Buxton Bonus!

A catch up at Sale led to joining the line up for the Sunday's Buxton Comic-Con! The event and others of organiser, Steven Howard, has been on my radar for a while but for various reasons dates or logistics didn't quite work out, so having a free day, was delighted to attend.

Buxton's only an hour or so from home so a delightful and scenic drive got me there in good time to set up with pleasant surprise of being next to actor Willie Coppen who's featured in many fine movies including Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, Willow, Snow White and the Witcher TV series amongst many he can't yet talk about! I've met Willie a couple of times in recent years and he's always great company.

It turned out to be a very enjoyable day, a slow start but the mild weather brought folk out and being free entry, there was a steady stream of visitors keen to chat and browse comics alongside the many other attractions and traders. 

My ZULU graphic novel generated a lot of interest and chats as it tends to do with folk who like me,  the movie had resonated with, and I ended up selling out of the hardback copies I'd taken which was encouraging, several being bought for gifts as 'hard to buy for' dads!

A fun day out and glad to finally get to one of Steven's events, hopefully I'll get to another before too long, unless that pesky dinosaur gets me - I don't think he Sawaurus!

Spooky Sale!

Last Saturday's Spooky Con in Sale was good fun, comfortably my most local event of the year, so nice easy logistics and lots of familiar faces around. Thanks again to John Webster and his Wow Events crew for inviting me and keeping everything ticking over with a fun Halloween theme.

Here's a few snaps of the day :)

A strong superhero (and Army Cadet) presence on the day!

Reports of brain hungry Zombies around!

Still the locals were friendly enough anyway!

Did my best to not look 'spooked'!

Hulk was pretty relaxed too!

Even with this chap flying around :)