International Comic show (or BICS) today and well I just got back. Drove all the way from here in Norwich as trains on sundays are awful! I had so much trouble I gave up and just decided to drive it with 3 other friends who payed for the petrol which was nice!So Sunday the 17th seemed the best choice and the guests that were there were; Dave Gibbons, Simon Toefield, Charlie Adlard and Jonathan Ross! There were loads but they were THE guys I wanted to see...
Dave Gibbons was the first and I was extrememly nervous. Mainly because he is a very important man in comics, you know being the co-creator of Watchmen and all. But he seemed a very nice man and even though he wasnt doing sketches he drew one in my copy of Watchmen along with his signature. He also signed my copy of his book; The Originals. I shook his hand and then made way to Simon Toefield, creator of Simon's cat y'know......that cat!
Anyway I actually thought he was not gonna be there on the Sunday as I heard he was only gonna be there for that Saturday, so shocked was I to see the web animator sitting right there amongst copies of his new book. I purchased one and obviously got him to sign it. He also had t-shirts and other merchandise which I was going to grab later (I didnt!) 
Later we then had a Q and A with Jonathan Ross (Who I bumped into twice around the convention, nearly wetting myself each time!) about his Comicbook; Turf along with the artist; Tommy Lee Edwards over Skype on a big screen. It was really interesting to get an insight in the process of the two's 'babie' and Jonathan even shared with us his attempt at comic art a long time ago and of course threw in some tales about some celebs (related to comics of course... and not...). 
But the highlight for me has gotta be when Mr Ross had a signing session! I waited in a cue for only about 30 ish minutes and once I got to about 3 or 4 people in front of me he started talking to us about videos he had seen on youtube and we joined in with a chuckle. Anyway as soon as it got to me he shook my hand and I mumered "your actually real" in which he replied "in the flesh and twice as ugly" I disagreed! He signed my copies of issue 1 and 2 of Turf while he talked to me about Terry Wogan, because I asked him to do that impression he did ages ago on his radio show which he couldnt remember but gladly shared with me a story about Mr. Wogan having the flu one time and singing because of it (don't ask me why). After this I finally got my picture taken with him... I-touched-Jonathan-Ross'-shoulder!!!! IT WAS AWESOME!!! A man I had always been so fond of who I finally met and had some sort of slight (ok very slight) bond with... it was amazing...Also if that wasnt enough we still had Charlie Adlard to meet, artist of my favourite Graphic Novel seires; The Walking Dead. Now I didnt actually know this until my friend Huw pointed out, but that Charlie was in the corner of the room ALL day! I hadnt seen him and I really wanted to get a sketch from him as myself as a Zombie but by the time I found him he was about to head of to a Q and A about the The Walking Dead TV Seires. But he quickly signed my copy of Volume 1 and we all dashed to the show room for the Q and A! It was packed full of people and we got to see exclusive footage of the show and of course ask Charlie and the woman working for FX (I'm afraid I didnt catch her name) questions about it. Some lucky people also got T-shirsts... we didnt though. They threw them into the crowd and not one came my way! I never stood a chance. But after the Q and A we did get free mugs so I wont complain. By the way if you dont know what I'm talking about here's the trailer...
As I was saying the mugs wasnt the only free things we got! There was also placemats, comics and art and a book worth £18! Of course I did spend money, besides Simon's cat's book there also happened to be 2 expensive Spiderman comics that I purchased (yes, one of them being the one in the picture on the left!!!)... they were worth it! Anyway it was a fantastic day and I really enjoyed myself and would like to come back again next year!OH and I almost forgot we also got interviewed for some film they were making at the show.... it was very weird we got asked about comics in general but we also had to throw in some fictional creator for a comic and another rival company I dont know what was going on but I'll post it up if anything comes up about that!
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