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Hi - I'd be interested in 100-199. Can you give me an Idea of postage cost?

Aha ... were you the one with the pack of cards "Could you just sign every one of these Carlos?" 

Fair play, he did it though!

Thanks, here goes ...

I'm lucky enough to live in Kendal, and having been a big 2000AD fan a long time ago, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to go along and see what the Comic Art Festival was all about.

I didn't have much idea what to expect, but turned up at the Comics Clock Tower (aka Kendal Town Hall) on Saturday morning with a couple of old 2000AD progs in hand hoping to get them signed (I did enough prep to know that John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra would be there, and used that as an excuse to spend a few happy hours looking through old 2000ADs).

What I didn't realise was how large the event was, how well organised, and how friendly and helpful all the people there were going to be - attendees, artists, writers, sellers, all happy to chat about their work or the location or the weather (dreadful for most of the time - sorry but it's called the Lake District for a reason!).

My daughter came with me and also had a great time. Yes, I did get my progs signed, but I also got a portrait of my daughter as a ninja warrior from a manga artist (thanks, Inko), she was photographed being judged by one of the Judges (if anyone knows who was taking those pictures let me know, I'd like a copy), I got a sketch of Johnny Alpha from Carlos Ezquerra (thought I'd give him a break from drawing Dredd), and my daughter got a sketch of Judge Dredd from him.

All in all a great day out, wish I'd managed to see more of the events, and I will definitely be back next year.

This is the sketch that Carlos Ezquerra was kind enough to do for me: Okay, it would have been, but I don't seem to be able to include images ... maybe I have to host them somewhere else and link to them?