Newcastle Mini Comic Event 2012

After the success of last year's event, plans are now underway to run another for Mini Comics in 2012. This time the venue will be Newcastle Central Library. The date planned is 21st April between 1 and 5pm and will be held in Bewick Hall which is the large room where the fantastic Canny Comic Con took place.

It'll be an afternoon of mini comic making fun for all ages and abilities. As with all mini comic events, the plan is for everyone to leave with a finished comic they have created.

In addition to the workshop there will be a number of presentations beforehand. These will be from local comics creators and will talk about aspects of comics and visual story telling. They will contain something to help comic creators everywhere. The line up is not quite finalised but will posted here when finalised.

This event is planned to coincide roughly with World Mini Comics Day. But I'm not sure when it is this year, so decided to go ahead anyway.

More details will follow soon.

Make Mini Comics at the Canny Comic Con

The Canny Comic Con is rapidly approaching. It's a little festival of comics to be held in Newcastle Central Library on 10th December.

I will be running a Mini Comic and Zine workshop maybe with Mike D.

Come along and have a go.

Here's the blurb:

Starting at 11.30 and running into early afternoon there will be workshops open to all. These will be aimed at comic makers of all ages and focusing on the diy aspect of comics.

There will be workshops about making Mini-Comics and Zines. These will cover creating quick and amazing comics covering a range of subjects and using any materials you can find.

No experience is necessary, the aim is fun and drawing ability is not essential.

These are real hands sessions and the aim is for participants to leave with something they’ve made.

Mini Comics

Here's an almost definitive list on Mini Comics created at the Mini Comics Event. They were all great. They ranged from the awesomely artisitc to the darkly disturbing.

There's a couple not on this photo, only because we didn't have copies.

Here's the list of titles (in no particular order)

On the Metro                                          

I go by Many Names

Untitled War

The Man who Flew Away

Unlikely Friends

A Whale in the Sea

The Land of Legs

Ingi's Newspaper Day

Ha

Untitled Lead

The Portal

Attack of the 50 Foot Metaphor

Super Mouse

Spaceship vs Spaceship Captain

A Brief Treatise on the Penguin

Ice Cream Wrestler

The Shape Dilemma

Title Page Attention Grabber

Marvel Heroes and Batman

Not shown here are Why Me? Lost Dog, Paul T's and Andy W's unfinished works.

Mini Comics Day

Today we participated in the first Mini-Comics day at the Star and Shadow cinema. It was an excellent event arranged by Mike D. Lots of Paperjam Comics Members turned up along with a loads of non-Paperjammers. It was great that lots of kids attended and also that the adults also joined in with the comic making fun. The were loads of excellent works created and printed, it was also fantastic to chat on with people about comics and creative pursuits in general.

We've got loads of the printed comics which well probably swap with other particpants around the World.

It was fantastic to see Ingi, Terry, Andy, Daniel and Lily, Paul and Britt. Some of these folks didn't quite finish of their comics but the works looked great and we're all looking forward to seeing the finished articles.

Also a big thanks to everyone who helped out and tidied up at the end, we couldn't have managed without you.

Hourly Comics Day

Hourly Comic Day

Everyone likes a good creativity endurance challenge, right?

Well then, I believe that Hourly Comic Day is well within the remit of this blog and its membership.

What's that all about then? As it says on the http://www.hourlycomic.com/

hello! on february first a bunch of people make a journal comic every hour they are awake. and then they show these journal comics to other human beings, sometimes on the internet

we will see how different people actually spend their day. some people will make beautiful comics, some ugly. some boring, some exciting.

So if you're based in the North East of England and taking part in Hourly Comic Day, send scans and/or photo's of your hourly comics to paulxthompson@gmail.com and i'll put them up here with links to your sites. If you're already a member of the blog, you can do that yourself of course: label 'em "Hourly Comics".

Go to it!

North East Geek Feast

Our 24 Hour Comic Event provides the main course of Episode Six of North East Geek Feast, newly minted for the Geek Syndicate network.

Experience Daniel's downward spiral into sleep deprived madness, and our miscellany of despair alongside reviews of season premiers of True Blood and Merlin with Lily, Daniel and special guests Lee Grice (Small Press Big Mouth) and Graham Pearce (Sgt Mike Battle).