Inspired Comics

Midlands MCM Expo 2012 Competition Winners

2012-02-19T10:58:00.004Z

Thank you to everyone who entered this years Midlands MCM Expo Art Competition. We had fun helping out this year with Willie Hewes from Itch Publishing. It was a very difficult job to choose the 5 winners from each category. We have picked a couple of commended entries too. (hand drawn posters by Sammy Borras and Cat Reda)

Over 16 - Artists Alley -

Winner - Beth Armstrong

Commended - Emily McGorman and Ann Feng

Over 16 - Pre-made -

Winner - Amy Taylor

Commended - Tyler Wilson and Nilai Dyas

Under 16 - Artists Alley -

Winner - Emma Woolridge

Commended - Yelen Calderon Rosas and Leah Clayton

Under 16 - Pre-made -

Winner - Beatrice Robbins

Commended - Freya Downs and Nicola Peters (A2 painting too large for the scanner)

Under 11 -

Winner - Stevie Cattell

Commended - Emily Cardall and Rohan Bhalla

Congratulations to Beth Armstrong, Amy Taylor, Emma Woolridge, Beatrice Robbins and Stevie Cattell you will be contacted about receiving your prize shortly.

Also a big thank you to anyone who bought comics, badges or prints from our table or stopped by for a chat. We always have a great time at Midlands MCM Expo.

I can now announce that the next event we will be at will be Birmingham Comic Con at the NEC on 31st March - 1st April 2012. See you then!

Thanks!
Sammy

(Sorry if any names are spelt incorrectly in this post - please leave a comment and I will correct it.)

2012 News

2012-02-12T15:43:00.003Z

Hello! I have some news for this spring term.

Inspired will be with Itch Publishing and helping with the art competition at Midlands MCM Expo in Telford on Saturday 18th February. You can find the information for this years competition here or see last years winners here.

I can also confirm we will have a table at Bristol Comic Expo in May.

What's The Time, Mrs. Woolf? is a feminist zine created by Sarah and Lily. Issue 2 was released recently containing comics, illustrations and articles by a couple of Inspired's members. Both issues are available to buy from their online shop and hopefully from our table at events. (Zine cover by Meg White) The zine has an open submission system so check their website if you would like to get involved!

Thanks!
Sammy

Star of Bethlehem

2011-12-24T18:37:00.001Z

This is our 3rd festive picture by Sarah Fogg. This is the Princess and a robotic Priestess from the world Sarah created for her short story in our newest anthology Science Fiction Octuple Feature.

Sorry its not Sarah's fault this picture is being posted so late today. I was supposed to get this online much earlier but I forgot because I was still sorting the last couple of Christmas cards. Sorry! I hope you're all more organised than I am this year. XD

Hope you have a great Christmas! - from all of us at Inspired Comics

Thanks
Sammy

Blob!

2011-12-22T12:56:00.003Z

Happy Christmas! I've drawn my character from the first anthology we created with Hi8tus way back in 2007/2008. Recently we found a bunch of copies of Blob! and I've just listed them in our online shop.

Online shop is now here.

Hopefully there will be more drawings, but if not Inspired hope you have a great Christmas and new year!

Thanks for still reading

Sammy

Happy Z-mas!

2011-12-16T16:53:00.001Z

Hi everyone! Sorry the blog has been quiet since Thought Bubble. But there will be a couple of pictures I can share with you over the Christmas season starting with this great zombie picture by Harry Griffin-hayes. I guess even Santa wont be able to hide from the zombies.

The other news I have - Jack Davies is working on a comic for Dead Roots and you can find out more about it by clicking here.

Thanks! I'll be back with more festive pictures soon :D

Sammy

Post Thought Bubble 2011

2011-11-23T11:52:00.001Z

We had a great time at Thought Bubble this year. Thank you very much to anyone who bought a copy of Science Fiction Octuple Feature or anything else from our table. I forgot to take any photos so I've doodled up a diagram. People in the drawing are Sammy, Sarah, Lily and Shaz.

