Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill were also in fine fettle, relishing Marshal Law‘s arrival at post-Paul Levitz DC. In contrast, working for DC he was getting more pages done and paid for, even if it meant strict monthly deadlines. Although Gallo had liked having his detailed art published in classy French hardback albums, the publishers would always give him more time to complete the oversized pages but never offer him anything extra for doing so.
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Over coffee, I got some interesting perspective from Pier Gallo, the Italian artist on the Eisner-nominated Superboy series written by Jeff Lemire. I noticed even the wrought iron supports for the mezzanine floor inside looked like GL’s logo.Ĭrowds already buzzing at 11am on Saturday. The venue’s exterior was decked out as a huge promotion for the Green Lantern movie.
Insisting that everyone pre-book tickets guaranteed a good crowd and swift admission, though I heard some visitors expected to be able to buy tickets on the door and were turned away, which seems a missed opportunity.
We all have to start somewhere and these are the sort of mixed, open-minded new readers boosting the growth in the UK market.Įarly Saturday morning, I found the Business Design Centre in Islington already heaving. I heard about one young girl who bought Jim Woodring’s bizarre Frank because it was the first comic she’d ever seen without words. I also met the Salter family, each member with their own favourites: Mum and Dad had read Marvel since the British weeklies of the 1970s and were now discovering Walking Dead, their daughter was into manga via anime and their son into True Blood. I met two slightly stunned teenage brothers down from Peterborough, Marvel and Millar fans via the movies and both in seventh heaven. None had traveled to Bristol or Birmingham because they were outside London. It’s always a pleasure bumping into pals and pros again, but chatting to punters, I discovered many were pretty new to comics and Kapow! was their first ever Comic Convention. And I’ve been a comics addict ever since.Īs proof of this multi-media crossover appeal, Kapow!, the new London convention held on April 9th and 10th 2011, mistress-minded by Lucy Unwin and her sister Sarah and championed shamelessly by Mark Millar, drew over 5,100 visitors for its first weekend with a canny mix of genre TV-, film- and games-related celebrities and attractions. And those creaky Belvision animated Hergé‘s Adventures of Tintin, specifically the moon adventures, spurred me to borrow the books from the library. “Nana-nana-nana-nana Batman” with Adam West got me to buy my first American comic book in Romford market, a World’s Finest 80-Page Giant. Watching Doctor Who and Thunderbirds led me to the weekly from the future, TV21, with Ron Turner’s Daleks and Frank Bellamy’s Thunderbirds in glorious painted colour. But it was television that really grabbed me and made me discover the shows’ comics incarnations.
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True, my parents bought me Look & Learn to educate me but I just read the fantastic swords-and-spaceships serial Trigan Empire drawn by Don Lawrence, and I’d enjoyed a few Beanos. What first got you into comics? What hooked me as a Essex nipper in the Sixties was television. Kapow! Comic Con: Multi-Media Crossover Appeal
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