Englishman In San Diego

Bravo! You've found the audio version of the Talkin' Con A Cup O' Tea with An Englishman In San Diego podcast, the YouTube show broadcasting live every Sunday in which your host Leonard Sultana brings together a cracking bunch of people to talk about the amazing events at which we embrace the fandoms we love. This is season 6 episode 5, broadcast on Sunday 16th September, and on this week's show,...

Bravo! You've found the audio version of the Talkin' Con A Cup O' Tea with An Englishman In San Diego podcast, the YouTube show broadcasting live every Sunday in which your host Leonard Sultana brings together a cracking bunch of people to talk about the amazing events at which we embrace the fandoms we love. This is season 6 episode 4 and this week, we're very lucky to get the chance to speak to...

Join us for an impromptu chat with the Director Of Programming for this weekend's Long Beach Comic Con, Ivan Cohen. We'll be chatting about all of the exciting sights and sounds that fans can experience at the show, as well as what makes LBCC stand out for fans in today's busy convention calendar. Find out more about Long Beach Comic Con at: http://longbeachcomiccon.com/ Intro music: 'Punky', bens...

Bravo! You've found the audio version of the Talkin' Con A Cup O' Tea with An Englishman In San Diego podcast, a live YouTube show broadcasting every Sunday in which your host Leonard Sultana brings together a cracking bunch of people to talk about the amazing events at which we embrace the fandoms we love! This is season 6 episode 3 and this week, we talk with Shane Chebsey, the organiser of the...

This is the audio version of the Talkin' Con: A Cup O' Tea with An Englishman In San Diego podcast - I am your Englishman In San Diego, Leonard Sultana, confusingly based in the UK but hosting this international on a weekly basis, where we gather every Sunday and celebrate the events at which we embrace the fandoms we love! This is Season 6 Episode 2 and this week is an episode of firsts - we get...

Talkin' Con: A Cup O' Tea with An Englishman In San Diego s06e01 (19th August 2018) --------------------------------------------------- "...people keep asking if I’m back, and I haven’t really had an answer... but yeah, I’m thinking, I’m back!" SDCC 2018 is well and truly in the rear view mirror... but that doesn't mean that we stop Talkin' Con around here! There's lots to keep us occupied, each a...

Meanwhile Comic Con is quickly becoming one of my favourite comic conventions to attend, purely because it's so well curated by organiser Simon Birks (Blue Fox Comics) - simply put, he pulls together really nice people with a wonderfully positive attitude, making for an event with the most delicious, laid back vibe! For this second Meanwhile event, held at the Worthing Assembly Hall on Saturday 11...

Meanwhile Comic Con is quickly becoming one of my favourite comic conventions to attend, purely because it's so well curated by organiser Simon Birks (Blue Fox Comics) - simply put, he pulls together really nice people with a wonderfully positive attitude, making for an event with the most delicious, laid back vibe! For this second Meanwhile event, held at the Worthing Assembly Hall on Saturday 11...

Meanwhile Comic Con is quickly becoming one of my favourite comic conventions to attend, purely because it's so well curated by organiser Simon Birks (Blue Fox Comics) - simply put, he pulls together really nice people with a wonderfully positive attitude, making for an event with the most delicious, laid back vibe! In attendance were a number of UK small press and independent comics creatives, mo...

Summer Cover to Cover: Beyond the Gutter event. Featuring Adam Smith of the Comic-Con Museum, Patrick Yurick of makingcomics.com, Robert Scott of Comickaze - Liberty Station - Barracks 15, and Lorelai Bunjes of IDW Publishing discussing the influence of comic books, their role in popular culture, and their own professional practice within the field.

SDCC 2018: The Annual Comics Journalism Panel (Chronicling The New Comics Canon, 19th July 2018) Comics journalism is at such a crossroads at the moment, with journalism in all mediums itself under attack from all fronts (and even from within its own ranks); those that are tasked with reporting on the comics landscape and industry find themselves balancing many tightropes and under threat of being...

Interview conducted at San Diego Comic-Con 2018 with Max Allan Collins about his new Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer series, and Quarry's War.

Interview done at San Diego Comic-Con 2018 with David Accampo (co-writer) and Amanda Donahue (artist) about their new graphic novel 'The Margins'.