Book covers that are not our anthologies are The Wastelands by Gem Sheldrake, Best Day Ever by Sammy Borras and What's The Time Mrs. Wolf? created by Sarah and Lily with a cover by Jennifer Denty.

If you couldn't make it to the event our anthologies are available though our Big Cartel site.

We're starting to make plans for next year already, so hopefully this blog is going to stay active with personal projects and new development work.

Thanks again!

Sammy

Cleaner Sky

2011-11-16T08:47:00.001Z

This is our final preview page from the new anthology Science Fiction Octuple Feature by Gemma Sheldrake. The rest of the short story features a great alien/monster character design that I really like. Gem has been hard at work recently updating her The Wastelands webcomic. Unfortunately she wont be at Thought Bubble in person this year but we will have a limited amount of copies of a printed version of The Wastelands on our table.

You will be able to find us this weekend on table 75 in the Saviles Hall at Thought Bubble this year. That's in the far right aisle as you enter the hall. Click here for the floor plan.

The table will have all our anthologies that are currently in stock and a great variety of comics, post cards, stickers, badges, handmade sketch books by individual members of the group.

See you there!

Sammy

Alex's Escape

2011-11-09T10:06:00.000Z

This page is the first from Alex's Escape written by Jacob Boniface and illustrated by Jack Davies. The artwork is really bold, there are some interesting panel layouts all though the short story. Jack has posted some great step by step process posts over on his own blog spot. You can find them through the links below.

How to do comics - Part 1

How to do comics - Part 2

How to do comics - Part 3

How to do comics - Part 4

How to do comics - Part 5

I also have some more events news and information.

We won't have an official selling table at Comica Comiket this year. Shazia might be around with the Pittville Press students (who I'm sure will have some great stuff anyway and will be worth finding). And Lily should be around doing some stuff with the London Print Studios Comics Collective - I'm not sure exactly what but it will probably be worth trying to find out what they're up to :)

Sorry that's kind of vague but we will definitely going up to Thought Bubble near the end of the month with a table and everything. :)

Thanks for reading
Sammy

Understanding

2011-11-01T22:16:00.001Z

Today's preview is from Understanding by Shaz Jubeen. You can find more of her comics and illustration on her blog over here and tumblr over there. It's been a while since Shaz was able to contribute to the anthologies so I was really excited to see her comic this year.

I've posted some copies of Science Fiction Octuple Feature to Orbital Comics in London. The comics have probably not arrived yet but hopefully you'll see them in the shop soon.

It's getting close to Thought Bubble so I'll be uploading more frequent previews and let you know about any new extras people might be bringing along to our table.

Thanks again

Sammy

London Print Studio Workshops

2011-10-29T20:52:00.000+01:00

I've mentioned before that Lily from Inspired comics collective is also involved in The London Print Studio comics stuff this year. They have recently announced the dates for their free comics workshops. It all sounds really cool so I'm just linking you up :)

Thanks

Sammy

Prisoner 63

2011-10-26T18:18:00.003+01:00

This week's preview is from Prisoner 63 written by Luke Bayliss and illustrated by Harry Griffin-Hayes. If you'd like to see more of Harry's comics and cartoons you can find more on his blog. Don't forget that you can read this comic in full in the new anthology 'Science Fiction Octuple Feature' which is available to buy online now :)

There will be more previews and distribution announcements over the next couple of weeks :)

Thanks

Sammy

Science Fiction Octuple Feature is now available online!

2011-10-24T21:19:00.002+01:00

Online Shop!

We've just added our new anthology to the online shop. A couple of us met up today and had a great time. We've also dropped off some anthologies at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham. Thought Bubble is the first event we will be taking the comics to in November.

I'll be back on Wednesday with more preview pages! :)

Sammy

Space Bunnies!

2011-10-19T14:36:00.001+01:00

This week's preview is by Catherine Reda. You can find more great stuff by her over on deviantART page and in a couple of our anthologies. I hope you really enjoy the big variety of stories and styles in this sci-fi anthology. :)

I'm hoping in about a weeks time the new anthology will be available to buy though our online shop and I will start dropping some copies off at comic shops. - I'll keep you updated :)

Thanks again!

