Post Birmingham MCM Comic Con 2014

Sarah Fogg and I had a table at Birmingham MCM Comic Con. Thank you very much to everyone who stopped for a chat or bought our comics. It was a busy show and we had a really great time.

Most items in the photo are available to order from my Etsy shop or Sarah's Etsy shop.
We don't have any tables booked in April but our next events will be BCExpo and London MCM Expo in May. Gemma Sheldrake will have her own table in the comic village at MCM.

Thanks for reading
Sammy Borras
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Pre Birmingham MCM Comic Con

Sarah Fogg and I will have a table in the Comic Village at Birmingham MCM Comic Con on Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd March. We will both be launching new comics! I think the spring issue for Wha'ts The Time Mrs. Woolf? will be availble.

Giant Rhinos In Space #1 contains the first chapter of a long format comic. You can read most of the first chapter online here. The webcomic updates with 3 new pages every Friday.

Sarah Fogg has printed a complilation of her wordless comics which were origially printed in issues of the Bear Pit zine. I really love all these comics and they work really well as a set.

Sarah and I can confirm that we will also be sharing a table at the following events

• Birmingham MCM Comic Con - 22nd-23rd March 2014
• BCExpo - 10th-11th May 2014
• London MCM Comic Con - 23rd - 25th May 2014 (Gemma Sheldake will have a table there)
• Manchester MCM Comic Con - 19th - 20th July 2014
• True Believers Comic Festival - 7th February 2015

Thanks for reading
Sammy Borras
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Confrimed Spring Events

Thank you to Gemma Sheldrake for this super cute illustration of us as witches! In our last blog post we annouced that there will no longer be an Inspired Comics group table at events. But some of our members will still be attending separately, so here is all the information you need about confirmed events this spring.

Midlands MCM Comic Con (Comic Village) - 15th February

• Sammy Borras & Sarah Fogg shared table (What's The Time Mrs. Woolf?) 

Birmingham MCM Comic Con - 22nd-23rd March

• Sammy Borras & Sarah Fogg shared table (What's The Time Mrs. Woolf?)

BCExpo - 10th-11th May

• Sammy Borras & Sarah Fogg shared table (What's The Time Mrs. Woolf?)

London MCM Comic Con - 23rd - 25th May

• Sammy Borras & Sarah Fogg shared table (What's The Time Mrs. Woolf?)
• Gemma Sheldrake

I'm super excited about all of them already! Particularly in May when we get a chance to catch up with Gemma.

What's The Time Mrs. Woolf? have open submissions for women and girls. The next deadline for the spring issue is on 28th February. For more information visit their tumblr blog.

Thank you!
Sammy Borras 
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2014 Annoucement

Hello!

We are changing how things work at Inspired Comics Collective. We're not planning to make any new members only anthologies. This also means we are not going to have a collective table at events anymore. This is to do with boring administration reasons and we are all still good friends. We formed as a group way back in spring 2008 and it has been a lot of fun learning how to make comics together. Thank you to everyone who has been a member or helped us along the way.

I am going to keep this blog up to date with members news. There are some exciting personal projects you might have spotted which will be continuing this year.

I'm going to start with some news from Gem Sheldrake. The Wastelands has recently been added to the Comixology app for mobile devices. Click here for more information on downloading it.

Jack Davies has also made Alex The Abomination available for pdf download. Click here for more information on downloading it. You can also interact with Alex herself through Facebook and Twitter.

What's The Time Mrs. Woolf? is a quarterly zine created by Sarah Fogg and Lily-rose Beardshaw. The new Winter issue is available online through Sarah Fogg's Etsy Shop.

If you would like to buy a copy of our last anthology Mixtape. I have 5 copies left and they are available to order online through my Etsy Shop.

