Gotham Cosplayers UK in association with the Birmingham Comics Festival released the first two videos in a series promoting the group attending the festival’s convention to benefit the registered charity Baby Lifeline. The festival’s gala convention takes place on Saturday 23rd April for… Read More ›
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A Double Dose of the Awesome Comics Podcast, featuring Gavin Mitchell, Emily Owen and Matt Garvey!
Some down time and the frantic run up to the brilliant Malta Comic Con mean I’ve gotten behind on some regular plugs, including those for the Awesome Comics Podcast from Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher and Tony Esmond – so let’s… Read More ›
Something For The Weekend: Jessica Martin’s DC Comics Debut! (US Comics On Sale 28th October 2015)
Here’s this week’s run down of new comics on sale in comic shops across the UK, with the emphasis, as ever, on titles that are the work of British creators and published by British publishers, and my, aren’t we spoilt… Read More ›
Cool as ICE! A Review of the International Comic Expo, Birmingham, 2015
England’s second city was the location for the latest and possibly the coolest comic convention on the circuit and Jon Laight was there for downthetubes… The International Comic Expo is held in the centre of Birmingham and organised by Shane Chebsey,… Read More ›
Cardiff Independent Comic Expo returns next month
Cardiff’s only independent comic show returns on Saturday 27th June, 2015 at Cardiff Masonic Hall. The Cardiff Independent Comic Expo (CICE) will showcase the very best in independent comic artists, writers, publishers, retailers, illustrators and more, from South Wales and… Read More ›
Top Comics Talent at GOSH London for Free Comic Books Day
A host of talented British creators who’ve sharpened their favourite pencils and picked out their very best sketchbooks will be at GOSH London for Free Comics Book Day in 2015. Guests include: Grace Wilson, Warwick Johnson Cadwell, Will Tempest, Elliot Baggot,… Read More ›
The Birmingham Comics Festival 2015: A View From the Trenches
The mysterious but thankfully only occasional vagaries of internet communication delayed delivery of this report by Paul H. Birch on the well-received Birmingham Comics Festival, but it’s here now! Enjoy… Walking the fully-glazed curved length of Edgbaston Cricket Stadium’s committee lounge… Read More ›
Jessica Martin’s Picture Palace comes to the Radlett Centre in March
An exhibition of actress, singer, and now comic writer and illustrator, Jessica Martin’s artwork will take place in the Radlett Centre in Radlett, North London beginning on Monday 2nd March 2015 and lasting until Tuesday 31st March 2015. Entitled Jessica… Read More ›
In Review: Vivacity by Jessica Martin
A follow-up 2013’s It Girl, Vivacity moves Jessica Martin’s non-fiction Hollywood Heroines theme from the silent black and white era into the glamour of the early colour epics with the life story of Oscar, BAFTA and Tony winning British actress,… Read More ›
True Believers event comes to Cheltenham, aims to put the comics back into “Comic-Con”
The True Believers Comic-Con is a new UK based convention that will be held at Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucestershire on Saturday 7th February 2015, with the goal of bringing fans a comic-con that puts its focus back onto the comic books and… Read More ›