2021 sees the third Tripwire Awards, celebrating the best in UK and US comic talent. With voting now closed, here’s a quick reminder that the long-running magazine is to host a physical ceremony on Thursday 26th August to announce the winners, at the Cartoon Museum in London.
Hosted by The Convention Collective’s Leonard Sultana, the awards will announce the winners of categories like Best Writer, Best Artist, Best Publisher and more. The ceremony will also give away a selection of top graphic novels to the attendees from the likes of Marvel, IDW and Dark Horse as well as beer, wine and snacks.
Many of the winners will be present at the ceremony to accept their awards while others will be accepting them via zoom or video link.
“The London Cartoon Museum is the perfect location for our event as it’s the home of comics in London ,” says the magazine’s editor, Joel Meadows.
As downthetubes is among the nominees, we‘re obviously looking forward to finding out the results!
Tripwire is the UK’s pre-eminent comics and genre magazine and website. Launched in 1992 as a print magazine, it switched to the web in 2015. In 2021, it brought back its print magazine as a once a year special. It has interviewed many major figures in the worlds of comics, film and TV.
• People can grab a ticket for the ceremony for just £3 by paypalling this amount to joelmeadows@btinternet.com Tickets are available until the day of the event – and a few tickets will be available on the day too
• Check out Tripwire online at tripwiremagazine.co.uk
John Freeman
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. Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Star Trek Explorer (previously known as Star Trek 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.
Categories: British Comics, Comics, downthetubes Comics News, downthetubes News
Related Articles
-
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Time Bomb Comics Bomb Scares is back (and more Quantum, too)
-
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Andrew Wildman’s OXYGEN graphic novel
-
The power of comics celebrated as international creators arrive in The Lake District
-
Dave Gibbons records his autobiography, Confabulation, as audiobook from B7 Media