Comica Comiket: Independent Comics Fair

This event just keeps getting better.

We only make the Winter one, sadly, as the one each Spring always seems to clash with other things, but this is an event that we always enjoy, usually for the opportunity it provides to meet friends and talk comics.

This year however not only did it do this but it also allowed us to sell a whole heap of our comics. We didn't take a huge amount of stock down, to be fair, but we did only come back with three comics, which makes it our best Comiket ever, and probably our best London Convention as well.

We met Sean Azzopardi on the tube train which helped us reach the venue on time, but this new venue was much more accessible, being a stone's throw from Liverpool Street Station, and that paid dividends as the attendence figures must have been way up on last year.

Kev Sutherland had a table and was turning our free caricature sketches. His first two were of Colin...

and me...
I think I came off best...
As always there was a wealth of talent selling a whole range of interesting and attractive books. And as always a lot of it was new to us, even though we attend a good number of shows ...
New to this even, and any other I've been to, was a continuous line-up of artists drawing underneath a camera which captured their every stroke for all to see ... I can only imagine how nerve wracking that would be to do, but it was fabulous to watch.
Nick Wadley's stall, next to ours, had a great range of amusing cards...

and I bought this one as it's my kind of humour...

A really great day ... great venue, great organisation, great conversation and great sales... what more could you ask?

PREDATORS review...

...over on Burnt Weiners Podcast #94, you can find it on http://www.burntweiners.com/2011/10/16/burnt-weiners-episode-094-orchid-1-predators-anthology-batgirl-2/

The 'digital' Wolmen have arrived.

The Wolfmen and The Fall Of The Wolfmen are now available for download through the excellent LUSH Comics app on iTunes for iPad and also to Android tablets.
You can find out more about LUSH Comics by following the link on the right.

Accent UK to attend the Comiket event.

Colin and I have a table at the Comiket event in The Great Hall, Bishopsgate Institute in London on the 12th November.
We've done a few of these now and they really are different to any other event that we attend in the UK. Much smaller and more personal, with a lot of time available for both creators and punters to chill and chat about all manner of things.
You can find out more about the event over on their website at www.comicafestival.com,hope. Hope to see a few of you there, especially those living in or around London.

In other news, the ZUMBIS GN is moving ahead at pace, check this out http://twitpic.com/70asbx.

Wolfmen on their way to Lush Comics iTunes store.

I've just sent The Wolfmen and The Fall Of The Wolfmen over to Justin at LUSH Comics, so they should sit nicely alongside Whatever Happened To The World's Fastest Man ? in digital form very soon.
I can't wait to get them both on my iPAD.
Justin is still busy and I believe that Apps now exist for Android ...

ZUMBIS!!! Extra bits...

Gal Editora have started to release snippets of their upcoming reprinting of selected bits of our ZOMBIES anthology, to which they are also adding some stories from Brazilian creators ... more a collaboration than a reprint really ... you can find out more here.

Accent UK gets advert in Kick Ass 2 no. 4

Well, it's been quite the week for us at AccentUK.

Due to a favour done by Andy Bloor for Mark Millar, Mark has given us a page advert in Issue 4 of Kick Ass Vol 2. It's great exposure for us and we're really grateful to both Andy and Mark. We're lucky that Andy is such a talented designer type person ... as well as damn fine artist. In other news, Owen Johnson (writer up My Maker & I, which is a fabulous full colour one shot that is in production, with artwork by none other than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Dan Duncan and colours by Matt Soffe) has been interviewed in Issue 1681 of Comic Buyer's Guide. It's always a challenge to fit everything into these interviews and mention everything but Owen does a great job. You can see more over on Owen's blog.

PREDATORS has hit the shelves of UK Comic shops, I've seen it with my own eyes, so if it's not in yours and you want to pick up a copy then have a go at the store manager. Sales were a little down on the books that have come before it, due I think to it clashing with DC's relaunch of all of its titles, so chances are you might not find it very easily. We will have copies for sale at the Leed's Thought Bubble event but it would help us out a lot if you'd get your comic retailer to get some copies through Diamond Distribution.