My abject apologues to the enthusiastic team behind Nerd Hutch, a day long event celebrating some of the UK’s hottest small press and DIY talent taking place tomorrow at the Travelling Man comic shop in Grainger Street, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Hosted on both floors of the Nerd Hutch venue between 11:00am and 11:00pm the event will feature a comics and zine fair, workshops, interactive art installations, talks, film screenings, live music and vegan cakes.
The guest list includes Kristyna Baczynski (A Measure Of Space, Vantage, The Stool Pigeon), Gary Bainbridge (Sugar Glider, Grainger Street, Nightbus), Sarah Broadhurst (One Beat Zines, Double Dare Ya editor), Canny Little Library (Newcastle’s collectively run radical literature library), Jack Fallows (Axolotl, Costume Party – sad asexual emo comics), Gill Hatcher (The Beginner’s Guide To Being Outside, Team Girl Comic founder), the Left Leg Gallery (art questions, art confusion, retinal force to be reckoned with), Euan Lynn (Trash, Rad – music and skating megaforce), Erin McGrath (Illustrator or the likes of Paws, Withered Hand and Holy Mountain), the Paper Jam Comics Collective (a local non-profit group dedicated to opening comics doors to all), John Pearson (Prolific illustrator and live artist, Beast Wagon forthcoming) CJ Reay (Black Lodge Press, Anxious & Worrying), Julia Scheele (VICE, The Guardian, Solipsistic Pop, Double Dare Ya editor), Jef Sinclair (Team Girl Comic, sweet comix with a feminist undercurrent), Neil Slorance (SICBA award winning artist – Dungeon Fun, Doctor Who and The Amateur Astronomer’s Journal), Phoebe Stella Garrick Summers (DIY punk drawings and paintings of sadness and fire), Andrew Waugh (BOO! Horror Comic for Kids, A Bunch of Amateurs, beards) and Lydia Wysocki (Trails, Celebrity Homes, Asteroid Belter editor in chief, Applied Comics Etc).
Every part of this event is free but there will be a donations jar kicking around all day to help keep the cool things flowing at Nerd Hutch.
The Schedule
11:00 – 4:00: Stalls and live art downstairs, workshops and Canny Little Library upstairs.
5:00 – 6:00: Talk and Q&A with Julia Scheele and Sarah Broadhurst, editors of Double Dare Ya: A Riot Grrrl Inspired Super Zine. (downstairs)
6:30 – 8:00: Film screening – The Punk Singer (downstairs)
8:30 – 11:00: Live music (upstairs): CryWank / Kinky / Ferret Legs
• Nerd Hutch, Saturday 10th April 2015, 43 Grainger Street, NE1 5JE Newcastle upon Tyne | Facebook Event Page. Please see the Nerd Hutch page for access information and more.
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “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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