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Gnashional Treasure Hunt

23. June 2009

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The National Trust for Scotland has recruited Dennis the Menace (and Gnasher, of course) to interest kids in the nation’s national heritage during the school summer holidays, with the Gnashional Treasure Hunt running from July 1st to October 31st, which sounds like fun and a good way to get the kids into visiting and exploring [...]

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Nick Bertozzi video

21. June 2009

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You can watch a video profile of the excellent Nick Bertozzi (and I see a whole lot more comics related video on New Media Literacies YouTube channel); link from Mike Lynch via Dirk at Journalista: [youtube ucc7baLQRZs]

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Aspiring comic creator – Hi8us Comix competition announced

24. May 2009

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Hi8us Midlands, part of the national media and arts charity has announced details of it’s latest comic scheme. Called COMIX, it’s a new competition with a chance for 20 people to get through and work with some of the Midland’s best comic folks including Hunt Emerson, John McCrea, Laura Howell, Andi Watson and Asia Alfasi. [...]

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Win Stargate Atlantis Season Five DVDs!

22. May 2009

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A quick reminder that there are only a few days left to try your luck in our Stargate competition where two lucky winners will receive a complete set of the fifth and final season on DVD; entries close at midnight on Sunday, so get going and good luck!

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Dracula competition

22. May 2009

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Leah Moore and John Reppion are celebrating the first issue of their Complete Dracula coming out this week from Dyanamite with a competition to win signed copies; check out their website for more details.

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Star Trek Quiz Night at Glasgow Science Centre

12. May 2009

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You might remember last week when we had the competition with our friends at the Glasgow Science Centre to win tickets to their IMAX screenings of the new Star Trek I also mentioned that they had a special Trek themed quiz night coming up later this month: “Glasgow Science Centre is searching for Scotland’s top Trekkie [...]

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Win Stargate Atlantis Season Five DVDs!

8. May 2009

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With the fifth and final season of Stargate Atlantis now finished, fans can be forgiven for looking around for something to fill that wormhole shaped space in their viewing (at least until the new Stargate Universe series, starring Robert Carlyle no less, airs). Season Five is coming to DVD soon to help fill that space, [...]

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Star Trek – Trek quiz night and the chance to win tickets to see the new movie in glorious IMAX!

5. May 2009

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Forbidden Planet International has teamed up with IMAX at Glasgow Science Centre to offer 44 people a pair of passes to a special screening of Star Trek: The Imax Experience on Saturday 9th May at 0915. From director J.J. Abrams (of Lost and Cloverfield fame) comes the highly anticipated new vision of the greatest space adventure [...]

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Opening the box: Pandora’s Box Volume 1 – Pride

24. April 2009

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Pandora’s Box – Volume 1 – Pride by Alcante and Didier Pagot. Published by Cinebook Cinebook is a British publisher specialising in English language reprints of European/Foreign Language material. Most people reading this will be aware of the often puzzling situation regarding the lack of Euro-comics in the UK with our entire comic industry (with the notable exception [...]

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Watchmen goodies

11. March 2009

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The Times’ Blockbuster Buzz is running a competition to wing a swag bag full of Watchmen goodies from the studio, including a Rorschach hoody.

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Jings! Dudley Watkins sketches in auction

10. March 2009

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The Scottish media are reporting a rare sale of comics art by the immortal Dudley Watkins, appropriately enough at an auction house – Curr & Dewar – in Dundee, home city to the mighty  DC Thomson publishing empire. Four pencil sketches – one of Oor Wullie, the Bairn from the Broons, Pa and Grandpa Broon [...]

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Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Competition

5. February 2009

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The Aydın Doğan Foundation’s annual International Cartoon Competition has just opened an exhibition of the winners and selected other cartoons from artists from around the world in the Caddebostan Culture Center in Istanbul (over 6, 000 entries were received for the competition from 130 different countries). The 2009 competition is now underway and the call [...]

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A chance to appear in Tozo

4. February 2009

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David O’Connell is offering up readers the chance to appear in a future issue of his gorgeous-looking strip Tozo to mark its second anniversary: “There will be a few extra pages of story in the print version, one of which will be a full page spread of the ballroom at the palazzo of Count Gleb, [...]

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Eustace Tilley competition

8. January 2009

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Kenny pointed me in the direction of the New Yorker’s Eustace Tilley competition – the famous mag (home to many a fine cartoon over the years) is inviting artists to create their own interpretation of the iconic dandy Eustace Tilley, who appeared on the New Yorker’s very first cover back in 1925 and has returned [...]

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Win a thousand pound shopping spree at FPI Belfast!

25. November 2008

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Yes, you read that right – we’re giving one extremely fortunate person in Northern Ireland a chance to win a shopping spree in the Belfast branch of Forbidden Planet International (52-54 Ann Street) worth a whopping great one thousand pounds. For one lucky person Christmas is going to come early – imagine winning the chance [...]

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