Bristol Comic Expo Schedule

We are very pleased to announce our panel line-up for 2012:

RAMADA HOTEL

TALKS ROOM ONE SATURDAY

11.15 am KRONOS CITY – THE LAUNCH PANEL

Launching at Bristol 2012, Kronos City is the latest graphic novel release from Time Bomb Comics, and their first to also be released digitally. Hosted by pod-caster extraordinaire and SFX blogger Stacey Whittle, the Kronos City team – writer Andrew Croskery, artists Alex & Lauren Wilmore, letterer Jim Campbell and publisher Steve Tanner – reveal all about the City through which runs a River of Time. (The creators will be holding a signing session at the Time Bomb Comics table after the panel

　 HIGH NOON FOR DC & VERTIGO

We talk DC New 52, Vertigo and beyond with Paul Cornell, Mark Buckingham and Ian Churchill.

Paul being at front and centre with the 1^st wave, Storm watch and Demon Knights and now working Saucer Country for Vertigo. Mark Buckingham continues his award winning run on Fables. Ian Churchill returns to DC to take on the new Ravagers title.

Also with DC making the most of the internet for marketing what do the professionals feel about the new digital age where fans now make their feeling well know on a sea of forums, blogs and message boards with minutes of their work being published?
With two of the most well known bloggers, Cheryl Morgan & Stacey Whittle

1pm THEY COME TO PRAISE THE BARD, NOT BURY HIM

Candian comic series Kill Shakespeare has been lauded as a smart, sexy and violent take on William Shakespeare’s classic characters. Butsome feel that the series dumbs down Shakespeare and mars his great characters.

Join series creators Anthony Del Col and Conal McCreery as they introduce their brainchild and discuss the controversy that erupted because of their work. They also give insight in to how to launch a creator-owned book in the current market.

2pm TRIPWIRE MAGAZINE CELEBRATES 20 YEARS

Join editor-in-chief Joel Meadows plus Mike Carey, Dave Taylor and special guests to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Britain’s longest-running comics magazine. The panel will be looking back at two decades of history plus revealing what plans it has to celebrate this important milestone

3pm DENNY O’NEIL : A QUESTION OF BATS, LANTERNS AND ARROWS

 Join guest of honour Denny O’Neil as the acclaimed writer/editor looks back over his five decades-spanning career in conversation with Multiverse publisher/editor Mike Conroy. Best known for his lengthy association with Batman and his socially aware run on Green Lantern/Green Arrow with artist Neal Adams., Denny has also worked for Charlton and Marvel and on titles as varied as Azrael, Daredevil, Iron Man, The Question, Richard Dragon: Kung Fu Fighter and The Shadow. The architect behind the upheaval that wrought massive changes on the Batman mythos beginning with Knightfall and continuing through to No Man’s Land, he’s bound to have a treasure trove of interesting tales and insights to offer. This is an opportunity that you can’t afford to miss.

4.15 pm 2000AD 45 YEARS OF JUDGE DREDD & Co.

Expo takes a look at the world of 2000AD which after 35 years is responsible for launching many a creators career.

Iz McAuliffe and Stacy Whittle talk of Rebellion with creator droids HENRY FLINT, IAN EDGINTON, MATT BROOKER, BOO COOK, PATRICK GODDARD and JOHN HIGGINS on the past, present and future of 2000AD.

 RAMADA HOTEL

TALKS ROOM TWO SATURDAY

11am TONY HITCHMAN’S QUIZ
The return of the Bristol Expo fun quiz by popular demand

Super heroes of reduced circumstances

In this new Age of Austerity where cuts and downsizing abound let’s take courage from the example of the Tiny Titans of yesterday, the height challenged heroes and heroines of the past who fought more with less. Let’s celebrate the little guys (and gals) from our four colour fantasies in a fun quiz that will prove one and for all that size isn’t everything

11.45pm TRANSMEDIA

Transmedia is the art of telling stories across multiple different media. With the recent advent of platforms such as app, comic and book digital distribution the ability to present content in many different ways is accessible to the small and independent creator.
Join Barry Nugent, Nic Wilkinson, Stephen M Downey and Scott Grandisonwho between them have successfully published work in the form of novels, comics, audio plays and computer games to talk about the challenges and opportunities of developing stories in transmedia terms.

1.45pm MARKOSIA & FRIENDS SHOWCASE

Comic Expo Bristol is very excited to be presenting a brand new format to introduce attendees to the World Of Markosia!

We present FIVE new titles with their creators including 3 Convention-only Hard Back Special Editions that will not be available in stores for a dedicated signing session Plus our friends CLOCKWORK WATCH will be joining us for this very special event!

EXpo EXclusive Selected Original Art display featuring Valia Kapadai’s While Knuckle

1.45pm doors open

So grab a complimentary cup ‘o coffee as we start the presention Showcase with an introduction from Publisher Harry Markos

2pm WHITE KNUCKLE

Presentation with Cy Dethan & Valia Kapadai

Forty years ago, Seth Rigal was a man to be feared. Now nearly seventy and tormented by ten years as a serial strangler, Rigal suddenly finds his precious anonymity snatched from him when he accidentally saves a boy’s life. Old wounds are opened and the bodies won’t stay buried any longer.

