Dublin International Comic Expo, September 29th-30th

Fysh

I just saw this story on ICN. It seems that The Big Bang are organising a comic convention in late September, with the following guests lined up:

• MATT FRACTION
• DAVE JOHNSON
• KELLY SUE DeCONNICK
• JEFF PARKER
• MARK DOYLE
• TOMMY LEE EDWARDS
• JOHN LAYMAN
• LAUREN SANKOVITCH
• JEANNINE SHAEFFER
• NATE COSBY
• RAFA ALBUQERQUE

More guests are due to be announced, along with further details.

Saruwatari

Stellar lineup so far, can't wait to see who they pull from across the pond.

Gonna try my bestest to get a sketch off The Reverend...

Thwip!

Tommy lee edwards? I'm there

statomosh

thats all the yanks that are coming,the other guests will be european.im really looking forward to talking to john layman,his chew series is a great read.

statomosh

andy diggle has just been announced for this,with more being announced during the week.

brianregan09

Well there be traders there at this with figures and stuff too ?

statomosh

they have announced any details about traders yet.

statomosh

more names were announced last night.they are,
c.b cebulski,
si spurrier,
doug braithwaite,

there is 5 more names being announced tonight(saturday).

statomosh

the latest announcement is some the eclectic micks

declan shalvey
nick roche
stephen mooney
will sliney
and an adopted mick jordie bellaire.

MarkHall

statomosh wrote: »

they have announced any details about traders yet.

From there FB page.

Anna Clover
Hi, just wondering what kind of stuff you have at your comic expo asides from opportunity to meet illustrators and artists? E.g are there stalls, comic book vendors etc? Thanks a lot
Like · · 2 August at 12:08

D.I.C.E. (Dublin International Comic Expo) There'll be small press, back issue specialists etc. What you'd normally get at a show on top of the guests.

statomosh

sorry,thats meant to say they haven't released details of dealers yet.

Fysh

It looks like it should be a good show alright. Hopefully they'll have some interesting events beyond the normal "whats up at dc/marvel" fare. Shame they've not much space for small press but a shared table is a better idea than making smallpressers pay dealer rates.

I'm a bit surprised it's gotten this far along without details going out for traders. I know that for a good few non uk folk the date announcement came too late because its too near a new uk con that has Alan Moore as a guest. Hopefully it'll all be sorted in time.

NuMarvel

Final guests just announced, via email:

Kieron Gillen
Jamie McvKelvie
Brendan McCarthy, and
Gary Erskine.

It's going to be an amazing line up. Now, where do we buy the tickets!

statomosh

tickets will be available from the big bang from friday 7 september.15 euro for 1 day pass or 20 euro for weekend pass.also on the bigbang.ie pj holden,john mccrea and ben mccool are also listed as appearing.its a hell of a line up.

Fysh

That's great, I was wondering what admission prices would be like as a couple of past Dublin comic cons have been decidedly on the pricey side but considering the line-up €15 for the day isn't bad at all.

MarkHall

http://thebigbang.ie/?p=188
Tickets on sale for what looks to be a bang up weekend.

statomosh

rafa albuquerque isnt appearing but rob williams is.

statomosh

jaime mckelvie has had to pull out due to illness.

Fysh

Sounds like it went pretty well from the reports I've seen. The report on bleedingcool mentioned that Declan Shalvey was giving away free sketches - anyone get one?

MarkHall

It was a fun con for guests and Punters alike.
Declan had a heck of a cue all weekend. And he scribbled like no ones business. Some great Thunderbolts characters going out.

And some great news for Irish talent with Stephen Mooney announcing Half past Danger going out from IDW next year.
And there was a free pin up for everyone in the audience.


http://www.halfpastdanger.com/2012/10/dice-panel-report.html
His report on the Half Past Danger Panel.

He also did this for some lucky punter.

Thwip!

Dammit i wish i could've made it

Fysh

That GL piece is lovely And yeah, I read Mooney's blog posts about Half Past Danger a few months back (I think after finding his posts about using Manga Studio compared to Photoshop) and it sounds like a lot of fun, so it's good to hear he's found a publisher for it.

Stevonicus

I'm sort of disappointed I only heard about this now. My own fault for not checking here often enough.

MarkHall

CB Just twitted this little tidbit of info.

C.B. Cebulski ‏@CBCebulski
An artist we met at DICE in Dublin was just hired for his first Marvel gig! One of the fastest portfolio review to paid work scenarios ever!

https://twitter.com/CBCebulski

Stevonicus

That's excellent

MarkHall

News from the Con.
http://sliney.blogspot.ie/

Thwip!

Good man Sliney

Talks of it involving Valkyrie and a team while the opposing camp think it may be Daredevil seeing as Waid is moving onto the Indestructible Hulk