You know the old proverb about buses. Well I have a feeling that even that is not relevent to the comic scene so far this year. We here at ClearInk have already mentioned conventions going on in the London area (Kapow / BD Comics Passion / Camden Crawl / Comica) over the last few months. So what does the comic scene need? You guessed it. Another Comic Convention.
So we all know Edgar Wright probably most of you from Shaun of the Dead and more recently working on the AntMan movie. You may also know Tommy Lee Edwards, a pretty prolific comic and movie illustrator who has recently been working on concept art for the new Akira movie. I’m guessing the name Julian Barratt will also be familiar with many of you as the man who, along with Noel Fielding brought us the Mighty Boosh.
Forbidden Planet International is running a competition or maybe more accurately they have thrown the gauntlet down. Dan Franklin of Cape (now part of Random House) made some comments concerning the lack of good British illustrators out there for book publishers to turn to, and Sarah McIntyre recently posted up a strong response in opposition to his opinions… Continue reading