Nicole. Yes yes what is good everybody welcome back stage b.b.c. Radio Leeds I'm Nicole how you do you good. You know I'm right. So as usual over the next 2 hours we'll be covering some of the incredible arts and culture events taking place here in West Yorkshire stick around I will tell you war is going on in. So before 8 Lisa would the founder of the comic art festival for both will be in the building we're going to be talking about all the details about the festival ahead of its loans next month on a massive Not saw him already gassed. And also now we're joined by Ron you're from equalizer the leads based organization which provides d.j. Workshops for women non-binary and other gender minorities as well they have a huge event this Saturday in collaboration with another well known organization called slot drop shout can't. Change that can we talk about all of those kinds of stuff. Then after a we're going to be check in with. Talking all about even the Yorkshire entertainment awards they held their ceremony last week will be joined by the organizers as well as winners Thames and Newtown to to talk all about the awards Oh yeah. And then last but not least our very own movie expert aka fellow fellow Super Don Williams will be joining us with another one of his epic cinema soundtracks and this week Daryn is exploring a cult crime classic that was really hard to say from the mind sees. If you can guess what it is points to you if not then why we're going to go for a little bit later on as well have. So obviously peppered throughout throughout Sheriff there's going to be a whole bunch of you just heard paper planes by m.i.a. . You know she's out to the cities. Yeah so it works so going to keep me role in this is rocks with her. Thank you by. Far my self to express myself the sky. Is Green k. Trying. To show us that. This. Whole thing. To. Do. X. X. X. X. X. X. Understand don't know how to do the stacks. 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Review I'm with you on that for sure I'm trying very hard not to shout down his microphone right in front of a basement. So you may have seen already thought bubble returns next month for a huge celebration of comic books and art and all of that good stuff and release is going to tell us exactly what we can expect how you do and I'm doing really well thank you you have a you know an amazing Yeah I'm not too bad I'm not too bad like of coffee today so that's good. Got one right now I don't see that yeah nice I just need to not need to not have some I will be bouncing off the walls like Tasmanian devil anyway so tell us all about please Yeah thank you so we're super excited about the share we've been going for 1st in years now yeah it's crazy it's been it feels like it was 5 but it's actually 1st scene we started in the basement of Leeds town hall and it's just kind of grown and grown since then it's become massive So this is the 1st year that where I move in our actual comic convention to a larger venue Erica convention center so we're keepin the entire festival the week long festival the same we're still running our workshops exhibitions outside con events in Leeds Bradford in various areas but we're just me. When the big big convention event Herrick because we needed a bigger space. We grew new doc in Leeds Well Leeds town hall then new doc and then we moved to Millennium Squire and so we've just we just keep trying to find these bigger spots in Leeds and we need leads to build a convention center so we can come back you know that ladies and gentlemen Ok we need to raise funding now. Because land a big big building just thought bubble can just leave that. Going to have a good as not too far yet since 5 minutes on the trying to see Perrie's in this the bus that goes back and forth I don't know what number bus is but I know it's got a library on the and we are donating comics and graphic novels to that so we're pretty excited about that Ok Yeah Ok on the media even more gas in a way Ok that now you yourself have worked on some incredible comics creating art for Batman and Spider-Man scholar Yes God which And those many other works as well so what would stand what character stands out is your favorite would you say what's on my fair that I've worked on probably poison ivy in choice in the Batman story a bit yeah she was always a favorite villain of mine and I got to work with Scott Snyder who is an amazing writer and we got to kind of in a way recreate that character an All Star Batman so that was amazing to work on but then i also the 1st big run that I ever did was with Warren Ellis. In it was like a reimagining of rubble I felt Supremes. And so that was kind of delving into some characters being done by Alomar in various people and. That was a real labor of love for me as well. I mean then she's misusage you see poison ivy why I mean apart from oh yes. You worked when I was able to kind of like recreate you know in your own kind of way but like you know why why in particular poison ivy that has her being your favorite villain just more interesting that's not somebody that a lot of people say yeah Harley Quinn or joke or something like that but yeah I don't know why she's appeal to me I mean with superheroes a lot of time I mean as a child growing up the finger instantly draws you in a state costume Yeah the way they look and then when you get to know the character or you're reading as an adult you look for more depth They're all what characteristics they have and poison ivy was always a really interesting on terror especially the way we did when we worked with Scott Snyder We were kind of just like she's a microbiologist and she says she's a scientist and I always found that really interesting. And I just think she's fascinating character yeah I think this is like prelude to nerd corner layout but like. I forget which video game it was one of the one the more recent ones where poison ivy that. They Arkham Asylum know is. That's going to really annoy me or come to me but yeah I like that the more the more recent game Arkham Asylum was like one of the 1st kind of new generation kind of games that it. Has made his game a corner you know. Like you know they kind of really like redid her character and made it to be like obviously she's really passionate about plant life and nature and things like