The good, good people of Waterstones will be letting me loose in their Cribbs Causeway store on April 24th at 1pm.
This is the first time I have signed in a “mainstream” book store as opposed to a specialist comic store or a convention; I’m really looking forward to introducing some non-comics fans to The Dark as well as meeting up with any comics fans who come by.
There are some details of the signing up on the Waterstone’s website and, of course, there is a Facebook event if you want to …

To celebrate the launch of “The Dark”, Markosia are producing a limited run of just 100 copies of the “Bristol Expo Special Edition”!
The official promotional text runs as follows:
To celebrate the launch of their new graphic novel, “The Dark”, Markosia are producing a special edition of the book exclusively for Bristol Expo visitors.
With a variant cover from series artist Rick Lundeen, there will be only one hundred of these individually signed and numbered editions available.
A great opportunity to read the graphic novel that critics are calling “highly original“, “a great, …

The Geek Ninjas of Geek Syndicate have broken some exclusive news on the dates, line up, venues, etc. for the 2010 Bristol Comic Con.
The con will run over 3 days this year; 21 – 23 May to be precise; and will be spread between the Ramada and Mercure Hotels. This year’s double con (the seperate but affiliated Bristol Comic Con and Bristol Small Press Expo) also appear to have merged to create this single super-sized convention.
Also, there’s some guy called Chris Claremont coming.
Exciting news for the return of our of …

The last, I think, of our podcast appearances from the Bristol Con 2009 is featured in Comic Book Outsiders Episode 46.
Chaired by Scott, from Comic Book Outsiders, the Orang Utan panel metamorphosed in a round table discussion on indie comics that also features Stu and I, and the guys from Geek Syndicate.
It’s somewhere in the region of 45 minutes of unplanned, unscripted, but hopefully insightful and amusing banter between the two studios as we share war stories from the world of small press comics.
Particularly worth listening out for are the …

Barry and Dave, the Geek Syndicate, very kindly made mention of Monkeys with Machinegun’s MWM Live! mini-event at the Bristol Small Press Expo in Geek Syndicate – Episode 119.
I must admit, I was a bit concerned about words in these guy’s mouths when I wrote “Scott vs. Geek Syndicate” for Scott from Comic Book Outsiders, but it seems to have gone down well. Writing dialogue for fictional people is much easier, as they rarely come back to you and want to talk about it …

The tables are turned on Barry and David as Geek Syndicate are interviewed at the Bristol Comic Con. A great insight into how one of UK geekdom’s most popular podcasts got started, with the added value of Barry looking a little bit sinister in the early moments

Scott from Comic Book Outsiders has set up a Twitter bot that will be re-tweeting any tweets that contain the words “Bristol” and “comic” over this weekend.
Follow the bot here: http://twitter.com/BristolConBot

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MONKEYS WITH MACHINEGUNS OFFER A VISION OF THE FUTURE AT BRISTOL COMIC CON

Monkeys with Machineguns are producing an extremely limited number of promotional comic books to accompany the Monkeys with Machineguns Live event at the Small Press Expo in Bristol on May 9th.
While stocks last anyone buying a unique, one off illustrated short story from Chris and Stu will receive it mounted inside a copy of the limited edition twenty page book. Featuring not only an eight page preview of their upcoming book “The Magpye”, being …

Monkeys with Machineguns are getting the front page treatment over at www.spexpo.co.uk.
Nothing like a little pressure.

Facebookers, you can now show your support for Monkeys with Machineguns … Live! by joining our Facebook event.
We have something special planned to run alongside the all-day story-making extravaganza of MWM Live, so numbers count. Literally.
Look forward to seeing you there. I think