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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Dalibor Talajić Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe; Dexter; George Romero's Empire of the Dead: Act Two; Master of Kung Fu; Red Wolf DURING the 10 years prior to making his US debut in 2005, Dalibor Talajić had worked as a clarinet teacher at a music school in his native Croatia while also providing art for such Croatian magazines as Blue Bird, First Choice, Loaded, Morning Paper, My Beer and Flit as well as the legendary Zagreb fanzine Endem. His first American commission was a contribution to 2005's Negative Burn Summer Special, which was released by Desperado Publishing under the Image Comics umbrella. Over the next four years Talajić worked for Image/Desperado primarily on a four-issue run on Deadworld but also on The Atheist and Negative Burn. Along the way he also drew 2007's Hunter's Moon five-parter for BOOM! Studios. In 2009 Talajić illustrated La Bible: Le Nouveau Testament – L'Evangile selon Matthieu (The Bible: The New Testament – The Gospel according to Matthew) for Delcourt in France and also contributed to Deadpool #900. The latter was his first Marvel work but it began an association with the House of Ideas that continues to this day. He followed that eight-pager by drawing the following month's Deadpool Team-Up #899, moving into 2010 with a one-shot print version of Hit-Monkey, which he'd previously illustrated for Marvel Digital Comics. After Deadpool Team-Up #895 [yes, the numbers were counting down] came a Hit-Monkey three-parter with the one-off Punisher MAX: Tiny Ugly World rounding out 2010. The following year saw the Croatian artist contributing to issues of X-Men: To Serve and Protect and 5 Ronin before embarking on a four-issue X-Men run. The Avengers Origins: Luke Cage one-shot kicked off 2012 for Talajić, who followed it with a Ghost Rider fill-in and a contribution to Shame Itself, another one-off. One more fill-in – this time on Incredible Hulk – preceded the artist's most high profile assignment to date: the four-issue Deadpool kills the Marvel Universe. It wasn't until late in 2013 that Talajić again added to his comicbook credits. After a three-issue run on X-Force (on which he tag-teamed with Adrian Alphona) came the Wolverine: In the Flesh one-shot, which was released simultaneously with the first issue of Dexter. A tie-in with the TV series of the same name, it was followed by Dexter Down Under with an Uncanny X-Force fill-in (on which he collaborated with Phillipe Briones) sandwiched in between the two five-parters. Dexter Down Under took the artist into 2014. He followed it with the five issues of George Romero's Empire of the Dead: Act Two after which he illustrated a 2015 issue of New Avengers before taking on the Master of Kung Fu four-parter. He is now the series artist on Marvel's just launched Red Wolf comic

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Carlos Ezquerra Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: 2000 AD – Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog; Bloody Mary; Adventures of the Rifle Brigade; Battle Picture Weekly TO MANY people he is the Spanish artist who created Judge Dredd’s iconic look but Carlos Ezquerra’s career encompasses so much more than that. He started his career drawing war and Western comics for Spanish publishers. After two years he was approached by two British comics publishing giants, and began working for Fleetway and DC Thomson in 1972. For the former he contributed to such romance titles as Valentine and Mirabelle while most of his output for DCT was on a variety of strips for The Wizard. He also worked on Top Sellers’ Pocket Western Library. In 1975 he moved on to IPC, specifically to Battle Picture Weekly, where he worked on a variety of strips, most notably Rat Pack and Major Eazy. Two years later he designed not only Judge Dredd but also the look of Mega-City One, the setting for the iconic Lawman of the Future’s stories, for 2000 AD. However the Spanish artist only illustrated Dredd’s historic first appearance (in Prog 2) and one other story before returning to Battle for the short-lived El Mestizo. From there he moved on to a new IPC weekly. For Starlord, which launched in 1978, he conceived Strontium Dog in collaboration with T.B. Grover (a pseudonym for writers John Wagner – with whom he co-created Judge Dredd – and Alan Grant). Before the year was out Starlord was merged with 2000 AD with the Grover/Ezquerra team migrating their mutant bounty hunter to the self-styled Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. In 1982, Ezquerra, who drew virtually every one of Strontium Dog’s appearances until 1988, reunited with Wagner and Dredd for the classic Apocalypse War, a seven-month long epic which he illustrated in its entirety. He has continued to draw the Lawman of the Future’s exploits periodically ever since either in 2000 AD or its monthly companion title, Judge Dredd Megazine. He also worked with 2000 AD founder Pat Mills, with whom he conceived The Third World War, which ran in Crisis, 2000 AD’s politically themed companion title, from its launch in 