Thought it’ll be worthwhile doing a post about the cons we’re planning on going to in the next few months or so. In case you have a calender and plan that far in advance. I’m not sure we do.

FIRST UP! THE MCM EXPO THIS WEEKEND (24th-25th OCTOBER).

We’ll be sharing a table in the Comic Village - which brings to mind the Prisoner, for me. God knows what would happen if we tried to escape. Maybe an enormous spherical Emma Vicelli would come to biff us? - and will be involved with some various silliness too. Scanning down the list of comics people there this year - not least Avatar coming over from the states - it’s increasingly showing how MCM is growing as an actual functional comics con. Of course it has all the Sci-fi TV folk too. Who will we assault in the green room this time? Stay tuned.

Oh - some stuff. Here’s the signing schedule for the comics people…

(Jamie and I, of course, will be at our table the whole time and happy to sign stuff whenever)

And here’s the comic-stage event stuff. Jamie and I will be on the WRITERS VS ARTIST showdown which promises to be hilarious and/or disastrous. And finally, here’s a map of the comic part. Jamie and I are C17. Beside Ellerby and Cadwell, so we’ll have to put up with their foul indie stink.

SECOND UP! THE COMICA COMIKET (Sunday November 8th)

Which is the day long self-publisher fare as part of this year’s splendid Comica. Full details here. Jamie will be sharing a table with Marc, and I may try and squeeze in. Otherwise, I’ll be bullying random strangers in the bar in the evening. Its’ at the ICA Theatre & Bar in the Mall in London town.

THIRD UP! THOUGHT BUBBLE! (Saturday November 21st)

We’ve ranted about Thought Bubble before. The Leeds based one-day con is our favourite UK con and is well worth the trip to go see. As a bonus, Jamie, assorted special friends and myself will be DJing at the after-party. We’ve never DJed before, but since all of Phonogram will abstractly be finished by then (i.e. Finished, but not actually in the shops), we needed an Official End Of Phonogram dancefloor, and Thought Bubble is perfect for it. If you want to come dancing, you’ll have to book your ticket ASAP. Apparently only the first 500 people get access to it, so book here. It’s at a Casino, which is a fascinating venue. At 3am, Sean Azzopardi and I came close to throwing down all our money on a number on the roulette wheel… except we realised we could just say we did it for much the same effect. And then, in the morning, we felt ashamed. About that and many things.

Actually, Sean’s doing the final B-side in Issue 7, which was inspired by the dancefloor at Thought Bubble last year. Which makes having the party agreeably cyclical, yeah?

FOURTH UP! EMERALD CITY CON (March 13th & 14th)

In Seattle. Which is apparently a splendid con, and we jumped at the chance to go. I love Seattle and Jamie’s never been, but I predict will love Seattle. More details here.

FIFTH UP! Er… I dunno. Get back to us. Maybe we’ll be staying in from then on in.

As a final note - apparently PHONOGRAM 2.5 has properly been approved at the printer now, so should be printing when a print slot appears. I’m almost nervous to ask when that’ll be in case they say February. We finished sent it off to Image over six weeks ago, so we’re entering Jack-Kirby-esque comics-will-break-your-heart-territory. As soon as I have a date, you will too.