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Title: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2020, 03:19:30 PM
Perth's first ever Comic Con to be held in August 2021, who's in?


https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/perths-first-ever-comic-con-to-be-held-in-august-2021/ (https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/perths-first-ever-comic-con-to-be-held-in-august-2021/)
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 19 September, 2020, 03:20:54 PM
" More than 50 different traders will feature at the event, including a series of guest appearances from writers and artists from Marvel, DC, Imagine and 2000AD Comic."

It says here.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Trooper McFad on 19 September, 2020, 04:20:28 PM
I'd be up for that take me away from next years fringe for a while. (If on🤞🏻)
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 September, 2020, 06:20:44 PM
Perth? Oh yeah, I'm in ... maybe this could lure a certain fish from transatlantic exile?
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: flip-r mk2 on 19 September, 2020, 09:00:16 PM
Working that weekend  :'(
(https://i.imgur.com/ip7RqlN.png)

filippo
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: GordonR on 21 September, 2020, 07:44:21 AM
Expectations about this need to be managed. The BGCP events are basically comic marts with cosplay, face-painting etc.  They're what passes for a comic con in places like East Kilbride, Dunoon etc.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 21 September, 2020, 08:46:24 AM
Looking forward to seeing all those creators from well-known publisher "Imagine".
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 23 September, 2020, 10:28:41 AM
Quote from: GordonR on 21 September, 2020, 07:44:21 AM
Expectations about this need to be managed. The BGCP events are basically comic marts with cosplay, face-painting etc.  They're what passes for a comic con in places like East Kilbride, Dunoon etc.

To be fair we seldom get out of the bar area. Also Perth is equidistant from every point of civilization, so the Furryboot Brigade and even Rich could traipse down for the day, altho the trains out are few and far between on a Sunday, I know that from visiting my brother ::)   
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 October, 2020, 03:23:52 PM
Quote from: GordonR on 21 September, 2020, 07:44:21 AM
Expectations about this need to be managed. The BGCP events are basically comic marts with cosplay, face-painting etc.  They're what passes for a comic con in places like East Kilbride, Dunoon etc.

Next year they have a dozen of these spread from Gala to Oban... still any excuse for a peev!

Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 27 May, 2021, 12:06:32 PM
Given the lifting of (some) restrictions, what's the consensus of meeting up for a pint FCBD or Perth?   
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 27 May, 2021, 10:17:15 PM
I will say yes! Deffo!

Then bail.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Buttonman on 28 May, 2021, 12:03:38 AM
I have one or two gaps in my diary (read : hunners) so please say the day!
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Dog Deever on 28 May, 2021, 02:17:06 AM
Perth eh?
That's that big roundabout cum bus station in Southshire, just past aw the hills where only strange people live, aye?
I might be able to make it- though the daft midweek date might end up being a problem depending on work (though it's a short Megabus trip so it could still work), therefore I shall tentatively say 'Yes' with the inevitable possibility of an eventual 'No'.

After the last couple of Glasgow 'events'  I attended, my expectations are barely at the dizzy heights of sea-level, being somewhere between Atlantis and Sculptor's Cave. Still, it's better than my hoose which only has cheap food, tasteless decor, bad TV and ill company but fabulously noisy music.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: sheridan on 28 May, 2021, 10:40:09 AM
Quote from: GordonR on 21 September, 2020, 07:44:21 AM
Expectations about this need to be managed. The BGCP events are basically comic marts with cosplay, face-painting etc.  They're what passes for a comic con in places like East Kilbride, Dunoon etc.


I had a look at some of the "comic-cons" which had cropped up around where I used to live (East Anglia - so Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire).  The fact that comic creators are actually mentioned in that Perth announcement makes them more comic-oriented than the ones I looked at.  It was (literally) all about the cosplay and film tie-ins.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 10 June, 2021, 03:29:09 PM
Given that the Perth con on in the last weekend of August, you'd think there would be some more info kicking about the interweb by now... evidence perhaps of the GRennie's droids lack of faith?

How about we say Perth on saturday 28th August 1pm in a boozer yet to be named....

