John McCrea at MCM Expo Manchester

The first MCM Expo in Manchester, taking place tomorrow (Saturday 30th July) has gathered a strong line up of comic creators alongside its TV and film guests.

Warpaint artist John McCrea will be appearing at the event, and you might also catch Andrew Chiu, who we hope to get started on a new strip for late 2012 soon, written by Jasper Bark.

Andrew's currently working on a new strip for ROK Comics, which will debut soon online.

Among the comic creators at the event are artists Leigh Gallagher, Stephen Downey, Al Davison and writer Antony Johnston, along with indie creators such as Lizz Lunney, Sergeant Mike Battle creator Graham Pearce, Rob Jackson and Adam Cadwell.

Joining them will be independent publishers such as Time Bomb Comics , publishers of Stephen Walsh and Keith Page's London Calling, and Accent UK.

Taking place at the Manchester Central venue, the event will also see appearances by Red Dwarf star Craig Charles; Sarah Jane Adventures actress Anjili Mohindra and actors Warwick Davis and Kenny Baker.

• There's more info on the event at: www.manchestermcmexpo.com

Strip Spotlight Challenge - Sending Your Entries

We're getting a lot of entries for our first STRIP SPOTLIGHT CHALLENGE - but some behind the scenes technical glitch means the email delivery address - stripspotlightATprintmediaproductions.com - is not currently working.

(We're in the process of bringing the full printmediaproductions.com web site online and that's thrown an electronic spanner in the mail forwarding works)

We're working to fix this as soon as possible, but in the mean time if you have an entry for the challenge, please send it to johnfreeman6-stripchallenge@yahoo.co.uk

Our apologies to everyone who's had problems sending in their entry, and thanks to everyone who's brought the problem to our attention.

We have extended the deadline for entries to 12 noon BST 23rd July 2011 because of this issue.


• Full details of the Strip Challenge are here