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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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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Thought Bubble Announcement & Autumn Events!

Hello! It was extra difficult for everyone to get tables at comics events this term. I'm very pleasd to finally announce that we have a table at all 3 events we wanted to go to.

Bristol Comic & Zine Fair  5th Oct

London MCM Expo 25th-27th Oct

Thought Bubble (Allied London hall) 23rd-24th Nov

We're not planning a big group anthology for October, but I will try my best to blog about anything new that individual members will be making for the events.

See you in October!
Sammy 
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78 Stone Wobble Photo Set

We had a great time at Birmingham MCM Expo at the weekend! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to say hello, buy stuff or get their portrait done! The next event we're attending will be Bristol Comics Expo and we hope to have some new comics released at the event so stay tuned here for the development updates over the next month. You can also find our updates over on Tumblr this year.

(Thanks Sarah, Laura and Jack for helping on the table)

Thanks!
Sammy 

PS: I'll leave you with my photography inspiration:

Spring Events 2013!

Hello! Inspired should have tables at these events in the spring! Exciting!! 8D

• Birmingham MCM Expo - 16th - 17th March 2013
• Bristol Comics Expo - 11th - 12th May 2013
• London MCM Expo - 24th - 25th May 2013

Spring Announcement - Birmingham MCM Expo 2013

Hello! I'm pleased to announce that Inspired Comics will have a table at Birmingham MCM Expo at the NEC on 16th-17th March! You'll be able to find us in the Comics Village (probably eating cake).

I've been chatting to the group about their projects this year and hopefully it wont be long till I can announce some of them!

We've not booked any other tables yet but we've got our eye on a couple of events later in the spring. I'll announce them when we've got better confirmation.

I have a Mickey Mouse and Adventure Time MASH UP t-shirt design open for scoring on Threadless. So if you like it and would like to see it printed you need to give it a high score. Thanks! 

Sammy 

AUTUMN 2012 EVENTS

Hello!

The anthology we're working on is going through some changes at the moment. The release has been pushed back to 2013 so I'll let you know more about that over the next couple of months. Sorry about the implication that I would be posting some of our development work in September, but I'm going to be saving that for the months closer to the release.

We're still working hard over the autumn and we have 3 events coming up ...

Birmingham Zine Festival - Independent Publishing Fair - Saturday 13th October 2012

London MCM Expo - Friday 26th - Sunday 28th October 2012

Thought Bubble Festival - Saturday 17th - Sunday 18th November 2012

I'm hoping that next week I can get some photos of some of the new stuff we'll be launching this autumn

Thanks for reading!
Sammy

Manchester MCM Expo 2012

Thank you to anyone who came to the table or bought something on Saturday! I was totally overwhelmed with how busy it was! I hope everyone liked the free mini comics we made to hand out - sorry they had all gone by midday. Sorry if I seemed a bit sleepy too, it was a long day at the end of a busy week.

This photo was in focus the best (sorry its just my phone camera). We'd sold out of some of the zines by this point in the day too. Hopefully we can go to the event next year and I will take more stock.

Thanks again!
Sammy 

FREE MINIATURE ZINE LIBRARY

Hello! We're going to be at Manchester MCM Expo tomorrow and these photos are of the free stuff that will be available from the table (while stocks last). The bundles have rotating covers and all include 3 A7 hand folded mini zines and a fold out poster.

The What's The Time Mrs. Woolf? Free Mini Zine contains tiny articles by Lily and Sarah, illustrations by Clem and a new Stale Symphony comic by Sammy. Patience is a Virtue: The Mystery of the Nightboy is a free 6 page mini mystery comic by Sarah Fogg. The Crossroads is the latest free mini comic by Sammy Borras and folds out into a A4 poster.

We will also have copies of What's The Time Mrs. Woolf? Issue 5: The Hairy Issue which was released this week!

I also printed some full colour versions of the mini comic which fold out into a A3 poster. Visit www.giantrhinos.co.uk for more information on the Giant Rhinos project. (Sorry about the photo quality)

I'm hoping that I will be able to offer inked portraits and personal commissions while at the event (as long as I don't catch the head cold that's going around work). For more information on prices click here.

Thanks! See you there!
Sammy

Table News!

I'm happy to announce that we will be at Manchester MCM Expo in the Comics Village on Saturday 21st July 2012!

We'll have copies of all the anthologies that are still in stock plus some of the self published projects by individuals from the group. We'll have a couple of new free mini comics to hand out too, so make sure to stop by the table and say hello :)

We're hoping to be at a couple of other events later in the year and I'll let you know the details once they've been confirmed

Thanks again!
Sammy 

Birmingham Comic Con

Thanks everyone who stopped by our table over the weekend. And a special thanks to Sarah and Jack for helping out and smiling for a photo. 

This is some of Sarah's stuff and the What's The Time Mrs. Woolf? zines. Issue 3 was released at this event and make sure to keep an eye out on the blog for info on the new articles. 

I bought along a couple of comics and new sticker sets (on the left). 

And this is our current anthology stock. There are only 2 copies of Pick & Mix 2 left, you can get them online in our shop (links at the top of the page) 

Thanks again!!

Sammy 

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

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.)