1988. Ezquerra’s US debut came in 1995. The Spanish artist, who also co-created Fiends of the Easter Front [1980] and Durham Red [1991] for 2000 AD as well as drawing the weekly’s adaptations of Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat novels [beginning in 1979], drew DC’s Grant/Wagner-written Bob, the Galactic Bum four-parter. That was followed later in the year by a DC one-shot, Lobo: I Quit, and then in 1996 by the Garth Ennis-written Bloody Mary four-parter for Helix, DC’s short-lived science fiction imprint. The Spanish artist, who also co-created The Bad Man [1992] for the Megazine and Al’s Baby [1997] for 2000 AD, has never really slackened when it comes to contributing to the two British titles. His work for American publishers has, however, been more sporadic. Collaborating more often than not with Ennis, the Spanish artist’s US credits have included a 1997 Bloody Mary sequel and – for Vertigo (DC’s mature readers imprint) – 1997’s Preacher Special: The Good Old Boys and 2000’s four-issue Adventures of the Rifle Brigade and its 2001 sequel. Across the same period he also drew two Star Wars comics: 1997’s Bobba Fett #½ (for Wizard) and Dark Horse’s six-issue Mara Jade the following year. Those – unlike Black Bull Comics five-issue Just a Pilgrim [2001], its 2002 sequel and Vertigo’s 2003 one-shot, War Story: Condors –weren’t written by Ennis. With his 2000 AD/Megazine work continuing apace (primarily in partnership with Wagner), in 2005 Ezquerra illustrated The Authority: The Magnificent Kevin, a five-parter published by DC’s WildStorm imprint. That was written by Ennis as was the remainder of his US work: 2006’s A Man called Kev (another DC/WildStorm five-parter) and Battlefields: The Tankies, a three-parter published by Dynamite in 2009. After brief runs on DC/WildStorm’s Ennis-written The Boys [2009] and Dynamite’s 2010 and 2012 Battlefields series, Ezquerra eased back on his workload, restricting himself to 2000 AD and the Megazine, remaining a regular contributor to both to this day.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Dave Windett Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: The Dandy; The Beano; DFC FOR CLOSING on three decades Dave Windett has been a professional illustrator and comics artist whose work has been published by numerous publishers – among them Bongo Comics, DC Thomson, Fleetway, Marvel UK and Panini – in Britain, Europe and America. Korky the Cat, Bart Simpson, Bugs Bunny, Count Duckula and Scooby Doo are just a handful of the very many original and licensed characters he has drawn.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - David Baldeon Attending: Friday, Saturday & Sunday Artist: Web Warriors; Nova; Zombies Christmas Carol; Young Allies TRAINED as an animator, David Baldeon embarked on a career in comics in 1999 when he drew the Fanhunter: USA one-shot for Spain's Planeta DeAgostini. A sequel, Fanhunter: Barnacity by Gaslight, followed in 2000 after which he was eventually lured to the US by DC. Kicking of his American CV in 2007 with a handful of issues of Blue Beetle and of Robin he migrated to Marvel where his first major project was 2009's Nomad: Girl without a World four-parter. After that came a run of six 2010 issues of Captain America, the Young Allies six-parter and, in 2011, the five issues of Zombies Christmas Carol. The following year the Spanish artist illustrated several issues of X-Men Legacy before moving over to IDW for 2013's Dungeons & Dragons: Cutter five-parter and then back to Marvel for a five-issue run on Scarlet Spider. Next it was on to Nova, where he illustrated 15 issues, which took him into 2015. A frequent contributor to IDW's Angry Birds Comics during 2014 and 2015, Baldeon, who continues to draw the occasional fill-in, is now the regular penciller on Web Warriors, which Marvel launched at the start of 2016.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Lew Stringer Attending:Saturday & Sunday Writer/artist: Sonic the Comic; Viz; The Beano; Toxic! TODAY Lew Stringer is appreciated as much for his wealth of knowledge of British comics as he is for the stories he has written and drawn for them. Across a career that stretches back to the late 1970s when he started creating his own self-published titles, Stringer has contributed humour strips to a vast array of British comics, among them Viz, Oink!, Sonic the Comic, Toxic!, The Beano and The Dandy as well as to Geek for the Norwegian market and to Sweden’s Herman Hedning. Among his most famous creations are Combat Colin (who appeared for several years in Action Force and Transformers at Marvel UK), Tom Thug and Suburban Satanists. To that list should be added the long-lived Brickman, who Stringer introduced in one of his comiczines before he made his professional debut in 1983 in Marvel UK’s The Daredevils #7, While continuing to contribute to The Beano and other titles, the cartoonist is also now producing a regular strip for Panini’s Doctor Who Magazine.