Sammy

Comics have arrived!

2011-10-16T17:37:00.000+01:00

Hey everyone, exciting news! Our printed anthology came in the post this week. They look great! I'm really looking forward to taking them to comic shops and events. I'll let you know when they will be available and where from. We'll definitely be taking them to Thought Bubble this November :) (if I can get a good photo I will post it)

I drew some fanart of characters from the comics in the anthology this weekend and it was a lot of fun drawing everyones characters - hopefully I got the colouring roughly correct. Right to left characters are owned by Sarah Fogg, Lily-rose Beardshaw, Laura McNulty (writer), Sammy Borras, Luke Bayliss (writer), Harry Griffin-Hayes, Cat Reda, Shaz Jubeen, Jacob Boniface (writer), Jack Davies and Gemma Sheldrake.

And a massive thank you to all the contributors :)

Thanks again to everyone who has been supporting this blog
There will be more previews and news over the next couple of weeks
Sammy

Jacked In

2011-10-12T12:21:00.000+01:00

This weeks preview is from Jacked In, a comic written by Laura McNulty and illustrated by Sammy Borras (that's me). We work together a lot and I always have fun making things with friends. Laura has been busy studying Japanese at university but I'm sure we'll find the time to make comics together again sometime in the future. Recently I have been creating lot of short story comics for the web and other group projects. I'm very excited about the launch of Ink+Paper this autumn, a thick comic/magazine organised by David O'Connell.

I mentioned last week that Lily was working on some projects but I wasn't sure how much I could tell you, but since last week they have been announced so I will fill you in. The LondonPrintStudio are running a comics course and Lily is one of 6 interns to get a place. I'm looking forward to following Lily's work and their group projects on their Comics Collective blog.

Lily is also working with Sarah on a zine for women. I'm hoping that it will be available to buy from our table at Thought Bubble, but I will make sure to let you know when it is officially released and how you can get hold of a copy.

I'll be back with more previews and news next week and hopefully some photos of our comic in print! it gets more and more exciting every week :)

Thanks again!
Sammy

Planet Rabbit & extra covers

2011-10-05T09:01:00.002+01:00

This an absolutely lovely preview page from the second comic in the anthology, Planet Rabbit by Lily-rose Beardshaw. I know Lily is working on some other projects at the moment but they've not been published online yet so I don't know if I'm allowed to ruin the surprise. I will keep an eye out for an announcement and let you know but the best place to keep up to date with Lily's projects will be on her blog. You can also find this great un-submitted cover design which contains characters from different stories in the anthology drawn in Lily's style.

I am very pleased that the four other covers that were left over will be featured in the inside of the comic and they will be in full colour! Covers by Sarah Fogg, Jack Davies and Gemma Sheldrake.

Thanks again
Sammy

A Thousand Empty Heavens & Cover

2011-09-26T19:13:00.000+01:00

We've finalised the anthology line up and everything is nearly all ready to be printed. I'm getting very excited now. Over the next 2 months I'm going to post a 1 page preview from each comic and let you know what exciting things we're all up to ready for Thought Bubble in November.

I'm featuring the comics in order they appear in the book. This is a little preview of A Thousand Empty Heavens by Sarah Fogg. There is always excellent stuff posted on her blog regularly so make sure you're following her.

After many different anthology title ideas we chose 'Science Fiction Octuple Feature' which was suggested by Lily-rose Beardshaw. The cover that won the voting we did was my own design, but I've decided to add little previews from the 8 comics on the back because I think they're all great. I really wanted to use all the submissions we had for covers, but I'm pleased the others will all be printed in full colour within the anthology.

Because the image was re-sized for the internet I've added a larger version of the previews. Contributors are Sarah Fogg, Lily-rose Beardshaw, Laura McNulty (writer), Sammy Borras, Cat Reda, Luke Bayliss (writer), Harry Griffin-Hayes, Shaz Jubeen, Jacob Boniface (writer), Jack Davies and Gemma Sheldrake. So weekly I'll be blogging a preview page.

