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I quite liked what I saw at Bristol.  The edition that was doing the rounds was the ashcan edition, so a small black and white test run.  Still quite liked it.

The basic premise that Leah and John outlined at their talk was that its set, more-or-less, in the real world, but where Lion/Valient/etc were writing about *real* people.  So there was a Janus Stark, Iron Claw, Grimly Fiendish, etc.  However the representations differ to the people themselves.

Basicaly they are raiding the IPC catalog of characters to bring them up to date.  And not just limiting themselves to the Action comics.

Wrt the Morrison question he got away with it by changing the names, which was more or less the way things worked when artists changed publications.

Dan

I'll also stick up the page of art I bought from D'Isreali.

An original from Lazarus Churchyard, way back from 1991.

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The Mike Collins link should, of course, have been as follows:

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Sorry for that.

All the sketches, and more are on me site at the link below

Cheers

Dam

Link: http://homepage.mac.com/deadlock/Sketchbook" target="_blank">Sketchbook

First up up we have Jena Makarov, by John Burns
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Next we have Kawl, by Steve Roberts, looking much like at Steve did on Saturday morning
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Then we have Lob by Carl Critchlow
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Followed by a D'Isreali martian
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Demon Jenny by Dom Reardon
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Lorelei from American Gothic by Mike Collins
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Retro Girl by Mike Avon Oeming
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And finally a naked lady from Natsan
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Corrections to names eagerly expected ;)

Dan

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I have a number that will hopefully be scanned tomorrow.  Including, as promised, a naked lady from NatSan.

Dan

And there I was being annoyed at having left my washbag in the hotel room...

Hope they appear GC

Dan

Fool Britannia over on Silver Bullets has a nice piece about Bristol and the small press...

... or rather the end of the Small Press.

Read it to see what I mean ;)


Dan

Link: http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/fool/" target="_blank">Fool!

So far I've  read:

Omnivistascope
Sunny
Solar Wind
Future Quake 4
Pony School
Bolt's short strip thing (can't remember it's name)
Commercial Suicide #3
Just one Page

And havve a load more to go, including:
End is nigh (which looks fantastic)
and Tales of the Contrary.

There's certainly more there I haven't read, but too tired at the moment ;)

Dylan Teague was also around

As were Alan Davis, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Chris Weston, John McCrea and David Lloyd.  Saw Jock in the bar on Friday as well.

Of course not everyone was sketching.

Dan

Thanks for reminding me of that one Bolt.

As a consequence of the postponement, they will probably be getting a couple of extra issues to tell the story in ST2.

Should be worth the wait ;)

Dan

> Favourite celeb moment: Winding Jimmy Smoker's spring as tightly as it would go, before pointing him in the direction of Boo Cook and letting him go. I don't think I'll ever forget the fear and alarm on Boo's face as the smokey one lauched himself across the room, screeching "Tusken Raider" at the top of his lungs...

Ah yes,  despite a perfect description of Boo ("F**k Off big sideburns"), his location ("top of the stairs, under the Fire Exit sign") he still accosted 2 complete strangers before managing to find Boo. Top.

Really Really good weekend.  

Dan

Just got back.  Good weekend.  Great curry on Saturday night.  V.late night on Saturday for me (4am).

Think the others sold quite a bit, but I'm sure they'll tell more when they get back later/tomorrow.

Not much gossip, but luckily I have a crap memory once any alcohol is involved, so have probably forgotton any I did hear ;-)
Dan

Just got back, and the only thing that I can add to the abovr is that is Mike Oeming has done a Dredd, but doesn't know when its going to be published.

He's viewing it as atonement for his DC Dredds.

Dan

> Looking over the list again, it does seem very odd that we're getting *four* Rogue Trooper collections (inc. July's Fort Neuro and the three above) before the next Strontium Dog book, doesn't it?

Not when you bear in mind that the RT game should be coming out sometime in the same time frame.

There's too many instances when we bitch about Rebellion not thinking about the long term, I think this time it's the opposite.  New game and the ability to get the new trades.

Dan

Missed the actual 2000ad talk, as I was getting a sketch from Dom Reardon.  However their presence in the Con Hall was rather muted imho.  Their presence in the bar OTOH ;)

However, there was a flyer doing the rounds of three *very* nice t-shirts that are coming out soon.

One features the original logo, the second is a warhol-esque Dredd/Lawmaster thing.  And can't remember the third.