SICBA Awards Exhibition In Glasgow

By John Freeman on 25 September 2011

The successful first Glasgow Comic Convention, held at the Mackintosh Church Arts And Heritage Centre in Maryhill, Glasgow in June 2011, featured the presentation of the first Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards (SICBA) during its evening party. Winners included the graphic novel Burke And Hare, its writer Martin Conaghan, and artist Alex Ronald for the Wasted strip Vampire Vixens Of The Wehrmacht.

This coming week, 26 to 30 September 2011, the Mackintosh Church will have an exhibition highlighting the SICBA nominees and winners as well as a ‘pop up’ comic shop in the centre’s shop. The centre is open from 10am to 5pm.

There are more details of the Mackintosh Church Arts And Heritage Centre at their website.

There are more details of the Burke and Hare graphic novel on its website and more details of the Vampire Vixens Of the Wehrmacht on its Facebook page.

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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.