I'll be back here in a couple of weeks with some more news
Thank you very much to everyone who supported us as a group or bought our anthologies
Sammy Borras 
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Volume at the Library of Birmingham 2013

 

Hello! I would like to start this time with a big thank you to Shaz, Sarah, Jack, Mum and Dad for their help at the weekend! I really needed the help due to a bike accident at the begining of this week so it was much appreciated, you are all super awesome!

 

Thank you to everyone who came by our table at Volume for a chat. I hope everyone enjoyed reading their comics and zines! 

 

 

 



We had to travel light this weekend so the table looks a bit less packed. If you are interested in ordering online you can browse through the following online shops

• Sarah's Etsy Shop www.etsy.com/shop/sarahfogg
• Sammy's Etsy Shop www.etsy.com/shop/sammyborras
• Jack's Etsy Shop www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JackDaviesarts
• Gem's Store Envy www.petitecreme.storenvy.com



 

 

In the morning on saturday we were given the chance to draw or write something to go in a 3 colour risograph zine which was printed before the end of the event!

 

My alien drawing is on the inside back opposite a lovely illustration by Kristyna Baczynski

Jack's illustration ended up oposite Dan Berry's illustration

and Shaz drew super cute pink portraits of some of the Inspired gang!

 

Thanks again for a great time

Sammy 
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Last Minute Annoucement

I'm happy to announce that we have a last minute table at Volume Print Fair at the new Library of Birmingham on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th December. That's this weekend! Click here for more information about the full event. I'm super excited because the new library is awesome and it's great to do local events!

If our last minute plans work out Shaz Jubeen, Jack Davies, Sarah Fogg will be around at the event with their work as well as extra stock by Gem Sheldrake and Sammy Borras. And of course we will have our group anthologies and hopefully some free mini comics and/or bookmarks.

Thank you very much to all Inspired Members for their last minute help and support this week!

Thank you!
Sammy 
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Post Thought Bubble

Hello! Thank you very much to everyone who stopped by at Thought Bubble! It was a fun weekend being surrounded by amazing comics! I hope you liked our Christmas lights! All we were missing was a minor celebrity to come and turn them on for us.

Thank you to Dom McKenzie for the first photo in this set! (Sorry I think my phone camera struggled to focus with the lights and most of mine were a blurry mess :( )

If you are interested in ordering comics online you can find them at these online shops (roughly left to right in the photos)

Sarah's Etsy Shop www.etsy.com/shop/sarahfogg

• Handbound Notebooks
• Postcards
• ACEOs
• What's The Time Mrs. Woolf? Zines

Sammy's Etsy Shop www.etsy.com/shop/sammyborras

• Inspired's Mixtape Anthology
• Sammy & Sarah's Goth Anthology and Music Zines
• Zines In Space
• Badges, Vinyl Stickers and Plectrums
• 2002
• Lumpy Space Princess Perzine
• Mini Comics

Jack's Etsy Shop www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JackDaviesarts

• Alex The Abominable

Gem's Store Envy www.petitecreme.storenvy.com

• The Wastelands Rahu

Thank you to Sarah, Shaz(and Kate) and Jack for helping out behind the table over the weekend!

Thanks again for following the blog!

Sammy 
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The Wastelands Rahu at Thought Bubble

Inspired have a table at Thought Bubble next weekend. You can find us in the Allied London Hall on table 93. We are taking some of Gemma Sheldrake's new big beautiful full colour Rahu books. Don't worry if you can't get to Leeds! You can read the webcomic or buy online through the Manga Magazine website.

We will also have anthologies, comics and zines by the group. This includes Free Mini Comics to hand out. You can also try out the following secret pasword: 'Do you have a business card?' (While stocks last. Sorry we were low on stock at london MCM Expo, I'm hoping we will have more this time.)

Jack Davies will be around saturday only (but we will keep his comics for sunday) and Sarah Fogg, Shaz Jubeen and myself will be there for the full weekend. I'll let you know if we're bringing anything else new to the event. See you there!

