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Types Of Exhibitors
Tables are open to creators
of web & mini
comics as well as online and self published illustrators, creators
of zines, gamer
publications and writers of illustrated stories. There will also
be limited space for resellers of regular comics, please enquire.
info@ukwebcomixthing.co.uk
Application To Exhibit
If you are interested in
exhibiting just fill out the forms and
post them to the address below. Payment can be made by cheque
sent with the forms or by using the Paypal system
below.
The cost to exhibit is
£
45.00 1 March – 19 March 2005
Please send a cheque made
payable to UK Web & Mini Comix Thing and post it together with
a completed application
form and signed copy of the terms to:
UK Web & Mini Comix
Thing
PO Box 3101
Slough
Berkshire
SL3 9ZS
Or pay with PayPal now!!!! & send
in the forms separately by post.
Buy
1 table & 1 exhibitors
ticket - £45.00 |
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1 exhibitors ticket - £2.50 |
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No tables can be considered
confirmed until the organisers are in recipt of the signed
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Gary Spencer Millidge Gary Millidge started producing mini comics in the 1970's, way before
it was fashionable and way before the internet made it really easy. Famed
now for his long running publication Strangehaven Garys first start in
the comics game was the unpublished mini comic, Insomnia. 
Insomnia was never
published, and sat in Gary's archive collecting dust for over 20 years,
until now. Only
100 copies of Insomnia have been produced.
The
32-page
mini-comic
measures
8.25" x
6", is laser printed in black and white with several full
colour pages. This is a great insight into the world of Millidge and
the birth
of Strangehaven.
Certain similarities may be apparent to the Strangehaven reader, including
the visual appearance of the main character, the nine-panel grid and
various common themes. For a number of reasons, Insomnia was abandoned
and Strangehaven was created. 
Check it out at
the Thing 2005 and meet Gary in person!!! HousD: 
HousD by Ali Graham is a daily
web comic featuring Ali and his pals as they play alot of computer
games and stuff and larf at their sister and have adventures with penguins,
and meet robots and monkeys. Its funny, honest, and in the current
episode they're following the plot to a Tarantino film. Here's the
part where they meet the wolf.
Ali has been drawing
for centuries now and has over 600 comics to his name. You can sit
there for days reading them one at a time. Alis work has a dry wit
that's subtle and builds up to a cascading orchestration once you take
in the myriad of subtle nuances his work has to offer. Everything
is done through minute changes of expression, slight changes in the
eyes, the minute furrowing of the eyebrows. This is one of my favorite
pieces. 
I guess you should
really read the rest of the comic to understand it, but believe me,
I larfed. Ali will be there selling his stuff at the Thing, so get
yourself down there and get him to sign your pirated el-cheapo free
print-out collection of his work!!!! Weebl and Bob Weebl & Bob is a
groovy animation that appears every two weeks and has a huge cult following.
The great think about Weebl & Bob in comparison to regular comics is
you dont have to do any hard work whatsoever, you just sort of sit
there and let the animation take you on its little journey. A bit like
TV I guess, only better. Plus they are obviously highly recalcitrant!!! 
Generally speaking
Weebl & Bob is pretty funny, they're are a well formed pair of
sympathetic semi-pheres with invisible central sections and are convincing
in a
multipude of
rolls.
Their curves are egg like. 
But I like it best
when Weebl is sick, its funny in a sick way. You can go through the
entire archive one after the other!!! Its great. Theres a few interludes
by Skoo that are funny. And after you've checked them out you can meet
them at the thing and buy all their stuff. 
Good job they have
lino!!! Its so easy to clean AND its stylish too!!! 
Local Girl The first thing
you'll notice about Local Girl is the lavish line work and attention
to detail, but further than that, theres an incredible subtlty
to the prose and content of each of the short stories contained in
this vast tomb of exsuisite art!!! 
The short stories,
some of them only 1 panel long focus around the conscious and subconsious
imaginations of the creator and her time on this planet. Below was
a little piece that made me larf!!!
Ooops, thats the
Weebl and Bob image again, doh, this bit made me larf: 
Shes looking at
that site, JOBSERVE.
Ha ha ha. This bit made me larf as well, that old going into your bank
and drawing out money but leaving it behind on the counter larf!!!!!
I chortle everytime I loose £150. I actually lost £20 myself the other
day and it could have been in one of 5 places, most of which where
public, but I happened to be in B&Q and I asked if anyone had hande
in £20 and they had. I couldn't believe it!!! I hate it when people
find my money and return it!!! Really. 