that but she still had like a kind of scientists kind of take on everything as opposed to being I am I'm plant lady and I love everything and I'm basically Mother Nature she still had that scientists thing which I think a lot of from the comics I read anyway around that time there were some people that kind of left that out and just kind of can control plants and that's about it like they kind of forgot in some cases that she actually. As a scientist says because it you so that well I'm going to start with the stuff now Ok I think I think I actually said she was a microbiologist as well but she's a botanist still like this still that kind of like she knows what she's talking about chlorophyll and being Yeah Ok We're going to start now Ok so what inspires you as an artist what drives you to improve and keep going yeah I mean I just love drawing and it's always been my help it's something I really enjoy when it's going well it's really relaxing and it's really nice to create something I think everybody feels in one way or another they live creatin. But the thing that really inspires me say scene of the people saw and that that makes me want to improve and draw more so I'm constantly surrounded by artists friends are reading comics saw illustration books and. Various salt farms with different medias and so I that's my life and that's what I love and I get to kind of funnel and do my own thing with it on a day to day basis which is really Riddick Psion for me and then you know how even for bubble as well and having all my friends and peers come to an event in Leeds and Harry get that I know and love to network and make connections to so many people I know in the industry the star of new series and worked on things that spin sult to Hollywood to the and they've met for people and they connect to their system and that really inspires me as well it feels really good it feels really good leads it's become a herb for this kind of stuff the movies being made the stories being told it's super exciting Yeah sure and what would you say actually draws you to comic. Specifically as a form of. I think I mean for me I. Really loved comic. My dad used to take me to Botley market for me to get all my comics when I probably start around the age of 7 and I'm dyslexic so it's cool when we were being taught to read and learn how to read I buy struggled I couldn't do that high 5. I 5 yeah yeah that's all I'm saying I. Like Big Tex Yeah like I mean now I like kind of dances around being able to read comics is just very like yeah there's a picture you can kind of even if the picture starts moving it's all right because there's a little kind of speech but when it's 2 in kind it is easy to read absolutely sure and that and that's how I taught myself to read it self tall and it was free comic books it was true loving comic books my favorite the time was that awful and some of the X.-Men ones and Star Wars weekly Well it was Return Of The Jedi I weakly them with my age range but yeah you get I always got pulled in by they are it was the art that I loved you know like the Marvel adaptations with Bill Sienkiewicz and Archie Goodwin now Williamson this beautiful art that I loved and I wanted to know more I wanted to know what the characters were saying in the speech bubbles and. I just I learnt to read through that and so I think that's why kamikaze specially has a special place for me it was my Scape is the child you delve into these stories for me it was also fronts always from sci fi that I loved and it's just to stick with me and now I'm lucky enough to draw them myself yeah so you've got to pinch myself sometimes I can't believe a. Movie right back with more about the epic. And kind of mutually been a means time. This is a great track from local and if each is Jordan I played yeah he played. On the track step or not I went over to write. The lady wants to come up with the blazing sun and have a Sonic game. To say I'm not a mother. It's a lot of course son involved. In the past like about a job without a brain. Everything and. Honeymoon a block but it would have. Been there to give. Them a visa a. Reason. To never close. The Bible I was reading out of the tar was misleading. Changing with the seasons. Because the son. Of a strong said let me to. The biggest ever present. With . Everything. We've Jordan he played in the leaves on Saturday it was sold out to shots everybody that went. And yet lo Connors Yes or some say stuff and things but yes I'm joined by the award winning founder of Yorkshire comic festival thought bubble Lisa would how you doing really get thank you to full staff now alongside the 1st one is involved in a lot of charity and humanitarian work as well so can you tell us a bit about how you use art to benefit the community Yeah so I'm mean it was almost always my goal. When I started it to pawn some kind of event involving comics that would. Really focus on literacy issues. The young people and adults because that's what helped me so much for comics so that's an issue why I wanted to do but because we were so well well received it was kind of spiraled and we've been able to do so much more so we've kind of learn as we've gone along and we get a lot of audience feedback pre the convention especially And we learned we learned years ago at the convention when things are rarely crazy and intense and some people find that hard to deal with people that have anxiety issues autism any kind of sensory overload issues so we created a safe space called Books lounge which we have in place every year at the show. And when funds allow We have an art therapist in there as well and so leads we work with partners like Leeds autism services bring a lot of their members along and they know that they can go to the space if they are feelin overwhelmed it's just a place to relax and take time away from the crowd that's something where we're prepared proud of and we do various exhibitions and things with Leeds autism services every year. We've worked with asylum seekers and refugee organizations year in year as well and do in outreach work and workshops with their use in using the art of sequential storytelling to get children involved and to tell their own star eason to get creative and that's something we're pretty passionate about just reaching out to communities and