Results tagged “Doctor Who” from Birmingham Mail - Speech Balloon

A JAPANESE manga artist, who honed her skills with the Birmingham comic community,
is making a welcome return to the second city for BICS 2009.

Tokyo born Michiru Morikawa, was a highly successful graduate of the Hi8us Stripsearch course winning an International Manga and Anime Festival award in 2005.

Now thanks to the Sasakawa Foundation, an organisation dedicated to encouraging cultural links between the UK and Japan, Michiru will be launching her new comic Buskers at the British International Comics Show at Millennium Point on October 3 and 4.

A HIGHLIGHT of the International Comic show next week will be the ticket only Watchmen event hosted by artist Dave Gibbons.

With the Watchmen Hollywood film gearing for release in March and interest in the graphic novel stronger than ever its co-creator Gibbons is soon to become very hot property indeed.

So Speech Balloon was delighted to grab a quick chat with him as he prepares for his weekend in Birmingham where he will be promoting his new book Watching the Watchmen.

The book, published by Titan next month, details his collaboration with writer Alan Moore and the origins of the comic and he says will be stuffed with pages of original scripts, sketches and artwork.

THE Geek Syndicate are a dynamic duo of fanboys who have taken the step of opening their pub banter style dissection of all things superhero, sci-fi and cult to the internet.

They hold those conversations we all have about our favourite comics, books, TV shows and films - only with that added depth only a true obsessive can provide.
Flying the flag for the Midlands is Barry Nugent, from Northampton, while his partner is North London based David Monteith.

Speech Balloon collaborator Tony Lee has delivered the ultimate fanboy fantasy in his up and coming mini-series Doctor Who: The Forgotten by featuring all ten incarnations of the Time Lord.

The Kings Heath writer has teamed up with artist Pia Guerra, of Y The Last Man fame, for the six part mini-series for publisher IDW. Issue one is due in August.