There are a few other things I wanted to mention about the Bristol Comics Expo. Here they are.

Firstly, my friend Simon Gurr has a new comic out: The Scarifyers. You can read all about it on the BristolCon blog.

Second, I have the first two issues of Alabaster Wolves, the new comic from the fabulous Caitlín R. Kiernan. I love it. A review will hopefully follow soon. Huge thanks here to Tim from the Bristol Forbidden Planet who picked them up from the store for me on Saturday evening because they hadn’t brought copies with them.

And finally I see from Twitter that some people are claiming that the expo was a massive rip off because they had to pay all of £9 to get in. Scandalous!

I guess they view the thing as a giant shop, and because you don’t have to pay to get into a shop you shouldn’t have to pay to get into a convention either. I don’t know what the economics of the event are, but I’m wondering how many of the small press publishers would have attended had their dealer fees had to cover the full cost of the venue rental, event management, guest expenses and so on.