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Jesus Merino Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: Justice Society of America; Superman BETWEEN 1996 and 1998, Jesus Merino illustrated three miniseries for Spain's Planeta-DeAgostini before getting work in the US market, where he primarily inked stories by Carlos Pacheco. He collaborated with his fellow Spaniard on numerous covers as well as on lengthy runs on such Marvel comics as Avengers Forever and Fantastic Four and on DC's 2002 original graphic novel JLA/JLA: Virtue and Vice. Following their partnership on 2003's Arrowsmith for DC, the pair teamed up on the 2005 relaunch of Green Lantern and then for a run on Superman at which point Merino began attracting his own pencilling assignments. In due course the occasional fill-in led to a 2009-2010 run on Justice Society of America and then to a short 2011 stay on Action Comics after which he and fellow penciller George Pérez tag-teamed on the relaunch of Superman, which Merino worked on sporadically into 2012 before moving on to DC's Team 7 eight-parter. The Spanish artist, who maintains his presence as in-demand inker while also pencilling the occasional fill-in, has most recently illustrated a short run on Aquaman. He followed that with 2016's Justice League: Darkseid War – Flash one-shot.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Vanesa R Del Rey Attending: Friday, Saturday & Sunday Artist: Hit; The Empty Man SOMETHING of an overnight sensation, it has taken Vanesa Del Rey less than three years to make a name for herself. Starting out in 2013 as the artist on BOOM! Studios' four-issue Hit, she has gone to produce covers not only for BOOM! but also for Marvel while illustrating the six issues of 2014's The Empty Man for BOOM! , then the two of Hit: Pen & Ink and, in 2015, the Hit: 1957 four-parter. A contributor to Once upon a Time: Out of the Past (Marvel's hardcover 2015 anthology), she moved on to illustrate three issues of Constantine: The Hellblazer for DC before returning to Marvel to launch its ongoing Scarlet Witch series.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Lew Stringer Attending: Friday, Saturday & Sunday Writer/artist: Sonic the Comic; Viz; The Beano; Toxic! TODAY Lew Stringer is appreciated as much for his wealth of knowledge of British comics as he is for the stories he has written and drawn for them. Across a career that stretches back to the late 1970s when he started creating his own self-published titles, Stringer has contributed humour strips to a vast array of British comics, among them Viz, Oink!, Sonic the Comic, Toxic!, The Beano and The Dandy as well as to Geek for the Norwegian market and to Sweden’s Herman Hedning. Among his most famous creations are Combat Colin (who appeared for several years in Action Force and Transformers at Marvel UK), Tom Thug and Suburban Satanists. To that list should be added the long-lived Brickman, who Stringer introduced in one of his comiczines before he made his professional debut in 1983 in Marvel UK’s The Daredevils #7, While continuing to contribute to The Beano and other titles, the cartoonist is also now producing a regular strip for Panini’s Doctor Who Magazine.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Lew Stringer Attending: Saturday & Sunday Writer/artist: Sonic the Comic; Viz; The Beano; Toxic! TODAY Lew Stringer is appreciated as much for his wealth of knowledge of British comics as he is for the stories he has written and drawn for them. Across a career that stretches back to the late 1970s when he started creating his own self-published titles, Stringer has contributed humour strips to a vast array of British comics, among them Viz, Oink!, Sonic the Comic, Toxic!, The Beano and The Dandy as well as to Geek for the Norwegian market and to Sweden’s Herman Hedning. Among his most famous creations are Combat Colin (who appeared for several years in Action Force and Transformers at Marvel UK), Tom Thug and Suburban Satanists. To that list should be added the long-lived Brickman, who Stringer introduced in one of his comiczines before he made his professional debut in 1983 in Marvel UK’s The Daredevils #7, While continuing to contribute to The Beano and other titles, the cartoonist is also now producing a regular strip for Panini’s Doctor Who Magazine.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Lew Stringer Attending: Saturday & Sunday Writer/artist: Sonic the Comic; Viz; The Beano; Toxic! TODAY Lew Stringer is appreciated as much for his wealth of knowledge of British comics as he is for the stories he has written and drawn for them. Across a career that stretches back to the late 1970s when he started creating his own self-published titles, Stringer has contributed humour strips to a vast array of British comics, among them Viz, Oink!, Sonic the Comic, Toxic!, The Beano and The Dandy as well as to Geek for the Norwegian market and to Sweden’s Herman Hedning. Among his most famous creations are Combat Colin (who appeared for several years in Action Force and Transformers at Marvel UK), Tom Thug and Suburban Satanists. To that list should be added the long-lived Brickman, who Stringer introduced in one of his comiczines before he made his professional debut in 1983 in Marvel UK’s The Daredevils #7, While continuing to contribute to The Beano and other titles, the cartoonist is also now producing a regular strip for Panini’s Doctor Who Magazine.