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Events / Re: Lawless 2024
Last post by GoGilesGo - Today at 02:54:26 PMColin,
if you are deciding between Lawless and Thought Bubble, it depends what you want. Are you looking for a broad comics experience or an intense 2000AD jamboree?
I know you have love for a wide range of comics so you will probably get to meet a broader range of people at TB.
If the Harrogate festival is like last year 2000ad will should have a decent sized presence and should bring along, let's say half a dozen droids. On top of that there will be another 50 or so creators from big publishers through independent, niche presses. However the whole weekend is held inside a very large warehouse-like hall so seems a little impersonal to me.
Lawless is in a very intimate space, moreover Su and the team hit the bullseye with creator : fan ratio. I think they are anticipating around 320 attendees this year...and hosting 35 creators.
The space at the DoubleTree (one fairly large room for droids, another slightly smaller one for traders, an 80ish person capacity conference room for talks, a middling space for the Dave Roach exhibition) is perfectly-sized. I went last year and never felt rushed, never felt like I was going to miss a signing or sketch opportunity, never looked at a queue and thought, why bother? In fact, the very opposite: I chatted to umpteen artists and writers and the longest I waited for anything was a 15 minute queue for a bespoke Henry Flint sketch.
If you want to save a bit of dough
Option One: get an early train on Saturday and aim to be there for 10:30 in time for the first talk, then stay only one night.
Option Two: The action wraps up by 3pm / 3:30pm on the Sunday so if you think you can get everything achieved in one day maybe get a day return and head back home on Saturday night.
My vote is Lawless, and yes, I am defo going.
if you are deciding between Lawless and Thought Bubble, it depends what you want. Are you looking for a broad comics experience or an intense 2000AD jamboree?
I know you have love for a wide range of comics so you will probably get to meet a broader range of people at TB.
If the Harrogate festival is like last year 2000ad will should have a decent sized presence and should bring along, let's say half a dozen droids. On top of that there will be another 50 or so creators from big publishers through independent, niche presses. However the whole weekend is held inside a very large warehouse-like hall so seems a little impersonal to me.
Lawless is in a very intimate space, moreover Su and the team hit the bullseye with creator : fan ratio. I think they are anticipating around 320 attendees this year...and hosting 35 creators.
The space at the DoubleTree (one fairly large room for droids, another slightly smaller one for traders, an 80ish person capacity conference room for talks, a middling space for the Dave Roach exhibition) is perfectly-sized. I went last year and never felt rushed, never felt like I was going to miss a signing or sketch opportunity, never looked at a queue and thought, why bother? In fact, the very opposite: I chatted to umpteen artists and writers and the longest I waited for anything was a 15 minute queue for a bespoke Henry Flint sketch.
If you want to save a bit of dough
Option One: get an early train on Saturday and aim to be there for 10:30 in time for the first talk, then stay only one night.
Option Two: The action wraps up by 3pm / 3:30pm on the Sunday so if you think you can get everything achieved in one day maybe get a day return and head back home on Saturday night.
My vote is Lawless, and yes, I am defo going.
#2
Events / Re: Lawless 2024
Last post by Jim_Campbell - Today at 02:52:21 PMOh... Lawless organiser Su Haddrell had a live online chat with Englishman in San Diego, Leonard Sultana last week and the conversation is now up on his YouTube channel.
#3
Events / Re: Lawless 2024
Last post by Jim_Campbell - Today at 02:48:02 PMQuote from: Colin YNWA on Today at 01:30:43 PMThe cool thing about Lawless I'm thinking is meeting folks from the board, so whose defo going (I'm defo not sure yet!)
I'm on the guest list, so I'll be there! Not tabling, so look for me in the bar or mooching around the smoking area (which is outside, behind the bar). I'll be there from Friday afternoon through to Monday morning.
If that doesn't put you off, nothing will.
#4
Suggestions / Re: Judge Dredd TV series
Last post by judgeurko - Today at 02:29:57 PMupdate please
#5
General / Re: 2000ad suspected IP infrin...
Last post by judgeurko - Today at 01:56:26 PMQuote from: IndigoPrime on 18 January, 2024, 01:37:29 PMThat classic Halo Jones look, here: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/2000AD-Halo-Jones-by-cubicspin/72745789.XNZKR.XYZLooks like Scarlet O'Gasmeter from Hewligan's Haircut.
#6
Events / Re: Lawless 2024
Last post by Colin YNWA - Today at 01:30:43 PMSo whose defo going to this? Just started to get off my ass to organised going and it all rather slammin' up in price! With train ticket, room and entry I need some encouragement to shell out. I can do Thought Bubble for 1/2 the price and was juggling which to go for.
The cool thing about Lawless I'm thinking is meeting folks from the board, so whose defo going (I'm defo not sure yet!)
The cool thing about Lawless I'm thinking is meeting folks from the board, so whose defo going (I'm defo not sure yet!)
#7
Books & Comics / Re: Completely Self-absorbed T...
Last post by IndigoPrime - Today at 12:26:54 PMQuote from: Jim_Campbell on 19 April, 2024, 08:29:26 PMAlthough, the last time he talked to MOLCH-R for the thrill-cast, he said that he felt he wasn't done with Dredd.I mean, maybe there's a 'for now' caveat, but it does feel like his work was a block of content that happened, and there's no telling whether there will ever be any more. I'd like it if there was, but can also fully understand the 'if it's not Wagner' issue. (Although judging by the lack of Wagner these days, that's becoming increasingly moot, unless we day Dredd ended with Day of Chaos and everything since is happening in the fevered imagination of a dying Dredd's final moments.)
#8
General / Re: Exposition Death Screams
Last post by Swerty - Today at 11:31:52 AMI like the one in Cursed Earth part 5 where the plane crashes into Mount Rushmore and he screams "No!No! Not the teeth!"
#9
Off Topic / Re: This is the News!
Last post by JayzusB.Christ - Today at 10:37:41 AMSelf-immolation for the worship of a weirdo conman without a single redeeming feature. What the hell is going on?
https://www.thejournal.ie/man-sets-himself-on-fire-trump-6359959-Apr2024/
https://www.thejournal.ie/man-sets-himself-on-fire-trump-6359959-Apr2024/
#10
General / Re: Exposition Death Screams
Last post by JayzusB.Christ - Today at 10:25:10 AMNot in a comic, but from my old flatmate in my student days when I pretended to stab him: 'MY EYYYES! AND NOW MY BRAIIIN!'