connecting with people that may not feel at home in their environment they're in just share all the. You know young people at school that the may need a place to feel welcome we where we feel really strongly about all of this kind of things when I was growing up at school I struggled with a lot of bullying and I was very insular. And so when of you know I delved into comics that was my scape ism but I really feel for a lot of young people that do struggle with finding friends saw. You know feeling on the edge of society that they can come somewhere where they do feel like they belong where everybody is friendly and welcoming and nobody ever judges like the convention that we hold you get people from all walks of life that like different things and everybody always thinks it's comics it's superiors but it but it's not. The comic the comic industry is why the people realize because I mean yeah Ok people a lot of people's initial introduction to comics would have been comic books like Spider-Man or Superman or whatever. There are other. Types of comic books that. You can have ones are more like fantasy based or Saif I based or even ones that just like tell like we we're dystopian stories it doesn't have to be superheroes all the time or it could just be ones about every day is a guy's every day's life or whatever so yeah there is a law scope for more stories to be told as well which is where Absolutely and there's the whole Hollywood connection at the moment with the film industry yes where people feel like the comic book industry or the world of comics is something that very connected to even though they may not have read many comic books they know all these characters already so yeah this disfigurement and that's happened over the last 10 years where conventions of become a hope for young people that might want to. Express themselves by dressing up it's called cosplay and it's a place they feel free to do that and that's always a really lovely thing to say and that kind of slight love for these characters often blossoms into them picking up books and reading about stories told through sequential. You know for sure the show is like a nice growing growing growing growing industry and just not only as like or in some kind of well yeah in a lot of ways businesses and stuff but just in the creative creative aspect to. Now you recently won the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award at San Diego Comic-Con which is like the biggie how does it feel to be recognized as such a huge event. This is crazy I still can't quite get my head around how that happened I was so nervous at the awards ceremony exits like this big room full of all my peers the people I love like everybody is there and I had to speak in front of them or so I was pretty nervous. I think that the award was given to me in my name but I've never felt that it was an award for me it's an award for everybody that's ever worked tirelessly and helped with bubble and everything we do there so I was exceptional on behalf of all of those people and. So I kind of was able to separate myself a little bit in a way it's it's about this organization that we've put together that means so much to a lot of people that's quite humbling I felt very proud congrats. So this is going vention is taking place in her again as you say on the 9th and 10th of November there is a date for your diaries grow. The comic the comic convention is actually the last weekend in that date so that's the far that's all you said the 9th and 10th Yeah yeah you said yeah. I'm not an auto though that's what is it is cool it's cool so what are some of the things you can expect to find at the level of the never been before yes so I mean we have over 400 tables sellin just amazing publications made by artists and writers a lot of a lot of people create their own stories and put them together in books and they look incredible they crayon prints badges beautiful little craft items so the main stallholders proved produce that kind of stuff and sell that but also we have over a 100 to professional guests there so we have a lot of people coming from America Canada and people that of written scripts and stories for Hollywood blockbusters concept art for Hollywood movies games movies this is a film with comic conventions that you people always think it's just about comic books and now is purely focuses on comic books but comic books are a gateway to so many of the things and so many of the ways to learn and so if you study the art form of sequential storytelling you certainly understand dialogue film dialogue t.v. Dialogue how to dress to say how to create a character costumes tell. Do concept art for games movies it's a gateway to so many of our careers and so this year at the convention with folks in heavily on the educational aspect so we have rights foreigns in art workshops and ways to learn how to get into these fields we have pop for their reviews for anybody that wants to bring work along get it critiqued Yeah and it's always very involved like that it's always about fought battles mainly about phone but there's always a learnin aspect about how you can get into the film industry or get into writing or drawing comics like and scriptwriter in so where can we find out more about this year's event yet it's football festival dot com and the tickets are there and the program everything you need to know we've got a big list of guests which include people like Brian Azzarello who was behind right when and made stories behind latest blockbuster joke a film. And lots of other amazing guest on a case who writes for Marvel Comics one of his main titles is venom at the moment your home fans cares who does in Vegas and he's got a big show on Netflix at the moment also we have a massive exhibition in heritage the message gallery called Hildur inheritor which is based around the hit Netflix. Series The Animated Series by Luke Pearson which is based on his held comics so the search the so much going on over that weekend and all those details are on the website Give it was again was it it's thought bubble festival dot com thought Well 1st of all dot com Nice one Lisa thank you so much for coming on and talking to us about the bubble and it's at Preakness and congrats again on the award. You listen to backstage b.b.c. Radio Leeds I'l