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Stan Sakai Writer/artist: Usagi Yojimbo; Space Yojimbo; 47 Ronin Attending: Friday, Saturday & Sunday PRIOR to 1984 Stan Sakai spent two years lettering a variety of comics including Sergio Aragonés’ Groo the Wanderer, which became the inspiration for The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy, a strip Sakai introduced in 1985 in issue #5 of Thoughts and Images’ Albedo Anthropomorphics. Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy was not, however, Sakai’s first foray into writing and drawing. That came the year before when he created his signature character, Usagi Yojimbo, who first appeared in Albedo #2. After also appearing in Albedo #3 and 4, Usagi Yojimbo migrated to Fantagraphics and Critters, which similarly became home to Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy. After several appearances in Critters and following 1986’s Usagi Yojimbo Summer Special, Sakai’s samurai rabbit graduated to his own title, which ran at Fantagraphics for six years and 38 issues before being relaunched by Mirage (home of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) for a 16-issue run that ended in 1995. The artist – who was born in Japan in 1953 – then took Usagi Yojimbo to Dark Horse, where the comic has remained ever since. A futuristic spin-off, Space Usagi, was also published as a trio of Dark Horse three-parters between 1992 and 1996. Across the years Sakai – who produced an original graphic novel (Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai) in 2009 to celebrate the character’s 25th anniversary –has focussed on his samurai rabbit but has found time to produce a clutch of covers (often for other anthropomorphic titles) while also making sporadic contributions to a variety of anthologies. In 2012, however, he took time off from Usagi Yojimbo to illustrate the five issues of 47 Ronin, Dark Horse’s fictionalised account of a well-known episode that took place in 18th century Japan. After almost two decades the artist returned to The Adventures of Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy, producing a new story for 2013’s Dark Horse Presents #30 following up with a Usagi Yojimbo two-parter that ran in issues 35 and 36 of the Dark Horse flagship anthology in 2014. Later that year he launched the six-issue Usagi Yojimbo: Senso. After that, in 2015, Sakai – who has remained as letterer of Groo and Aragonés various other comics down the years – returned to the regular monthly series, which has just hit issue #150.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Glenn Fabry Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: Batman/Judge Dredd: Die Laughing; Thor: Vikings; Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere Renowned these days primarily for his cover paintings​, Glenn Fabry hit the ground running, his 1985 comics debut drawing Sláine for 2000 AD garnering him immediate attention. He remained associated with the series until 1993 although his covers for the self-styled Galaxy's Greatest Comic, Judge Dredd: The Megazine and Crisis had already brought him to the attention of DC, which installed him as its regular Hellblazer cover artist in 1992. Increasingly more cover work followed, most notably for Preacher (for Vertigo, DC's mature readers imprint) although he has continued to illustrate the occasional story. Among his prominent interior credits are Batman/Judge Dredd: Die Laughing [1998], The Authority: Kev and The Authority: More Kev [2002/2004], Thor: Vikings [2003] and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere [2005]. His more recent sequential art credits have included the six issues of DC/Vertigo's Greatest Hits and the five of 2012's Lot 13 for DC

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Davide Fabbrie Attending: Saturday & Sunday FIRST UK APPEARANCE ARTIST: Star Wars; Operation Overlord; Victorian Undead; Starship Troopers AFTER seven years of drawing (and sometimes writing) strips for L'Eternaut, Cyborg, Comic Art and Nova Express in his native Italy, Davide Fabbri was invited to draw 1996's Mutant Chronicles four-parter for Acclaim's Top Dollar Comics offshoot. The year after making his American debut he illustrated a brace of Starship Troopers minis, which marked the beginning of a 12-year association with Dark Horse. Between 1997 and 2009 the Italian artist's focus was on a long string of Star Wars comics although he also drew sundry Xena – Warrior Princess, Planet of the Apes and Aliens vs Predator comics along the way. As well as the Dark Horse projects, Fabbri also illustrated 2004's Fa un po Male for the Italian publisher Editore Einaudi. He followed that with illustrations for a 2005 edition of Cuore, the 1886 children's novel by Italian author Edmondo De Amicis. With the end of his time with Dark Horse looming, in 2007 Fabbri aided fellow Italian artist Paolo Parente on the two issue's of Dust for Image's 12 Gauge imprint. Fabbri, who subsequently drew the three issues of Dust Wars (a 2010 sequel to Dust) solo, then illustrated Dynamite's Brothers in Arms, a 2008 four-parter. His first post-Dark Horse project was 2010's Victorian Undead. A DC/WildStorm six-parter, it was followed in 2011 by the five issues of Victorian Undead II after which he had a brief flirtation with DC's Batman: Arkham Unhinged before returning to Dark Horse for a Star Wars reunion on the five issues of 2012's Agent of the Empire – Hard Targets. Since then Fabbri has been working on Operation Overlord, a series of graphic novels set around the World War II D-Day landings. It was launched in 2014 by les éditions Glénat with the French publisher releasing the fourth volume in 2015.