Forthcoming with Daniel Radcliffe!

Not Daniel Radcliffe - The Fun Boy Three strike a pose in Helsinki

Little quiet here perhaps but Helsinki was excellent, check out Dave and Gary's timely reports, mine still to follow! Things are going on though in the background including a new project and planning for our last couple of comic shows for what has been an exceptional year for Accent UK so far.

Our last show of the year will be of course be Thought Bubble in Leeds which is certainly the most prestigious of UK shows with the cream of indie comics talent (and us) on display and before then just before Halloween will be our speedy return to London's MCM Comic-Con. Our attendance there way back in May set a new all time Accent UK sales record which amazingly was subsequently broken, so there are high hopes for this one. We will be there on the shows first day, which is the Friday when we will be joined by none other than a certain Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe who will be promoting his new movie, Horns! 

Finland Here We Come!

Aha, been doing a wee bit of travelling recently both home and away so had a break from comic shows but now its time to confirm our imminent departure to Finland for the 29th Helsinki Comics Festival!

The trip has actually been on our agenda since meeting some of the show organisers during last year's Copenhagen trip and with the Danish shows normally being bi-annual, we thought why not. This was also in our minds in not returning to MoCCA and the US this year, saving the pennies for a Nordic trip instead.

As it happens after we'd made our decision we'd heard from our good Danish friends about a different comics festival happening there this year, Art-Bubble in Horsens on 27/28 September 2014. This sounds special too but it would be pushing to do two overseas trips in the same year after a busy schedule already taken in Belfast, Glasgow and London trips etc so Finland it is.

Dave West and I will be accompanied by WesterNoir artist Gary Crutchley despite his unease at flying - good job its only a 3 hour flight (I think!), so its all systems go.

We'll be in the main tent for international exhibitors which I understand will be placed in one of Helsinki's central public squares and with free entry promises to be busy. There are special exhibitions planned for the likes of Tove Jansson and Tom of Finland and the festival's spotlight country, Germany so we'll hopefully get a chance to see some of these.

Following Finland we've also confirmed our final comic shows for this year being welcome returns to London MCM in October and Leeds's Thought Bubble in November, where we plan to launch a couple of new books!

 Right best go we're flying tomorrow, Finland, Finland, Finland, the place I want to be.....