We hope that your 2014 was awesome and that 2015 holds even better things in store for you.

Over here at the Nottingham Comic Con HQ, things are already moving forward for this year’s event and we would like to take this opportunity to announce our first bit of news. We are very excited about this and hope you will be too!

Nottingham Comic Convention 2015 will this year be in partnership with Forbidden Planet International!

Forbidden Planet have exhibited at and supported our event since the beginning and we’re very honoured and proud to have them associated with this year’s con.   We highly recommend you check them out, both online and by dropping in to one of their multiple stores across the world! Also check out their blog for ALL the comic news you could possibly want.  They will also be back exhibiting this year, so check them out on the day too!

Keep your eye out for competitions and more information from Forbidden Planet over the next few months.

Thank you all once again for your support and generosity toward our chosen charities this year, we really appreciate it!!

Nottingham Comic Convention 2015

Saturday 24th October 2015
Nottingham Conference Centre

(Entrance – Nottingham Trent University Newton Building, Goldsmith St, NG1 4BU)

10am – 5pm

The second Nottingham Comic Con is over and done with for this year and what a huge success. We want to thank you all for being a part of our little convention and for the support you’ve shown us!

We had a great time and feel very humbled that so many people showed up and supported not only us, but the huge array of talent that was on display!!

We publicly want to thank all of our guests who were awesome, all of the exhibitors for their support and for being the main reason we started this in the first place, the bands, Wayne our face painter, the 501st, theNottingham Conference Centre for being so helpful and just plain amazing, the Hellfire Harlots Roller Derby and for our volunteers who gave up their free time on a Saturday to help us get the day sorted, we wouldn’t have been able to do it without you!!

The best part of this year’s event was that we and by that we mean YOU, managed to raise a whopping £1200 for our 3 charities so a MASSIVE thank you to everyone who attended, bought raffle tickets and for the extremely kind folk who donated stuff, it was totally worth it.

We’re already planning next year’s event so if you have any suggestions, please let us know!

Have a great rest of the year and we’ll bring you more news as and when we have it (which reminds me, we have a couple of AWESOME guests lined up already…keep ‘em peeled!!).

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We also have a few t-shirts left from this year’s con, so if you missed out on the day and want a little memento then go pick one up at a reduced price!

We firstly just wanted to let everyone know, if you didn’t already, that Dan McDaid is unable to make it this year. We hope he has a great year and that he can make it for 2015!

BUT the good news. We still have awesome raffle goodies coming in. 100% of raffle sales will be donated to our 3 chosen charities so please come along and have a go. You can win some amazing prizes, including…

The amazing sci-fi, suspense, all ages Adamsville Book 1: The Unknowns Graphic Novel by HUGELY talented Michael Regina as well as an original Killer Croc piece! Check out Adamsville online and get your mitts on Michael’s other work!

PLUS we have 2 free tickets worth £20 donated by the awesome Screen 22 in Nottingham.
You can go see The Monster Squad!

PLUS MORE STILL TO COME!!!

So make sure you get down to the con on Saturday and buy some raffle tickets, you never know what you could win!

Please welcome published author Adam Nightingale and his artist in crime Stephen Dennis. Their work together has explored historic events, looking at fictional “bad guys” and their real life counterparts as well as cannibalism on the high seas.

We caught up with them for a couple of questions:

How did you get into writing?

Failure at acting was my entry point into writing. I trained as an actor at the same drama school as CBBCs star Justin Fletcher, who once accidentally stabbed me in the face with a baited fencing sword. Once I realised I wasn’t going to make it as an actor, I literally prayed for something else creative to do. Opportunities opened up for me to write film reviews and interview cult movie personalities for a now defunct Nottingham listings magazine. I ended up working in a museum called The Galleries of Justice as an actor guide. The museum found out I could write and encouraged me to pen (amongst other things) some of the information you can still read on the exhibition walls. This opened doors to write the illustrated history books I’ll be trying to flog at Nottingham Comic Con.

