Monthly Archives: July 2012
Interview with Antony Johnston
Recently I had the luck of interviewing Antony Johnston, comic and video game legend. One of the minds behind Dead Space, CourtYard and author of Closer. You can’t peek into any genre of comic without seeing his name. CC: Comic Conventions, AJ: Antony Johnston CC: As a child, who was your favourite comic hero? AJ:
Manchester MCM: Indecent Exposure
Every time a MCM show comes around, I find myself stuck between thinking it won’t be that bad, and thinking I shouldn’t go. As we all know, MCM stands for Manga comics & media. Or we all know it at least has “Comic” In there somewhere, yet they rarely have many comic guests. This year
London Film and Comic Con – Danger Writes review
What one of our friends thought about the London Film and Comic Con 2012… http://www.dangerwrites.com/blog/post/93-putting_the_comic_in_comic_con
Judge Dredd Press Release
A RELIANCE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY PRESS PACK, Certificate: 18, Run Time: 96 minutes Short Synopsis The future. America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC lies Mega City One a vast, violent metropolis of over 400 million citizens living in perpetual fear. The only ones attempting to impose order in the
Judge Dredd Press Release
Entertainment Film Distributors will release the highly anticipated futuristic 3D action thriller, DREDD on Friday 7th September, 2012 across the UK and Ireland. DREDD, is brought to life by the endlessly inventive mind of writer Alex Garland (28 days later, Never Let Me Go) and acclaimed director, Pete Travis (End Game, Vantage Point). The movie
Auto Assembly 2012
Are you a fan of transformers, in any shape or form? We are talking anything from the toys, TV show, comics etc -with a strong comic presence and this year they have thirteen Transformers comic guests including the entire creative team behind Transformers Regeneration One, and many of the IDW creative team working on their
NICE
NICE AKA Northants International Comics Expo website has gone live. Headlining it will be Alan Moore. Saturday 22nd September 9.30am – 5pm Sunday 23rd September 11am – 5pm FEATURING Charlie Adlard, Simon Bisley, Doug Braithwaite, Ian Churchill, Alan Davis, Steve Dillon, Marko Djurdjevic, Glenn Fabry, Melinda Gebbie, R.M. Guera, Adi Granov, David Hine, Shaky Kane, Dave
London Film and Melksham
Don’t forget this weekend that London Film and Comic Convention is on. £6 entry, cant really go wrong with that. Some great comic guests there. Also on some other news we have been told that YES there will be another Comic Convention in Melksham next year…..dates and guests will be announced later in the year.
Manchester MCM details
Today MCM released updated details on what we can expect there, they haven’t announced much in terms of guests though. Let’s break this down into simple sections: ACTORS: So far, we have Warwick Davis (Again.) Warwick is a great guy, and always a delight. His line last year was really big, so be prepared. As
Glasgow Comic Con 2012…the review
This weekend Comic Conventions headed north of the border to celebrate the Scottish passion for comics. In fairness, it was probably long overdue, but when the gracious offer came through of free lodgings, it was a quick visit to Easyjet’s website and the next thing you know we were on our way from the south