Bojan Djukic draws Wonderboy

I've looked a few different conventions before....

Bristol comic expo (2004-2014) is here

London comic festival 2003 is here
Kev Sutherland festival original art is here
A 'Lawless 2019' miscellany is here
Boys and Girls exhibitions of the 1950s and '60s is here
Glasgow comic art convention is here
Edinburgh art convention is here
Hi-Ex convention is here

UKCAC - part 1 - is here
UKCAC - part 2 - is here

UKCAC - part 3 - is here

BICS convention is here

Glasgow comic con is here

Kapow! comic con is here

British comic conventions 1970-76 is here 

British comic conventions 1977-81 is here 

A miscellany is here

and now for the benefit of those fine chaps on the Sonic the Comic the podcast here's a few of pieces relating to Sonic the Comic...

First up from the 1993 brochure we have Bojan Djukic drawing Wonderboy

and then from the 1994 issue (cover by Glenn Fabry)

we again have Bojan Djukic drawing Wonderboy

and then from the 1996 issue (cover by Bryan Talbot)

some non-Sonic art by Bojan

and then from the 1997 issue (cover by Frank Quitely)

more Bojan art - those look like the Gargoyles chasing those ninjas - check out the Gargoyles comic here

As well as UKCAC there was, for a few years, a GCAC [Glasgow Comic Art Convention] - here's the (A5 sized) brochure for 1994 complete with Mark Buckingham cover

...and here's Bojan's Wonderboy contribution

Sonic the Comic poster magazines

I've (slowly) been collecting back issues of Fleetway's Sonic the Comic for a while now (collecting slowly because the individual issues tend to be relatively pricey) and I've always been aware that there is was also a series of 9 poster magazine produced as well.

I recently acquired one of these (these seem even harder to collect than the normal run of the comic) and it inspired me to actually check out what the other issues look like. Thanks to the Sonic fandom wiki (here) I can see what all the issues look like...

You'll see that some of the issues (3-9) contain new comic strip material, so those are the most interesting as far as I'm concerned.

Sonic the comic poster mag (issue 1)

Sonic the comic poster mag (issue 2)

Sonic the comic poster mag (issue 3)

Sonic the comic poster mag (issue 4)

Sonic the comic poster mag (issue 5)

Sonic the comic poster mag (issue 6)

Sonic the comic poster mag (issue 7)

Sonic the comic poster mag (issue 8)

Sonic the comic poster mag (issue 9)

Images sourced from here - a great site, loads of info.

Mick McMahon draws Sonic the Hedgehog

I've got a few issues of Fleetway's Sonic the Comic and I remember how surprised I was to see he name of Mick McMahon credited as the artist. Ok, so it's a world away from his gritty 2000ad style but it's interesting to see what he was up to and looking for unexpected artists in these comics is what makes collecting them so interesting. Sonic is an expensive comic to collect, back issues seem to be regularly around the £5 mark and if you've got 223 issues to collect that's going to mount up.

Anyway, ending on ebay tonight, there are 2 Sonic covers by Mick and one interior page... 

Over here cover to issue 139  bids from £350 - finishes tonight at 8:45

and over here the cover to issue 146 bids from £350 - finishes tonight at 8:45

over here we have an inner page, bids from £125

Sonic the Comic convention - June 2018

Sonic the Comic is celebrating being 25 years young this year by having a one-day convention / gathering in Manchester on the 3rd of June.

STC (as it's usually known) was launched on 29th May 1993 and ran for nearly a decade and a very creditable 223 fortnightly issues and featured artists such as Mick McMahon, Richard Elson, Nigel Kitching, Lew Stringer and Jon Haward.







Funds for the convention were raised by a successful Kickstarter campaign, which included rewards such as this t-shirt with a design by original STC artist Richard Elson.





The venue of choice is the amazing FAB Café, the world's first cult TV and movie theme bar! The café has the capacity for 100 attendees in the main area and is ideally situated in central Manchester about a 10-minute walk from Piccadilly train station. Check them out on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/fabcafemanc/