PREDATORS hit the Birmingham Comicon.

It's been a lean year for Accent UK with regards UK Comic Conventions. With one thing or another, clashing dates with MOCCA and Library commitments, we just seem to have missed out on them all. So it was great to be able to make the Birmingham Comicon, the little sister of BICS, on Saturday. B.C. would also be the first Comic Convention to see our troubled PREDATORS anthology, which was to be printed and collected the week before. The book seemed to have been really cursed though as Friday passed and no books were delivered. Fortunately for us though we use UKOMICS and Stuart promised to have some boxes couriered to the venue on the Saturday morning, and true to his word they were there waiting for us.

and very nice they look too ... oh ... and the smell .... anyway ... where was I?

B.C. is very much the little sister of BICS. It was a one day event, had a smaller list of stars and consequently a small attendence. We sold a good number of comics but nothing like the numbers we sold at BICS.

So, was it a good event ?

Absolutely. As is typical at these events we got to speak to a good number of Accent UK contributors about current projects. We got to speak to a number of potential contributors and maybe some one shot creators. We spoke to people who enjoy reading our books and were very happy to see PREDATORS at last, Colin read some comics...

I attended an Independent Comics Panel and talked about Accent UK and how difficult it is to get comics out there. This conversation moved into the world of digital comics (and if you are interested in following up on LUSH comics then there's a link top right of this page) and it was interesting to see people clinging on to the past. Best of all though, we got to see the smile on Ken Mullins' face as he picked up a copy of PREDATORS sporting his amazing cover art.

Yep. A great day.

Next Con for us is Thought Bubble in Leeds, a two day event.

Thanks mostly to my daughter for taking the photos. Jemma has discovered that the sure way of not appearing on any is to keep hold of the camera and point it at other people.

If you are a contributor to PREDATORS and didn't pick up a copy at B.C. then email me your address and I'll pop your contributor copy in the post.