Anime & manga artists in the UK

Cartoonist comic veteran Charlie Adlard, most famous for his artwork in The Walking Dead, a world over-run by flesh eating zombies and Savage (2000AD), will be heading to Orbital Comics for a signing on July 4th at 4pm!

Orbital Comics
8 Gt Newport St
London WC2H 7JA
Tel: 0207 2400591

Nearest Tube: Leicester Square Exit 3

While the highly-anticipated sequel, Transformers “Revenge of the Fallen” premiers in the UK on June 19th, Orbital Comics is celebrating 25 years of Transformer Comics with a 5 man strong creator line up signing on Saturday 27th June from 2pm at Orbital Comics (8 Gt Newport Street WC2H 7JA).

Transformer Fans can meet and get autographs from talented Transformer comic creators Simon Furman (comic writer), Nick Roche (comic artist), Jon Davis-Hunt (comic artist), Liam Shalloo (comic artist) and Boo (comic artist).

Orbital Manga is hosting a rare and exclusive signing with Manga Artist BENJAMIN (writer and artist for the stunning manga book "Orange" by Tokyopop)

Benjamin is a phenomenal mainland China artist, whose stunning digital art adorns in his Art Book Xiao Pan's, "FLASH". His artistic style really catches the eye, and every panel in "Orange" is painted, brush style in colour with great detail.

Hi

I'm currently seeking artwork submissions for Aya Revolution 2009, to
be held 14-16th August at the Warwick Arts Centre, University of
Warwick near Coventry (http://www.ayacon.org.uk). Art requirements
include the following:

* B&W and colour conbook art. Resolution should be 300dpi for printing
in a B5 doujinshi-style conbook.
* "Wallpaper" images for display on video screens
* Eyecatch and logo artwork for the convention website.

The mascot character for AyaCon is "Aya-chan", a mermaid generally
drawn with blue or purple hair. For recent examples of Aya-chan

Rimu (Dissident Genro) will be performing live and signing his album - come and see this up and coming JRock superstar only at Orbital Manga, Saturday April 4th, 7.30pm - 9.30pm!!

This is a PRE-RELEASE show for "C.I.R.C.L.E" and "The One Sleeps Within" so if you attend this show you will be able to get your hands on the EP and Single EARLY before the release date on April 20th!!!

ALSO you will get a free album sampler (5 tracks of the new album which is planned for release sometime this year!...we (the team) call them "Adam Sandlers" by the way ;0p)

The Great Frazer Irving, doodler of the dark & diabolical including Judge Death, From Grace and amazing writer David Hine best known for Marvel comic titles like X-Men, the 198, Civil War will be signing at Orbital Comics on 28th March, 3pm.

Orbital Comics
8 Gt Newport St
London WC2H 7JA
Tel: 0207 2400591
E: comics@orbitalcomics.com

In celebration of the release of the Watchmen motion picture, Orbital Comics is proud to announce a unique opportunity for you to see a momentous piece of original art from the classic 1980s award winning comic book series the film was based upon.

Starting from Thursday 19th February 2009 and for one month only, Watchmen issue 1 page 1 Original Artwork and Colour Guide will be displayed at:

Orbital Comics
8 Great Newport Street
London
WC2H 7JA
[opening times: Mon-Sat: 10:30am - 7pm , Sun: 11.30am - 5pm ]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
as V day approaches
Make your way to
Orbital Manga on Feb 14th
Where we will have a Valentines Day Do
Just For You

Orbital Manga would like to invite YOU to celebrate V Day with us !!

From 2pm some of the best talented UK manga artists will draw cute manga portraits of you and your loved one for just £10!!

Single? No worries – Get drawn with a manga character that you Heart!

Valentines Day Manga Art Competition
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Win great prizes from us and Letraset:

Orbital Comics is proud to present our EPIC NEW comic shop!! It's huge and we're getting it ready now to house all things comic!!

We're open on Saturday 24th January at 10.30am!!

Also to celebrate our opening we're having our Mega Sale

50% off Back Issues
50% off other selected lines

And to mark the event we're giving away to the first 100 people a FREE Goody Bag with your purchase(s)!!

Nearest Tube: Leicester Sq Stn, Exit 3

www.orbitalcomics.com