Right, with the
Bristol Comics Expo coming up in just seven days, I wanted to drop in here and give a little pre-show ramble through some of the stuff that you really should look out for if you're coming to the show. There's always a lot of comicy goodness at Bristol, but I want to focus here on new artists bringing their first work to the show, or unsung heroes that are just doing comics in a way that I DIG. Not only that, but (with the exception of some of the Tales of the Spiffing artists) they're all girls too, which is very cool.
Let's start with the awesome
Jen Smith, who will be showing paintings, postcards and various furry delights featuring a menagerie of monsters, robots and CATS, many in slightly perplexing situations wearing befuddled expressions. This is Jen's first show, so go and say hey to her and buy some of her goodies...
Next up, you really HAVE to pick yourself up a copy of
Tales Of The Spiffing, a fantastic looking anthology featuring art and stories by a whole load of painfully talented creators from Aardman Animation Studios. Featuring work by Dani Abram, Emilie Timmermans, JP Vine, Jess Jackson, Jonny Duddle, Kris Pearn, Matt Jones, Ashley Boddy, Sarah Matthews, Theresa Whatley and loads and loads more. I'm hoping a lot of these guys will be in attendance, as many are based here in Bristol, so you should hopefully be able to get pleeeeeenty of signatures on your copy of the book! Here's a couple of pages, I'd show more but you need to buy the book!...
Time to talk about
Nikki Stu, who is appearing I think for her third year in a row to Bris, so she's not exactly a newcomer, but, still, you may not have seen her work, and you should! Great sense of design, colour and STYLE, all wrapped up in an ability to create truly original worlds and characters, LOVE it...!
Okay, another creator here who's been doing this comic thing for a while, but she's a long-time Etherington Bros friend, in fact we first met her way back when her comic store stocked Malcolm Magic in single issues! I am of course talking about
Jess Bradley, whose sense of humour in everything she produces Just. Hits. The. Spot. I mean, look at these stuffs...
Right, time for one more, and I must admit, I'm not 100% sure that she'll be appearing at the con, but she may well be on the Draw the World Together stand, it's Jenny Clements! Yeah, I know, she's been featured on the blog before, but she's started making comics recently, and if that isn't a thing to celebrate, then what is?!! If anyone's been to one of our comic making workshops, they'll know how much I harp on about the importance of PERSONALITY in characters, and Jenny manages to fill every drawing she does with spades and spades of just that. Go see her draw at the show and
see how it's done!
What are you waiting for? See you at the show!
Lorenzo!
