Forbidden Planet has announced a signing by Simon Spurrier for his novel A Serpent Uncoiled at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, London in August. Dan Sharper’s sins are a sickness. Sharper is a former underworld enforcer who now scrapes a living… Read More ›
Comics Events
McCrea, Ellerby among comic creator guest at first Manchester MCM Expo
The MCM Expo team have just released the first details of comics artists and writers who will be attending the inaugural MCM Expo Manchester Comic Con, held at Manchester Central on Saturday 30th July. MCM Expo’s Comic Village tour features… Read More ›
Major comics conference in Manchester in July
Manchester’s Metropolitan University will host a conference on graphic novels and comics early next month, featuring American artist Melinda Gebbie, Hunt Emerson, French artist Edmond Baudoin and Professor Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle from the Sorbonne University, Paris. A conference involving three comics… Read More ›
Grant Morrison in Glasgow in July
Glasgow’s Forbidden Planet International has secured something of an exclusive next month, with comics writer Grant Morrison in store on Thursday 14th July signing his new book, Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero. Published by Jonathan Cape,… Read More ›
Strange New Worlds – in Worthing…
Saturday July 23rd and Sunday July 24th 2011 sees Team Strange New Worlds put on their second Science Fiction and Fantasy festival at St. Paul’s, Chapel Road in Worthing, with guest authors and artists from the worlds of comics and… Read More ›
Imagined Cities: New londonprintstudio exhibition
Imagined Cities, a new exhibtion at lononprintstudio, opens this week (17th June) and features the work of a number of great British comic artists including Al Davison and Karrie Fransman. The exhibition will launch with a party on 16th June… Read More ›
Manchester Comic Collective Bigs Up its gathering
This month the Manchester Comic Collective is doing something a little more special than its usual gatherings of creators for a friendly drink – along with the Sandbar, they’ll be hosting the first Big Drink n’ Draw on the very… Read More ›
Forbidden Planet lines up Peter Hogan and Chris Sprouse signing
Forbidden Planet London has announced a special signing in August by Peter Hogan and Chris Sprouse for their graphic novel Tom Strong and the Robots of Doom (Titan edition) As Tom Strong and his family prepare to celebrate a wedding,… Read More ›
Quitely does it – New X-Men artist latest Expo guest
Renowned comic book artist Frank Quitely will be joining the hundreds of top comic artists and writers assembling at MCM Expo’s famous Comic Village this weekend. Best known for his collaborations with Grant Morrison on titles such as New X-Men,… Read More ›
2D Preps for Take-Off
The cream of the world’s comic talent will touch down in Derry/Londonderry next week for 2D, the Northern Ireland Comics Festival. The free event – hosted annually by the Verbal Arts Centre – runs from 2nd – 4th June and… Read More ›
Caption goes austere for 2011
Caption, the longest running comic convention in the UK is back for 2011, celebrating small press and indie press comics. This year’s theme is Austerity, as the organisers thought this might be appropriate to the current climate in the UK…. Read More ›
Comics@SciFiLondon Schedule Released
Comics @ Sci-Fi London takes place this weekend (30th April – 1st May) – a two day festival about the best of British Comics from the last 30 years in a lovely new space – The Blue Room – at… Read More ›
New Birmingham Comic Con announced
(via Paul Birch at Speech Balloons): Birmingham is to host 2011 B.C., an all-new comic convention on Saturday 27th August. Reporting for the Birmingham Mail’s Speech Balloons coulmn, Paul Birch reports the new day and-a-half event of 2011 B.C. is… Read More ›
Hellblazing! 25 Years of John Constantine
Hellblazer writer Jamie Delano will be making a rare public appearance in the UK this weekend at in London. For those who don’t already know, John Constantine: Hellblazer, published by DC Comics, centres on a magus who investigates occult crimes,… Read More ›
It’s a ¿@#!*$ exhibition and comics events thing in Belfast, innit…
¿@#!*$ What this unpronounceable series of symbols stands for is; ‘an exhibition and series of events incorporating the artistic mediums of Comics, Illustration and Zine making’. Exhibiting Artists are Malcy Duff, who will also be appearing, Travis Millard, Tom Gauld,… Read More ›
Kapow 2011: A Round Up
Kapow ComicCon. Photo: Stereo @rtist. See Original on flickr (with thanks to Dave Stokes for letting us re-publish his Round Up – original version, with swearing, on his blog here; and Stero @rtist Ketan Majmudar for permission to use some… Read More ›
MCM Expo London Comic Con Records Best Ever Ticket Sales
Advance ticket sales for next month’s MCM Expo London Comic Con – which includes the presentation of the Eagle Awards – have just topped an incredible 15,000, the highest recorded at this stage in the show’s decade-long history. The event’s… Read More ›
International Alternative Press Festival announces final events line up, benefit gig
Here’s the full, final rundown of events at the International Alternative Press Festival in London, which begins at the end of May. We’ve mentioned some of this before but the project deserves as many plugs as it can get… The… Read More ›
No More Places for CB Cebulski
David Lloyd has just been in touch to tell us that there are no more places available for Marvel Comics talent scout CB Cebulski’s appearance at London’s Cartoon Museum (see news story), organised by Cartoon Classroom (www.cartoonclassroom.co.uk). “I wish we… Read More ›
Wales Comic Con features Simon Furman in line up
One of the fastest growing events of recent years, the next installment in the Wales Comic Con saga lands in Wrexham this Summer. “We plan to bring fans more of ‘everything’ trying to make the show the best possible day… Read More ›