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| MAY 2007 12-13th Bristol comic expo 18th, 19th +20th Demonstartion at Art Of England Masterclass Show 22nd Radio Derby interview 26-28th Derbyshire Open arts open studios event at Pear Tree Farm, Derbyshire 30-31st Residential day courses 'Oil Portraiture for Beginners' and 'Oil Portraiture for Improvers' at Pear Tree Farm, Derbyshire Booking now - email for details |
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| JUNE 2007 1-4th Salon Des BD, Roubaix, France 7th - 20th Solo Show with The Art Organisation, The International Gallery, 34a Slater Street, Liverpool tbc ViewTwo gallery, Liverpool 29th - 31st Banks' Mill Open Studios Event, Derbyshire |
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THE BISCUIT FACTORY Newcastle's Biscuit Factory gallery (Britain’s biggest original art store with 35,000 square feet with two floors of exhibition spaces and two floors of artists’ studios) has snapped Emma up for their blockbuster xmas show, they have also requested to be her sole representatives for the whole Newcastle area. Friday 30th November - Gallery Opening – Champagne Reception held from 6-9pm.
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ART OF ENGLAND MASTERCLASS SHOW
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INTERVIEWS Emma's 13 Questions interview is now up at www.sequentialtart.com. Emma has also done her most in-depth interview so far in Chronicles magazine, "Life as a work of art the art of Emma Simcock-Tooth" (vol2. issue 6) read part1 and part 2.
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| EMMA ON THE RADIO Although it's not the obvious medium to promote art, Emma will be appearing on the airwaves in a half-hour-long live interview for Radio Derby on may 22nd. She will be speaking along with Ally Rodgers, the organiser of Derbyshire Open Arts about the huge open studios event coming up Saturday 26th – Monday 28th May. Tune in! |
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| DEMONSTRATIONS AND RESIDENTIAL ART COURSES Art of England show Emma will be exhibiting and demonstrating on may 18th, 19th +20th at Art Of England Show. .......................................................................... Derbyshire Open Arts All over Derbyshire artists will be opening up their workspaces to the public; giving demonstrations and selling their work at this free Event! Emma will be demonstrating and exhibiting at Pear Tree Farm Saturday 26th – Monday 28th May. Emma will be leading the Oil Portraiture for Beginners and Oil Portraiture for Improvers day courses on May 30th and 31st 2007 respectively in the breathtaking scenery of Pear Tree Farm, Derbyshire. You will have the chance to get to grips with oil painting techniques in a fun, friendly atmosphere with canvasses and all materials provided. Accomodation available onsite.
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BRISTOL COMIC EXPO 2007 Emma has returned from her third trip to Bristol for the Comic Expo and this year it seemed busier than ever!
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LIVERPOOL SOLO SHOW June 7 - 20 2007 Emma will have a solo show with The Art Organisation (TAO) at their flagship space, The International Gallery 34A Slater Street, Liverpool. TAO specialise in taking disused and derelict spaces and transforming them into galleries - making them a great choice for Emma's crumbling-grandeur aesthetics.
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LAST CHANCE TO VOTE!! Event Horizon 2 (Mam Tor's Event Horizon 1+2 being the graphic novel anthologies Emma has sections in) has been officially nominated for an Eagle Award for best colour UK comic category! We need votes in order to stand a chance against the usual suspects 2000AD. It's a David and Goliath kind of a struggle - lets "stick it to the man" as they say!! To celebrate you can purchase a copy of Event Horizon 2 half price at www.mamtor.com It's the comic equivalent of the Baftas - voted for by the lovers of the medium, not the industry - so it's extra special. Voting is easy and quick, you will be asked for an email address to check you're not just one of the artists voting over and over but you will not be spammed!
The results will be announced at the Bristol Comic Expo on may 12th by Norman Lovett!!!
