adventures at the Comic Con
Hi kids.
This weekend I went to Bristol Comic Expo, a fun gathering of biggish industry names, trade shops and small press comics and or publications. In a familiar style, I shall break it pon down into Pros & Cons for easy reading...
Pros
• Meeting and having a chat with some of the name comic guys, Mike Carey in particular (one of DC/Vertigo's top writers). Told him I liked his stuff, he gave me a shitload of freebies. I also had a smoke outside with Colin MacNeil, who I liked in the early 90s.
• Arkid selling a shitload of stuff there. Banal Pig II is available now, watch out for it coming up on ditcb.co.uk., or to shamelessy order one, shout steve@ditcb.co.uk, for the amazing price of £3 pounds, which may or may not include P&P.
• I picked up some good stuff, TPBs on the cheap, some old school spidey/Hulk comics, which seem to be a goldmine of comedy for using on future flyers.
• Fully working R2-D2
• Saturday nights curry. A lamb Asari, and man was that a tasty meal. Cheap too.
Cons
• Comic fans, fucking wash more you set of smelly bastards. The Paul could not abide the funk at certain points of the day.
• All you kids out there with hopes and dreams of being picked up from your shitty 10 minutes to draw and write 'autobiographical' comics, give up. This goes for all the dogshit Manga imitation stuff. Only japanese folk who put endless hours a week into that stuff can do it, and there's absolute GALLONS of the fucking stuff, we don't need you doing it as well with your ^_^ shite. Look at the Tokyopop stand, it has more titles than anyone else, that should tell you something, and why your £4 12 page pap isnt selling to anyone.
• Me not taking anything with me to sign. Durr
The only other thing I can think of is Colin Baker off Dr Who looks rough these days.
Stay Frosty!
This weekend I went to Bristol Comic Expo, a fun gathering of biggish industry names, trade shops and small press comics and or publications. In a familiar style, I shall break it pon down into Pros & Cons for easy reading...
Pros
• Meeting and having a chat with some of the name comic guys, Mike Carey in particular (one of DC/Vertigo's top writers). Told him I liked his stuff, he gave me a shitload of freebies. I also had a smoke outside with Colin MacNeil, who I liked in the early 90s.
• Arkid selling a shitload of stuff there. Banal Pig II is available now, watch out for it coming up on ditcb.co.uk., or to shamelessy order one, shout steve@ditcb.co.uk, for the amazing price of £3 pounds, which may or may not include P&P.
• I picked up some good stuff, TPBs on the cheap, some old school spidey/Hulk comics, which seem to be a goldmine of comedy for using on future flyers.
• Fully working R2-D2
• Saturday nights curry. A lamb Asari, and man was that a tasty meal. Cheap too.
Cons
• Comic fans, fucking wash more you set of smelly bastards. The Paul could not abide the funk at certain points of the day.
• All you kids out there with hopes and dreams of being picked up from your shitty 10 minutes to draw and write 'autobiographical' comics, give up. This goes for all the dogshit Manga imitation stuff. Only japanese folk who put endless hours a week into that stuff can do it, and there's absolute GALLONS of the fucking stuff, we don't need you doing it as well with your ^_^ shite. Look at the Tokyopop stand, it has more titles than anyone else, that should tell you something, and why your £4 12 page pap isnt selling to anyone.
• Me not taking anything with me to sign. Durr
The only other thing I can think of is Colin Baker off Dr Who looks rough these days.
Stay Frosty!