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Deadstar’s expo list 2024

Last year felt like the start of a return for us. We made it to a good number of shows and want to build on that for 2024. Check this list regularly as we’ll be putting up all our shows and appearances on here over time.

February 5th – Taunton Comic Con and Gaming Festival, Taunton [NYC]
March 11th-12th Exeter Comic Con and Gaming Festival, Exeter [NYC]
March 18th –  Bristol Comic Con and Gaming Festival, Bristol [NYC]
March 25th-26th – Megacon Birmingham, Birmingham [NYC]
April 29th-30th – London Comic Con and Gaming Festival, London [NYC]
May 13th-14th – Swansea Comic and Gaming Convention, Swansea [NYC]
May 13th-14th – Wales Comic Con, Telford [NYC]
May 26th-28th – MCM London, London [NYC]
September – MCM Birmingham, Birmingham [NYC]
September 23th – Bath Comic Con and Gaming Festival, Bath [NYC]
September 28th-29th – Norcon, Norwich
October 7th – Bristol Comic Expo, Bristol [NYC]
October 21st – Fan TC Con, Isle of Wight [NYC]
October 21st-22nd – Cardiff Film and Comic Con, Cardiff [NYC]
October – Wyntercon, Eastbourne [NYC]
October – MCM London, London [NYC]
November 11th-12th – Thought Bubble Festival, Harrogate [NYC]
November 18th-19th – Wales Comic Con, Telford [NYC]

[NYC] means Not Yet Confirmed

We’re also keen to work more with comic and bookstores this year. If your local store would like to host an event with us, reach out and we can discuss how and when they might work.

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Deadstar’s expo list 2023

Right, lets try this again… last year we had several shows queued up that had been scheduled and rescheduled over the last few year but unfortunately several of them cancelled so we didn’t make many appearances around the country. This year we want to do better. Check this list regularly as we’ll be putting up all our shows and appearances on here over time.

February 5th – Taunton Comic Con and Gaming Festival, Taunton
March 11th-12th Exeter Comic Con and Gaming Festival, Exeter
March 18th –  Bristol Comic Con and Gaming Festival, Bristol
March 25th-26th – Megacon Birmingham, Birmingham [NYC]
April 29th-30th – London Comic Con and Gaming Festival, London
May 13th-14th – Swansea Comic and Gaming Convention, Swansea
May 13th-14th – Wales Comic Con, Telford
May 26th-28th – MCM London, London [NYC]
September – MCM Birmingham, Birmingham [NYC]
September 23th – Bath Comic Con and Gaming Festival, Bath
October 7th – Bristol Comic Expo, Bristol
October 21st – Fan TC Con, Isle of Wight
October 21st-22nd – Cardiff Film and Comic Con, Cardiff
October – Wyntercon, Eastbourne [NYC]
October – MCM London, London [NYC]
November 11th-12th – Thought Bubble Festival, Harrogate
November 18th-19th – Wales Comic Con, Telford

[NYC] means Not Yet Confirmed

We’re also keen to work more with comic and bookstores this year. If your local store would like to host an event with us, reach out and we can discuss how and when they might work.

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Deadstar’s Expo List 2022

Hopefully, we’ll be able to start attending events this year after quite an extended break. Several shows that we would usually attend have yet to announce new dates but these are the places we intend to be given what we know of the year so far. Check this list regularly as we’ll be putting up all our shows and appearances on here over time.

March 6th –  Bristol Comic Con and Gaming Festival, Bristol
March 26th-27th – Megacon Birmingham, Birmingham
April 9th-10th – Swansea Comic and Gaming Convention, Swansea
May 27th-29th – MCM London, London [NYC] – we weren’t able to get a table
September 3rd-4th – Tripwire Comic Con, Bristol – cancelled
September 10th – ICE, Birmingham – cancelled
October – Wyntercon, Eastbourne [NYC]
November 12th-13th – Thought Bubble Festival, Harrogate [NYC] – we weren’t able to get a table
December 3rd-4th – Wales Comic Con, Telford

[NYC] means Not Yet Confirmed

We want to support comic and book stores as they safely reopen. If your local store would like to host an event with us, reach out and we can discuss how and when they might work in conjunction with the UK’s plans to live with Covid.

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Deadstar’s Expo List 2021

In the past few days, events from last year have tentatively started to announce dates that might go ahead towards the end of the year. At the moment, alone with everything else in the world this is all very much in flux.

Check this list regularly as we’ll be putting up all our shows and appearances on here over time.

July 11th – Bristol Comic Con and Gaming Festival, Bristol (brought forward from September 5th)
September 11th – ICE, Birmingham – postponed until 2022.
October – Cardiff Comics Carnival, Cardiff [NYC]
October 30th-31st – Wyntercon, Eastbourne
November 13th-14th – Thought Bubble Festival, Harrogate

[NYC] means Not Yet Confirmed

We want to support comic and book stores as they safely reopen after lockdown, if your local store would like to host an event with us, reach out and we can discuss how and when they might work in conjunction with the UK’s plans to reopen shops and permit travel.

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Cardiff’s secret expo

When yesterday’s expo was first pitched to us in May it was in hushed tones; a second, secret expo to follow up on the success of February’s two day event. At the time we’d thought it would be small, low-key, maybe even a little quiet too – but boy, were we wrong!

Organiser Mike Allwoord has been running and attending expos in Britain for many years – he was part of the team that ran Bristol’s May expo before the convention scene really took off and he certainly seems to know what he’s doing. When we arrived we expected to see maybe a hundred people come through the doors. It was, after all, a smaller one day event. Instead we were taken by surprise looking out the window fifteen minutes before the doors opened when we saw a queue going right down the street!

When the doors did open and the crowd poured in there was a fantastic atmosphere despite the (rather wet) weather outside. We didn’t manage to get any photos of cosplayers but I’m sure pictures will surface over the next few days. Costumes worth mentioning included an exceptionally authentic looking 1978-style Cylon and a David Tennant 10th Doctor with accompanying Tardis. As always though, the quality of cosplay costumes was very high.

We were pleased at the public’s reactions both to the newly released Thackeray #3 and to Not as Pointless as You Think, which sold surprisingly well considering the expo was primarily a comic event and NAPAYT is a prose collection of short stories.

At every con and expo we’ve been to we’ve been astounded by how nice everyone in the industry is; it’s like a giant family of like-minded individuals, so it was great to catch up with Scott Stanford, Mark and the team from Hellbound Media, Timebomb comics (who had their 5th birthday celebrations this week) and everyone else we’ve met on our travels.

Overall we had great fun yesterday and look forward to next year’s ‘secret second expo in Cardiff’. We’re told that next year will be horror themed and called Scarediff – you can bet we’ll be there!

Alas, Cardiff’s secret expo yesterday was our last big public appearance for 2012 – but we’re already confirmed our attendance for CICAE 2013 and Bristol SPEXPO 2013 and have several other shows in the pipeline, so if you’ve missed us this year, we’ll be back soon.