Please click here to see some of the crazy events of the day. A report will follow, once i can figure out which direction the day is heading.
I’ve just posted a new batch of promo interviews with creators attending No Bar Codes
Josceline Fenton @ FPB
Ben Powis @ Overspill
And at Fabulous Balloon I interview Dan Lester, Andy Luke and Francesca Cassavetti!
Hope to see you all on Saturday (well those of you who are in the neighbourhood at least)
PS. Am I theonly one who keeps typing No Bra Code and then having to go back and correct it?
Just a quick note to let you know that this week I’ll interviewing a few of the guys and gals attending LUC’s awesome No Bar Codes event this weekend to highlight their plight… Er - I mean promote their work.
Thanks to Joe Gordon at the FP blog, John Freeman at Down The Tubes and Matty Badham at Overspill we’ve got a sort of UK Comics Blogosphere crossover event going! 4 interviews in the bag, with more to come tomorrow and Friday.
Paul Rainey @ Overspill
Sean Azzopardi @ DTT
Oliver Lamden @ DTT
Tom Humberstone @ FPB
This Saturday was post -Bristol, so most table people were still lying low in whatever hovel they create their fine comics in. Still, die-hards Sean and Oliver, ( later joined by Tom) braved the dank Camden morning to set up and sell the fine comics that people travel far and wide to buy. But, the table is not just about the selling. This weekend two people dropped by to ask about making comics, and said that they had started to create there own. This is also why we do this, to spread the word, that comics are good and making comics is inspiring and cool !
The Camden stall set up for business at The Bristol expo. It was a hot sexy success. The table sold loads of comics, easily covering the cost. New friends were made, old friends were welcomed, people were interviewed, and in the sunny summer sun we drank and chatted and planned the future.
It felt so good, and if you were there, you will understand
* A big thank you to everyone who dropped by the table, and gave positive vibes towards this adventure.
So it seems that despite what people in comics-land believe, London Underground Comics really is at the forefront of the British comics scene when it comes to the outside world.
At 4pm on Tuesday 29th of April, the popular radio 4 show about language ‘Word of Mouth’ broadcasts an interview with Oli Smith, Alex Fitch (of resonance FM) and David Baillie that was recorded in Camden as part of a special episode about the language of comics.
you can listen to it on the radio, online here,or if you miss it, on the BBC’s ‘listen again’ service.
Visitors
Turn up at the Camden Lock Market between ten and six, buy shit-loads of comics, chill with everyone in the pub. Any questions?
Exhibitors (must read):
Please turn up to the Camden Lock Market between half nine an ten o’clock, the venue is joined to the side of the market hall, which is opposite the burned side of camden between the lock bridge and the railway bridge. (If you get lost feel free to call me on 07907 576 992)
We will be providing table cloths so no worried there, we reccomend you bring around THREE different comics to avoid overcrowding of stuff on the tables and maybe ten copies of each if you are feeling lucky. Please bring £5 to give to me when you arrive before I put you on your table.
If you want to bring a fold out stool, it might come in handy…
THE AREA WE HAVE IS NOT BIG. I doubt it will fit all fifty exhibitors at one time, let alone customers,
the aim of the themed tables is so that each group can manage their own stall, set up a price list in the morning and I recommend centralising your finances like LUC does during the day (I’m happy to show you how we do it), making a tally of sales and splitting it up at the end. This way you can run the stall in pairs to avoid overcrowding, the idea of this event is SOCIAL so sit outside in the seating areas, go for a pint or a coffee and generally chat and enjoy yourselves Please respect this ethos and don’t insist on only selling your own comics, or bringing a library of stock.
During the day I’ll be handing round a No Barcodes sketchbook that i would appreciate if everyone could do a quick something in because at six o’clock we will auction it off as a souvenir, the money going towards the deposit for the next con-venue.
After the market closes at six I presume we’ll all be already settled into the Lack 17 tavern as it is next door to the venue so we can party like it’s all our birthdays.
Below is the final table layout, feel free to comment (or name those two tables) and please check out your fellow table-buddies’ sites and say hi!
The “I don’t know what to call this” table
Andrew Luke,
Do Better
Karen Rubins
Helen Casey
Emma Price
Idil Sukan
The “nope, nothing for this one either” table
Richard Peel
Jenny Linn-Cole
Paul Rainey
Al Maceachern,
Dan Cox
Trevor Mueller,
The Fantasy Table
Thomas Tuke
Terry Martin
Ben Powis,
Jon Scrivens,
David Lander,
Martin Lander,
Daniel Merlin Goodbrey
The Noobs Table
Rebecca Pott,
Josceline Fenton,
jimi gherkin
Richy K.Chandler
Jams Evans
Clare Power
Lizz Lunney
The Pretentious Table (Oli Edit: Deal with it)
Mick Weller,
Thomas Plaskitt,
Zarina Liew,
Mr Frederick,
Terome McNally,
Natalie d’Arbeloff
The Lads Table
Oliver Lamden,
Jake Harold,
Dan Lester,
Aaron “smurf” Murphy,
Chris Getliffe,
David Baillie,
The Autobiography Table
Oli Smith,
Marc Ellerby,
Tom Humberstone,
Francesca Cassavetti,
Jeremy Dennis,
Sean Azzopardi,
Sally-Anne Hickman
The Brighton Table
Gavin Burrows,
Paul O’Connell,
Sean Duffield,
Ed Hillyer,
Ralph Kidson
Peter lally
As part of London Underground Comic’s campaign of bringing comics back to the underground by making small press cheap, cheerful and accessible, we are proud to announce our first mini-con: No Barcodes, the first of two events planned over the summer.
An indoor area of Camden Lock Market has been set aside for us and we plan to fill it with at least six or seven stalls. The whole event will work exactly as the stall does with groups of people on different tables splitting the £30 rent between them equally- the rest is theirs. The whole event will cost no more than £7 per person exhibiting, and the more people come the cheaper it will be.
We are looking for groups of people to man essentially themed tables, for example a web comics table, a caption table for oxford creators and, say, an autobiography table etc. Each table will be given a sketchbook at the beginning of the day to hopefully fill and at closing time each table’s book will be auctioned off to help pay for LUC’s expenses in printing banners, posters, fliers etc. any profit will be put towards the next mini-con.
Depending on how many creators wish to exhibit we also plan to put aside a separate table for visitors to sketch, as well as a rotating ‘featured artist’ who can charge for portraits.
The hall is situated in the heart of Camden amongst an indoor and outdoor market with a steady flow of tourists passing through. I’m sure I don’t need to state that entry to No Barcodes will be free. This means that not only will there be plenty of room in the outdoor seating area to catch up with fellow creators, but we will also be selling to the comics-virgin tourists of Camden who will be wondering what the event is all about. I’m not even going to touch on the quantities of food and alcohol outlets around the area, most providing discounts for stall-mannees.
Also, if you are lucky, once the market closes at six, we should have an entire pub laid on near Mornington Crescent tube station to host the after-con drinks.
LUC needs you:
We want small press creators of any sort to get in touch with us via the facebook group or by emailing camdencomics@hotmail.co.uk telling us that they wish to take part.
Bring your comics, a tablecloth and any kind of merchandise or posters you wish. LUC has some banners and posters but we want to display your work.
The market opens at ten so if you could arrive in the area before then to set up we would appreciate it.
The point of the event is an excuse to bring comic creators from around the country together to socialise and sell comics to an unsaturated market without huge expense. So most of all, we want you to have a good time and bring your mates!
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