Thanks again!!
Sammy 
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Post London MCM Expo October 2013

 

 

 

Thank you very much to everyone who visited our table at London MCM Expo last weekend! Sarah and I had a great time chatting and eating cake! I hope everyone enjoyed their comics! This is the last spooky photo for October. I hope you are having an awesome halloween!

 

We took these photos on Sunday morning, so there is a couple of comics missing from the photos. We had a lovely time catching up with Gemma Sheldrake and now we have some stock for our table at Thought Bubble! We should also have more copies of Jack's Alex The Abominable comics!

 

I'm excited to go to Thought Bubble already! You'll be able to find our table in the all new Allied London  Hall. It looks much bigger than I expected! So many comics to see!

 

Thanks agian!

Sammy 

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Ayden Lamia Manga Webcomic Feature !!

 

 

 'Venefictia is just trying to live her life, it's a shame she has to do the devils work.'

Inspired member Gem Sheldrake has been working hard on a new manga style webcomic called Ayden Lamia! It launched in early October so there's already 2 chapters available to read on mangamagazine.net for free!

Thanks for reading and supporting this group blog!
Sammy

Petitecreme Sale!

Gem Sheldrake is having a massive clear out sale on her Etsy site. There are comics, posters and charms all being sold between 50p-£2! Get them quick before they go!

Gem is also available for commission at the moment, her price guide and contact is all on this page of her website. 

Inspired are currently working out what we would like to do next as a group and arranging which events we'll be at. I'll be back occasionally to keep you up to date with projects we're working on outside of the collective.

Thanks!
Sammy 

Post Thought Bubble 2011

We had a great time at Thought Bubble this year. Thank you very much to anyone who bought a copy of Science Fiction Octuple Feature or anything else from our table. I forgot to take any photos so I've doodled up a diagram. People in the drawing are Sammy, Sarah, Lily and Shaz. 

Book covers that are not our anthologies are The Wastelands by Gem Sheldrake, Best Day Ever by Sammy Borras and What's The Time Mrs. Wolf? created by Sarah and Lily with a cover by Jennifer Denty. 

If you couldn't make it to the event our anthologies are available though our Big Cartel site. 

We're starting to make plans for next year already, so hopefully this blog is going to stay active with personal projects and new development work. 

Thanks again!

Sammy 

Cleaner Sky

This is our final preview page from the new anthology Science Fiction Octuple Feature by Gemma Sheldrake. The rest of the short story features a great alien/monster character design that I really like. Gem has been hard at work recently updating her The Wastelands webcomic. Unfortunately she wont be at Thought Bubble in person this year but we will have a limited amount of copies of a printed version of The Wastelands on our table.

You will be able to find us this weekend on table 75 in the Saviles Hall at Thought Bubble this year. That's in the far right aisle as you enter the hall. Click here for the floor plan. 

The table will have all our anthologies that are currently in stock and a great variety of comics, post cards, stickers, badges, handmade sketch books by individual members of the group. 

See you there!

Sammy 

Twitter and Misc News

We joined Twitter this week - just in time for autumn. Now that the summer is over we're just putting the finishing touches on the anthology so that it's ready for Thought Bubble. So the Twitter Feed should be a great place to get info as we build up to that.

If you're a big Twitter fan already you can find some of us already tweeting away ..
@InspiredComics, @JackDaviesArt, @SarahKFogg, @GemSheldrake and @SammyBorras

And remember we have a Facebook fan page too!

This is another beautiful cover submission Sarah drew. I'm sure you all love her robots already - and the comic she has drawn for this year's anthology has so much depth, its really amazing.

Collecting together everyone's comics has been a lot of fun and I'm excited that I'll be able to blog about all the comics over the next month or so. But while you wait for all that, Jack has done some interesting blog posts about each stage of his comic creation process.

The other news I have is that my work is going to be in a Self-Portrait Show in Orbital Comics Shop in London starting next week. The group of comics creators listed is great, I'm really excited. You can find the event information here.

