A reminder that Summer Edition 2009 is on from 11am - 5pm this Saturday 4th July in Filmbase on Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin. It's got free entry and will be jam-packed with the best of independent publishing from Ireland and abroad - artist's books, comics and zines. Readings and workshops are all free and you can sign up to them on the day - there's a pop-up book workshop by Maeve Clancy, Cliodhna Lyons is doing a cool monoprint workshop, and there'll be readings by Boris Belony and Eccentric City Newspaper's Harry Palmer.

Amateur overview home video of London Underground Comics managed event at the 176 Gallery this weekend. The event Oli Smith says (paraphrased) "proves that it is possible to put on a large a scale comics event without charging for entrance." Through the management of Sean Azzopardi and Oli, and Gosh! London store the event was also free to fifty exhibitors with complimentary drinks.

Sean Azzopardi is currently turning in some 'on fire' material at theserializer.net-esque The Sequential.com

Oli Smith and Oliver Lambden have been showing off pages of their 52 page European abstract Bloc over at Oli's site were you can probably buy the tome. I'll be reviewing that at TRS2 later in this week.

I accumulated a lot of ideas and thoughts at the LUC event on the disparate but large UK comics industry which I may appropriate as thebaton goes around, after other responsibilities, you know. I already learned a lot about alcohol, dancing during the expo.