Noon MMMS the Next Generation?

This months sees the dawn of the Heroic Age from Marvel… a ideal jumping on point or Disney marketing?

Join Paul Cornell, Phil Noto, Kieron Gillen, Neil Edwards and Rob Williams as Joel Meadows investigates.

12.45pm CLAREMONT & DAVIS

WHEN TITANS TALK – Almost 25 years after their first collaboration, Excalibur co-creators Chris Claremont and Alan Davis sit down for an intimate chat with Mike Conroy in which they discuss what brought them together, their various joint projects and each other.

1.45pm VERTIGO

Shelly Bond, Vertigo Group Editor hosts along with special guests a preview of all that is forthcoming from the edge of comic-dom

With Mark Buckingham, Phil Winslade Simon Bisley & Ian Edginton.

2.45pm 2000AD

Join the Mighty THARG and guests droids for what the year ahead brings to Dredd and the Greatest Comic in the Galaxy!

Signings, Panels, EXpo EXclusives launches, Charity Events, Podcastings and Lunch!

ARTISTS ASSEMBLE!*

As part of our interactive programme we are delighted that a number of our guests can be found at their own tables!

* ( … OK, and writers )

In the Lobby at
the RAMADA

COMX with creator signings over the weekend

Eddie Deighton
Jon Sloan
Andi Ewington
Rob Williams
Ben Oliver
Dom Reardon
Barry Spiers
Lee Carter
Boo Cook
Matt Timson
John Higgins
Mike Dowling
Sally Hurst
Charlie Adlard

plus
LEE GARBETT
NEIL EDWARDS
PHIL WINSLADE
CLINT LANGLEY
JOHN McCREA
Who will have THE BOYS Print on sale!
IAN EDGINTON & IAN CULBARD
DOUGIE BRAITHWAITE ( Sat only )
GRAHAM BLEATHMAN
GARY ERKSINE
JOHN M. BURNS
Who will have the Dredd print on sale!

Also in the
SUMMIT SUITE

SYD JORDAN
& the JEFF HAWKE Expo Exhibition
SEAN PHILLPS NOW BOTH DAYS

ROBIN FURTH ( Sun only )
DYLAN TEAGUE ( Sun only )

The SUMMIT SUITE will also be hosting the ever popular ARTISTS ALLEY

Bristol Comic Expo 2010 – Signings Schedule

Saturday

Sunday

Tony Lee 12-2 on Saturday 2-3 on Sunday

Dave Shelton 3-4 on Saturday

The Publishers will also be hosting their own signings…

( please check at there respective stands for times )

CHRIS CLAREMONT will be signing with FORBIDDEN PLANET (Signing both days from 2.30pm)
( next to the ARTS Restaurant )

PAT MILLS with PANINI from 3pm
( Sat only )

2pm Sunday JOHN McCREA

Plus a host of Panini’s finest creators will be signing over the weekend

GAREN EWING & GLENN DAKIN will be signing with EGMONT
STOP PRESS!
Thanks to EGMONT we will have the FIRST COPIES of Garen’s RAINBOW ORCHID 2 on sale anywhere Worldwide!

& DON’T MISS Garen & Glenn’s at Panel on publishing 2pm @ the Mercure.

MIKE PLOOG & SIMON BISLEY
with REED COMICS

REBELLION will be hosting Guest Signings throughout the weekend

MARKOSIA will have CHRIS LYNCH in residence signing the Expo Exclusive
THE DARK graphic novel

Please note : The 1st regular print is SOLD OUT but thanks to Markosia, Comic Expo has the EXPO variant special,
… but only while stocks last!

Please note that some artists do charge for sketches so do check before asking for
The JLA battling The Avengers in space!

The Bristol Comic Expo, for the first time ever, will play host to
‘The Podcast Suite’

In this dedicated area the UK/US Podcasts; Geek Syndicate, Sidekickcast, Comic Book Outsiders, Comic News Insider , Birds of Geek, Waiting for the Trade , Small Press Big Mouth and Good Morning Geekdom will be recording interviews, roundtable sessions and more throughout the weekend.