Thanks for reading

Sammy

Twitter and Misc News

2011-09-11T18:42:00.003+01:00

We joined Twitter this week - just in time for autumn. Now that the summer is over we're just putting the finishing touches on the anthology so that it's ready for Thought Bubble. So the Twitter Feed should be a great place to get info as we build up to that.

If you're a big Twitter fan already you can find some of us already tweeting away ..
@InspiredComics, @JackDaviesArt, @SarahKFogg, @GemSheldrake and @SammyBorras

And remember we have a Facebook fan page too!

This is another beautiful cover submission Sarah drew. I'm sure you all love her robots already - and the comic she has drawn for this year's anthology has so much depth, its really amazing.

Collecting together everyone's comics has been a lot of fun and I'm excited that I'll be able to blog about all the comics over the next month or so. But while you wait for all that, Jack has done some interesting blog posts about each stage of his comic creation process.

The other news I have is that my work is going to be in a Self-Portrait Show in Orbital Comics Shop in London starting next week. The group of comics creators listed is great, I'm really excited. You can find the event information here.

Thanks again!
Sammy

Sci-Fi Anthology - More of Sarah's Character Sheets

2011-08-14T09:23:00.000+01:00

I have more covers for you this week, this time by Sarah Fogg. I love Sarahs robot designs from this summer. I'm not sure if Sarah's Nambots will feature in her inspired comic but you should definitely have a look at them in this blog post.

Looks like there's going to be some great world building in these comics, with some big contrasts.

Thanks again
Sammy

Sci-Fi Anthology - Covers and Characters

2011-08-07T14:34:00.002+01:00

This is another fantastic cover submission by Gemma Sheldrake. It's going to be very difficult this year to choose which cover to vote for. There are more covers waiting to be featured. I'm excited today because I've received the first set of final comic pages from Gem and they're looking awesome.

This is my cover submission. I'm a big fan of having a slice of life theme as the base for something with fantasy or science fiction twists.

All the comics I have submitted in Inspired anthologies are a collaboration with writer Laura McNulty. These are the character sheets for our sci-fi comic. We've known each other since I can ever remember so making comics together is a lot of fun. (and I'm sure Starbucks love the amount of coffee and paninis we needed this year to have time to develop the comic together.)

Thanks again for reading - there will be plenty more updates to follow

Sammy

Sci-Fi Anthology - Lily's Design Work

2011-08-01T17:53:00.000+01:00

These great sketches are by Lily-rose Beardshaw. The Sci-Fi anthology we're working on can include stream punk - which is great because we can include a comic Lily made while studying bande dessinee in Brussels last year.

I'll be back later in the week with more character sheets and cover designs.

Thanks again,

Sammy

Sci-Fi Anthology - Jack's proposed cover design and preview

2011-07-27T09:18:00.005+01:00

Hi again, these great images are by Jack Davies. For all our anthologies we have had an open submission system for the cover design and then have a vote within the group for a winner. Its great now that we have an active blog we have somewhere to showcase the brilliant designs regardless of whether they make it onto the cover of this years comic.

Just a quick update with some other projects we're working on. Gemma Sheldrake is offering a wide variety of commissions from her website - including gorgeous environment illustrations and full comics pages. For more details click here.

Sarah Fogg has a great little gallery on flickr of sketches from her journal entries. I love this one from when Inspired Comics had a table at Bristol Small Press Expo this year. There was a stall selling the cutest hats!

Encase you didn't already spot it - I've set up a Big Cartel online shop for Inspired Comics anthologies and all the comics listed are £1 each! We have recently sold out of the Pick&Mix1 anthology, so thank you very much to all the people who bought one over the years.

I'll definitely be back in a week with more previews and updates - I have more exciting things to share already.
Thanks again!
Sammy

Sci-Fi Anthology - Sarah's Character Sheets

2011-07-13T09:04:00.000+01:00

Hi, I'm back this week with some more design work. These beautiful and delicate robot designs are by Sarah Fogg. I've seen more of her designs so far and its got really great world building already. Sarah's work always has a lot of detail that makes her stories very convincing. You can read another great sci-fi story by Sarah in the Pick & Mix 2 anthology.