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EXHIBITION BENEATH PARIS Soiree at Les Caves, Paris. Emma and Liam Sharp, along with Pat Mills and Olivier Ledroit, travelled to Paris with books and paintings for what turned out to be an underground Gothic Soiree rather than the usual comic event. Fortunately Emma was already dressed for the occasion and signed a few books, drew a few sketches, posed for some photos and broke a few hearts - and a good time was had by all! See the photos here.
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MAGAZINES Emma's work will be appearing in 3 magazines this spring and strangely all 3 have chosen to print the same painting - Page 2.
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FRANK RETURNS Big Frank's Triptych has made it's long-awaited return to Friargate Studios after a tour of duty in Liverpool. Friar Gate Studios, Ford Street, Derby, DE1 1EE T:01332 258300
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BRISTOL COMIC EXPO 07 Bristol's Comic Expo will be welcoming back Emma and all the usual Mam Tor suspects for another round of booksigning and debauchery on 12th and 13th may 2007 check official website for details.
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"THE OPENING" UK PREMIERE Owen Tooth film The Opening (trailer and info here) which Emma collaborated on and appears in will get its first festival showing at Nottingham's Bang festival on march 24-25th.
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NEW ARTWORK AND MURALS Emma has created colourful new abstract murals and canvasses for Prems Dhaba restaurant opening monday 5th March in Derbyshire. The management wanted to create a vibrant, contemporary space - a very stylish experience. The bespoke work represents quite a departure from Emma's usual style and certainly shows off her versatility.
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MEET MADAM GEIST - EMMA'S COMIC-COUNTERPART! Emma has been invited to paint a pinup page for French bande-dessinee-favourite Barkmann's new book about the esoteric adventures of Madam Geist. Madam Geist, you may have guessed, is actually modelled, at least in part, on Emma!
Additionally Emma is expected to be in France again up to her usual booksigning antics twice more this spring in Paris tbc and in Caen march 31 to april 1st.
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THE OPENING IS COMPLETE! Finally, the paradoxically epic short film by Owen Tooth featuring Emma in her debut cameo role is completed. Although for licencing reasons we can't yet offer the DVD for sale (but please email for reviewing copies) we can offer the trailer here on the info page. Enjoy!
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SOLO SHOW IN LIVERPOOL Emma Simcock-Tooth will be having a solo show in Liverpool at The South Bohemia Art Gallery 196 Smithdown Road, Liverpool, L15 3JT.
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ACEO CARDS The highly collectable limited edition ACEO art cards are now available through the South Bohemia Art Gallery email
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MAISON AMOUR - for lovers of love A selection of Emma's work will now be permanently available from new boutique/consultancy Maison Amour, a sumptuous love-themed shopping experience!
Maison Amour, 17 Town Street, Duffield, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 4EH.
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JUST WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS... AN EMMA DOLL!!! Ok - bear in mind this is just what I hear on the grapevine and nothing's been confirmed yet but a toy company is very interested in making Mam Tor/Event Horizon toys based on characters from the books and peripheral Mam Tor activities such as Zombie Elvis and yes, there is discussion of an Emma Simcock-Tooth toy!!! Now, everyone who knows Emma has known all along that it was just a matter of time - just imagine it, changeable removable hair, and accessories just like the real thing, a floatilla of miniature pampered show-hens and authentic oversized luggage for all the other Mam Tor characters to carry for her! Fingers crossed!
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BUSY RUN UP TO NEW YEAR! Watch out for Emma all over the place at the moment! She is one of 3 artists selected to exhibit at the opening event of Derby's new Friar Gate Studios on November 15th 06 representing herself and Bank's Mill Studios of which she is now an associate member. This is an invite-only event for Derbys "movers and shakers" and the list is full we're told, but fear not, as almost immediately after, she will be appearing with her paintings for 3 days at Banks' Mill Open Studios event 24-26th Novemeber 06. All are welcome and last year over 800 visitors attended! Not forgetting of course Emma will be hopping on the Eurotunnel again to France with some work for Lille Comics festival 8+9 december 2006, La Halle aux Sucres et La Cave des Célestines dans le Vieux Lille.
