An Alan Davis Exclusive for Bristol

THE BRISTOL Comic Expo is the longest running comics festival in the UK.

Other priorities by the organisers and advance signs of a downturn in the economy have been given as the reason why the event will be smaller in size this year, but it promises to be small and special, with several special events running along that theme.

(Pictured, Alan Davis and Staz Johnson drawing live at the Birmingham International Comics Show in 2007).

Top of the list is the fact that Alan Davis is producing a limited edition print of DR & The Quinch, the anarchic alien space travellers he co-created with Alan Moore for 2000AD during its heydays that will be available exclusively at the show.

Over specials include a limited edition convention book that will carry a "15 Years of Vertigo" cover by Eisner Award-winner Mark Buckingham, there will be at least two very special oversized hardcover art books on sale, Full Cirkle by Simon Bisley and Thicker Than Blood by Mike Ploog, plus Birmingham writer Ian Edginton, along with artist Ian Culbard, will be launching their adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, published by Self Made Hero, there will also be a small press expo running alongside the main show.

(Pictured from behind, again drawing live in Birmingham at BICS 2007, from left to right: Alan Davis, Staz Johnson and Mark Buckingham).

The Bristol Comic Expo 2009 takes place at the Plaza Hotel & British Empire and Commonwealth Hall over the weekend of 9th-10th May.

For more information on the Bristol International Comic Expo visit: ww.fantasyevents.org

The BICS 2007 photos used in this article were supplied via: www.comicshopvoice.co.uk