Sarah and I had a great time at the Birmingham Zine Festival at the weekend. Sorry I don't have any photos. It's really nice to be back in the area and get involved again after the end of university.

I really love how diverse our group is with styles. Hopefully I'll be back soon to show you more stuff for the anthology or news about other projects our members are involved in.

Thanks for reading

Sammy

Birmingham Zine Festival

2011-07-05T08:03:00.003+01:00

Inspired were too late to book a table at the Birmingham Zine Festival this saturday, its already full of amazing zine/comics people. But luckily they have a communal table. This means there is limited space per person, so unfortunately I can't take all our anthologies to sell, but I will be taking a couple of copies of Best Day Ever with its new cover and free sticker set!

See you there!

Sammy

Sci-Fi Anthology - Gem's Character Sheets

2011-07-04T21:44:00.000+01:00

We've been making anthologies as a collective for around 3 years and its really nice to finally have a regularly updating blog so I thought I'd tease you with some design work for the anthology over the summer. So much work goes into creating any kind of comic there's always a load of great design and development work that often doesn't get seen at all.

So far I've seen a couple of character sheets and ideas from other peoples comics. I'll start by sharing this great character sheet by Gemma Sheldrake. Hopefully there will be a bunch of great sketches and things I can show you over the summer.

Thanks for following us!

Sammy

Comic Shops and Online Shop

2011-06-28T07:45:00.000+01:00

I've dropped off a couple of copies of Pick & Mix volumes 1 and 2 at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham. All our anthologies are also avaliable from Proud Lion in Cheltenham.

If you can't make it to the shops I've listed or the comic events we go to you can buy some of the anthologies from my Etsy Shop.

Thanks again
Sammy

Thought Bubble 2011 and other announcements

2011-06-21T12:16:00.001+01:00

illustration by Jack Davies, from the Distorted Anthology

I'm very pleased to announce that Inspired Comics will have a table at Thought Bubble 2011. The event will take place on the 19th-20th November in Leeds. You'll be able to find us in the Saviles Hall. We should have a bunch of new stuff to take to the event by November. We're starting to prepare a Sci-fi anthology and I'm hoping I can show you design work over the next couple of months. I'm very excited by what I have seen so far.

Jack Davies has returned to the group, I'm looking forward to seeing more comics from him in the next year. You can read the Bostin Heroes comics Jack illustrated online here and see a bunch of great stuff on his blog.

Thanks

Sammy

Petitecreme Online Shop [EDIT]

2011-06-09T18:04:00.002+01:00

(Edited to update broken html information)
Gem's online shop is closed while she moves house. We'll let you know when its back online.

While you're waiting remember to check The Wastelands webcomic updates!

I'm sure I'll be back with more lovely stuff soon :)
Thanks again
Sammy

Degree Show

2011-06-06T08:07:00.000+01:00

Five current members of Inspired are students at the University of Gloucestershire. Gem, Lily, Sarah and Sammy will be graduating this year and our Degree Show is on at the moment. You can find out more about the show on the University website.

Sorry about the low photo quality, I took the photos on my phone.

Thanks for reading the blog

Sammy

Our friends and comics in London this weekend

2011-05-26T07:59:00.001+01:00

You're probably already aware that MCM Expo and The Alternative Press Fair are both happening in London this weekend. Inspired do not have a table at either event but some of our work should be floating around in a couple of places.

London MCM Expo

These are the thumbnails are the anthology covers to look out for which contain writing by Laura McNulty and my artwork. You should definitely try and find these tables because they all have other really great comics and magazines available too.

Leek & Sushi's Manga Show by Itch Publishing

Six compiled by Ushio

Nami compiled by Non-repro

Sally Thompson is another table worth finding, we shared a table at Bristol Small Press Expo a couple of weekends ago. She'll have many pretty comics and extras.

The Alternative Press Fair

Around half the current members of Inspired Comics are students at the University of Gloucestershire. Our illustration course has a table at events under the title Pittville Press. A couple of our class mates are taking a few bits of our work down. I've probably featured all the books that you might find quite recently, so just check the last couple of posts for more information.

