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One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…
One, two, Freddy’s coming for you, three four, better lock your door... Yes, folks, we have horror icon Robert Englund coming soon. Englund has been well known and beloved of SF and horror genre fans for many years, appearing in a large number of productions from playing the good alien in the original V mini-series [...]
Continue reading...Your weekend comic events (north) – Thought Bubble…..
20. November 2009
Thought Bubble, The Leeds Sequential Art Festival has been going on for a couple of days now, featuring some wonderful events across the city of Leeds. And tomorrow sees the centrepiece of the festival; the Thought Bubble comic convention. It features a host of comic creators with the complete list here and a lot of [...]
Continue reading...Your weekend comic events (south) – Comica’s final weekend…..
20. November 2009
This weekend sees not one, but two great comic events. First up it’s the Comica 2009 final week – which looks rather good with a trio of conversations happening at the ICA: First up on Sunday 22 November; Reinhard Kleist, author of the great I see A Darkness, the biography of Johnny Cash, published recently by [...]
Continue reading...Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramon Perez signing in FP Dublin
19. November 2009
As well as playing host to the Eclectic Micks crew the Dublin Forbidden Planet also had the trio of Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramón Pérez signing for fans and creating sketches in the store last weekend as part of their TX Comics European tour, which will also see them at Thought Bubble this weekend [...]
Continue reading...Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble
18. November 2009
Over the last few months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions have been cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s good and bad about [...]
Continue reading...Fetish fun – when Craig Yoe met Dr Sketchy’s
17. November 2009
Via Jeff Newelt comes this link to a spread of rather racy photographs from a Dr Sketchy’s night with Craig Yoe and the recent Secret Identity: the Fetish Art of Superman’s Joe Shuster and scenes from and inspired by the book re-enacted by some very photogenic models resulting in some cool pics and some nice [...]
Continue reading...The Eclectic Micks
17. November 2009
Our colleagues in FP Dublin have kindly sent us over a batch of pictures from Saturday’s Irish launch of the Eclectic Micks Sketchbook with Nick Roche, Stephen Thompson, Bob Byrne, Will Sliney, Stephen Mooney and Declan Shalvey meeting readers, signing books and comics and creating sketches; looks like a good time was had by all! [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Angoulême update
17. November 2009
A couple of days ago we reported, admittedly rather belatedly, that the Angoulême Festival organisers had run into a bit of trouble in financing the next edition of the festival. A dispute with the local government on who should pay for the construction of the festival tents lead to a huge gap in the organisation’s [...]
Continue reading...Hi-Ex secures funding, announces guests
17. November 2009
The BBC website reports that the Hi-Ex comics convention held for the last two years in the heart of the incomparably beautiful Scottish Highlands has secured some funding from the Highland Council. I know organisers Rich and Vicky have been campaigning hard with the authorities, pointing out the event’s success in bringing in audiences and [...]
Continue reading...Gilbert Shelton in N&C
16. November 2009
The great Gilbert Shelton signing a stack of the newly released Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus from Knockabout at our Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham at the weekend. I can’t help but notice Gilbert has a wee pile of recent Blank Slate releases (Sparky O’Hare, Spleenal and Proper Go Well High) by his side. Brit comics [...]
Continue reading...Thought Bubble on YouTube
16. November 2009
The upcoming delight that is Leeds’ Thought Bubble comics fest is coming up very soon (next weekend, do let us know if you’re exhibiting your wares) and there’s now an official Thought Bubble YouTube channel (link via the Hi-Ex Twitter):
Continue reading...Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart & Ramon Perez in Dublin this Sunday
14. November 2009
Comics fans in Dublin can enjoy meeting the Irish comics collective Eclectic Micks this afternoon from 3 to 5 in Forbidden Planet in Crampton Quay (from 3 to 5pm) and tomorrow (Sunday 15th) there’s even more comics goodness to be had, with a trio of creators in-store: Karl Kerschl (Superman, Teen Titans), Cameron Stewart (Seaguy, [...]
Continue reading...Comics, comics, comics….. This weekend: Comica. Next weekend: Thought Bubble
14. November 2009
This year’s Comica festival has, from all accounts, been it’s usual huge success, with exhibitions, events, screenings and the one day Comiket festival convention being particularly well praised – see the Guardian piece about it here. But Comica isn’t over yet – the events go all the way to the 26th November. Full details at [...]
Continue reading...Reminder – meet the Eclectic Micks this Saturday in Dublin
13. November 2009
Readers in and around Dublin’s fair city, don’t forget Forbidden Planet Dubin has the crew from the Irish comics artist collective Eclectic Micks in the store tomorrow (Saturday 14th) from 3 to 5pm for the Irish launch of their Sketchbook, so come down and lend some support to Nick Roche, Stephen Thompson, Bob Byrne, Will [...]
Continue reading...Reminder – your chance to meet comics legend Gilbert Shelton tomorrow
12. November 2009
Readers in and around Birmingham, don’t forget the great Gilbert Shelton will be at our Nostalgia and Comics store tomorrow (Friday 13th) from 4 to 5.30pm to celebrate the publication of the Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus from Knockabout (for those in London he will be at Gosh! on Saturday afternoon). Don’t miss a rare chance [...]
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