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Sunday, 4 January 2015

MAC Bigging it up with The BFC!






 The Birmingham Comics Festival was created to put the City of Birmingham back on the map as the cultural heartland for the comics medium within Great Britain. To this end various initiatives are being established, including special appearances and satellite events that will support the main convention gala taking place at Edgbaston Cricket Stadium on Saturday 18th April 2015. 

The organisers of The Birmingham Comics Festival are pleased to announce the first of these events; a special programme of comic-related film screenings, and that it will be held at the mac Birmingham, one of the country’s foremost art centres for over 50 years.

  “The venue holds a special place in the memories of older comic fans,” revealed one of the festival’s organisers. “The first Birmingham Comic Art Show was held there, and we very much want to forge links with our historic past while also looking forward, and that’s why we’re very excited about the involvement of Film Ambassadors.” 

The Film Ambassadors is a group of young people who are working with mac art tutor Scott Johnson, to produce a programme of comic-themed films, either featuring iconic characters or ones inspired by the medium that will be shown at mac Birmingham on dates leading up to The Birmingham Comics Festival, with the final screening taking place on the evening of Saturday 18th April 2015.  

Those attending the Comics Festival will be entitled to discounted film tickets costing only £3 on presenting their official wristbands at mac Birmingham’s Sales & information Desk for those shows applicable. In addition to this, The Birmingham Comics Festival is working with the mac Birmingham’s cinema producer Amy Smart to select guest speakers to attend the screenings. A full programme of events will be announced in due course. For information about mac Birmingham visit:
  
www.macbirmingham.co.uk   For more on The Birmingham Comics Festival & to purchase tickets: www.thecomicfestival.com  



 Birmingham Comics Festival Tickets Now On Sale! 

Advance tickets are now on sale for The Birmingham Comics Festival taking place on Saturday 18th April 2015 at Edgbaston Cricket Stadium and featuring over 100 exhibitors, panel shows, competitions, cosplaying events and surprise activities yet to be announced, plus a host of special guests from around the world who have written and illustrated such iconic characters as Batman, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Judge Dredd, Dan Dare and even The Three Bears, and whose work has appeared in such bestselling comics as 2000AD, The Eagle, Metal Hurlant, Sonic The Comic, Commando, and The Beano

Featuring rare and exclusive UK attendances of many stellar talents, not least the living legend whose art has entertained generations of British comic readers, Mr Ian Kennedy, The Birmingham Comics Festival is something no serious comic book fan can afford to miss out on attending, and fortunately this inaugural event is not cost prohibitive. 

Tickets can be purchased online direct from The Birmingham Comics Festival’s website with special limited VIP Early Bird options available (that include invites to after-show evening events and limited edition tote bags), alongside standard adult and children ticket fares. What’s more under-fives accompanied by their parents will be given free entry making it a perfect day out for all the family.
It should also be noted that there will be no hidden charges and the purchase of tickets will ensure free car parking on the day (subject to availability) and free entry to all convention events (unless recommended as being for 18 and over). 

The centrepiece one day convention will be the culmination of a number of intimate smaller events being planned, some of which will be completely free, regardless of ticket purchases, while others - including a programme of comic-related films being screened exclusively at the Mac Birmingham - will be offered at a discounted rate to ticket holders. 

For more information and to purchase tickets for The Birmingham Comics Festival visit: www.thecomicfestival.com







Exclusive Birmingham Comics Festival Launch for Keith Page’s Paint It Black! 

Coinciding with the recent announcement that the renowned artist Keith Page will be a special guest at The Birmingham Comics Festival, Birmingham-based Time Bomb Comics has today announced that they will be publishing Paint It Black, a full colour 72 page graphic novel illustrated by Page and written by Stephen Walsh to be launched exclusively at the show taking place at Edgbaston Cricket Stadium on 18th April 2015. 

“We are delighted that this local publisher has chosen The Birmingham Comics Festival as the venue to launch their latest title,” said the festival’s organisers. “We said at the outset that the British comics industry is thriving and it’s often the newer publishers who are responsible for this. That such an established talent as our guest Keith Page obviously agrees can be no finer testament and bodes well for the future.” 

“Keith Page has produced some stunning artwork for Paint It Black,” said Time Bomb publisher Steve Tanner. Indeed, Paint It Black is a complete adventure introducing Paraffin Jack McNab, a hard-boiled detective working the streets of London as part of Scotland Yard’s vampire-hunting V-Cars division. Taking place in a 1950s Soho that’s a side-step from our own, Jack’s efforts to rid the city of its vampire scourge are realised in breathtaking watercolours from one of the UK’s most respected comic artists who will signing copies of this, his latest work, at the show. 

Walsh and Page are also the creators behind Time Bomb’s popular series of books relating the bizarre adventures of multiversal everywoman Charlotte Corday (that so far have included London Calling and Squadron of the Screaming Damned) and it is expected that the company will also have copies available for purchasing and signing at the show. 

For more information & to purchase tickets for The 

Birmingham Comics Festival visit: www.thecomicfestival.com 

For more information on Keith Page & Stephen Walsh books published by Time Bomb Comics visit:








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