Sorry, I personally can't make it down to London. I hope you all have a great time. YAY COMICS!
Sammy

Webcomics - The Wastelands and Instant Comics

2011-05-24T19:13:00.000+01:00

Hello again, a couple of members are working on webcomics at the moment so I thought I should link you up to them.

The Wastelands

"This is a personal driven project I'll be doing to keep myself busy and not to rust out now that my university course is finishing. To improve on environments (Which I have such a crush for) and practice colouring. The comic's probably going to be updated weekly, maybe several times a week depending on how busy I am. But feel free to watch my Twitter for updates or subscribe here and on Smackjeeves where it will be posted!" (Petitecreme blog, 2011)

It's exciting to see more of Gem's comics online to reach a wider audience. You can find more of Gem's work on her Petitecreme art blog.

Instant Comics

Instant Comics is actually a collection of short stories instead of a particular series. Theres several stories already online in the archives. I use the webcomic as a way to try different art and story telling styles. I am starting a new story this Friday (27th May) called Moth Eyes, about a recent sleep walking experience I had.

Thanks for reading

Sammy

Bristol SP Expo 2011 - Report! 8D

2011-05-16T20:52:00.001+01:00

Hello again! We're back from Bristol Small Press Expo. We had a really great time - thank you very much to anyone who bought comics from out table! Sorry I don't have many pictures, and they're quite low quality. Our table was packed full of exciting new books and extra things, it was really nice.

Sorry I didn't manage to update with more books before hand - we were hit by Blogger's updating errors. I zoomed in on Gem's stuff so you can have a good look. We took along The Wastelands books which ave a comic and lots of lovely concept sketches. Luckily I can link you to Gem's online store where you can pick a copy up! We also had a couple of Lily's lovely hand made badges and a couple of different comics and art books.

I'll finish the report with this sketch by Sally in one of Sarah's hand made notebooks.

Special thanks to Sally, Lily, Shaz and Sarah :)

Thanks for reading! - I'll try to keep on top on reporting on our projects and work throughout the year and hopefully any other events we'll be at!

Sammy

Bristol SP Expo 2011 Sarah's Comics and hand made books

2011-05-12T18:33:00.000+01:00

Hello again! I took some photos of the stuff Sarah Fogg will be selling on our table at Bristol Small Press Expo this weekend. (sorry about the low camera phone quality) Patience is a Virtue is a very cute little comic that will be available - you can find out more about the comic and read it on Sarah's blog. Sarah is taking a limited amount of hand bound illustration portfolio booklets and a small selection of hard back and soft back hand stitched notebooks.

Sarah has also printed a great selection of postcards. My camera phone doesn't really do them justice - you can get a better look at them on her blog

Thanks again - see you at Bristol Small Press Expo!

Sammy

Bristol SP Expo 2011 Sammy's Comics

2011-05-10T14:12:00.000+01:00

These are the comics I will be taking to Bristol Expo. Best Day Ever is a printed version of a webcomic that ran weekly this time last year which comes with a bonus comic and two badges. The Giant Rhinos In Space books are spare dummy books I had printed. These comics wont be printed in this format again so they are very limited editions and each book will come with a unique sketch inside! For more information about Giant Rhinos visit my project blog. Alien Rendez-Vous is a parody comic created for my university research project. You can read Alien Rendez-Vous online.

I will have lots of free mini comics to hand to everyone.

If you can't make it to Bristol Expo this weekend, I have an Etsy online shop with my comics and a couple of the Inspired anthologies too

I'll be back throughout this week to tell you more about what exciting extras Inspired members will have on our table this year

Thanks again
Sammy

Bristol SP Expo 2011 Anthologies

2011-05-10T11:18:00.001+01:00

Inspired Comics have a table at Bristol Small Press Expo this weekend! We will be sharing our table with Sally Jane Thompson. All the anthologies listed above will be available for £1 each! (Unfortunately we sold the last couple of Blob comics at Midlands MCM Expo earlier in the year)

I'll be back throughout the week to tell you about some of the other books we'll have on the table.