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LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL Emma will be selling a range of paintings, prints and cards at the LIVING MARKET during the Liverpool Biennial at 52 Roscoe Street, Liverpool 1 (parallel with Berry Street) Emma will be present on the following dates:
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SO MUCH NEWS! There's so much to keep up with lately! Firstly The Liverpool Biennial/Living Market and The Nottingham Open Exhibition are both now underway with 2 more dates at the Living Market still to go. Emma will be showing a different set of paintings at each Art Market happening along with prints and cards etc in The Art Organisation's 52 Roscoe Street reclaimed-derelict project space accompanied by a range of other artists/makers and live musicians. For a complete change of scenery The London Vampire Group will be hosting an exhibition of Emma's prints at their Requiem event on the 21st of October 06. 8pm-1am Penderels Oak Cellar Bar, High Holbourn, London. Banks' Mill artist studios of Derby will be opening up to show the work of their own and associated artists including Emma, before Christmas. dates tbc. Not one to miss an opportunity, Emma will be hopping on the Eurotunnel again to France with some work for Lille Comics festival 8+9 december 2006, La Halle aux Sucres et La Cave des Célestines dans le Vieux Lille. A brand new art gallery/boutique/consultancy will soon be opening in Derbyshire - Maison Amour will represent a number of creatives including Emma working on the shared theme of Love! Emma will soon be getting involved with Liverpool's The South Bohemia Art Gallery so watch out for more exhibitions coming soon! And that will take us up to a busy 2007 with lots more dates planned!
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NOTTINGHAM CASTLE Emma's latest work, Clinic II will get it's first outing at the Nottingham Annual Open Exhibition 06 at Nottingham Castle from 7 October - 5 November open daily 11-4 Private view: october 6th 7-9pm Nottingham Castle, off Maid Marian Way, Nottingham, NG1 6EL
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ART CLASS UNDERWAY Emma's Sketching for Beginners class at Murray Park Adult Education in Derby is now underway but more students are still welcome to join us. Please email.
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DERBYSHIRE OPEN ARTS Emma has been crowned Area Representative for Derbyshire Open Arts - the group responsible for opening artists workspaces to the public in the summer to sell and show work. http://www.derbyshireopenarts.co.uk/ She will also be showing her work in the event next year. More details later.
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NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! The London Vampire Group will be hosting an exhibition of Emma's prints at their Requiem event on the 21st of October 06. Club venue to be confirmed. Please email for details...
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EMMA BACK IN FRANCE Emma Simcock-Tooth est la femme vétûe d'une robe victorienne avec un pislolet sur sa cuisse et des oiseaux dans ses cheveux... That's right, only months after causing a stir in the newspapers in Roubaix (see below) Emma will be back in France with an extended Mam Tor presence; Liam Sharp, Kev Crossley and Emily Hare again bringing Event Horizon goodness to the continental masses! http://lillecomicsfestival.ifrance.com/ more details (in English) to follow hopefully...
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HELLO COMICON FOLKS!!! Welcome to all of you who are here guided by my dear postcard-distributing representative, Robin! (Thankyou Robin! You're a *STAR*!) Please do all get in touch via ntl email, hotmail email or yahoo email. I look forward to hearing from you all!
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NEW PRINTS AVAILABLE Loads of new prints up at the shop as well as books etc!
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NEW ART CLASS Sketching For Complete Beginners is a brand new adult art class starting this september created and led by Emma. Students will be able to learn the basics (and more if they wish) to get them drawing in many different media and subjects. First class starts 1pm - 2.45pm Thursday 21st September 2006 at Murray Park School, Murray Road, Mickleover, Derby, DE3 9LL. Call the school on 01332 515921 or email Emma for details.