But yeah, Local
Girl is pretty funny!!! Check her out on the day on buy her stuff and
leave your wallet on her table for a larf!!! It'll be worth it in the
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Exibitors List:
| Brodie?s Law |
| Pulp Theatre Entertainment founded in 2001 by Daley Osiyemi and David Bircham is a
London based publishing & design studio, enhancing the globe with innovative comics, animations and games.
Debut publication Brodie's Law is the acclaimed action-packed crime/sci-fi comic thriller
that destroys the stale methodology of the traditional superhero.
For more information see www.pulptheatre.com.
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| Black List Press |
| James Turner, Robert Goforth and Matthew Evans are members of Black List Press, an up-and-coming webcomic collective made up of artists from all across the globe. James Turner does Beaver & Steve, Robert Goforth does Fish Institution
and Matthew Evans does Lame Frame. |
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| Much Nice Press |
| Much Nice Press is Matilda and James who graduated from the illustration course at the University of Brghton together last year where they started making comics. They are currently putting together wonderful ideas for min-comics and internet comics and would like for people to see. |
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| Richard Argent |
| Cartoon strips & animation with a comical view of the darker side of life, lots of fun with absolutely no deep and meaningful messages. |
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| Hangover Farm |
| The three of us, two Dan's and a Fraser, two boys and a girl, have been scribbling all over Brighton and now we are bringing our muck up to the big smoke. Extraordinary tales from around the world - from as far as the pub to the bus stop. (may contain traces of a slight adult nature) |
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| Willie Hewes |
| Willie Hewes is the creator of both Goth Boy and Amaranth, comics done in charcoal and cheap ink. Goth Boyis a web comic about the ever-morose Mo, his friends and unspeakable things from beyond the stars. Amaranthis a small press series about a girl, demons and the machinations of destiny. |
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| Reckless Youth |
| Reckless Youth is a one year old comic online and at least 3 years unseen offline. It's set in Camden and stars a potential messiah accompanied by his bearded midget double. Should have a primer comic for sale on the day and free mints! |
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| Bunny |
| Bunny is a random comic, packed with nonsequiter humour, references and a family of small multi dimensional bunnies. |
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| Bittersweet Scent |
| Coming back for a second year with more than before, comics, artwork, illustrations and new releases, Bandit and Karyu, yep those crazy ones, with a second issue of Red Moon and White Whiskers and a new secret comic release exclusive to this event. You can find Bandits site here. |
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| Book Of Lists |
| Paul Rainey is the cartoonist creator of the diary comic strip, Book Of Lists, which he updates daily. During 2004, he published a sample edition of Book Of Lists, plus Telephone Thing, the story of a young man who learns that his girlfriend works on a telephone sex line. Paul will be making previously unpublished work available on the day. |
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| Scary Go Round |
| John Allison is a human boy living in the Manchester area, who makes a comic called Scary Go Round. Scary Go Round is a brightly-coloured carnival of shapes, words and pleasing themes that you may enjoy. It has readers on every continent bar Antartica. |
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| Leilani Coughlan |
| Returning for the second Comix Thing, and with her second experiment in self-publishing, Leilani is hoping that "And Other Random Shorts" issue #1 will be bigger, better, beautiful and other such nice things. Well... thats the plan.... |
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| The Bedsit Journal |
| The Bedsit Journal is a new 32 page comics anthology by Richard Cowdry and
Peter Lally. It also features contributions from Takashi Makita, Matt Dunton
and Tim and Alexandra Levin. Richard's previous work was the comic Kartoon
Cuts.
He can be contacted at : richardcowdry@hotmail.com
Coming Soon: WWW.BEDSITJOURNAL.COM
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| Local Girl |
| Hello - I am Caroline a web developer & budding cartoonist from London's 'Greater London'. One day the inspiration cowboys rode through my quiet little city and forced me at bayonette point to start drawing comcs etc etc etc. Also at my table pigeongirl. |
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| The Girly Comic |
| The Girly Comic is an eclectic anthology comic, covering many different genres but with the overall theme that each story must contain a female main character. |
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| Small Zone |
| A wide selection of small press comics for sale from all over the world as well as the UK. |
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| Dark |
| Dark is a four-part miniseries following the journey of insomniac smoker Michael and his friend Helen as they travel from the city of Night to the ruins of Sunset, to find their way back to the world where the sun moves. It is a map of the unconscious, or at least semi-conscious, world of sisters Karen and Anna Rubins. You may find it strangely familiar... |
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| Goldfish Bowl |
The Goldfish Bowl are three people
Wes: Student and artist.
Joff: Script writer and glove puppet creator.
Darren: Main artist and |
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| Two Sides Wide |
Two Sides Wide is a two person webcomic team with nearly 18 months experience of daily webcomic production. With one of the creators battling A-Levels and the other trying to fit in a degree they rarely have time to relax!!!
