Con Report + Original comic

May 04, 2011 01:35

Hello~
Niwakins reporting, in an attempt to break the past few months' radio silence. Days have been eaten by school, but also by other time-consuming yet somewhat nice personal things. Meeting up with suddensmiles a few months ago was lovely too.

On March 12th, my pal Elliot and I attended the London Comic & Small Press Expo on the Goldsmith University Ground. Below is a tiny con report with pictures (well, mostly of our booth), and also a few words on the comic I managed to dish out at the last minute, After Hours~






Out of other things, I discovered Zarina Liew's lovely fashion & manga illustrations & was happy to see my old classmate Josceline of Mild tarantula again. There was a talk between Paul Gravett, Lorenzo Matotti & Dave McKean, mostly presenting Mattoti's work.

Our booth, with a surprise Elliot !



The cover of Elliot's "Hipstervision", a collection of sketches.



...And its inner content, with his comic "Teeth" on the side (and its screenprinted cover!).



After Hours, the little comic I was selling which I only managed to sum up by 3 words: "Librarians, guts, romance." (yes, I'm guilty of librarian fetish)


And since we are professionnal people, here are our amazingly professionnal business cards. We absolutely did not make them on the spot by cutting Bristol Board.


If you want to read it, I put After Hours online on Smackjeeves - it's quite short, 6 pages, but gets rathet wordy halfway through (and maybe a little bit [too?] meta too.). I'm not that proud of the art as

I swapped zines with the owner of 365 zines a year, who gave his impressions here. I'd be quite glad to hear yours as well, to try and grow from there.

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