Stripped 2014 graphic novel strand of Edinburgh International Book Festival to talk about his much-anticipated new graphic novel, Seconds,… Read More ›
The inaugural MCM Belfast Comic Con took place over the weekend of 7/8th June drawing around 16,000 attendees to the King’s Hall Pavilion in Belfast and was reviewed here in downthetubes. A selection of the creators in the Comics Village… Read More ›
With their six monthly London events now the largest ‘Movie Comic Media’ events in the country, the MCM organisation is expanding its activities further around the British Isles, albeit under the now chronically over used tag of “Comic Con” rather… Read More ›
On Friday 27 June 2014 as part of the Culture 2014 tie-in with the Commonwealth Games, Scottish PEN and Literary Dundee are holding a graphic novel panel talk featuring Karrie Fransman and Amruta Patil to be chaired by Peggy Hughes…. Read More ›
In 2013, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival ‘Windows on Art Trail’ made an incredible impact, involving both business and locals in the inaugural event with fun displays of comics and comic-related ephemera. As with all such activities, the aim was… Read More ›
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has released its programme for 2014. As expected after the 40+ events for their major Stripped ‘festival within a festival’ in 2013, this year BookFest has dialled their coverage of comics and graphic novels back… Read More ›
The Dark Knight Returns, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Star Wars, the Harry Potter movies, Kingsman: The Secret Service… these wouldn’t achieve their box office successes without the genius of concept artists. So the Lakes International Comic Art Festival is pleased to be featuring four… Read More ›
Digital Story Engine, the company behind the terrific “Graphic Novel Man” documentary series about Bryan Talbot, have released a fantastic promotional video for Kendal’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival. The short film includes comments from Charlie Adlard, Bryan Talbot,… Read More ›