Shrewsbury Comic Con 2024

Whilst the country was experiencing Storm Kathleen the intrepid duo of Mike and Neil ventured into darkest Shropshire to New Meadow; the home ground of Shrewsbury Town FC. For this was the venue for the first* Shrewsbury Comic Con.

The event started before you got inside with celebrity cars and activities in the club's carpark. Within the building saw a full schedule of panels and a cosplay contest on the ground floor with a separate room for the tabletop gaming displays. Upstairs on the first floor there were dealers along with the named guests when they were not in panels.

Armed with the BlastProcess camera we recorded our adventure so please enjoy our little video of the day. For further details of the event please follow the link below and why not follow Shrewsbury Comic Con on social media as well for future announcements.

Shrewsbury Comic Con Website

Lawless 2022 - A Celebration Of British Comics

With the next Lawless approaching the pressure was on to get the BP visual record of the 2022 event uploaded. So Neil and his intrepid team of one (Neil) has put the hours in and here is the result. But not resting on his laurels Neil has assembled a total of 5 videos. This video covers the event in a "Cinéma vérité" style.

Comics Salopia 2021 Launch and Comics Trail #ComicsTrail2021

Comics Salopia 2021 took place earlier in the year but fear not as Blastprocess was there.

In this belated coverage introduced by Festival Director Shane Chebsey you see the comics guests in attendance and take a tour of the Comics Trail.

Apart from meeting the artists there were comics masterclasses for children and a comics trail featuring the local area (Shrewsbury). Composed of 9 pieces of art at selected locations each piece had been created by a noted comics artist and the accompanying text was written by British Comics Legend John Wagner.

#ComicsTrail2021 For more on Comics Salopia head over to their website;

https://comicssalopia.com/

or over on Facebook;

https://www.facebook.com/COMICSSALOPIA

For more on Shrewsbury

https://www.shrewsburysopen.com/ and on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/originalshrewsbury/

WAIT ON THERE'S MORE!!

Shane Chebsey recently launched his latest Kickstarter project and there is still time to join in;

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scarcomics/dead-by-dawn-returns/description

Lawless 2019 - A Celebration of British Comics and Tribute to Carlos Ezquerra

Back in the day comics would print a coupon which you could cut-out and present to your local newsagent to reserve the next issue (and the issues following on from that). Now fast forward to the present day and thanks to social media we were all prepared and notified to the renaming and recalibrated Lawgiver (the Judge Dredd convention) into Lawless (the convention of British comics). So, on the 18th of May Neil found himself in Bristol once again with Tom’s camera and this is the result!

For more on Lawless; https://www.facebook.com/groups/14170...

As a guide these approximate timings might be of use;

Lawless event guide 6sec, Steve McManus 15secs, ROK of the Reds fan and Judge Glass 20secs, https://www.rokofthereds.com/ Colin MacNeil 30secs, Marshal Metta Lawson and Johnny Alpha 47 secs, Glenn Fabry 51secs, Soviet bloc hypnosis leaflet 1:08secs, Ian Gibson 1:16secs, John Higgins 1:29secs, http://artofjohnhiggins.com/ Absolute Batman: The Killing Joke 1:34secs, --That matches the carpet!-- Tribute to Carlos Ezquerra 1:40secs, Carlos Art Droid 3:07secs, Welcome to Lawless from Lawless! 3:12secs, Panels! 3:16secs, Draw off! 3:23secs, Max Normal 3:31secs, --Buys a self-portrait!-- Dan Cornwell 3:40, https://dancornwell.wordpress.com/ Henry Flint 3:46, https://henryflint.wordpress.com/ Torquemada 4:01secs, Mike Collins 4:06secs, http://www.freakhousegraphics.com/ Abigail Bulmer 4:20secs, https://abigailartryder.wixsite.com/d... Steve Austin and Dylan Teague 4:41secs, http://www.stevenaustinart.com/ https://www.instagram.com/dylbot2099/ John Wagner [don’t blink!] 4:44secs, Original art for sale 4:49secs, Sector 13 fanzine 4:57secs, https://www.facebook.com/sector13thef... Battle Badger 5:01secs, https://www.facebook.com/beasthunting... art ninetwo studios 5:08secs, https://www.artninetwo.com/ Awesome Comics 5:24secs, David Lloyd and Patrick Goddard 5:32secs, http://www.lforlloyd.com/ https://twitter.com/PaddyGod1 Planet Replicas 5:45secs, https://www.planetreplicas.com/ Steve McManus closeout 5:51secs, Judge Death – THE SENTENCE IS DEATH 5:56secs