Happy 6th birthday to the Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw!
Your favourite online comics social is back! Our fortnightly online Gosh! Comics and Broken Frontier Drink and Draw returns this Thursday, July 1st with guest artists Lyndon White, Ashling Larkin and Cat Laird. Not only do our online D&Ds keep all those who would meet at The King’s Arms in Soho, London every month (in those fondly remembered pre-March 2020 days) in regular contact, they also allow us to expand our reach for the event to a more global audience.
(Poster art, above, by Joe Stone)
We’ll be starting this week at 7.15pm to give everyone taking part on Twitter the opportunity to introduce themselves to each other as we look to continue fostering an even stronger sense of community. Drawing rounds begin at 7.30pm UK time as usual.
So, once again if you’re joining us online, here are the “rules”…
We’re using our regular pub format, adapted for a digital platform. So if you’ve never attended one of our monthly sessions this is how it will work. Our guest artists will each choose a drawing theme for three sessions across the evening. We’ll post each of these prompts with the hashtag #GoshBFDD in three batches at 7.30pm (UK time), 8.15pm and 9.00pm from both the Gosh! Comics Twitter account and the Broken Frontier Twitter account. You have 30 minutes to draw something fitting that theme, after which we’ll spend 15 minutes picking a winner before the next round begins. Don’t forget to post your drawings with the #GoshBFDD hashtag so everyone can see and join in. And also so we can easily retweet!
Let’s meet our guest artists…
As its our sixth birthday this time round the best present you could give us would be to back our guest artists’ current crowdfunding campaigns!
Lyndon White has been wowing us for some years now with his gorgeously colourful illustrative work on both comics and concertina books. Lyndon’s current project is Candles, a fantasy graphic novel from Cast Iron Books that is currently funding on Kickstarter here.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/castironbooks/candles-book/description
Ashling Larkin and Cat Laird are the artist duo behind the CHIP Collective whose current anthology is also crowdfunding on Kickstarter right now. Working In: The Arts looks to highlight “the HUGE variety of potential career paths and opportunities within the field of the arts.” We interviewed Ashling and Cat about the book here recently at BF. You can back the Kickstarter here!
Whether you’re a regular or a newbie all are welcome so please do join in and be part of our international Drink and Draw fun! And if you enjoy this event why not check out the Gosh! Comics webstore here?