2.25pm HYPERGIRL & Hero 9 to 5 sequel Presentation with Ian Sharman & Yel Zamor

When bored teenage girl Charley Matthews visits Watersvale Museum, she has no idea that a chance encounter with the dying Doc Hyperpower is about to change her life forever. Will she rise to the occasion and defeat the evil of Pharoanicus, or will she lock herself in her bedroom

and listen to The Cure? Find out in this senses shattering debut of Weirdsville’s newest hero – Hypergirl!

2.50pm SLEEZE CASTLE ETCETERA THE inCOMPLETE FINAL CUT

Presentation with Terry Wiley & Dave McKinnon

After a decade out of print, at last new readers get a chance to experience the various Tales of Sleaze Castle (which isn’t very sleazy, actually!). Meet Jo Dribble, perpetual student, her hard-drinking sister Petra, and her extra-dimensional friend Panda, ruler of another parallel Earth and of the giant crumbling Sleaze Castle. Petra’s adventures on Earth and Jo’s adventures on Panda’s planet are now collected in one bumper edition

3.15pm SIGNINGS ALL TITLES

4pm CLOCKWORK WATCH

Presentation with our special guests

Yomi Ayeni (creator, writer, filmmaker) Jennie Gyllblad (artist ) Corey Brotherson (writer, editor)

This is Clockwork World, a place where Victorian values are coupledwith anachronistic technology, not least of which are the clockworkservants that keep this society ticking along.

Set against this world, the Department for the Advancement of Sciences works on the newest ‘clock’ upgrades, whilst Her Majesty’s Clockwork Watch, a Gestapo-like organisation, monitors the clockwork servant population with a vigilance bordering on hostility.

This immersive story and participatory experience is setin a retro-futurist vision of Victorian England. The narrative is told through graphic novels, interactive promenade theatre, free form role-play, online adventures, an interactive book, and a feature film.

THE EXPO SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION!

4.30pm pm BAYOU ARCANA VOLUME ONE: SONGS OF LOSS AND REDEMPTION

The book that made the national press with the all female art team is the top of the Expo Bill

Presented by Jimmy Pearson, Patricia Echivarra Riego, Jenny Clements, Matthew Craig, Steve Tanner, Lynsey Hutchinson, Vicky Stonebridge, Corey Brotherson, Jennie Gyllblad, Dani Abram, Valia Kapadai, Sara Dunkerton, Cy Dethan

There is a place deep down South where dreams come true and nightmares find flesh. A place where the oppressed discover freedom and the oppressor violent retribution.

The swamp is alive with many a lost soul’s tale. ” Bayou Arcana unlocks a universe steeped in Southern Gothic Romance and spattered with supernatural horror, Enter the Arcana if you dare”

followed by final signing with all the creators

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TALKS ROOM ONE SUNDAY

11am ANTHOLOGIES – TELLING TALES

Anthologies are a British comic book institution, from The Beano and 2000AD to Nelson and New British Comics there exists an anthology for all tastes, styles and age ranges. Right now, many UK indie and small press anthologies are pushing the boundaries of the format, using it in innovative ways to present varied stories and provide unique story-telling opportunities.

These anthologies also represent one of the best ways for aspiring writers and artists to hone their skills and to see their work published. Join the panel – Rob Davis (Nelson, Solipsistic Pop), Dave Evans and Richmond Clements (Futurequake, Zarjaz, Dogbreath), Nic Wilkinson (Bayou Arcana, Western, Layer Zero) Stacey Whittle (Into the Woods). Barry Nugent (Tales of the Fallen) and Jimmy Pearson (Bayou Arcana) to discuss everything and anything to do with anthologies and to hear about what makes their books special and what they’re looking for in potential contributors.

11.45am MOEBIUS REMEMBERED

The sad loss this year of Jean Giraud, was felt across the worlds of SF & Fantasy art. And beyond. His influence will continue to guide the new visionaries of the future that he helped to inspire to create. Cheryl Morgan in conversation with Tim Maughan ( Science fiction author ) & Al Davison.

Presenting 90mins in the EXPO HOUSE OF HORROR!

12.30 am HORROR IS DEAD!

With the growing popularity of Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance in recent years, and many Crime/ Thriller books embracing a more graphic approach to storytelling, has traditional horror become redundant?

Wayne Simmons (bestselling author of FLU and FEVER) Adam Millard ( author of DEAD Series ), Jasper Bark,  Scott Stanford ( Darker Side of Oz ) and Ryan Brown (Beserker Studios) will be looking at the future of the horror genre throughout this interactive panel.

1.15pm RAZORJACK ATTACK!

John Higgins brings his signature creation, RazorJack to Bristol.

Having already appeared in comics, graphics and novels the stories are set on twisted worlds of twisted people, populated by armies of ferocious unstoppable female warriors and the ultimate destroyer of worlds: Razorjack.

….. The terror continues with animation being next in the sights John talks self publishing and the trials and tribulations in getting Razorjack out and noticed in the current market place.

2 pm STRIP FOR ACTION

Join Martin Asbury, John M Burns and Syd Jordan as they revisit the glory days of yore when newspapers crammed their comics pages with action/adventure serials rather than gag-a-day strips. With Multiverse’s Mike Conroy at the wheel, take a trip down memory lane as the three artists discuss Garth, Modesty Blaise and Jeff Hawke as well as their lengthy careers and the life and death of the classic newspaper action/adventure strip

3pm THE ONES TO WATCH

David Hine invites some of his favourite creators from the independent scene to talk about their work. Creators include Shaky Kane who is enjoying his time back in to comic spotlight