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2D is coming!

10. May 2012

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Irish peeps, prepare yourselves and mark your diaries, because the annual 2D Northern Ireland Comics Festival returns to Derry at the end of this month. It’s been a well-regarded comics bash right since it started and this year again looks to offer four colour fun to the readers of Northern Ireland (and I’m sure cross-border [...]

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Extraordinary Gentlemen at Gosh

9. May 2012

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Yes, those extraordinary gentlemen, Messrs Kevin O’Neill (well known ittinerant artist) and Alan Moore (five times winner of the All-Northampton Mighty Beard Champion), will be returning to London’s fine Gosh Comics emporium of four-colour delights to mark the publication of the third and final part of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy, with the [...]

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ELCAF is coming

8. May 2012

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Coming on June 17th the first East London Comics and Arts Festival, ELCAF! Splendid Brit Indy comics publisher Nobrow asks “With a poster like this how can you not all want to come?” And you know what, they’re right! And if the art isn’t enough to get you going, how about this – from the [...]

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Kinky and Cosy at Angoulême

8. May 2012

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Okay, I admit this very short video is in French, with Dutch subtitles, but it’s a live-action version of Nix’s Kinky and Cosy making an appearance on stage at Angoulême and frankly, language barriers aside, it’s too funny not to bung it up here to to share (plus it is very short!): And, as Wim blogged [...]

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Denise Mina signing Glasgow FP, Free Comic Book Day

3. May 2012

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Yes, this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day and that means our stores will be superbusy – the packs of FCBD special titles are all ready but they go very, very fast! And if you are in Glasgow another good reason to visit is to see bestselling Scottish crime novelist and comics scribe Denise Mina [...]

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Science Fiction at the National Library of Scotland

2. May 2012

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Ken MacLeod directs us to a science fiction exhibition currently being run until the end of June at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge in Edinburgh’s Old Town (a few minutes walk from our Edinburgh store in fact), where they have had some great exhibitions on Lewis Carroll and on Graphic Novels [...]

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It’s Dark in London

2. May 2012

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Orbital Comics has video from the recent launch of the new edition of It’s Dark in London from SelfMadeHero, complete with the mighty Steve Bell, one of our Great Cartooning Beards of Britain, reading from the short tale War and Penge:

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Oli on Leeds Alternative Comic Fair

30. April 2012

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Oli East reports from manning his own and the Blank Slate table at the weekend’s Leeds Alternative Comics Fair; apart from brisk business Oli seems delighted that he has now mastered the convention thing of an artist being expected to to a quick doodle when asked to sign one of their books. This may or [...]

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Hysterical Women & Graphic Grrlz exhibition

30. April 2012

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Last week I flagged up the upcoming Hysterical Women & Graphic Grrlz talk at Edinburgh’s Central Library, which is due to take place this Wednesday evening. The event is now sold out (well, not sold as such, it is free, but limited space meant tickets and those are now all accounted for) so sadly if [...]

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Alan Corbett exhibition in Cork

30. April 2012

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Irish Comic News reports that Alan Corbett has an upcoming art exhibition in the Twenty Twenty Fine Art Gallery in Cork’s North Mall which will run from August 14th to the 25th and include original art (which will also be for sale) from his Ghost of Shandon book, a graphic novel set in 18th century [...]

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Alter-Ego show….

29. April 2012

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This has been percolating over the Internet for a while, but a little delving revealed some details… Alter Ego is a new exhibition show running 7 days at the Red Bull Studios in London. Seven artists involved: Waste, Cottonmouth (RichT) , Guy McKinley, Klingatron, Robert Ball, Smug, and WJC looking at the ideas of being someone else, [...]

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Star Wars May The 4th Be With You – exhibition details…

29. April 2012

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Well, a few details, and some art for the gallery exhibition to commemorate that date beloved by Star Wars fans the world over….The Hang Gang and Leeds Alternative Comics present a Star Wars experience….. ….. and a few sneak peeks of the art and exhibits on show…. All the art will be available to purchase [...]

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A little Comiket roundup…. problem mentioned, problem solved….

28. April 2012

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Last weekend was Comica Comiket, and it looks and sounds like it was a good convention/event, with good crowds, and sales, for those involved. Or at least that was the mood I picked up off twitter this week. Not without its faults though…. more on those in a minute. Plus some wonderfully immediate and fair responses [...]

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Comiket

27. April 2012

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One of our very faves, Sarah McIntyre, was at Comiket last weekend and has turned in one of her by now traditional great blog reports on the gig, loaded with art and photographs (including the one above we shamelessly borrowed with organisers Megan O’Donnolley and Paul Gravett escorting Woodrow Phoenix to the Loudest Shirt Parade [...]

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Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz

25. April 2012

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Edinburgh’s lovely Central Library (opposite the National Library on George IV Bridge, just one bridge along from the Edinburgh FPI as it happens) is holding a very interesting-sounding event next week, Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz. Illustrator and zinemaker Heather Middleton will give a talk on on the diverse types of comics created by female [...]

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