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Kenneth Rocafort Attending: Friday, Saturday & Sunday FIRST UK APPEARANCE Artist: The Ultimates; Red Hood and the Outlaws; Superman; Teen Titans; Madame Mirage STARTING out as an illustrator working in advertising while also producing art for card games and toy boxes and serving as a set/costume designer in theatres in his native Puerto Rico, Kenneth Rocafort's first comics art was producing a variant cover for 2004's Victory #4 for Image. Coming up for year later he shared the art credit on the one and only issue of Nifty Comics' Cadre but it would be over 12 months more before he would begin to make his name. That was with a four-issue run on Hunter-Killer for Top Cow, celebrated artist Marc Silvestri's Image imprint, for which he then moved on to the six issues Madam Mirage, a comic created by Paul Dini, the producer/writer responsible for many Warner Bros TV shows that are integral to the DC Animated Universe. Following his collaboration with Dini and a smattering of one-offs, Rocafort moved to Marvel for 2008's Astonishing Tales: Wolverine/Punisher six-parter and then back to Image/Top Cow for the five issues of the following year's Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer and 2010's Velocity four-parter. A year later the Puerto Rican artist arrived at DC where, after a variant cover for Superman #709 and two issues of Action Comics he was assigned to illustrate Red Hood and the Outlaws for which he drew the first 11 issues as well as the covers to #1-14. After that run came Superman (for which he drew nine issues between 2012 and 2014) and then 2014 relaunch of Teen Titans for which he also illustrated issues #1-11. He is now back at Marvel as the illustrator of The Ultimates, which launches imminently.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Doug Wheatley Attending: Friday, Saturday & Sunday Artist: Star Wars, Blade: The Vampire Hunter; King Tiger FANS OF the sci-fi universe created by director George Lucas will undoubtedly recognise Doug Wheatley's name not only from his 2005 adaptation of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith for Dark Horse but also through his work on many other of the Portland, Oregon-based publisher's Star Wars comics, most notably 2006's Star Wars: Dark Times and its sequels. Although he had produced a cover for Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter #3 back in 1999, the Canadian artist's association with Lucas's creation began in earnest in 2003, by which time he had been drawing comics for almost exactly nine years. Hired by Marvel in 1994, Wheatley illustrated a single issue [#18] of Nightstalkers before being assigned as regular penciller on Blade: The Vampire Hunter for which he drew all 10 issues. After those came fill-ins on Punisher War Journal and Conan with 1995's Double Edge: Omega one-shot squeezed in between. The artist next drew the Magic: The Gathering – Elder Dragons two-parter for Acclaim's Armada imprint while also working on Killer Instinct #4 for Acclaim itself and contributing to a 1997 issue [#8] of The Batman Chronicles for DC. After that came the artist's first Dark Horse work although, after drawing both issues of Myst: The Book of the Black Ships, he moved back to Acclaim where he illustrated a couple of Eternal Warrior one-shots for its Valiant imprint. His next project was Hulk/Sub-Mariner '98 for Marvel after which he pencilled all four issues of Dark Horse's Aliens: Apocolypse – The Destroying Angels followed by 2000's Superman: Lost Son of Krypton two-parter and its 2003 sequel, the Superman: Last Stand on Krypton one-shot, for DC. From then until the end of 2013, Wheatley was almost exclusively occupied at Dark Horse with Star Wars although he was also increasingly in demand for covers and pinups. With his work in Lucas's sandbox at an end, in 2014 he contributed to all four issues of Blackout for Dark Horse for which he is currently drawing the recently launched King Tiger four-parter.