
Here's me selling a few bits and bobs at Gary Northfield's table at London's MCM Expo, where he kindly let me crash for a few hours. Look, he drew a picture for me!

This one's from one of my favourite Little Cutie strips, with Sophie the cygnet and Dudley the squirrel (Sophie's short-term boyfriend who is not quite up to the task). (Read it here!)
Gary asked me to draw Derek the sheep and Vern in pirate costumes, so here it is:

We had some lovely small press favourites a few tables over:


James Turner and John Aggs (both DFC mates), and London Underground Comic's Oliver Lamden. James spoke on a panel with Marc Ellerby (Ellerbisms), John Allison (Scary Go Round) and Paul Duffield (Freakangels, Manga Shakespeare).
Here's the loot I picked up:

Penelope's Far-out-mantic by Sarah Burgess; Harvest: the Collection by Asia Alfasi; The Island of Dr Moreau by Claude TC (
Even though I never managed to meet her (she was away from the table when I stopped by), I was chuffed to get a copy of Asia Alfasi's comic (look at that binding!). I heard her give a talk last November at Comica at the V&A and it was the first time I got to read some of her work. Really lovely linework and subtle colouring, and great to see a story told from a Muslim woman's perspective. (She'll be speaking at Caption in Oxford this August!)


I was on the hunt for small-press chick lit and very happy to discover Sarah Burgess, who turned out to be a big fan of Vern and Lettuce, so we had a mutual photo fandom moment. (Here's Sarah signing my comic.) We had some great people stop by; here's Kim (

Will Kirkby
I sat right next to Philip Spence, who drew me his Ninja Bunny eating a carrot sandwich. Yay!


The cutest hamster I have ever seen with Faye
And, of course, the amazing Emma Vieceli (
(You can see lots more photos of remarkable costumes in my last two posts here and here.)
Edit: And more fab costume pics here from
Emma Vieceli's write up here!