Kids get FREE London, Glasgow, and Dundee comics workshops this Free Comic Book Day 2019!
8th April 2019
Rebellion is delighted to announce three FREE comics workshops for kids in London, Glasgow, and Dundee this Free Comic Book Day 2019!
Free Comic Book Day on 4th May aims to encourage new readers to visit their local comic book store and Rebellion has a host of titles supporting this global celebration of comics!
To mark the release of its ‘Funny Pages’ and ‘Cor!! & Buster Special’ titles, 2000 AD and Dundee Comic Creative Space are taking over the studio at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow and the Vision building on Dundee waterfront with special workshop events on 4th May.
Both running from 1.30pm to 3.30pm on Saturday 4th May, the workshops will give kids of all ages the chance to have a go at creating their own comics based on characters from the legendary titles Cor!! and Buster!
In London, ‘Cor!! & Buster Special’ writer Ned Hartley will also be running a comics workshop for kids at Gosh! Comics on Berwick Street from 10am to 11am.
And to celebrate the release of the ‘2000 AD Villains Takeover Special’, on the same day at Forbidden Planet Megastore on Shaftesbury Avenue in London, three of the creators – Greg Staples, Matt Smith, and Pye Parr – will be signing from 1pm to 2pm.
Phillip Vaughan, Art Director at Dundee Comics Creative Space, said: “We are delighted to support Free Comic Book Day this year, and we are looking forward to facilitating both events in Glasgow and Dundee! Please come along to one of the free events, sharpen your pencils and get creative with the characters from Cor!! and Buster!”
Martin Craig, curator at Glasgow Museums, said: “After the success of the Frank Quitely exhibition in 2017 which featured work from 2000 AD, Glasgow Museums are excited to support another brilliant comic book event in partnership with 2000 AD and the Dundee Comic Creative Space. GoMA’s exhibition, Mark-making: Perspectives on Drawing, which explores how diverse drawing can be is the perfect partner for this event that celebrates the art of drawing in comics. Come explore, create and take away brilliant comics, it is FREE Comic Book Day after all.”
Hitting newsagents and comic book stores on 17th April, the ‘Cor!! & Buster Humour Special’ is packed full of all-ages fun, featuring some of the greatest all-time British comic characters in all-new stories in an outrageously funny special edition!
On the same theme, Rebellion’s title for Free Comic Book Day on 4th May is ‘Funny Pages’, a riotous revisit of classic comic book comedy characters from the heyday of the 1970s and ‘80s! Copies are only available from participating stores, so make sure you get there early to bag your copy!
And to support Free Comic Book Day, 2000 AD’s ‘Villains Takeover Special’ is out on 1st May for the low price of just 99p/99c. The baddies take over the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with a nefarious new special full of criminal capers and villainous ventures, an ideal shelf-stuffer to tempt roguish readers into the world of 2000 AD!