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BIRMINGHAM SHOW Look out for Emma exhibiting at Birmingham's Hanging Space early in 2007. More details to follow!
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EXHIBITIONS COMING UP! A whole crop of them! Firstly Derbyshire Artists in Nottingham A joint exhibition by four artists based in Derbyshire. Nottingham Society of Artists Gallery, 71 Friar Lane, Nottingham. 28-30 June 2006 9:30am to 5:30pm. Private View: Thursday 29 June 2006 6:00 to 9:00pm Next Emma will be having an exhibition at the University of Derby on one of it's campuses - more details to follow. ... Then Emma will be having an exhibition later this summer at a nightclub venue in London with the LVG. (who are the LVG you ask...) More details to follow. ... Emma will be appearing at several more French "Salons" in 2006/7. Watch this space. And of course, considerably further in the future is Emma's retrospective show at the Boxfield Gallery, Hertfordshire in winter 2008! This promises to be quite an event and will be Emma's largest ever show to date, held in the large and luxurious gallery space which is part of the Boxfield theatre complex.
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NEW! PRINTS AVAILABLE! Recomended by http://www.chateaubizarre.com Some of Emma's most popular images are now being made available as signed prints! By popular demand starting with the Dolls from A Trace of Fragile Bliss 3 and Page 2 from Trace of Fragile Bliss 2! Available from Etsy
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AFTER LESS THAN 24 HOURS IN FRANCE EMMA'S IN THE PAPERS!
Rough translation: "Fanatical/passionate about comic strips? At 8am yesterday (oh yes..) some enthusiasts were already waiting in front of the Public Square for the opening of the first comic strip and graphic art expo. This is set to continue this Sunday. There has been an impressive audience since the opening of the expo where people can discover comic strip authors and material - a shop which has allowed Emma (above), English artist/designer, to discover France for the first time!" Emma has returned from a very succesful and enjoyable Salon de la Bande dessinée et des Arts Graphiques de Roubaix. The biggest difference she discovered was just how polite and "gallant" the French are and how much better-dressed the comic audience is there! Rather than being the stereotypical "comic geeks" the audience were families, middle-class people, older people, a real mixture and the gap between "Fine Art" and comic art is much smaller there, where comic art is valued much more highly by a wider audience. Plus, with a European convention its all expenses paid all the way! Additionally, Emma stuck out like an even sorer thumb in France than she usually does in the UK because in Roubaix and Lille she was very much "the only goth in the village"! She made some very good friends - (Hi Emily! Hi David! Hi JJ! Hi Marlene and everyone else! Thanks for looking after us!) Emma hopes to do more European cons in the future, even though travelling with paintings is hard work!
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RETROSPECTIVE SHOW!Always planning ahead, Emma is now preparing for what promises to be a major retrospective solo show in Hertfordshire around october 2008! More info in due course!
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APPEARANCE IN FRANCE!Salon de la Bande dessinée et des Arts Graphiques de Roubaix Emma has been invited to appear at a French comic/ graphic art convention as a guest along with her work. The city of Roubaix will host the event on 2-4 june 2006 beginning at the Museum La Piscine (Art and Industrial Museum). The press release reads: Conviviality, originality, creativity and savoir-faire are the keys words of our event and the “Salon de la Bd et des Arts Graphiques” promises to become a yearly appointment with the Roubaisiens! Schedule of the salon: Friday 2nd June, Museum “La Piscine” in Roubaix: introduction of the Salon Saturday 3rd June, Condition Publique in Roubaix: 10:00 - 18:00 Sunday 4th June, Condition Publique in Roubaix: 11:00 – 17:00
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MORE MASTERCLASSES!Emma will be continuing her adult art classes in a new and expanded format this september again at Murray Park school in Derbyshire. Rather than being aimed at "masters" the course is entitled Sketching For Complete Beginners. Further details will be available soon! email Emma.