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Doug Wheatley Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: Star Wars, Blade: The Vampire Hunter; King Tiger FANS OF the sci-fi universe created by director George Lucas will undoubtedly recognise Doug Wheatley's name not only from his 2005 adaptation of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith for Dark Horse but also through his work on many other of the Portland, Oregon-based publisher's Star Wars comics, most notably 2006's Star Wars: Dark Times and its sequels. Although he had produced a cover for Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter #3 back in 1999, the Canadian artist's association with Lucas's creation began in earnest in 2003, by which time he had been drawing comics for almost exactly nine years. Hired by Marvel in 1994, Wheatley illustrated a single issue [#18] of Nightstalkers before being assigned as regular penciller on Blade: The Vampire Hunter for which he drew all 10 issues. After those came fill-ins on Punisher War Journal and Conan with 1995's Double Edge: Omega one-shot squeezed in between. The artist next drew the Magic: The Gathering – Elder Dragons two-parter for Acclaim's Armada imprint while also working on Killer Instinct #4 for Acclaim itself and contributing to a 1997 issue [#8] of The Batman Chronicles for DC. After that came the artist's first Dark Horse work although, after drawing both issues of Myst: The Book of the Black Ships, he moved back to Acclaim where he illustrated a couple of Eternal Warrior one-shots for its Valiant imprint. His next project was Hulk/Sub-Mariner '98 for Marvel after which he pencilled all four issues of Dark Horse's Aliens: Apocolypse – The Destroying Angels followed by 2000's Superman: Lost Son of Krypton two-parter and its 2003 sequel, the Superman: Last Stand on Krypton one-shot, for DC. From then until the end of 2013, Wheatley was almost exclusively occupied at Dark Horse with Star Wars although he was also increasingly in demand for covers and pinups. With his work in Lucas's sandbox at an end, in 2014 he contributed to all four issues of Blackout for Dark Horse for which he is currently drawing the recently launched King Tiger four-parter.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Huw-J Attending: Saturday & Sunday Writer/Artist: Garth Undoubtedly best known to the comic-reading public for his 2008 online resurrection of the Daily Mirrors famed Garth strip, How-J is an artist, author, director and animator.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - José Delbo Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: Transformers; Wonder Woman ALTHOUGH he began drawing for the American market in 1964, José Delbo's comics career stretches back to 1949, when – at the age of 16 – he began working on titles in his native Argentina. Starting out in the US at Dell, where his first story was for The Beverley Hillbillies#5, he contributed to licenced titles as varied as The Twilight Zone, Get Smart, The Monkees and Gentle Ben. His first regular assignment was Billy the Kid for Charlton while he made his superhero debut on Gold Key's Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #27 in 1969. That was the same year he began working for DC, eventually becoming regular artist on Wonder Woman, which he pencilled almost continuously from 1976 to 1981. In 1980 he added Detective Comics to his workload, remaining on that Bat-series for two years during which time the prolific artist also became a frequent contributor to Superman Family. Delbo's first regular assignment for Marvel was a short 1987 run on Thundercats for Star Comics, the House of Ideas' kiddie imprint. From there he moved to Transformers, the comic with which he is most closely associated. He drew 31 stories of the Robots in Disguise between 1986 and 1990, moving on to co-create 1990's four-issue Brute Force and then illustrate NFL SuperPro [1991]. He retired at the end of the decade, his art during the '90s appearing in titles from Defiant, Tekno Comix and Valiant as well as Marvel.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Nigel Parkinson Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: The Beano DENNIS the Menace has featured heavily in Nigel Parkinson's output since 1999, when he became one of the main artists drawing DC Thomson's archetypal badly behaved schoolboy in the pages of The Beano. Since 2012, when he also took over the comic's Minnie the Minx series, he has been the sole artist on the strip but, in a career dating back to 1980 he has illustrated stories of many other characters. For DC Thomson alone he has worked on Beaginnings, which featured the misadventures of Dennis's sister, Bea and The Bash Street Kids in The Beano, where he made his debut in 1997, 15 years after he first contributed to its companion title, The Dandy. For that comic Parkinson has drawn Owen Goal, Cuddles and Dimples, Puss'n'Boots, Marvo the Wonder Chicken and Harry Hill's Real Life Adventures in TV Land while also revamping Lord Snooty. The artist – whose art also graced the pages of such other DC Thomson weeklies as Nutty, Beezer, Bunty and Tracy – began his career in 1980. Over the next 20 years he contributed to a wide variety of comics. For Fleetway he worked on Scouse Mouse Comics and Whizzer and Chips as well as on its Gerry Anderson titles, Thunderbirds the Comic, Stingray, Joe 90 and Space Precinct. His extensive credits also include two BBC titles – Beeb, for which he produced Grange Hill, and Fast Forward, for which he drew Baywatch – and IPC's Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Jock Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: Wytches; The Losers; 2000 AD MERE months after drawing a contribution to