What books have you had published and how did your collaboration with Stephen Dennis come about?

My books are a reasonably eclectic mix of flippant and reasonably intense history books. They are:
Bed, Wed Behead (dating profiles for 180 historical “hotties” from English history),
The Shipwreck Cannibals (a biography of John Deane, a forgotten 18^th century adventurer, mercenary, spy and reluctant cannibal)
Masters of Crime (a history of fictional literary villains who were based on real criminals)
Murder and Crime Nottingham
Heroes and Villains of Nottingham 

With the exception of Bed, Wed, Behead, Stephen Dennis has contributed atmospheric illustrations to all my books.* We met whilst working as actor guides at a crime and punishment museum. We bonded over history and Bruce Campbell movies. Our first collaboration was a homemade pamphlet entitled Grisly Tales of the Galleries of Justice that was sold over the counter at the museum gift shop for £1. When my publisher came a calling, the books they proposed needed illustrations. Stephen seemed the obvious man for the job and has been making me look good ever since.

*Incidentally my mum and my brother and my dad contributed the rest of the original illustrations and photographs making the books something of an accidental family project.

What are you currently working on and what have you got on the drawing board?

I have an ongoing work in progress called Tales of the White Musashi about a flawless, terminally bored gunfighter who wanders the American West for looking increasingly bizarre ways to peak his interest.

What can we expect from you at NCC?

A scraggy beard, a battered hat, a table full of history books and a bemused audience wondering “who the hell are you and what the hell is a man who writes history books doing a comic convention?”

Make sure you stop by Adam and Stephen’s table and pick up a book or two plus some artwork.

Grab your tickets!

From our good friend Drew Pocza (creator of the comic Pokeweed and judge of our poster competition) and Drawn By Faith we have 2 sets of 6 Christmas cards.

We also received 2 tickets to the Lace Market Theatre to see Irving Berlin’s White Christmas! (bit of a Christmas theme going on here…!)

And finally (for this post) we have some amazing work by Mr Paul Cooke (who SHOULD have a table this year!!):

First up an original acrylic on card painting of Davros, plus 2 Dr Who prints:

We have some amazing raffle goodies this year! Make sure you pick up a ticket or ten on the day and remember 100% of raffle ticket sales will be donated to our three chosen charities as well as the £1 from every standard event ticket sold! Go get yours now!

It’s now 2 weeks until Star Wars Rebels is released…oh yeah and the BIG EVENT!!

We’ve still got a few bits and bobs to unveil for you, including more charity goodies as well as sorting the running schedule and table plans, but before we do that we’d like to introduce a local company that produce awesome tabletop games and who have a HUGE link with one of our guests…

Mantic Games.

They produce a number of games including Deadzone, Kings of War and Dreadball (which they brought to Nerd Fest last year), but the one we’re most excited about is their latest game, Mars Attacks.

The game is based on the comic book series by our very own John McCrea and they kind folk at Mantic have donated a box game to our charity raffle. They’ll be demoing Mars Attacks on the day as well as their other popular game, Dreadball, so make sure you pop by their tables and pick up your copy (as well as getting John McCrea’s comic from the man himself!).

Only 2 weeks away!! Go get your tickets, for a reduced price! £1 of every standard ticket will be donated to our charities!

At this year’s con we’ll have a whole lot of fun and goodness. Of course on the Star Wars front we’ll have the 501st UK Garrison, BUT we’ll also have something else…

Star Warz for Hire! Opportunities for you and the kiddies to have your photos taken sat on an awesome Speeder Bike!!

Plus there’ll be a fully working R2 unit for photos and for entertaining the little uns! Prepare yourselves for Star Wars overload!

Have you got your tickets yet??!! What are you waiting for? Tickets may be available on the door unless we sell out beforehand, plus at a slightly higher price. So go get yours NOW!!

£1 of all standard tickets will be donated to our charities!