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EMMA'S MOVIE APPEARANCEThe Opening, the latest and most ambitious film yet by Owen Tooth is now in the can about to be edited. Emma made an appearance alongside Olivia Barnard-Firth in the film's final scene shot on location at Olivia's home as one of the two strange oracles who guide the protagonist, Clinic, to his destiny. More info and clips of Owen's other films at: www.toothpix.co.uk
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MORE BOOKSIGNING!Emma will be appearing again alongside the Mam Tor/ EVENT HORIZON crew for more booksigning, fun and games at Comic Expo in Bristol on saturday 13th and sunday 14th may 2006. See you there! edit: Thankyou to all who attended, for your patience during our increasingly bizarre panels and a big hello especially to the lovley girls from Sweatdrop Studios! Emma had a very pleasant meeting with a nice lady from Vertigo comics and is spending much of her time finding more and more interesting ways to cross her fingers...
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BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL AWARD!Event Horizon (the graphic novel anthology extravaganza that Emma's work forms a part of) has won the Best Graphic Novel Award at Sci-Fi-London 2006 (aka. The 5th London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film)
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ART MASTERCLASSES!...well, not quite... it's an art class for absolute beginners which has been called Art For Those Who Think They Can't running at Murray Park school in Derby. There should be further classes starting later in the year and at other venues - watch this space!
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MAM TOR / EVENT HORIZON VIDEO ON BIGMONSTER.TVDuring the Brighton Comic Expo BigMonster.Tv filmed Liam Sharp at the Mam Tor stand talking about Event Horizon, with Emma and her work making several appearances during the video. To see Emma gossiping visit http://www.bigmonster.tv/standard/flash.html click comics and books and select... MAM TOR!
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BACK FROM BRIGHTON COMIC EXPO 2005What a lovely weekend! Emma and the Event Horizon crew shunned sleep entirely during a surprisingly sunny late november weekend to bring their unique creativity and party atmos to the Comic Expo at the Hilton amid the marble staircases and chandeliers. Emma's paintings (YES, they're paintings and NO she didnt just pose for some man to paint them - incase you didn't get that the first 300 times round!!) hung at the Mam Tor table while drawing and booksigning and the odd bit of dalek-baiting ensued... dont ask... Emma's costume drew much attention and she took part in interviews and panels too. The book is fantastic and is now available and sold just under one copy for every 10 guests at the huge event!
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BRIGHTON COMIC EXPO 2005Emma will be attending Comic Expo 2005 in Brighton (nov 19-20th, Hilton Metropole hotel). She will be easy to spot at the Mam Tor stand as she will be the one on Victorian costume as seen in the book! She will be available for booksigning and posing for photos and will as usual do everything in her power not to do sketches for punters as she hates working under pressure! There will also be a big panel event where the creators of EVENT HORIZON will be speaking and taking questions. Hopefully it will run more smoothly as I've been told it will have been planned - or at least thought about - more than 2 mins in advance! The proofs of the book have arrived and I can tell you they look amazing! (even though Emma looks a bit sunburnt on one of her pages!) The book will be much bigger and better this time around! Emma is now confirmed on the official guestlist and looks forward to meeting you all! AND DON'T FORGET - IT'S EMMAS BIRTHDAY ON NOVEMBER 9TH!!!
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EMMA'S FIRST EXHIBITION ABROAD! AMADORA COMICS FESTIVAL, PORTUGAL. OCTOBER 23rd 2005Emma has been quietly hoping that she will get to show someting outside of her home country of the UK for some time now and at last it's happened! Today, thursday 13th oct, a courier is taking the few paintings she could find (2!) that weren't on ridiculously huge canvasses to Portugal. She will be showing alongside some of her Event Horizon teammates including Liam Sharp and Dave Kendal at the Amadora Comics Festival. AMADORA COMICS FESTIVAL Fabrica da Cultura, Rua das Industrias, Venda Nova, 2700 Amadora PORTUGAL
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EVENT HORIZON 1 - now available in... Italian?!Prego... It's true, now you can read tales of testoserone run wild (and other things) in Itailian! Should the mood take you you can get your copy here!