Now who's in?



Build it and they will come!




Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Dog Deever on 10 June, 2021, 03:46:04 PM
It says the tickets are Out Of Stock- has it sold out?
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: GordonR on 10 June, 2021, 04:56:09 PM
The venue - which is a bar-free sports and leisure centre - currently closed as it's being used as a vaccination centre.  No word on whether it'll be open by August.

Enjoy your Perth Comic Con, guys.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 10 June, 2021, 05:14:42 PM
Quote from: GordonR on 10 June, 2021, 04:56:09 PM
The venue - which is a bar-free sports and leisure centre - currently closed as it's being used as a vaccination centre.  No word on whether it'll be open by August.

Enjoy your Perth Comic Con, guys.

Nasty man.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2021, 01:08:27 PM
Quote from: GordonR on 10 June, 2021, 04:56:09 PM
The venue - which is a bar-free sports and leisure centre - currently closed as it's being used as a vaccination centre.  No word on whether it'll be open by August.

Enjoy your Perth Comic Con, guys.


Thanks Gordon, so that's that ruled out, maybe leave it and see what the next round of level reductions are?
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 June, 2021, 02:51:20 PM
There must be somewhere a punch of middle aged men can get pissed in Scotland.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Buttonman on 12 June, 2021, 04:20:38 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 June, 2021, 02:51:20 PM
There must be somewhere a punch of middle aged men can get pissed in Scotland.

Bit aggressive there Del Boy!
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Colin YNWA on 12 June, 2021, 04:27:50 PM
Quote from: Buttonman on 12 June, 2021, 04:20:38 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 June, 2021, 02:51:20 PM
There must be somewhere a punch of middle aged men can get pissed in Scotland.

Bit aggressive there Del Boy!

Oh crap has he been messing with spoons again...
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2021, 05:39:05 PM
There's always one trouble maker in every crowd...
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2021, 05:40:33 PM
Mind you, 'a punch of Scotsmen' seems like a reasonable collective noun.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Dog Deever on 12 June, 2021, 06:31:54 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2021, 05:40:33 PM
Mind you, 'a punch of Scotsmen' seems like a reasonable collective noun.

I always thought it was 'a heidbang o Scots'.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Tjm86 on 12 June, 2021, 07:29:49 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 12 June, 2021, 05:39:05 PM
There's always one trouble maker in every crowd...

... just the one in this crowd?   :o :o :o
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 13 June, 2021, 11:14:18 AM
Shut it ya bams!
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Dog Deever on 13 June, 2021, 10:43:22 PM
The phrase "couldna organise a piss-up in Perth" hings low oo'er the thread...
:lol:

The Souther Contingent will laugh at us again.


Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Large48 on 16 June, 2021, 08:45:43 AM
"The Souther Contingent will laugh at us again."

Now there's an admission I'd thought I'd never hear.....

I just thought it was all about letters and pictures of food up in the wilds..... eh Buttonman?
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: low down dirty drokker on 16 June, 2021, 03:36:06 PM
Little known fact : I used to live in Perth way back in the '80's.
Was run out of town..
Was told if I ever show my face or step foot in the place again unmentionable things would happen to my backside.
So it's a NO from me, think I'll try Shrewsbury instead.
Keep on Drokking !!.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Dog Deever on 17 June, 2021, 01:55:40 AM
Quote from: Large48 on 16 June, 2021, 08:45:43 AM
"The Souther Contingent will laugh at us again."

Now there's an admission I'd thought I'd never hear.....

I just thought it was all about letters and pictures of food up in the wilds..... eh Buttonman?

Not at all- there's whisky, hard drugs and violence as well.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 June, 2021, 06:23:02 AM
Quote from: low down dirty drokker on 16 June, 2021, 03:36:06 PM
Little known fact : I used to live in Perth way back in the '80's.
Was run out of town..
Was told if I ever show my face or step foot in the place again unmentionable things would happen to my backside.
So it's a NO from me, think I'll try Shrewsbury instead.
Keep on Drokking !!.

