Comica: Independent Comic Fair

Saturday 21 April 2012 saw the latest of Comica Comiket, and independent comic and graphic novel fair, at The Great Hall, Bishopsgate, a gathering of mainly independent artists and some comic book publishers selling their own comics and graphic novels. Its a really interesting way to see probably over 200 different graphic novels of all different types and often speak to the people who have drawn and write them, not to mention getting a pretty good discount compared to the shops and more importantly finding great art work that will never be in the shops. There were two rooms on the day, one large room with around 100 stools in it with up to three artists on each, each with probably at least two or three different graphic novels/comics each and individual one of prints or large framed illustration. some of the better known artists there were Tom Gauld, Simone Lia, Darryl Cunningham, Andi Watson, Mark Staffor, the secon room  was a lot smaller but just represented artist that were drawing for Nobrow, an independent illustration publication that tend to be wordless and full of all type of different illustrations from lots of different artist. One of the best parts of the event was the live drawing where they were showing some of the artists present drawing in actual time, usually about thirty minutes each.Seeing the different style and processes was really interesting and infomative.