Encouraged by a growing fan base we have added a line of merchandise, a dot com address and a more developed cast since Comix Thing 2004. Here's to another 18 months and more! |
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| Weebl - Gamers - List |
Weebl and Bob are a cult cartoon animation based around the love of pie.
Little
Gamers and Hot Swedish Love are what the world of webcomics were made for, oh
they have ninja too.
The webcomic List monitors over 1500 webcomics looking for updates every two
hours. Its a must use resource for any webcomic lovers out there. |
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| Aaron "Smurf" Murphy |
| After abandoning the Confusion web comic project and supplying Brute & Beastly, Aaron "Smurf" Murphy is on a mission to become an odd jobs man in comics. Currently serialising Mono Sense Girl in Starscape and a one shot for Future Quake. |
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| Rant! |
| Rant! ia a way to develop & explore different ways of drawing & have fun doing it. It also allows me to have the occassional pop at things that bug me. Rant! has been reviewed favourably in the local press and Comics International. |
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| Gosh |
| The London comic shop, catering to the comical needs of the capital. |
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| A Long Wave Welcome |
| Using the power of ones mind it is possible to interconnect with
alternative earths. Mark and his pals will be exhibiting their work on the astral plain and will have special clay pipes available on the day through which you will be able to see it. |
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| Soaring Penguin |
| Soaring Penguin began life as a small press comics publisher, producing the UK Comic Anthology |
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| HousD |
| HousD is a daily strip, with now over 500 archived comics. The Genghis Magazine is a bi-monthly magazine with interviews, reviews and comics. |
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| David Baillie |
| After spending the last couple of months writing for radio and stage David Baillie has yet again turned his attention to comics. He'll be holed up in his studio/cave (until it's time to come out for the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing in March) working on follow ups to his critically acclaimed Awkward Fascination, Scribe and Just Like Greta Garbo. |
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| Dusk |
| Andrew Richmond, Grant Margetts and Richard Starzecki are 'Dead by Dawn' a three piece comics collective based in Bristol. This collective was set up to publish a Tripartite Anthology 'Dusk' which was launched at the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing in 2004 and has gained critical acclaim over the past year. Dusk 2 is launched at the Thing 2005. |
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| Devilchild |
| Devilchild tells the story of Troy, a part-time waiter living in North London, who discovers he's the antichrist and that his two sexy flatmates are warrior angels sent to protect him from his devilish dad's evil machinations. |
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| NICE |
| We are a London-based collective who produce our own mini-comics individually and come together to give you the 'NICE' anthology or something like that. |
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| e-merl.com |
| Hello. My name is Mr. Nile and I'm
not real. None of this is. It was all made
up by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey. So don't
blame me, okay? I just work here. |
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| Engine Comics |
| Engine Comics is an independent comics collective with over 30 creators on board. |
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| Portent Comics |
| Portent comics are a collective of creators that publish a variety of titles including Dark Dreams, and Dead Wood. |
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| Kelly Hernandez |
| I'm a freelance illustrator (unemployed) and fulltime white van man. I'm a keen amateur with regards to comics and prefer to draw foul mouthed humour, odd dreams and short tales heavy with metaphor. Also I like location drawing. |
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| Just One Page 3 |
| Just One Page is a comic magazine compiled of contributions from comics amateurs and professionals alike. Each issue, people are asked to donate one page of comic art or pin-up. All original art is auctioned for a charity - Just 1 Page 2, with a theme of British characters, raised £800 for Trinity Hospice. Just 1 Page 3 will feature Battles or Team-Ups. Unusual combinations of characters are as welcome as classic pairings! |
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| John Aggs |
| Small press books, comics & silly stories from some of the very best illustrators attending the Falmouth collage of Arts - Cornwall. |
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| Gary Spencer Millidge |
| Gary celebrates ten years of his self-published, award-winning, soap opera noir comic book series STRANGEHAVEN in 2005. |
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| Earth Bound |
| I'm a graduate from Lancaster Uni, although a London (at least close to) girl at heart. I enjoy writing and drawing, as well as less sedate hobbies like fencing and karate:) As for my comic, Earthbound, it continues to improve, slowlybut surely, as do the characters. I have even started making a range of plushie toys!!!! Come see me in 2005!! ZOZx |
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| Vented Spleen |
| VentedSpleen began his illustrious career in comics in 2002 with Art School
Scum - an anonymous, vindictive cartoon posted around art colleges. He
continues to draw comics when the effects of his laudanum habit are subtle
enough to permit him. An exclusive issue of Art School Scum will be
available at the Thing '05. |
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| Eddie "Eddache" Bowley |
| Eddie Bowley, author of Bollox, Edd Egg & writer of The Brits, will be unveiling his brand new webcomic, Hellhole, exclusively for Thing '05 - 2 months before its internet debut. Check him out. |
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| Mardou |
| Mardou has created 5 comics on her days off since 1999, and is working on a 6th. Titles include 'Stiro' ,'The Whores of Mensa' and the forthcoming 'Lola Jean Riddle'. Her second solo comic 'Manhole #2' is due out in Spring 2005. |
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| Roger Langridge |
| Roger Langridge has been drawing comics since 1893 when he published his first mini comic 'Bloody Hell' which was totally incomprehensible, but has gotten pretty good at it now and has a ton of titles under his belt including Fred The Clown, Hotel Fred, Dr Sputnik and Spitoon Funnies. |
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Terms & Conditions
Terms & Conditions
for exhibiting can be found here.