Oh c'mon, now you HAVE to tell us what you did to rile the people of Perth.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Dog Deever on 17 June, 2021, 09:40:42 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 June, 2021, 06:23:02 AM
Quote from: low down dirty drokker on 16 June, 2021, 03:36:06 PM
Little known fact : I used to live in Perth way back in the '80's.
Was run out of town..
Was told if I ever show my face or step foot in the place again unmentionable things would happen to my backside.
So it's a NO from me, think I'll try Shrewsbury instead.
Keep on Drokking !!.

Oh c'mon, now you HAVE to tell us what you did to rile the people of Perth.


Hell it's Perth, you just have to 'not come from Perth' really...  :lol:
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 June, 2021, 03:30:56 PM
perhaps we should write to Nicola and ask for some money/compensation? everyone else is.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: GordonR on 24 June, 2021, 08:36:08 AM
Looking at the organisers' page (Big Glasgow Comic Con) I see the date is now just 'TBA', so obviously they've been told there's no guaranteed re-opening date for the venue yet.

Looking at the page, they've got plenty of other regional Scottish events listed.  How about a trip doom the water to Dunoon, or the exotic climes of Rutherglen? 

Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Dog Deever on 24 June, 2021, 01:28:41 PM
Quote from: GordonR on 24 June, 2021, 08:36:08 AM
Looking at the organisers' page (Big Glasgow Comic Con) I see the date is now just 'TBA', so obviously they've been told there's no guaranteed re-opening date for the venue yet.

Looking at the page, they've got plenty of other regional Scottish events listed.  How about a trip doom the water to Dunoon, or the exotic climes of Rutherglen?

I take it Inverurie Comic Con is off your 'to do' list then...
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: GordonR on 24 June, 2021, 02:44:31 PM
They'll never surpass the giddy heights of Kirkintilloch and Balmaha Comic Cons.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: pauljholden on 24 June, 2021, 03:23:41 PM
Quote from: Buttonman on 12 June, 2021, 04:20:38 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 June, 2021, 02:51:20 PM
There must be somewhere a punch of middle aged men can get pissed in Scotland.

Bit aggressive there Del Boy!

Surely the collective term is paunch?
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 26 June, 2021, 12:39:33 PM
Quote from: pauljholden on 24 June, 2021, 03:23:41 PM
Quote from: Buttonman on 12 June, 2021, 04:20:38 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 June, 2021, 02:51:20 PM
There must be somewhere a punch of middle aged men can get pissed in Scotland.

Bit aggressive there Del Boy!

Surely the collective term is paunch?

don't think we could stomach that!
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 30 June, 2021, 03:12:18 PM
Looks like we 'might' be able to gather on FCBD... George Sq and bring flares?
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Dog Deever on 30 June, 2021, 05:26:17 PM
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 June, 2021, 03:12:18 PM
Looks like we 'might' be able to gather on FCBD... George Sq and bring flares?

When's FCBD?
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 01 July, 2021, 01:02:25 PM
(https://www.freecomicbookday.com/news_images/252502_1464171_9.jpg)
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Tiplodocus on 10 October, 2021, 11:02:11 PM
So this is actually happening. Glasgow on 16th.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 October, 2021, 03:14:20 PM
And it did!! Nice afftie and evening... and a couple of cracking fotaes!! Here's to the next one, xmas? in Edinbra!!
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 20 October, 2021, 03:16:48 PM
Quote from: Tiplodocus on 10 October, 2021, 11:02:11 PM
So this is actually happening. Glasgow on 16th.

I should have pointed out that the 16th was my wedding anniversary. My wife is understanding of comic books. But not that understanding.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 21 October, 2021, 11:23:49 AM
you could have brought her along as a treat! There were spoons aplenty in the Shilling Brewery
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Tiplodocus on 03 November, 2021, 01:44:54 PM
My wedding anniversary weekend nearly always clashed with Bristol cons.
Title: Re: Jock Team-up 2021?
Post by: Proudhuff on 20 November, 2021, 02:34:03 PM
Well that's my last free weekend before Xmas block booked, so yeah I won't be there, even if you were getting together....