Thanks again!
Sammy

Sci-Fi Anthology - Covers and Characters

This is another fantastic cover submission by Gemma Sheldrake. It's going to be very difficult this year to choose which cover to vote for. There are more covers waiting to be featured. I'm excited today because I've received the first set of final comic pages from Gem and they're looking awesome.

This is my cover submission. I'm a big fan of having a slice of life theme as the base for something with fantasy or science fiction twists.

All the comics I have submitted in Inspired anthologies are a collaboration with writer Laura McNulty. These are the character sheets for our sci-fi comic. We've known each other since I can ever remember so making comics together is a lot of fun. (and I'm sure Starbucks love the amount of coffee and paninis we needed this year to have time to develop the comic together.) 

Thanks again for reading - there will be plenty more updates to follow

Sammy 

Sci-Fi Anthology - Jack's proposed cover design and preview

Hi again, these great images are by Jack Davies. For all our anthologies we have had an open submission system for the cover design and then have a vote within the group for a winner. Its great now that we have an active blog we have somewhere to showcase the brilliant designs regardless of whether they make it onto the cover of this years comic.

Just a quick update with some other projects we're working on. Gemma Sheldrake is offering a wide variety of commissions from her website - including gorgeous environment illustrations and full comics pages. For more details click here. 

Sarah Fogg has a great little gallery on flickr of sketches from her journal entries. I love this one from when Inspired Comics had a table at Bristol Small Press Expo this year. There was a stall selling the cutest hats! 

Encase you didn't already spot it - I've set up a Big Cartel online shop for Inspired Comics anthologies and all the comics listed are £1 each! We have recently sold out of the Pick&Mix1 anthology, so thank you very much to all the people who bought one over the years. 

I'll definitely be back in a week with more previews and updates - I have more exciting things to share already.
Thanks again!
Sammy

Sci-Fi Anthology - Gem's Character Sheets

We've been making anthologies as a collective for around 3 years and its really nice to finally have a regularly updating blog so I thought I'd tease you with some design work for the anthology over the summer. So much work goes into creating any kind of comic there's always a load of great design and development work that often doesn't get seen at all. 

So far I've seen a couple of character sheets and ideas from other peoples comics. I'll start by sharing this great character sheet by Gemma Sheldrake. Hopefully there will be a bunch of great sketches and things I can show you over the summer. 

Thanks for following us! 

Sammy

Petitecreme Online Shop [EDIT]

(Edited to update broken html information)
Gem's online shop is closed while she moves house. We'll let you know when its back online.

While you're waiting remember to check The Wastelands webcomic updates!

I'm sure I'll be back with more lovely stuff soon :)
Thanks again
Sammy

Degree Show

Five current members of Inspired are students at the University of Gloucestershire. Gem, Lily, Sarah and Sammy will be graduating this year and our Degree Show is on at the moment. You can find out more about the show on the University website.

Sorry about the low photo quality, I took the photos on my phone. 

Thanks for reading the blog

Sammy 

Webcomics - The Wastelands and Instant Comics

Hello again, a couple of members are working on webcomics at the moment so I thought I should link you up to them.

The Wastelands 

"This is a personal driven project I'll be doing to keep myself busy and not to rust out now that my university course is finishing. To improve on environments (Which I have such a crush for) and practice colouring. The comic's probably going to be updated weekly, maybe several times a week depending on how busy I am. But feel free to watch my Twitter for updates or subscribe here and on Smackjeeves where it will be posted!" (Petitecreme blog, 2011) 

It's exciting to see more of Gem's comics online to reach a wider audience. You can find more of Gem's work on her Petitecreme art blog.  

Instant Comics 

Instant Comics is actually a collection of short stories instead of a particular series. Theres several stories already online in the archives. I use the webcomic as a way to try different art and story telling styles. I am starting a new story this Friday (27th May) called Moth Eyes, about a recent sleep walking experience I had. 

Thanks for reading 

Sammy