BICS 2009 – We have lift off!
The British International Comics Show at the Millennium Point, Birmingham – October 3rd & 4th. We came, we saw, we even had a coffee.
The crowds descended, ready to buy. There was an amazing quilt right down the end, in the corner.
We hear tell that there were famous comic people here this weekend, talking on panels and generally doing famous comic people stuff but we didn’t see them. We were in the trenches, in the main hall (the hot main hall) where people jostled with stormtroopers, gazed in amazement at a big metal Transformer and got held up by a particularly slow Dalek. Luckily, a lot of them also stopped by the dinkybox table where Smart Bomb!! was getting its first real public outing. To be honest, we didn’t really know what to expect. We’d had good reactions from games fans but these were comics folk and there were lots of other super, duper comics to draw their attention.
We'll forgive Chris Phillips' Candleman for being all kinds of awesome because he's our mate. There was room for both of us at BICS!
Cam shows the Toxic team his handiwork in Smart Bomb!!
Luckily, we needn’t have worried. Lots of nice things were said about Smart Bomb!! and we all wiped our collective brows. Our real world mascot – Cam (6) illustrator of the X-0 HACK card – took the show on the road, managed to avoid being accosted by a Clone Trooper, and spread the word about.
It’s probably true to say that we could have advertised and shouted about ourselves a bit more. We didn’t have any of those fancy roll-up banners that seemed to be so popular and we didn’t have someone dressed as a pussy cat in a superhero costume wandering about, drumming up support but by Sunday morning we’d made a bit more space on the table and come up with b&w A4 sign.
Mr. Jolly Jack in action. He had FANS!
So, all in all we had a great time. Millennium Point is a great venue (even if lugging boxes up to the 3rd floor is a bit of a pain) and everyone was really friendly. True, we didn’t really get around to see much of what else was on offer but then that’s the lot of most people manning their own tables. Hopefully we’ll be back next year. Now, who wants to be fitted for the Kosmikat outfit…
October 7, 2009 9:24 pm 3 Comments
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By Niki, October 8, 2009 @ 9:58 am
Looks like you had a great experience there… well done, guys!
And fit me for the Kosmikat outfit!! XD
By maus, July 8, 2010 @ 7:30 pm
great work, and amazing style that i love….and i´m a Mr Jolly jack´s big fan. hope some day to know you both.
PD: I learned english reading comics.Sorry
By admin, July 8, 2010 @ 9:58 pm
Thanks for the kind words Maus. As we speak, Mr. Jolly Jack Esq is beavering away (as are we all) on Smart Bomb!! 2. And if he isn’t, there’ll be trouble!