Make It Then Tell Everybody

Birmingham Zine Festival has been excellent every single time I've been, and I'm certain that this year will be no exception. I can't tell you how excited I am about this. I'm interviewing Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Luke Pearson,  Philippa Rice, Kristyna Baczynski (who also made the wonderful poster below), Joe List, ... Read More

Etherington Brothers Baggage Launch

From special guest contributor Alex Fitch of Resonance FM's Panel Borders. With photos by Sarah McIntyre. On October 13th, an unusual book launch took place in Holland Park. At Daunt Books, a wooden fronted shop that compliments the affluent boutiques and delicatessens between the station and ... Read More

Helsinki Comics Festival 2011

From www.sarjakuvafestivaalit.fi comes news of the Helsinki Comics Festival 2011. This promises to be a very exciting couple of days! Book your plane tickets now! The 26th Helsinki Comics Festival will take place on the 16th - 18th of September 2011 at Lasipalatsi Square and nearby ... Read More

TCAF">Joe Decie on TCAF

I've been aware of TCAF for a while, but I've never visited. For a first-hand account of this year's festival, I turned to Joe Decie and asked him a handful of questions. (Image by Eric Orchard) What is TCAF? TCAF is a two day comics ... TCAF">Read More

Nelson

I've been sitting on my hands for AGES wanting to talk about this, and finally here it is; NELSON! I'm not certain that anything exactly like this has been attempted before, but here is how it works; Each of the 50 creators takes a year from ... Read More

UK in Europe Pt.1">The UK in Europe Pt.1

I started writing this post back in January just after returning from the Angouleme Festival. In the months following, I've been somewhat busier than usual (producing a new book, full-time teaching schedule, etc) I'll talk about my experiences in Angouleme first, but I'll follow it up with a report on an event in March in ... UK in Europe Pt.1">Read More

L’Association Strike announcement

One of the main stories from this year's Angouleme festival was L'Association's current strike action. I couldn't find a translation of the strike announcement, so I've run it through Google Translate and cleaned up the tenses a bit, so this isn't a perfect translation, ... Read More

Clark Burscough Interview

Next to be interviewed is Clark 'Thought Bubble' Burscough; 1 / Can you introduce yourself? What is your background? Hullo! My name's Clark, and I'm a trained microbiologist and lawyer, currently looking to specialise in bioethics and the regulation of biotechnology. In my spare ... Read More

Incendiary Manifesto Season

In the run-up to the Leeds Thought Bubble festival, John 'Bad Machinery' Allison published a manifesto for the UK comics scene in 2010. I strongly suggest you read it here. I also strongly suggest you read all of it, introductory provisos and all. John's tone, although it has seemingly been mis-interpreted here and ... Read More

David Lloyd Talk and Signing

I'm very pleased to announce that David Lloyd, of V for Vendetta and Kickback fame will be doing a book signing and talk at Glyndwr University on Monday the 4th October. He will be doing a signing from 6pm, and will ... Read More