This September a new event, the HighVisFest Street Culture Festival, will be bringing a huge, free celebration of Birmingham’s best in live street art, music, comics, dance, hip hop, food and drink.
Taking place at the Custard Factory, comics guests announced so far include ace creators Hunt Emerson and Lew Stringer.
Hunt’s credits include the recently-released Bloke’s Progress (reviewed here) Rime of The Ancient Mariner and Dante’s Inferno, and much more.
Lew Stringer is a regular contributor to Beano and Toxic, as well as Doctor Who Magazine, and like Hunt is one of British humour comics legendary talents.
• Check out High Vis Fest in-line on Twitter @highvisfest for latest guest news
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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.
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