The Podcasters will also be holding a drop-in session where people interested in starting their own podcasts can come for help and advice.

An all weekend event hosted in the
Summit 3 Suite 1st Floor Ramada Hotel

The Return of the
SKETCH A THON

A popular event at Comic Expo which works in that a group of artists draw sketches for fans for a modest fee will all the proceeds going to our in house charity
Draw the World Together

We have already confirmed a number of top names :

1 - 2pm we have the Cardiff Comic Crew;
(The Pendragons )

Simon Wyatt, Mike Collins, Dylan Teague

2 - 3pm
Steven Yeowell, Phil Noto, Ian Churchill

3 - 4pm
Kev Hopgood, John Charles, James Hodgkins

To encourage support we offer a number of MEGA incentives.

For each sketch fans receive a “ Goodie Bag “ containing a selection of comics and one Special Dynamic Forces Variant issue.

This is sponsored by ACE Comics.

Also we operate a Free Prize Draw to all the fee paying fans. The Draw ticket gives one attendee the chance to win a
“Stack of Books “

This is sponsored by Diamond Comics Distribution.

Finally the winning ticket holder gets a full refund on their ticket price!

The SKETCH A THON is live from Sat 1pm in the BIRCH SUITE in the Mercure

Also…

There will be a
DRAW THE WORLD TOGETHER
table at the Mercure hosted by Jason Cardy,
Kat Nicholson & Simon Williams.
They will be fundraising with various projects

WAREHOUSE FIND! the DTWT Sketch Book from 2008, this book was produced by NCSoft and features art from DAVE GIBBONS, IAN CHURCHILL, DOUG BRAITHWAITE, JOCK, MARK BUCKINGHAM, MIKE OEMING & MANY MORE !
Available for a minimum £2 donation

BATMAN & DOC SAVAGE

Are also supporting Draw the World Together this year!

The One shot 1st Wave Special
that featured the First Team Up of
these Legends

Will be available for

ONLY £ 2.00

at Phil Noto’s signings over the weekend

COMIC EXPO wish to thank DC COMICS
for their support in donating the book so all the proceeds go to Draw the World Together.

Back by popular demand
THE RAMADA / EXPO LUNCH BAG!
A full packed lunch bag with can of drink all for a fiver!
And you get a FREE COMIC to read while eating your lunch.
Available from the Bar from Noon.

STOP PRESS... our friends at The British Film Institute are hosting a ANIME WEEKEND!

Anime Weekend

 

21 May - 23 May 2010

Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone: plays alongside its sequel in our Anime Weekend,  kicking off a weekend of feature length animation and manga inspired action based films. 

there's something fro everyone. Younger audiences can enjoy our screening of the 2005 classic friendship tale, Stormy Night as well as Welcome to the Space show - one of the most anticipated anime titles of the year. We follow the  extra terrestrial journey of five children who nurse an injured dog back to health only to find out he is in fact an alien who seeks to reward his new friends in this  visually spectacular adventure set on a summer camp.  

those seeking thrills and bravado can sit back and enjoy the manga based tale of K20:The Fiend with Twenty Faces which follows the adventure of K-20.  Stealing from the rich he is framed and sentenced to death... Will he escape from eh clutches of evil or are his days numbered???

Other familiar faces and names are included in the programme from the character Professor Layton as he leaps to life on the big screen to solve some mysteries in a puzzling tale about life, death and immortality in Professor Layton and Eternal Diva as well as Director  Hosoda - as we are screenings his follow up to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time -Summer Wars.  Kenji, a highly intelligent student who is obsessed with a computer generated, virtual world called Oz sets in motion a series of events that could result in he earth colliding with the parallel world when he follows his heart's desire to a family birthday party

 

.... for more info visit www.bfi.org.uk/go/fantasyeventsanime