SDCC 2018 - The Len Wein Memorial Panel (Room 4, Thurs 19th July 2018) The first day proper of this years San Diego Comic-Con was hectic, eventful, punishing, exhausting, rewarding, and ultimately heartwarming and very emotional - Thursday had plenty to see and do throughout its programming but there was one panel that I was determined not to miss: the Len Wein Memorial panel, celebrating the work...

Interview with Zach Oat of Diamond Select Toys about what they are showing off at Comic-Con, both exclusives and upcoming releases.

The eagerly anticipated Comic-Con Museum - the permanent exhibition space to be presented by Comic-Con International, and setting up shop at the previously title Hall Of Champions in Balboa Park in San Diego - had it's big reveal to Comic-Con attendees this year, with many banners in place of where fans would usually see GAME OF THRONES house sigils hanging from the ceiling, a booth on the Exhibit...

#SDCC2018: The CCI Talkback Panel With John Rogers It's that time of year, again, as we sit in a room and discuss, deliberate, complain and applaud the convention we're currently attending! Taking an hour or so out of our time when we could be exploring the final hours of San Diego Comic-Con does often seem a little premature - let's get the thing to bed before we call it a night! - but it makes s...

mcmLDN18: IT'S A CON MERCHANT LIFE FOR ME (MCM London Comic Con, Fri 25th May 2018) Featuring: Mary Franklin (National Event Director, MCM Expo), Josh Denham (MCM London Comic Con Event Director), Ivy Doomkitty Moderated by: Leonard Sultana and Mark Searby MCM London Comic Con (27th-29th May 2018) took over the massive ExCel Centre in the capital to bring together fans of so many different types a...

#mcmLDN18: BETWEEN THE PANELS, Sun 27th May 2018 MCM London Comic Con Matteo Scalera, Liam Sharp, Geof Darrow, Ken Lashley - in conversation with Leonard Sultana (An Englishman In San Diego) MCM Comic Con is moving in leaps and bounds to increase the platform for the Comic Village at its shows and this recent event, the MCM London Comic Con Summer Edition held at the ExCel Centre in the Capital, i...

Over the past few months, as part of our coverage of a number of conventions (such as Silicon Valley Comic Con and Wonder Con Anaheim), we have been lucky enough to have had the chance to participate in the promotion for the upcoming film BAD SAMARITAN, starring David Tennant (Cale) as a privileged and preening socialite with the darkest of secrets and Robert Sheenan as the restaurant valet who, t...

SVCC 2018: In Conversation with Fanbase Press (Bryant Dillon), Silicon Valley Comic Con April 2018 In the weekend of April 6th-8th in San Jose, Silicon Valley Comic Con took over the Convention Center of the city to bring a show that fuses both pop culture with the best of science and technology. Attending the show was our 'man on the ground', Dan Berry who got to speak to a host of incredible cre...

This weekend, Shane Chebsey and his team have brought their not inconsiderable expertise of running the International Comic Expo shows for an inaugural event in the south-east coastal town of Margate in the UK. AEISD Leonard Sultana has been in attendance and has recorded the panels being held over the weekend - however, due to one or two quiet spells in attendance (ahh, lunchtime!), there were ti...

This weekend, Shane Chebsey and his team have brought their not inconsiderable expertise of running the International Comic Expo shows for an inaugural event in the south-east coastal town of Margate in the UK. AEISD Leonard Sultana has been in attendance and has recorded the panels being held over the weekend - here, graphic designer and multimedia conceptualist Emma Price gives a fascinating pre...

This weekend, Shane Chebsey and his team have brought their not inconsiderable expertise of running the International Comic Expo shows for an inaugural event in the south-east coastal town of Margate in the UK. AEISD Leonard Sultana has been in attendance and has recorded the panels being held over the weekend - here, Mike Conroy sits and chats with Lawrence Campbell about a whole host of topics,...

This weekend, Shane Chebsey and his team have brought their not inconsiderable expertise of running the International Comic Expo shows for an inaugural event in the south-east coastal town of Margate in the UK. AEISD Leonard Sultana has been in attendance and has recorded the panels being held over the weekend - panel host Olly Macnamee (thecomicon.com) and artist Emma Vieceli threw away the ruleb...