Presented by Platform and FUSE, join us at Platform for a celebration of all things film and comics - featuring special guest, Scottish Comic Book artist Frank Quitely. Free, drop in and suitable for all ages!
Following a fantastic inaugural Comicon last October, the event returns to take over The Bridge for the afternoon - inspiring everything from Saturday Art Club, our studio spaces and library terraces. Read more about the 2025 event here.
From 12noon, you will have the chance to get creative with a series of drop in workshops, see and explore costumes and props and explore trader and artist stalls selling comics, zines, toys, and other comic inspired merch.
Staff from The Bridge Library will have a stall with a selection of books and be sure to check out the library's comic book section for young and adult readers alongside stalls from FUSE, Make Do and Grow, Spider Arts and more.
Superheroes will be roaming the building as well as a visit from some Darth Vader & Stormtroopers!
Spider Arts will be there with 'We’re the Turtley Cool Comics Club, a new creative group of young people from Bridgeton and Dalmarnock who are launching our own comic book filled with our own stories! Talnted members will also be drawing portraits of willing customers!
Who Ray Dalek Sci Fi return with their amazing Dr Who props, alongside Ghostbusters Alba with Ecto-Xa including two of their cars to be explored outside.
There will be free facepainting, free balloon modelling, free glitter tattoos and free caricatures, play Dungeon and Dragons and kids can make props and costumes as part of our Saturday Art Club offering on the day.
We encourage everyone to attend dressed up as their favourite character as there will be a prize for the best Cosplay outfit.
Rounding off the day, will be live music from local band The Samani followed by an in-conversation discussion with Frank Quitely – an opportunity to hear an insight into his journey from being a boy from Glasgow, rising from Glasgow’s underground comic scene to global recognition. Not to be missed!
There will be a copy of the Glasgow Looking Glass comic on display at Box Office to view. The Glasgow Looking Glass, which in its initial run lasted for 17 issues from June 1825 until April 1826, has now, but only recently, been accepted as the world’s first modern comic. What was this satirically brilliant, thoroughly modern, publication that seems largely to have gone unnoticed? It was the creation of caricaturist William Heath (1795-1840[?]) who came up from London to create a panorama a sort of latter-day IMAX - of the Battle of Waterloo on Buchanan Street, and maybe also to dodge some drinking debts.
INTERESTED IN A STALL AT THE EVENT?
If you are interested in booking a stall to trade at the event please send an enquiry with details / images to info@platform-online.co.uk
Images: Peter Sandground
