London Movie and Comedian Con (LFCC) has introduced its second annual spherical of inductees into its new Corridor of Fame, naming former DC Vertigo editor Shelly Bond; artist Simon Bisley; cartoonist Lew Stringer; and former UK kids’s TV presenter Peter Purves. They have been introduced over the course of final weekend’s (July 5 to 7) LFCC occasion within the UK.
Shelly Bond is an American comics editor finest recognized for 20 years working at DC’s landmark Vertigo imprint, having began out as an assistant editor to Vertigo founder Karen Berger — after a quick tenure at Comico. She would assist oversee all the main titles that the once-influential line put out together with The Sandman, Hellblazer, Shade, the Altering Man, Fables, and extra. She was promoted to govt editor and vice chairman of Vertigo Comics, after Berger’s departure, in 2013 and noticed the road by means of to its premature demise in 2016. Remaining an editor at giant, she briefly spearheaded her personal imprint at IDW – Black Crown – earlier than shifts on the firm noticed it shuttered in 2019. Along with her husband Philip Bond, they co-founded their very own writer Off Register, and Bond has produced crowdfunded graphic guides and autobiographies (Filth & Grammar and Quick Instances in Comedian E-book Enhancing) utilising her years of expertise within the business.
Simon Bisley is a multi-award successful British artist who has left an indelible mark on the British business – most notably for his game-changing absolutely painted artwork on the Pat Mills-written (and co-created) Sláine epic The Horned God within the pages of 2000 AD between 1989 and 1990, which impressed generations of artists and drove a growth in absolutely painted comics work. Within the US he had a hand within the revival of Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen created DC comics character Lobo. Bisley’s first comics job was at 2000 AD in 1987, reportedly after sending in a pin up of a robotic holding a child whereas nonetheless in artwork faculty. The picture spurred author Pat Mills to revive the fan favorite ABC Warriors sequence after virtually a decade in stasis. The primary sequence with Bisley on artwork, The Black Gap, was revealed the next yr. The primary time the robotic freedom fighters had been seen within the comedian since a year-long sequence of appearances 1979, they might develop into an everyday characteristic in trendy 2000 AD with completely different star artist interpretations till Mills break up from the comedian within the late 2010s.
Lew Stringer is a cartoonist whose been working within the UK business since 1983, having lower his enamel within the fanzine period of the late Seventies. As an artist and script author he has labored on a few of Britain’s most beloved comics magazines together with the Beano, Dandy, Oink!, Buster, Sonic the Comedian, Viz, and Physician Who Journal. His first job within the UK business was at Marvel’s short-lived UK department the place he would work as an artwork assistant to cartoonist Mike Higgs, after an introduction by Alan Moore and the sale of his first cartoon (which would seem in a difficulty of The Daredevils). His creations embody Brickman, Fight Colin, Tom Thug, Derek the Troll, and lots of extra.
Peter Purves is likely to be higher recognized to worldwide audiences for a quick performing function in Physician Who through the William Hartnell period within the Sixties. To British audiences, he could also be higher recognized for a decade future (1967-1978) as a TV presenter on the BBC’s beloved kids’s journal programme Blue Peter, on which he would additionally have interaction in comics advocacy. Since 2007, Purves has returned to the world of Physician Who through Massive End audio productions revisiting traditional eras.
The LFCC Corridor of Fame debuted in 2023 as a part of a shake up of the comics aspect of the occasion. Corridor of Fame inductees largely come from the comics area, with an extra spot for a media persona. It’s first inductees have been US comics author Dan Slott; British artist Brian Bolland; cartoonist and satirist Hunt Emerson; and actor/author Claudia Christian.
Based in 2004, London Movie and Comedian Con is a twice-yearly comics and popular culture occasion organised by occasions firm Showmasters Ltd. It takes place in Kensington’s Olympia Exhibition Centre, West London.
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