a 1999 issue of 2000 AD, Jock became something of a regular on the self-styled Galaxy's Greatest Comic. Between 2000 and 2003, the artist born Mark Simpson worked on a variety of strips for the British weekly and for its companion, the monthly Judge Dredd Megazine. Among them were Judge Dredd and Lenny Zero, which he co-created with writer Andy Diggle. Jock's invasion of the US market began with a single 2003 issue of Hellblazer for Vertigo (DC's mature readers imprint). Although he was soon in demand as a cover artist, before the year was out he and Diggle launched The Losers, a Vertigo series that ran 32 issues of which Jock illustrated 21 while producing all the covers. By the time The Losers ended in 2006 the artist – who had drawn a 2006 issue of Swamp Thing along the way – was creating an ever-increasing number of covers, becoming the regular cover artist on Scalped when that Vertigo comic debuted in 2007. Shortly after (and again in collaboration with Diggle) he took on DC's six-part Green Arrow: Year One and virtually simultaneously Faker, a six-issue Vertigo mini. His first Marvel work – an 11-page contribution to the third and final issue of Dark X-Men: The Beginning – came in 2009 with his most ambitious project to date, Vertigo's John Constantine, Hellblazer: Pandemonium graphic novel, following early in 2010 as did a three-issue run on Detective Comics to which he would return for eight more issues in 2011. With his time increasingly taken up by covers as well as by producing concept art and promotional campaigns for the movie industry, Jock's storytelling output has lessened significantly. At the end of 2012 he drew four issues of Batman after a reunion with Diggle for Snapshot, a strip first serialised in Judge Dredd Megazine earlier in the year before being reissued in the US as an Image four-parter in 2013. In 2014 Jock drew two issues of Adventures of Superman and contributed to Vertigo Quarterly CMYK #1 before moving to Image to launch Wytches. Most recently he also drew a fill-in issue of Batman.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Holly Golightly Attending: Saturday & Sunday Writer/Artist: Holly G!’s School Bites; Sabrina the Teenage Witch; Vampfire OCCASIONALLY credited as Holly G!, Holly Golightly's earliest work was done under the name Fauve. Her career began in 1994 with the three-issue Carnal Comics – Sarah Jane Hamilton and went on to include the first issue of the mini's companion series Carnal Comics: True Stories of Adult Movie Stars as well as such other risqué titles as Avenue X, Razor Swimsuit Special and Vamperotica Lingerie Special. In 1996 she created Vampfire for Brainstorm Comics but, while she continued to work on the character into the new millennium, she began phasing out her Fauve pseudonym in favour of Holly Golightly. In 1999 she added a totally unexpected strand to her career – as Golightly she began working for kiddie-friendly Archie Comics. There she wrote and drew a multitude of issues of Archie and Friends, Cherry Blossom and Sabrina the Teenage Witch before her association with Archie came to a close in 2004. That was five years after she and her husband Jim Balent had set up Broadsword Comics and she became permanent colourist on his Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose. For Broadsword she produced a three-part revival of Vampfire in 2003 as well as two issues of Holly G!'s School Bites in 2004 and 2005. Most recently she wrote and drew Night Classes, a 2014 one-shot revival of Holly G!'s School Bites.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Jim Balent Attending: Saturday & Sunday Writer/Artist: Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose; Catwoman For the first eight years of his career, Jim Balent drew for a wide variety of publishers. Starting off in 1985 with a contribution to DC's Sgt Rock #397, his work appeared at Marvel, First, Eternity, Adventure and Harris in such titles as Air Raiders Coloring Book, Nexus, Shattered Earth, Evangeline, From the Darkness and Vampirella. Across the same period he also became in demand for his cover work, especially as he established himself as a leading practitioner of what came to be known as bad girl art. His illo's adorned the aptly titled Bad Girls as well as Bambi: In Heat, Female Fantasies, Razor, Spicy Tales and Witch among others. In 1993, after a three-issue serial for Dark Horse Presents and a handful of fill-ins for DC, his talent for drawing females brought him to the assignment that made his name. He illustrated Catwoman​ for DC for seven years from its premiere issue through to 2000's #77. Along the way he drew Lobo's Big Babe Spring Break Special, Legend of the Dark Claw, Batman: Batgirl, Catwoman/Vampirella: The Furies among other DC one-offs while also contributing to Lady Death in Lingerie, Wonder Woman Gallery and similar titles. When Balent left Catwoman he also left mainstream comics, choosing instead to set up Broadsword Comics to publish Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose, which he continues to write and draw to this day. Broadsword has also released Balent's three-issue 3 Little Kittens: Purr-Fect Weapons​ [2002].

