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!
Events
Be prepared for an International Comic Art Festival unlike anything you have experienced before.
Guests
There are too many guests to list here, so please click to see who has already confirmed.
Venues
We have a superb array of venues including the iconic Shrewsbury Castle.
Exhibitors
There will be a stunning array of options for those wanting to exhibit their work and their publications at Comics Salopia.
Latest News
First Events Tickets Go On Sale for Comics Salopia
An Interview with Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard and Kid's Comic Art workshops with Sarah McIntrye are the first of many events to be rolled out for Shrewsbury's new International Comics Art Festival.
Say Hello To The Second Wave of Comics Salopia Guests…
We’re delighted to announce the next incredible wave of guests for Comics Salopia. This announcement contains a roster of amazing talent that we’re excited to add to the festival bringing their experience in everything from popular web comics series, to 200AD, Hellboy and Star Wars movie storyboarding.
This festival is all about delivering the best comics talent to Shrewsbury and this round of guests does just that. We’re so pleased that these creators have come on board and we know you, our visitors, are going to love meeting these guests.
Comics Salopia Launches To The Press
On Monday we launched the new festival to the local press with the help of The Jaguator!
Artwork by Christian Ward
This beautiful artwork was created by local comic artist Christian Ward who is one of our principle guests and supporters at Comics Salopia – Shrewsbury Town Comics Festival and we are extremely proud and delighted to have such an incredibly talented artist on board for the event. This beautiful artwork was created by local comic […]
Shrewsbury Flower Show
We’re at Shrewsbury Flower Show today! Trade Stand 11 near the Dingle! The Director, Shane is here all afternoon to answer your questions and tell you more about it!
Comics River Cruise
A massive thank you to everyone who came to the packed out Comics River Cruise last night with Charlie Adlard, John Wagner, Dan Berry, Christian Ward and many others. It was a splendid night and great way to launch the new Comics Salopia festival to the local business and arts community. We hope to be […]
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Our Guests
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
Tyler Kirkham is an American Comic book artist/creator whose professional career stretches back almost 15 years.
Currently well known for his dynamic cover art on titles like Vemon and Deadpool for Marvel Comics he has also worked for DC, Image, and others on titles like Amazing Spider-man, Superman, Deathstroke and Green Lantern.
Christian Ward is a Shrewsbury-based illustrator, comic artist and writer.
Some of his clients include Marvel Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, The Guardian, Fence Records and Forbidden Planet amongst others.
Past comic-book projects include Image Comics’ best seller The Infinite Vacation with Nick Spencer. He’s also worked with Matt Fraction on ‘The Time Ben Fell In Love’ a DHP Short, Kieron Gillen on Young Avengers and previously with Nathan Edmondson on his debut Image mini Olympus.
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.
Sarah McIntyre loves making books and comics set in places she knows well, such as her neighbourhood in south London. But then she takes out the people and replaces them with unusual inhabitants. The animal tower block setting inspired her Vern & Lettuce comic, and she went on to make a picture book set in the same block, called The New Neighbours. She’s also created a fictional town for dinosaurs, featured in her picture books Dinosaur Firefighters and Dinosaur Police. Her Shark & Unicorn strip ran for several years in The Funday Times section of The Sunday Times.
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.
Al Ewing began his career writing stories in the five-page Future Shocks format for 2000 AD and eventually moved on to regular stints on Judge Dredd where he wrote a story, “Doctor What?” that marked Brendan McCarthy’s return to 2000 AD. The two would go on to work together on a new series The Zaucer of Zilk. Recent work includes Damnation Station and Zombo.
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