Comic Festival

Comic Festival
Comic Festival / Comics 99
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Genre Comics
Location Bristol
Country England
First held 1999
Organizer Kev F Sutherland, Mike Allwood
Official website [1]

Comic Festival was a British comic book convention which was held between 1999 and 2004.

Contents

History

It was devised and produced by Kev F Sutherland[1] with the help of Mike Allwood of Area 51 Comics and was held in Bristol annually.[2] A second event was held in London in 2003 [3] and 2004[4].

Comic Festival was preceded by UKCAC, run in London from 1985 - 1998, and succeeded by Comic Expo, which began in 2005.[5]

Comic Festival, which began under the name Comics 99, started at a time when the comic reading audience in the UK was in decline. The aim of the event was to reach non-comic readers, children and families, and to enable them to enter the event at the cheapest possible prices. Once in, the audience would then be exposed to the widest range of comic material, thus building the readership of the future.

Charity auctions were held every year for the benefit of ChildLine. For Comics 99 Kev produced The World's Biggest Comic[6] which featured the work of 100 of the world's leading comic artists[7], auctioned to raise money for Comic Relief[8]. Subsequent projects included the Charity Deck Of Cards which, in 2001, raised over £10,000 for ChildLine through the auctioning of the original art and sales of the limited edition decks.

The National Comics Awards were a regular feature of the Comic Festival. The first, in 1997, took place as part of UKCAC and was presented by Jonathan Ross and Paul Gambaccini[9].

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ "How to Draw Dennis The Menace". BBC Gloucestershire. 2004. http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/focus/2004/05/comics_masterclass.shtml. Retrieved 2004-04-28. 
  2. ^ Joel Hahn
  3. ^ "London Comic Festival 2003". Frothers Unite UK. http://www.frothersunite.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=8876&sid=d456dc501b6d634b76643df70634dc6a. Retrieved August 28, 2003. 
  4. ^ "London Comic Festival 2004". Sweatdrop Studios Forum. http://www.sweatdrop.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1540. Retrieved October 17, 2004. 
  5. ^ comicexpo
  6. ^ "Having a beano at the comics festival". Western Daily Press. http://utproductions.co.uk/wbc1.html. Retrieved April 3, 1999. 
  7. ^ "The World's Biggest Comic". Blue Peter, BBC Television. http://utproductions.co.uk/wbc1.html. Retrieved April 1, 1999. 
  8. ^ "A giant comic strip". Bristol Evening Post. http://utproductions.co.uk/wbc4.html. Retrieved March 10, 1999. 
  9. ^ Chris Wilson. "Dennis the Menace zaps Dan Dare". Sunday Telegraph London. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-19138716.html. Retrieved March 16, 1997. 

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