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Lee Sullivan Attending: Saturday & Sunday Artist: Transformers, Robocop, Doctor Who STARTING out in 1986 producing covers for Marvel UK's Transformers weekly and shortly thereafter doing the same for Thundercats, Lee Sullivan's first story art came within a year when he became a semi-regular on Transformers. He would subsequently begin contributing to Doctor Who Magazine as well as 2000 AD. He entered the US arena in 1990, launching and drawing virtually every one of the 23 issues of Marvel's Robocop before moving on to to do much the same on Tekworld, the 1994 comic featuring William Shatner's futuristic detective Jake Cardigan. Published by Marvel's Epic imprint, it ran 24 issues between 1992 and 1994. Two years later he illustrated a Doctor Who strip that ran for almost a year in Radio Times, the BBC TV listings magazine with his next comics work coming in 2001, when he became the regular artist on Thunderbirds Magazine, drawing the strips in virtually every one of the Redan monthly's 89 issues until it was cancelled in 2006. Since then he has had a lengthy run on Doctor Who: Battles in Time​ [2006-2009] and produced 2010's graphic novel adaptation of author Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand: Bartimaeus for Hyperion. He is currently drawing Titan's recently launched Rivers of London, a series of miniseries featuring novelist Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant – a London police officer who is also an apprentice wizard.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Jorge Molina Attending: Saturday and Sunday Artist: A-Force; What If? AvX; Captain America: Man out of Time A 2008 Pilot Season one-shot for Image/Top Cow was the first story credit for Jorge Molina who had started out a year earlier as a colourist who worked on books for Ape Entertainment, Slave Labor Graphics and UDON Entertainment among others. That Urban Myths comic was followed a year later by What If? Secret Wars, a one-off that led to an association with Marvel that continues to this day. Following in swift succession the Mexican artist drew the X-Men: Manifest Destiny – Nightcrawler one-shot, a contribution to the one and only issue of Models, Inc and five issues of Avengers: The Initiative. In 2010 came the World War Hulks: Spider-Man vs Thor two-parter and an issue of Avengers Academy with 2011 bringing the Captain America: Man out of Time five-parter, fill-ins on X-Men Legacy and Uncanny X-Men and a flurry of issues of X-Men. Those took Molina into 2012 during which time he became increasingly in demand as a cover artist although he continued to fill in on such titles as Wolverine and the X-Men and X-Men: Legacy while being a prime contributor to the four issues of 2013's What If? AvX. A contribution to Marvel's X-Men: Gold one-shot and a three-issue run on X-Force came in 2014, which was when the artist also took to producing covers for DC and for Valiant. Then, in 2015, after a single issue of Thor and years of jumping from comic to comic, Molina took on his first regular assignment, becoming series penciller when Marvel launched A-Force.

Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Joe Benitez Attending: Saturday & Sunday FIRST UK APPEARANCE Writer/Artist: Lady Mechanika; Weapon Zero; The Darkness CURRENTLY writing and drawing Lady Mechanika for his own Benitez Productions, Joe Benitez first came to notice as the co-creator of Weapon Zero, illustrating and co-writing Top Cow’s initial 1995 five-parter and all 15 issues of the monthly series that followed in 1996. Prior to the series’ launch Benitez had already been working for the Image imprint and its WildStorm associate for almost two years, assisting on a variety of titles. While illustrating the ongoing Weapon Zero, he was also a significant contributor to Devil’s Reign, working on the Ballistic/Wolverine, Witchblade/Elektra and Silver Surfer/Weapon Zero chapters of the 1997 Marvel/Top Cow crossover. Wrapping up on the Weapon Zero monthly the artist remained with Top Cow to illustrate 18 issues of The Darkness and then 2000’s Magdalena three-parter following which he played a major role in both issues of the Overkill: Witchblade/Aliens/Darkness/Predator crossover. Increasingly in demand as a cover artist, Benitez produced no further story art until 2003 when he was heavily involved with two one-shots: The Magdalena/Vampirella and Witchblade: Nottingham. His first major non-Top Cow project followed in 2005 when he co-wrote and drew the six issues of Wraithborn for WildStorm, which had been acquired by DC in 1999. Work on a variety of DC superhero titles followed although he was also producing covers for an increasing number of publishers; Aspen, Zenescope, IDW, Dynamite and Extreme Studios (another Image imprint) as well as DC among them. Benitez – who pencilled 2010’s Pilot Season: Demonic one shot for Top Cow – continues with his’ cover work although his primary focus these days is Lady Mechanika, which he launched at Aspen in 2010.