TWO Disney illustrators are making their way to West Fife for this year’s Dunfermline Comic Con.

After the convention sold out last year, the capacity for the event on March 11 at the Glen Pavillion has doubled in size to 5,000, with the addition of a marquee, and it’s set for a host of Scottish debuts.

Award-winning Disney and Marvel cartoonist Noelle Stevenson and fellow Disney illustrator and webcomic artist Molly Ostertag will both make their inaugural appearance at a Scottish con.

The Press first broke the news last month of the Comic Con’s return to Dunfermline and organiser Alby Grainger, owner of the Little Shop of Heroes in Maygate, told the Press: “We have a very good selection of high-calibre writers and artists lined up.

"We like to have established writers as well as artists who have worked on two or three comics, the names who are getting picked up by the big publishers just now.

“There’s a lot of demand out there. A lot of the time people don’t know what’s available to them. Because of the huge success of superhero movies in the cinema and on TV right now, that’s made people think about where they originate from. Then they come in and we have around 3,500 to 4,000 books in the shop.”

Star Wars fans will be treated to the first public showing of Luke Skywalker’s X-34 Landspeeder in Scotland, as well as BB-8, R2-D2 and R-5 droids. 

One of the other major attractions will no doubt be the Batpod replica from Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy finale, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’.
Batgirl and High Valleyfield artist Claire Roe will also be in attendance along with other special guests including Marvel Comics writer Al Ewing and Ollie Masters, who is currently working on Sons of Anarchy.

Tickets are available from the Little Shop of Heroes website, priced at £7.50 for adults and £5 for under-12s.