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PLUGGING EVENT HORIZON 2IT'S NEARLY HERE! THE NEXT BOOK - EVENT HORIZON 2 Shipping date: November 22nd, 2005! Picture reviews now up at Newsarama!; view a stretched, distorted version of one of my paintings - suberashii! You can also download a PDF preview of the book here.
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BRIGHTON COMIC EXPO 2005Emma has just read online (they're saying lovely things on this forum!) that she is expected to attend Comic Expo 2005 in Brighton (nov 19-20th, Hilton Metropole hotel). This is the first she's heard of it but, yes, she'd love to go! Presumably it will be panels and booksignings again (sighs casually...)
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EMMA GOES HEAD TO HEAD WITH NOTORIOUS TV CHEF GORDON RAMSAY
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BUY EVENT HORIZON NOW!!!What - you don't have a copy yet?!! Don't despair! It has never been easier to buy Mam Tor's EVENT HORIZON what with it now being available on AMAZON.CO.UK and directly from MAM TOR.COM!!! Now it's going into it's second printing there's plenty of copies for everyone! (You can only imagine how amused Emma is that her name is now indexed on Amazon!)
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MORE EVENT HORIZON BOOK SIGNING!Event Horizon has been declared a runaway success! At the booksigning at Bedford's CLOSE ENCOUNTERS bookshop it was revealed that Event Horizon was the fastest selling book they'd ever had; major distributors are putting in reorders as they are selling out and the book is approaching the very real possibility of a second print run! Now you can see the all new galleries of the Bristol Launch and the Close Encounters signing! Plenty of plans are underway for volume 2 and Emma is confirmed to be among the artists contributing - this time she will be writing her own story (a first for her!) and making all the paintings for the story (rather than having a story written around existing paintings, as was the case the first time round) the title will remain A Trace Of Fragile Bliss as in the first volume.
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EVENT HORIZON IS HERE!EVENT HORIZON is now available in shops in the UK and the US and is in process of being translated into Italian! Emma enjoyed a weekend in sunny Bristol signing copies of the book at the Comic Expo with the other Mam Tor artists and even did a few sketches for lucky punters and suceeded in saying very little at the panel. Perhaps best of all, when she left the Expo for her lunch in a local pub she was greeted with the sight of her own face on the beermats! (See beermats etc in scrapbook) CLICK HERE FOR PHOTO GALLERY OF THE EVENT!
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BOOK SIGNINGEmma will be appearing at Bedford's CLOSE ENCOUNTERS alongside Liam Sharp and other artists for more booksigning goodness on may 21st at 1pm (gallery) Close Encounters, 59 Midland Road,Bedford, MK40 1PW comicsgamesfilms@aol.com
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CONVENTION APPEARANCEAs promised below here are more details: Emma is listed on the website as one of the guests at Bristol's Comic Expo with everyone from Event Horizon. Details here. GOOGLE IT!! Look at it all! Word is getting around!! MAY 13TH PEOPLE! You can now download a PDF rough preview of the material in Event Horizon. More Press on the book at Newsarama.com (including quotes from Emma herself as well as other artists involved) and page previews at Broken Frontier |
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PREVIEWSHere is the p/review of the Event Horizon mook below in this months Diamond Previews comic industry magazine - yes Emma is mentioned by name (!!) and again here in this review at Mile High Comics! Click here to see pics of the HUGE pull-out advert in Previews magazine! The book was also "staff pick"! Here's the review:
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DOWNLOAD YOUR *EMMA'S FACE* DESKTOP WALLPAPER NOW!!!Now you too can have Emma's Face(tm) on your desktop! Yes, it's true, and it's available at the Event Horizon/Mamtor website. Get yours HERE NOW!!!
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