Comic Creators at London Book Fair: Video

By John Freeman on 15 April 2016

The London Book Fair took place this week and a number of comic creators were at the event, signing, engaged in events or taking part in panels, including Pat Mills, Leah Moore, Paul Gravett and Jessica Martin.

A number of the creators were caught on video by the LBF team, such as Sarah McIntyre, Chris Riddell, Richard Collingridge, Gary Northfield and Neill Cameron at Sketchbook Social, while Paul Gravett offered his insights into digital comics and graphic novels.

I’ve created a YouTube pastiche of items uploaded so far and included Philip Ardagh‘s comments on the event, issues facing libraries and children’s literature, which praises the event and the energy as deals were done and hands shaken!

Hopefully the various comic-related panels will be added to the LBF YouTube channel soon, including the panels.

London Book fair: www.londonbookfair.co.uk

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.