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Eagle Awards 2012 – the end of an era….

26. May 2012

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The Eagle Awards were announced last night at the MCM Expo Awards. Results are below, and congrats to everyone who won this year. You all have the chance to say you won the last Eagle Award. After a long history dating back to ’79, the Eagle Awards are being retired, and in their place next [...]

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MKomix

25. May 2012

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One of our long-time favourite Brit small press comic creators Paul Rainey drops us a line to say that the Milton Keynes Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Pushwagner art this summer. This will be the first solo exhibition of Norwegian artist and comics creator Hariton Pushwagner outside of his native land and will [...]

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From our continental correspondent – summer’s coming, time for some festivals!

24. May 2012

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It has been a while coming, but with summer finally arriving here are a few pointers for upcoming comics festivals on the Continent for the coming month or so. We’ve just had the 31st edition of the Arctic Comics Festival in Kemi, Finland, where Christophe Blain was the guest of honour. Also present were tintinologist [...]

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David Ziggy Greene – en tournée en France

20. May 2012

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Coming to a venue near you in May. If you happen to live in Paris, Montargis, Nantes, or Lyon that is. David Ziggy Greene is off on a mini tour of France…

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3 weekends, 4 events … busy, busy, busy

19. May 2012

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This weekend it’s…. Next week/weekend it’s …. And to end the month we have… Hmmm… what was it Tim Pilcher was saying about too many cons?

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2nd International Alternative Press Festival

19. May 2012

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Jimi Gherkin sends news of the next Alternative Press Festival – lots of notice – happpening in August… “We are SUPER EXCITED to announce the 2nd International Alternative Press Festival (#iapf2) on 4th & 5th August 2012! So far we have exhibitions planned for Orbital Comics, Gosh! London and TEN (yes, TEN!) venues in the [...]

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Debuting at Kapow this weekend: Overload

18. May 2012

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Launching this weekend at London’s Kapow comic-con is new 36-page Brit comic Overload, boasting this absolutely splendid piece of zombie Thatcher cover art by Graeme Neil Reid. The brainchild of writer/editor Martin Conaghan (who brought us the fine Burke and Hare), it is, in classic Brit comics fashion, an anthology (using creator owned tales), with [...]

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TCAF 2012 – Sean’s view

17. May 2012

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Writer, artist, good chum of the blog and seasoned comic con goer Sean Azzopardi returned to Canada recently to be a part of the parcel of comics delights that is TCAF; he even managed to fit in some more days off in Toronto and took in some related comics culture events taking part in the [...]

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TCAF video tour

16. May 2012

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Ryan Couldrey posts up a short but sweet video tour around the delights of this year’s Toronto Comics Arts Festival:

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Jason sketching at TCAF

15. May 2012

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The always excellent Jason sketches inside a book for a reader at the recent TCAF: Jason in action from Ila Solomon on Vimeo.

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Hysterical Women & Graphic Grrrlz in Glasgow

14. May 2012

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You may remember last week I reported on a fascinating talk Heather Middleton of the Glasgow Women’s Library and the Team Girl Collective gave in Edinburgh’s Central Library on the history of women working in comics (you can read the report and see the pics here). Good new for readers on the other side of [...]

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The collected Keegan Jack

11. May 2012

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Paul von Scott drops us a line to say that his and Leigh Shepherd’s Keegan Jack strip from the science fiction annual Omnivistascope (multiple time winner of SFX’s Fanzine of the Month) has been collected into a single 134 page edition, with every strip from the Omnivistascope run, plus a brand-new strip and plenty of [...]

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Hugo Tate launch in Gosh tomorrow

11. May 2012

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A reminder to London peeps, the excellent Nick Abdzis has been sent back to these shores for a short while and will be in Gosh in London tomorrow, Saturday May 12th from 7 to 9pm for the launch of the much anticipated new collected edition of his Hugo Tate series by Blank Slate Books.

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Women in Comics – Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz in Edinburgh

10. May 2012

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Last week I was lucky enough to catch a busy talk in Edinburgh’s Central Library, Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz. Heather Middleton from the Glasgow Women’s Library and also a member of Glasgow-based all-female collective Team Girl Comic. Heather was giving a talk on the history of women in comics and while there is no [...]

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Malta Comic Con 2012 dates announced

10. May 2012

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Now here is some news that I know will brighten the day of Sean Azzopardi, who has been quite a supporter of the event: the Malta Comic-con organisers have announced dates for the 2012 gig. Again it will take place during the winter, which as Sean observed in his special guest report on the 2011 [...]

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