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Have You Voted For The UK's Best Comic Convention?

Published Wed, 24 Dec 2014 07:00:00 -0600

by Hannah Means Shannon

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By Olly MacNamee

With a growing comic convention scene here in Britain, and with more to come next year too, now would be a good time to sit back and consider which of this year's conventions mattered the most to you and, if like me you attend more than one across the year, which one was the best. As stated on the page, it's more for the fun of it than anything else, but this is its fourth year, so someone must be taking it seriously. At the time of writing, Sunnycon (Sunderland) is winning with 470 votes, but that could all change before the end of the year. If you don't vote for your fave, it may very well not win.

From the monolith that is MCM to the smaller, and oft-time crowd-funded cons enjoying their first outings this past year, such as Leicester Comic Con and Leamington Spa Comic Con, each one had different things to offer their guests and the fans who attended and each can often have a different focus too.

For me, in the year I started covering UK cons in the Midlands area, there are an awful lot to choose from and an awful lot to praise each one for too, unlike some of the horror stories that have come out of America this past year.

For a list of all the UK comic cons – and a list that certainly does not suggest this 'hobby' of ours is on its way out any time soon – click here now and make your choice. It can be our warm up to the general election later in the year, when once again we, the British public, will be asked to select from the usual bunch of idiots who we want to ruin our country for the next five years.

Olly MacNamee teaches English and Media, for his sins, in a school somewhere in Birmingham. Some days, even he doesn't know where it is. Follow him on twitter @ollymacnamee or read about his exploits at olly.macnamee@blogspot.co.uk. Or don't.

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