Spread the word! Here's another date for your diaries! The Shrewsbury Fields Forever Festival will this year be including the Shrewsbury International Comic Art Festival and featuring guests from the comics industry including John Wagner, Howard Chaykin, Doug Braithwaite, Dylan Teague and more (plus me). Here's the info from the press release...
As always
thousands of music fans will be flocking to The Shrewsbury Fields Forever
Festival, Shropshire’s largest festival devoted to Alternative and Dance music,
this July to see acts like the Happy Mondays and Wretch 32 play live.
The award
winning festival has become an increasingly popular event since it was
established 5 years ago, embracing a full comedy festival on the Sunday and
now, for the very first time, it presents a brand new International Comic
Art Festival
celebrating the wonderful diversity of the medium of comics and graphic novels.
And to
help celebrate the county town will play host to some of the biggest names in
the comic industry from all over the world. Guests from America include
legendary creator Howard Chaykin, famous for illustrating the first ever
adaptation of Star Wars for Marvel Comics and for his controversial classic
book Black Kiss.
Also from
the states the festival welcomes multi award winning, novelist, screenwriter
and comics writer Jason Starr who as worked on some of Marvel’s most popular
characters including Wolverine and The Punisher.
Joining
them from Croatia is renowned artist Goran Parlov, famous for his outstanding
work for Marvel Comics on The Punisher and Nick Fury, as well as his work with
Kick Ass creator Mark Millar on Starlight.
Of course
no international festival is complete without representation from the huge
swell of talent from here in the UK including Marvel and DC artists Doug
Braithwaite and Barry Kitson plus local creators Dan Berry and legendary Judge
Dredd co creator John Wagner who appears as the inaugural event’s local guest
of honour.
In total
around 20 professional creators will be attending the festival as special
guests.
The comic
festival will be situated at the heart of the main festival within the
prestigious Quarry Park venue and features a program of inspirational events
hosted by many of the star guests including talks, workshops, master classes
and panels as well as exciting live art events.
In
addition to all of this a huge marquee will be rammed full of the cutting edge
of comic publishers from all over the UK helping festival goers discover the
full breadth of the medium of comic art from the smallest self publishing
creators to the largest independents and professionals.
All
genres will be represented from the expected superheroes, sci fi, horror and
humour comics to the more mainstream crime, action and drama titles many
visitors may be discovering for the first time.
“It’s a
about time Shrewsbury had its own Comic Festival,” said organiser Shane Chebsey
– “…and what better way to bring comics to the masses than via the county’s
most popular music festival. It’s a match made in heaven… geek heaven”!
The Shrewsbury International Comic Art Festival is
happening on the 15th – 17th July from 12 noon to 18.00
each day at the Quarry Town Park.
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