Nottingham Comic Con.

It's nice to go to a Convention that is all about comics.
The Nottingham Comic Con is all about comics.
Sure, you get the odd stall selling trinkets or chocolate but really it's all about the comics.
This then was our first visit to Nottingham, in previous years it had always clashed with something we'd already committed to.
The Accent UK team of me and Gary Crutchley drove across early Saturday for the one day show and found everything went very easily.
Directions, parking, accessing the venue, the lifts, finding our table and setting up.
All was very very straightforward.
And we were next to the chocolate stall (more on that later).
I'd heard a lot of good things about this show, but always from creators who talked more about catching up with friends than actually meeting lots of the public interested in their books. As such I really wasn't expecting to sell much, but wanted to experience the event and enjoy it for what it was.
Or, what I thought it to be.
There were, however, plenty of people passing our table, lots of interest and we actually did pretty well.
I also managed to catch up with Andy Bloor, Patrick Scattergood and Alex of Pipedream Comics, and if you are interested in Independent comics then The Pull List is a great way to find out what's going on. Recommended. All had tables and all were enjoying the show.

Gary spots me loitering on the balcony above.

I learned a lot about the healthy benefits of 'real' chocolate from our neighbours, and sampled their product in the shape of a dark chocolate frog. Did you know that sniffing 'real' chocolate keeps hunger away? I didn't either, but a quick experiment with the half eaten frog later in the day actually seemed to confirm it. There are plenty of other good things to report and basically 5g - 20g (depending on your weight/build) of 'real' chocolate a day is good for you.
We finished the day with a Thai meal with Matt Booker and then chatted all the way back. We agreed that we'd had a really nice day.
We will definitely be back next year.