Six of the Best: Comics Festivals

Of course there are loads of comics conventions in the US - San Diego and New York etc - and quite a few in France, but after reading (and especially seeing) so much about it, this year, Angoulême Comics Festival is the one I'd go out of my way to visit.

Now I just have to talk my fiancée into a holiday in the beautiful South-East of France... but how?

Here are some of the tastiest-looking festivals in Ireland, the UK and a little further afield, over the next few months:

• 27-29 March: Phoenix Convention (P-Con), Dublin, Ireland.
  
• 9-10 May: Bristol International Comic Expo, Bristol, England.
• 4-6 June: 2D in Derry, Northern Ireland.
• 18-19 July: London Film and Comic Con, London, England .
  
• 3-4 October: British International Comics Show, Birmingham, England.
• 13-15 November: Dublin City Comic Con, Dublin, Ireland.
• 28-30 January, 2010: Angoulême International Comics Festival, Angoulême, France.
  

Inconveniently, there is a fixtures pile-up next weekend, 28 March, as P-Con and the UK Web and Minicomix Thing coincide with an anime festival, at the Irish Film Institute.