The Terms & Conditions
hve changed slightly since the 2004 event.
REVIEWS
Roger Langridge:
Roger Langridge totally
rules!!!! His work is highly professional, (well he is a professional
i guess) colourful, clear, crisp, easy to read, funny, hilarious,
and totally groovy!!!! Roger is probably more famous for his
Fred The Clown material than anything else, but Fred The Clown
is just the tip of the iceburg that is Rogers gargantuun portfolio!!!
Rogers current work 'The
Hotel Fred' is testimant to the fact that he can draw non
clown related material, but even a cursory browse through his
web site will reveal other incredible work such as 'Diabolical
Liberty' and 'The
Thirteenth Floor' which you have to pay to read, as well
as a whole host of other stuff such as BLOODY HELL #1, THE FABULOUS
WORLD OF THINGS, FRANKEN-STEIN MEETS SHIRLEY TEMPLE, FRED THE
CLOWN - The Minicomic, SPITOON FUNNIES and DR. SPUTNIK #1 & #2.
Check them out!!!! And See Roger in person At the Thing on 19
March 2005!!!!
Rogers first mini-comic
Small Zone:
Shane Shebsey's position
in the great scheme of things is mini and small press trader
extraordinaire. The Small Zone website features information
on new releases from the small press, a whose who in the small
press world, details of events, and even a gallery where I
found these wonders by a hither before unknown genius!!!
Its a cat
and it was drawn by Shane only last year!!!! The
site even hosts a chat room with regular meetings every Sunday
night between 8-9pm!!! Under the fun features there
are links to convention photos, smallzone polls, and loads of information
on how to get published and get your comic off the ground.
The site also has a page for its printing and distribution
services. But enough of all that, lets look at some of Chebbos
other drawings, tee hee he.
This is
pretty cool stuff chebbo!!! Shanes principal strength
to those who know him is the huge range of comics
he brings to conventions to sell. His table, or tables so vast
are his offerings, are chocker-block full of interesting pieces,
so check him out when you get there and buy his stuff, and maybe
get him to print and distribute your comics so you become super
famous
extra quickly!!!! Earth
Bound:
Earth bound by Zoe
Stead is one of he best!!! Her skill is nothing short of
professional and i'd wager she could go far with it
if she wanted to.
The
comic is about a load of people that hit each other with
swords and have wings and stuff. But rest assured, there's
some amazing artwork in there, cool half light shadows,
amazing perspectives and scifi fantasy backdrops, angels
and demons, and there's even a plot with a strain of humour
running throughout. Check out this amazing picture:
You
can see Zoe on the day, buy her comics, eat her sweets,
buy her limited edition framed prints, buy her post cards,
chat to her, or even put in a bid for her Earthbound plushie
which is a stuffed toy she stitched together and stands
about 20" tall. Spend 3 hours now reading her full archives
online now and impress her on the day with suitable questions
like, 'are these cakes free?'
David
Baillie:
David Bailie has a
real talent. Drawing Bat Girl being one of them, tee hee,
er, yeah. Like I say David Baillie rules. In particular
his volume entitled David Baillies's AWKWARD FASCINATION
Compendium.
The
comendium goes into the history of David Baillie and
his reasons to be, or not to be. Apparently he used to
work
for British Aerospace but gave it up so he could send
speculative Batman strips off to DC, like
this:
But really, his work
is involved, I particuly liked the ballad of Jack. The
last lines read:
So there it is, readers
You've seen his mistake
Don't sell your soul
For a company stake
They'll put you on the payroll
Put you to sleep
Your time here is precious
And their money too cheap!
Check
him out at his whatsit at the thing and guy some stuff. |
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