A comic about imperfect superhumans (secretly about disability).

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We’re funded: let’s celebrate with these photos from Bristol Comic-Con!

Photo banner of writer Mike Scrase giving a thumbs up with a Zip reader behind our table at Bristol Comic-Con.

We’re FUNDED over on Kickstarter! Thank you once again to everyone who’s pledged to our campaign!

It happened on Friday, but I was so busy preparing for Bristol Comic-Con (and appearing on Finish Line Comics’ Saturday Morning Comic Talk podcast) that I didn’t have time to write this update until now!

But hey, that just means now I get to share these photos from the event with you, our backers, as thanks for helping to make Zip issue 4 happen!

Bristol Comic-Con was a roaring success, where our table was visited by both new and existing Zip fans.

But before we get into fan photo-ops, we’ve made it into the very centre of this photo collage which is the preview image for Bristol World’s photo article on Bristol Comic-Con:

And now, for photo ops we got of fans visiting our table!

Photo of writer Mike Scrase giving a thumbs up with some young Zip readers (ages 8 to 12) behind our table at Bristol Comic-Con.
Photo of writer Mike Scrase posing with Zip reader dressed in a cool goth outfit and makeup behind our table at Bristol Comic-Con.
Photo of writer Mike Scrase posing in sunglasses with Zip a young reader and his mother behind our table.
“I’ll be back!” – with fellow Terminator fan and new Zip reader Sam.
Photo of writer Mike Scrase giving the thumbs up with Zip a reader behind our table.
Photo of writer Mike Scrase making finger guns with a Rebecca Chambers cosplayer behind our table.
I told Rebecca Chambers I was keeping her red headband from the original PlayStation release of Resident Evil 1 safe for her.
Photo of writer Mike Scrase giving the thumbs up with a Zip reader with dyed blue hair behind our table. In the wise words of Strong Bad: you GOTTA have blue hair!
Photo of writer Mike Scrase givng the thumbs up with a Zip reader dressed in an Ace Rimmer t-shirt, quoting the classic "smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast" line, behind our convention table.
Photo of writer Mike Scrase doing the 'thwip fingers' Spider-Man makes when he shoots a web, with a Spider-Man cosplayer.
With Stoked Matty – @stoked.bsky.social
Photo of writer Mike Scrase doing the 'thwip fingers': the gesture Spider-Man makes when he shoots a web (of any size), next to a Spider-Man cosplayer behind our convention table.
“PARKER! BRING ME PHOTOS OF SPIDER-MAN!” – with @bristolspidey
Another photo of Mike Scrase and Spider-Man cosplayer Bristol Spidey behind our convention table.
With @bristolspidey

Dyslexia friendly versions of Zip

Also, while I was at Bristol Comic-Con, someone who visited our table mentioned that they had trouble reading comics due to dyslexia.

After talking to them briefly about what might help make comics more accessible for them, I’m going to be putting together a prototype for annotated versions of Zip designed to be dyslexia friendly.

As we’re in the final few days of this campaign, I’m going to be very busy for the time being, but once I have the availability I’ll be putting together the first prototype and sending it to the person I mentioned above.

If they find it works for them, I’ll try to expand the concept by annotating all of our existing issues.

These will be digital-only for now, as it may take some trial-and-error and repeat testing with as large of a data-sample as I can arrange.

But if you think my annotated dyslexia-friendly prototype might be helpful to you, email me at info@zipcomic.co.uk or message me on Kickstarter and let me know!

Future Convention and Event Appearances

If you’d like to catch us at a future event, where we’ll be selling everything you see in the above pictures, as well as new issues of Zip as they’re produced, and our new Zip t-shirts with artwork by Francesco Tomaseli, the best way to keep up to date with where we’ll be is by subscribing to this blog, Zip Lines:

Tomorrow I’ll be releasing a subscriber only edition of Zip Lines with a private link to a discount for our fourth issue’s Kickstarter campaign – which ends on Thursday, October the 16th, 6pm BST. So make sure you subscribe to ZIP LINES so that you don’t miss out on your discount!

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Zip is published by Markosia in the United Kingdom. © Mike Scrase 2023. ISSN 2976-8721 (print) 2976-8721 (online). No similarity between the names, characters and institutions depicted in Zip with any real life names, persons, or institutions is intended. Any such similarities are purely coincidental. Zip’s Kickstarter rewards are printed in the UK by Stuart Lloyd Gould. You can find our press kit here.