With the Awesome Comics Podcast‘s first ever exhibitor appearance just around the corner, what better time to talk comics, conventions and get hyped for the upcoming London Super Comic Con 2016! This time out, the gang – Vince Hunt, Dan… Read More ›
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Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 32: Knowledge is Power – A Small Press Comic Book Q&A
It’s an epic Awesome Comics Podcast show this week after Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher and Tony Esmond asked for listener questions – and boy, did they get some great ones! (Be warned that there is some swearing and some risque… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 31: John Cullen
Daily strip genius behind NHOJ, John Cullen, joins Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher and Tony Esmond on the latest Awesome Comics Podcast to talk about the exhilarating and terrifying adventure of creating daily comics, his plans for future collections and his now infamous… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 30: Dave White of Avery Hill Publishing
Avery Hill Publishing are a small press publisher on the rise and Dave White, one of the brains behind it joins Vince Hunt, Tony Esmond and Dan Butcher to talk about how they came to be, how Factory Records influenced them,… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 29: Lex McDonald, creator of “Assault on Fortress Doom”
This week Lex McDonald, writer of the epic World War Two action graphic novel Assault on Fortress Doom joins the Awesome Comics Podcast crew to talk about the book and the long journey of bringing the epic wartime adventure to life. As… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 28: Chris Welsh, creator of horror comic “Wart”
Chris Welsh, writer of Lovecraftian inspired cosmic horror comic Wart and co-creator of Doc Dino joins the Awesome Comics Podcast gang to talk about his work and boy has he got lots of awesome stuff in the pipeline. Whether it’s… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 27 – Dean Beattie and Random Trials!
This week Awesome Comic Podcast hosts Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher and Tony Esmond are joined by Dean Beattie, a creator with an ever growing fanbase due to his amazing series Random Trials. He talks about how the series came to be,… Read More ›
The Awesome Comics Podcast End of Year Special – A White Riot of Comics Goodness!
It’s been a fantastic year for the world of small press comics, and what would the last Awesome Comics Podcast of the year be if there wasn’t a talk about some of the highlights of the year that was 2015? There are… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 25: A Creating Comics Adventure!
As Tony Esmond couldn’t make it this week (he’s busy helping Santa’s elves, apparently), it’s just Vince Hunt and Dan Butcher holding the fort on this week’s Amazing Comics Podcast, and they spend it cooking up a storm with lots of… Read More ›
Freaks, Heroes and Horrors, Good Grief! A Dastardly Digital Bundle of Comics Now On Sale
Following up on my plug earlier today for 100% Biodegradable Issue 11, there’s a fab “Freaks, Heroes and Horrors Bundle” on offer from four ace independent publishers on the digital platform Drivethrucomics – and it’s bigger than ever this time around. Offering… Read More ›
Cup of O – Small Press Reviews
Hello! You find me still plundering through my enormous backlog of small press marvels – the first two titles here are from the Melksham Comic Con 2014 and the last is the first of my teetering pile of titles from Thought Bubble… Read More ›
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 ›
Awesome Comic Podcast Thought Bubble Special
Get the sherbets out and It’s the Awesome Comic Podcast‘s first convention special folks! Vince Hunt and Tony Esmond discuss their time at Thought Bubble Festival 2015 (unfortunately Dan couldn’t make it), give shout outs to the lovely people they met… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 21: Comics Writer Sam Read
Who better to join the Awesome Comics Podcast crew for a chin wag than the writer of Exit Generation, Sam Read? Sam talks about how his brilliant SF action book came to be, his route into the world of making comics, the… Read More ›
In Review: Thought Bubble 2015
The culmination of the Thought Bubble Comics Arts Festival in Leeds was this last weekend and, as with previous years, it was a busy bustle of comics in all forms. I was there from the Friday night party to the… Read More ›
Awesome Comic Podcast Episode 17 Hallowe’en Special: Redshift Press
Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher and Tony Esmond are joined by the guys from Redshift Press this week for their latest and hugely-popular small press podcast. Chris Sides and Chris Travell are marking out a big old creepy cave in the… Read More ›
In Review: Leamington Comic Con 2015
Leamington Comic Convention on the 17th October was an absolute blast. Rumours were that there had been a massive amount of tickets sold and unlike rumours about my hair being made in China, these rumours turned out to be 100… Read More ›
Awesome Comic Podcast Episode 16: Comics Artist Chris Imber Talks Small Press
The boys at the Awesome Comics Podcast aim for sophisticated and polished interviewers this week and end up crudely laughing at crossdressing cosplay. Once that childish gigglefest is done they sit down with the artist Chris Imber, who is currently killing it… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 15: Comics Editor and Writer John Freeman
It’s a real history lesson this week as John Freeman of downthetubes, Crucible, ROK Comics and many more joins Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher and Tony Esmond to talk about all things comics. There’s talk about the latest webcomic site Tapastic… Read More ›
Nottingham Comic Con announces Clint Langley as a guest – and a whole lot more
The mighty Nottingham Comic Convention (Saturday 24th October) is now into its third year – and has really pumped up the Comics Jam this year, offering appearances by big name pros like Duncan Fegredo and Marc Laming lined up alongside some small press scrappers… Read More ›