Bristol Comic Expo Day 1 Continued

I really wanted to post this up yesterday but sadly I was way tobusy to do so. When I arrived at the venue I found a que outside the building which did not take long to get through. When I entered the show,it was quite shocking to see how small it was to previous years. Although the entire show was spread out between 2 venues. The I was first at seemed to feature all the well known artists and a lot of stalls selling goods. Stalls that were worthy of note would have to be the Cinebook stand and the 2000ad stand, both of which had amazing deals on their books. Over in the other venue there was a lot of indie comic creators, all of which wanted people to buy their comics. Some were as always a bit to pushy whilst others seemed to very pleased and willing to help if I enquired about their comics/products.

Also there were a few panels through out the day too and I was able to attened a couple of these. The first being the DC Nation Panel which had Dan Didio and Bob Wayne asking members of the audience questions about the current state of DC Comics. The panel was very lively and Dan also informed every one at the panle that he was envious of me because I had brought a pint of beer into the panel, which was quite ammusing. The next panel I went to after this was the Two Drunk Guys in a panel, which was Geek Syndicate attempting to interview Dan Boultwood and Tony Lee, both of which were totally drunk and a lot of the panel made no sense what so ever.

After these panels I went back around both parts of the show a little more and was able to obtain a couple of sketches from Jimmy Bott, whose work I had previously seen in a original graphic novel called Half Dead from Marvel comics and the other sketch was from Tim Keable who is the artist of a comic he jointly creator on called West.

Not to long after this I spent the rest of the evening in the pub. Which is why im writing this early Sunday Morning!