Thanks
Sammy

Hand Stitched Notebooks and Badges

2011-02-28T07:16:00.000Z

Sarah has been hand stitching some tiny A7 sketch books. So far they have versions of my Best Day Ever cover art. (You can read Best Day Ever online here or buy it online here.) We're going to be selling the new notebooks at Bristol SP Expo and any other events Inspired are at in the next year. (I'll let you know if any new events come up)

I recently ordered more badge designs. Unfortunately only some of the designs made it in time for Midlands MCM Expo, but they're now all ready for the next selling event. The photo on the left are characters from Best Day Ever and the new badges on the right are from Giant Rhinos IN SPACE.

Thanks for reading and hopefully I'll be back with more things to show you between now and Bristol SP Expo.
Sammy

Bristol SP Expo 2011 Announcement

2011-02-21T16:35:00.001Z

Inspired Comics will be at Bristol Small Press Expo 2011. You should be able to find us in Hall 1. We will be sharing a table with Sally Jane Thompson.

You can RSS this blog to find out about more comic projects, crafty things and events Inspired will be attending.
Thanks for reading so far!

Sammy

Midlands MCM Expo 2011 Competition Winners

2011-02-21T16:29:00.000Z

The Art contest at MCM Midlands Expo 2011 was judged by members of Inspired comics and Willie Hewes of Itch publishing. We were impressed with many of the entries, and it was hard job again to pick just four winners. For each category, we also picked runners up, art we felt deserved special mention.

Over 16 - Artists Alley -

Winner - Bethany Carless-Turland

Commended - Olwen Hills (left) and Donna Evans (right)

Over 16 - Pre-made -

Winner - Shanice Atkinson

Commended - Louise Eckersall (left) and Lyndon White (right)

Under 16 - Artists Alley -

Winner - Adele Cockerill

Commended - Hannah Stanway (left) and Clara Toellner (right)

Under 16 - Pre-made -

Winner - Beatrice Robbins

Commended - Hannah Nutting (left) and Liz Crompton (right)

Awesome mention - Alissa Bamley

The good people at Letraset will send the prizes to the winners of each category, Bethany Carless-Turland, Sharice Atkinson, Adele Cockerill and Beatrice Robbins soon. Well done and thank you to everyone who entered the competition. We hope you had fun, and if you didn't win, please try again!

Midlands MCM Expo report

2011-02-21T08:22:00.001Z

Hello. Thank you to anyone who bought our comics or entered the art competition at Midlands MCM Expo last weekend. We had a really great time running the competition with ITCH Publishing again. I'd also like to thank Lily for coming to help at very late notice.

We're hoping that over the next couple of weeks we will have a lot of new things to share on this blog now that comics events season has started again.

The winners from the 2011 art competition should be online this evening. But until then you might want to have a look at winners from previous years over on our old myspace blog.
Winners 2009 and 2010

These are some of the signs we drew for the table. (Lily drew the one on the left and Sarah drew the one on the right.

Thanks for reading, I'll be back to update later with the winners work
Sammy

Comiket and Online Shop

2010-11-08T17:15:00.000Z

Thank you to anyone who bought our comics at Comica Comiket on Sunday! We had a really good time there.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/sammyborras

Sammy Borras has set up a online shop to sell her Best Day Ever comics and both Pick & Mix anthologies are now available to buy online

We'll keep you up to date with other projects and things throughout the year!

Thanks for reading!

Comica Comiket

2010-11-02T15:25:00.001Z

Inspired Comics should all be available at Comica Comiket in London this Sunday. Our comics will be found on the University of Gloucestershire's table. There should be a couple of us around this time too.

Thanks for watching the blog - hopefully we can add more photos and pictures soon. :)

Blog Launch

2010-10-31T07:29:00.001Z

Hello!

Welcome to our new blog. Here we will keep you up to date with new Inspired projects and when to find us at events. There will also be news and links to other projects by collective members.

Thanks to everyone who supported us at Birmingham International Comics Show. We should be around at Midlands MCM Expo in February.