Which festival is best of all?

We don't just love publishing and reading graphic novels. We also love getting out and about at festivals when the sun shines. With the summer almost officially over, it is nice to look back on some of the festivals we went to – Guardian Hay Festival, Port Eliot, London Literary Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival. But even though Summer's over, the SelfMadeHero creators still have plenty of talks to give, books to sign and babies to kiss! See...

Electric Picnic, Dublin (details via link)
 Emma Vieceli joins Pat Mills (2000 AD), Steve Bell (Guardian), Phil Barrett (Matter) and Mel Gibson (Northumbria University)  to offer her thoughts on "Classic British comics, Manga, Bande dessinée, Girls’ comics, John Major’s underpants, the Irish small presses, and much, much more."

Kaleidoscopic, Wrexham (details via link)
I.N.J. Culbard and Ian Edginton will be talking about adapting Sherlock into graphic novel form at this amazing Adaptations Festival

Crystal Palace Children's Book Festival, London (details via link)
Emma Vieceli will be attending and may even host a workshop if you're lucky!

StarLit, Shoreditch – London
The lucky so and so's at the second annual children's literature festival in trendy Hoxton Square will get a Sherlock Holmes Masterclass from Ian Edginton and I.N.J. Culbard as well as a Manga Shakespeare day from Kate Brown, Robert Deas, Ilya, Sonia Leong and Emma Vieceli and leading London theatre company.

Murcia Manga Festival, Spain (full details via link) Emma Hayley, SelfMadeHero Publisher, will be talking about the Manga Shakespeare series at this extremely popular festival  along with one of the SelfMadeHero creators.

Algiers International Comics Festival – Algeria
Nana Li talks Twlefth Night at the 3rd outing of the Algiers Comics Festival.

New York Comic Con, USA (details via link)
Ian Edginton, The Sign of the Four, will be signing anything with "Sherlock" on the cover at this October's East coast comics love-in.

Quai Des Bulles, St Malo – France
I.N.J. Culbard, creator of the graphic novel version of At the Mountains of Madness, will be in France to sign copies of the French language editions of the Sherlock Holmes series.

Sharjah Book Fair – United Arab Emirates
Ilya, artist on King Lear will be talking debut novels, graphic novels and manga in the sweltering heat of Sharjah. Pray for air conditioning for him.

That's not even to mention this England's Autumn line up of expos: MCM Expo London, Birmingham International Comics Show and Thought Bubble.

Busy, busy, busy!