Events - Hi-Ex Spotlight, Graeme Neil Reid

On the neighbouring table to Omnivistascope at Hi-Ex was Solar Wind contributor and comics historian Jeremy Briggs and artist and illustrator Graeme Neil Reid.

Graeme's strip work has appeared in Negative Burn, Turn and Violent, while his illustration clients include the Radio Times and the Scottish Executive.

He paid for his board and meal at Jimmy Chung's with 20 sketches he'd brought along, they went in just over an hour, allowing him to put his feet up for the rest of the show.

But like myself, Graeme had been drafted in to sit on some of Hi-Ex's panels and it was good to have one friendly familiar face there, though we needn't have bothered as artist Declan Shalvey was more than up to the task of running the whole show on his own. But more on the panels another day.

If you weren't lucky enough to be among the select who got a sketch or his convention booklet, then you still have a chance to see some of Graeme's work. One Last Time is a collection of some of his independant and short press work, not only drawn by him, but written by him for the most part. These are short, engaging and funny tales, with great artistic storytelling throughout.

www.gnreid.co.uk/