ArtDroids

Ever felt like owning a piece of raw Thrill Power, to be able to hold a page of art in your hands, feel the paper, see the ink or paint well then Rufus Dayglo's ArtDroids site is the place to drop by.
Rufus, himself has appeared inside the pages of 2000 AD and on the cover and represents some of the biggest names that have worked for the Nerve Centre.
Besides selling artwork for other artists Rufus is presently working on such things as Tank Girl & Metal Gear Solid but if you pop along to his MySpace page you can see his blog and fantastic art.

A word of warning before clicking the link to the ArtDroids site, there's only one way known to stop Rufus selling you that fantastic piece or Carlos Ezquerra artwork. Or work by Henry Flint, Dave Gibbons, Garry Leach, Arthur Ranson, Cliff Robinson, Jock, Ian Gibson & Kevin O’Neil to name just a few.

Origins

'Origins', the story 30 years in the making arrives in graphic novel form. From his very first appearance in Prog 2 of 2000 AD through 30 years of stories, John Wagner has never told the story of how the Justice department and Dredd's world was set up but that all changed from Prog 1505 [September, 2006]

If you didn't catch the following epic story in the Progs or just want to have it to read in one go its now out. The book also has the preceding Dredd story 'The Connection' with art by Kev Walker, covers gallery and sketch book by Dredd's co-creator Carlos Ezquerra.

Origins: Buy Now.

Bristol Comic Expo

For the 8th year Bristol will be home to many comic fans over the weekend of the 12th - 13th May 2007.The Bristol International Comic Expo website has all the details you'll need to see who will be their and what will be going on.

Of interest to anyone who may happen to stumble across this Blog is that Comic Expo are holding a very special fund raiser at the showin support of Bullying.co.uk
Based on an suggestion from Craig at Silver Bullets & in association with Rebellion they'll have a LIVE Charity Art Auction at the show which they are calling the 2030 AD Art Auction.
As part of the 30th anniversary celebration of Dredd and Co. They have some of the classic 2000AD Art Droids creating their favourite 2000AD heroes but with the twist of "what if they had aged that 30 years" ?

Dave Gibbons, Alan Davis, John Burns, Jock, Ian Gibson, Mark Buckingham, Bryan Talbot, Mike Collins, PJ Holden and Carlos Ezquerra are busy working on their sketches, with special previews of the art appearing on the Comic Expo site and in 2000AD. It'll be totally unique and only available at the Bristol International Comic Expo in support of Bullying.co.uk.