Food Anthology - Jack Davies Design Sketches

This weeks design and development work is by Jack Davies. His short story for the anthology is an alternative take on early invention. I'm pleased that the comics I've seen from the group so far will make a diverse anthology and manage to stay very close to the food theme. You can find more of Jack's comics on his blog. 

The next event we'll be attending is coming up this weekend (31st March - 1st April). We'll be at Birmingham Comic Con in the Comics Village section of the MCM hall. We'll have our usual anthologies and any extras members bring along to sell.

Thanks
Sammy

Food Anthology - Progress

Hello! The members of Inspired Comics are busy working away on a new anthology. We've picked a Food theme this time and I'm going to be blogging some design and development work and little previews over the next couple of months before the release. The first pages I was sent to blog about are some potato based comic pages by Harry Griffin-Hayes and you can find more of his comics on his blog.  

Lily-rose Beardshaw has been involved in helping with the London Print Studio anthology - they are having an exhibition launch party tonight. It might be a bit late for you to head to London but I think there is information on the site to get hold of their anthology or read all the interesting things the interns have been getting up to. 

Thanks for reading this blog and keep your eye on this space for more food themed stuff and any other comicing news we have

Sammy

Midlands MCM Expo 2012 Competition Winners

Thank you to everyone who entered this years Midlands MCM Expo Art Competition. We had fun helping out this year with Willie Hewes from Itch Publishing. It was a very difficult job to choose the 5 winners from each category. We have picked a couple of commended entries too. (hand drawn posters by Sammy Borras and Cat Reda) 


Over 16 - Artists Alley -

Winner - Beth Armstrong 

Commended - Emily McGorman and Ann Feng 

Over 16 - Pre-made - 

Winner - Amy Taylor

Commended - Tyler Wilson and Nilai Dyas 

Under 16 - Artists Alley -

Winner - Emma Woolridge 

Commended - Yelen Calderon Rosas and Leah Clayton 

Under 16 - Pre-made - 

Winner - Beatrice Robbins 

Commended - Freya Downs and Nicola Peters (A2 painting too large for the scanner) 


Under 11 - 

Winner - Stevie Cattell 

Commended - Emily Cardall and Rohan Bhalla 


Congratulations to Beth Armstrong, Amy Taylor, Emma Woolridge, Beatrice Robbins and Stevie Cattell you will be contacted about receiving your prize shortly. 

Also a big thank you to anyone who bought comics, badges or prints from our table or stopped by for a chat. We always have a great time at Midlands MCM Expo. 

I can now announce that the next event we will be at will be Birmingham Comic Con at the NEC on 31st March - 1st April 2012. See you then! 

Thanks!
Sammy 


(Sorry if any names are spelt incorrectly in this post - please leave a comment and I will correct it.) 

2012 News

Hello! I have some news for this spring term.

Inspired will be with Itch Publishing and helping with the art competition at Midlands MCM Expo in Telford on Saturday 18th February. You can find the information for this years competition here or see last years winners here.

I can also confirm we will have a table at Bristol Comic Expo in May.

What's The Time, Mrs. Woolf? is a feminist zine created by Sarah and Lily. Issue 2 was released recently containing comics, illustrations and articles by a couple of Inspired's members. Both issues are available to buy from their online shop and hopefully from our table at events. (Zine cover by Meg White) The zine has an open submission system so check their website if you would like to get involved!

Thanks!
Sammy

Star of Bethlehem

This is our 3rd festive picture by Sarah Fogg. This is the Princess and a robotic Priestess from the world Sarah created for her short story in our newest anthology Science Fiction Octuple Feature.

Sorry its not Sarah's fault this picture is being posted so late today. I was supposed to get this online much earlier but I forgot because I was still sorting the last couple of Christmas cards. Sorry!  I hope you're all more organised than I am this year. XD

Hope you have a great Christmas! - from all of us at Inspired Comics

Thanks
Sammy

Blob!

Happy Christmas! I've drawn my character from the first anthology we created with Hi8tus way back in 2007/2008. Recently we found a bunch of copies of Blob! and I've just listed them in our online shop.

Online shop is now here. 

Hopefully there will be more drawings, but if not Inspired hope you have a great Christmas and new year! 

Thanks for still reading

Sammy 

Happy Z-mas!

Hi everyone! Sorry the blog has been quiet since Thought Bubble. But there will be a couple of pictures I can share with you over the Christmas season starting with this great zombie picture by Harry Griffin-hayes. I guess even Santa wont be able to hide from the zombies.

The other news I have - Jack Davies is working on a comic for Dead Roots and you can find out more about it by clicking here. 

Thanks! I'll be back with more festive pictures soon :D

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 

Alex's Escape

This page is the first from Alex's Escape written by Jacob Boniface and illustrated by Jack Davies. The artwork is really bold, there are some interesting panel layouts all though the short story. Jack has posted some great step by step process posts over on his own blog spot. You can find them through the links below. 

How to do comics - Part 1

How to do comics - Part 2

How to do comics - Part 3

How to do comics - Part 4

How to do comics - Part 5

I also have some more events news and information.

We won't have an official selling table at Comica Comiket this year. Shazia might be around with the Pittville Press students (who I'm sure will have some great stuff anyway and will be worth finding). And Lily should be around doing some stuff with the London Print Studios Comics Collective - I'm not sure exactly what but it will probably be worth trying to find out what they're up to :)

Sorry that's kind of vague but we will definitely going up to Thought Bubble near the end of the month with a table and everything. :)

Thanks for reading
Sammy

Understanding

Today's preview is from Understanding by Shaz Jubeen. You can find more of her comics and illustration on her blog over here and tumblr over there. It's been a while since Shaz was able to contribute to the anthologies so I was really excited to see her comic this year. 

I've posted some copies of Science Fiction Octuple Feature to Orbital Comics in London. The comics have probably not arrived yet but hopefully you'll see them in the shop soon. 

It's getting close to Thought Bubble so I'll be uploading more frequent previews and let you know about any new extras people might be bringing along to our table. 

Thanks again

Sammy

London Print Studio Workshops

I've mentioned before that Lily from Inspired comics collective is also involved in The London Print Studio comics stuff this year. They have recently announced the dates for their free comics workshops. It all sounds really cool so I'm just linking you up :)

Thanks

Sammy

Prisoner 63

This week's preview is from Prisoner 63 written by Luke Bayliss and illustrated by Harry Griffin-Hayes. If you'd like to see more of Harry's comics and cartoons you can find more on his blog. Don't forget that you can read this comic in full in the new anthology 'Science Fiction Octuple Feature' which is available to buy online now :)

There will be more previews and distribution announcements over the next couple of weeks :) 

Thanks

Sammy

Science Fiction Octuple Feature is now available online!

Online Shop!

We've just added our new anthology to the online shop. A couple of us met up today and had a great time. We've also dropped off some anthologies at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham. Thought Bubble is the first event we will be taking the comics to in November. 

I'll be back on Wednesday with more preview pages! :)

Sammy 

Space Bunnies!

This week's preview is by Catherine Reda. You can find more great stuff by her over on deviantART page and in a couple of our anthologies. I hope you really enjoy the big variety of stories and styles in this sci-fi anthology. :) 

I'm hoping in about a weeks time the new anthology will be available to buy though our online shop and I will start dropping some copies off at comic shops. - I'll keep you updated :) 

Thanks again!

Sammy