Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival – November 2019, Harrogate As the floodplains of South Yorkshire faced inundation, travellers made their way, slowly, carefully and by unplanned routes around the waters and on to Harrogate. Through the magical towns along the railway line, Starbeck, Hammerton and Knaresborough – the town to where the murderers of Archbishop Thomas Becket fled in 1170. One can imagine the four … Continue reading Fresh Thoughts
Ghost Comics Festival 2019 – Glasgow School of Art I dropped in on the Ghost Comics Festival at the weekend. This was a new event for me – I only heard about it a few days before, and it so happened I was going to be in Glasgow that day. There were a number of other events running as part of the festival including workshops … Continue reading Ghostly Glasgow
Glasgow Comic Con 29th June 2019 Europe roasts, Catalonia is ablaze and across the shires of England the yeomanry fire up the barbeque and empty corner shop beer fridges in council estate and village green alike. In the lands to the North optimistic Scots set forth with joy in their eyes, clad only in t-shirts, the more daring in shorts. They have a destination on … Continue reading Comics and Chips
Edinburgh Comic Con 2019 The rain it rained. It rained on the just and the unjust. It rained on the Jambo and it rained on the Hibee. It rained on the United and it rained on the Divided. It rained on the folks going to the Edinburgh Comic Con at the EICC. I couldn’t stretch to a commission from any of the international guests but … Continue reading Gimme Shelter
Dunfermline Comic Con 30th March 2019 Dunfermline has many things to recommend it. I was born there for one thing, so was Iain Banks, Charles I (keep the heid), Andrew Carnegie and Stuart Adamson. The comic con that LCS Little Shop of Heroes puts together is a more recent highlight. Dunfermline Comic Con has overcome adversity to become one of the best cons in the … Continue reading Black and White Magic
Edinburgh Corn Exchange – February 16th 2019 The Capital Sci-Fi Con held in Edinburgh every year is a nice event and seems to get bigger and more ambitious every year. All the profits go to CHAS the children’s hospice charity and is a voluntary effort which clearly a lot of work goes into. This year the star guest was Peter Capaldi who was signing and … Continue reading Capital Sci-Fi Con
This weekend saw the Edinburgh Comic Art Festival put on another show in the city. Last time it was on the fringes of the Book Festival in the city centre. This time the event was part of Scottish Book Week and was in the more relaxed setting of Leith’s Out of the Blue. A great selection of artists there and I picked up a ton … Continue reading Edinburgh Comic Art Festival – Winter 2018
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Comics with a British focus
