Comics Salopia The festival with a difference!

Comics Salopia is a huge international, free entry festival taking over the entire town of Shrewsbury, celebrating the medium of comic art in all of it’s forms with some of the biggest names in comic art attending… speaking and drawing at an extensive range of fun, inclusive and inspiring events for all of the family.

Venues include the Castle Grounds, the Dana Prison, Shrewsbury University and the Museum and Art Gallery, which is hosting an incredible exhibition by local superstar artist Charlie Adlard of Walking Dead Fame.

Visitors can also enjoy film screenings, Jedi fight training, face painting, a small press comics market in the square, an interactive Judge Dredd event, live music, boat trips, a Zombie Walk, a Cosplay competition and live art events all weekend plus lots lots more!

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Be prepared for an International Comic Art Festival unlike anything you have experienced before.

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We have a superb array of venues including the iconic Shrewsbury Castle.

Exhibitors

Exhibitors

There will be a stunning array of options for those wanting to exhibit their work and their publications at Comics Salopia.

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Our Guests

Dan Berry is an illustrator, designer, cartoonist and lecturer based in the town of Shrewsbury, UK. He is the Programme Leader for the BA/MDES Illustration, Graphic Novels and Children’s Publishing degree courses at the School of Creative Arts, Wrexham Glyndwr University. Since 2012 he has produced the podcast Make It Then Tell Everybody in which he has spoken to over a hundred other artists about what they do and how they do it. He also records a comedy podcast with Hannah Berry (no relation) entitled No YOU Hang Up. He has produced illustration work for The NME, Michael Rosen, The National Union of Teachers and more.
Dan Berry
Dan Berry
Charlie has been a “veteran” of the comic industry for over 20 years. He’s spent the majority of his time since 2004 working on The Walking Dead for which he has received many industry awards. In his time as a cartoonist he has worked on many other projects as far reaching as Mars Attacks, the X-Files, Judge Dredd, Savage, Batman, X-Men, Superman etc and creator-owned projects closer to his heart like Astronauts In Trouble, Codeflesh, Rock Bottom, and White Death.
Charlie Adlard
Charlie Adlard
Sarah thinks comics are amazing, because all you need to make them is a pen or pencil and paper, and all you need to publish them is a photocopier or printer. Sarah’s first comics were ones she printed and stapled herself, and sold at tables in comics festivals, often with her friend David O’Connell. The two of them went on to create a picture book called Jampires, based on a Comic Jam they did together. She hopes lots of kids and grownups alike will be inspired to make and sell their own comics.
Sarah McIntyre
Sarah McIntyre

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Comics Salopia is an inspiring, and bold innovation modelled on Angouleme in France, which is the third largest comic festival in the world, attracting over a quarter of a million visitors to a small town the size of Shrewsbury. We will deliver a truly international arts festival to our beautiful county town on the first weekend in June, Annually.

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Comics Salopia CIC,
Chapter House North,
Abbey Lawn,
Abbey Foregate,
Shrewsbury,
Shropshire,
SY2 5DE

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