Sally Heathcote in Newcastle!

Bryan and Mary Talbot's Read Regional tour of the North East continues at 6.30 – 8.00pm on Tuesday 16th of June with a presentation on Sally Heathcote Suffragette at Newcastle City Library, Charles Avison Building, 33, New Bridge Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX - 0191 2774149. Free entry.

Wonderlands – The U.K. Graphic Novel Expo

30th May 2015

The event, the first of its kind, was successful enough to encourage the organisers, the Sunderland Music, Arts and Culture Trust, to declare it an annual celebration of the form of comics-as-books.

A great example of Sod's Law, the fact that the very same day the Rugby World Cup, usually held somewhere else, was hosted by neighbouring Newcastle, resulting in all hotel rooms for a hundred miles being booked solid, kept the attendees down to just over 500, something which won't happen next year. Even so, these were 500 dedicated graphic novel readers who bought books, undiluted by people wanting to dress up or queue to get minor celebrities' autographs, so most publishers exhibiting went away pleased.

The MAC team have posted photos of the event on their website and there's a revue on Down The Tubes.