Comics Salopia The festival with a difference!

We’re back!

All across Shrewsbury, from the 24th to the 26th June 2022!

Partnering with the Museum, Castle, Library and independent businesses across the town, we are back to bring you another exciting Comics Salopia festival with some of the biggest names in Comics.

The festival is a wonderful eclectic mixture of free and paid events; the Castle and Museum will be free entry and we have a fantastic offering of panels, events and workshops that promise to be lots of fun, inclusive and inspiring for all ages.

Don’t forget to check out our amazing interactive Comics Trail across the town too, we will be announcing the winner of the selfie competition at our Festival Launch Party. You still have time to join in, simply take selfies of yourself with the art using the hash tag #ComicsTrail2021, for a chance to win an amazing prize on the Sabrina Little Rea picnic boat!

 

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We look forward to seeing you at the festival!

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Former British Comics Laureate and local hero Charlie Adlard is not only one of the most talented artists in the industry, but without a doubt, one of the most hard working and dedicated. 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 AdlardArtist and Festival Patron
Esad Ribic has been working professionally as a comic artist and painter over 4 decades and has produced art for some of the most iconic and ground breaking series for Marvel Comics. The Croatian artist’s credits include Thor, Wolverine, Secret Wars, Loki, Silver Surfer: Requiem, and Sub-Mariner: Depths displaying not only incredible illustrative abilities on his covers, but cinematic storytelling talent on his beautiful sequential pages.
Esad Ribic
Esad RibicMarvel Artist
Dave Gibbons established himself in underground comics and fanzines in Britain before becoming a frequent contributor to the seminal 2000AD, illustrating HARLEM HEROES, DAN DARE and co-creating ROGUE TROOPER. Since then, he has drawn and written for most comics publishers on both sides of the Atlantic. WATCHMEN, his collaboration with writer Alan Moore, is the best-selling graphic novel ever published.
Dave Gibbons
Dave GibbonsArtist & Guest Speaker
Jimmy Broxton is an artist, designer and doppleganger who has quite possibly worked professionally in comics and graphic art since the 1980s. After early exposure to the Jack Lemmon film “HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE” his career path was set, not that of an uxoricidal maniac, but instead a comic strip artist. Preferably one with a three story town house, a convertible, a man servant and a glamorous wife who popped out of a cake. He has the house and the car, he’s working on the rest. In various guises he has pencilled, inked, coloured and lettered (sometimes all at the same time) for just about every major comics publisher going. Clients include: DC Comics, Marvel, Dark Horse, Dynamite, IDW, Jet City/Amazon and most recently Rebellion here in the UK.
Jimmy Broxton
Jimmy BroxtonArtist for 2000ad and DC Comics
John’s career in comics began in the late 1960’s as a member of the editorial staff with D. C. Thomson & Co. before becoming a freelance writer and a staff editor at IPC in the 1970s. In that decade he wrote an immeasurable amount of material and established himself as a highly sought after and talented writer. Most well known for the creation of the iconic Judge Dredd along with artist Carlos Ezquerra, Wagner also created other great characters like Strondium Dog and Robo Hunter for 2000ad.
John Wagner
John WagnerWriter
Mike is one of the most sought after artists in comics and he is currently working on the critically acclaimed Swamp Thing for DC. He has previously worked on Captain America, Iron Fist and Astonishing X-Men.
Mike Perkins
Mike PerkinsArtist
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