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24 hour comics in Angoulême

27. January 2012

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Dan Berry has been over in Angoulême for several days before the start of the main part of Europe’s most important comics festival and regularly tweeting and posting online about his experiences, including this year’s 24 hour comics – or we should say 24 heures de la bande dessinee, which he notes had an incredibly [...]

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Craig Thompson in London

27. January 2012

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Regular fave with the blog crew Sarah McIntyre was at Monday’s Comica event with the brilliant Craig Thompson in London; she has a report on it with photos up on her blog and, Sarah being Sarah, she, of course, sketched a bit of the evening too and posted the rather lovely results up:

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Her Maj

27. January 2012

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The Bloghorn reports on the upcoming unofficial cartooning salute to the Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee – the Cartoon Museum in London has the Her Maj: 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the Queen exhibition coming up, opening on Februaryl 1st and running through to April 8th. The Cartoon Museum apparently describes the upcoming [...]

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Comics summer school

26. January 2012

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Bryan Talbot tells us that he will be once more tutoring at the annual Creative Writing for Graphic Novels residential course held at the well-known Arvon Foundation, along with Hannah Berry and also this year featuring Bryan’s wife and now collaborator on the new Dotter of Her Father’s Eye graphic novel, Mary Talbot, as a [...]

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A surprising nightmare in Boston

25. January 2012

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I am in Boston, New England, at Arisia, a science fiction convention with over 3,000 people along, where science meets adventure, and it’s definitely great craic. It’s similar to conventions in the UK, only they embolden their membership and encourage a real sense of fun here. The convention is fantastic, four days of continuous activities, [...]

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Counting down to Angouleme – the exhibitions

25. January 2012

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One of the main reasons for going to the bande dessinee festival in Angoulême, next to bumping into some of your heroes in the street and ending up having coffee with them, are the exhibitions.  It seems the organisers are trying to crank it up a notch with every edition. Last year Art Spiegelman won [...]

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Sean Phillips in Glasgow tomorrow!

24. January 2012

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Don’t forget, folks, the excellent Sean Phillips will be in the Glasgow Forbidden Planet tomorrow evening from 5 to 7pm signing copies of his new Fatale  comic – a great chance to come on down and meet one of our top artists.

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Electric Man and more comics movies at the Glasgow Film Festival

24. January 2012

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You may recall last year we blogged about Dugbus seeking – and thankfully obtaining – funding for their micro budget Indy movie set in Edinburgh and based around the world’s rarest and most valuable comic – Electric Man #1 – and a pair of loveable losers in a failing comic store. The guys were kind [...]

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First Graphic Novel winner announced

22. January 2012

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As part of the First Fictions literary festival at the University of Sussex this weekend Myriad Editions (publishers of Rumble Strip among others good graphic works) had the First Graphic Novel competition. As we mentioned previously on the blog the nominees had been willowed down to a final shortlist of seven candidates, all of such [...]

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Dan Berry’s off to Angoulême… and we can follow his progress

22. January 2012

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Yep, Dan Berry, of the recently enjoyed After We Shot The Grizzly, is taking himself off to the Angoulême Comics Festival this week, to soak in the atmosphere and enjoy the build up to next week’s festival. Lucky so and so. Angoulême is of course, the biggest and most important of the European Comics Festivals, [...]

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First Fictions & First Graphic Novel Prize this weekend

20. January 2012

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This weekend sees the First Fictions literary festival at the University of Sussex, in conjunction with the publishers Myriad Editions (home to graphic novel works like Woodrow Phoenix’s Rumble Strip and Darryl Cunningham’s upcoming Science Tales). The festival will also see the announcement of the winner of the First Graphic Novel Competition; as we mentioned [...]

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Counting down to Angouleme – the selection

19. January 2012

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With lodgings, accreditation and train all dealt with, it’s time to start really preparing for the Smorgasbord of comics that is the Angoulême Festival.  In this post I’ll be highlighting some of the more surprising or noteworthy titles on the several short lists, honour lists or other sélections that the Festival has. On the Sélection [...]

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Judith Vanistendael in Brussels

19. January 2012

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The excellent Belgian comics creator Judith Vanistendael will be at the Librairie Galerie Brusel, 100 Boulevard Anspach, on the 20th of January at 6pm to promote her new book David, les Femmes et la Mort, being published by Le Lombard. It’s an intriguing looking tale of a man facing almost certain death after a cancer [...]

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Charlie Adlard in FP Glasgow

18. January 2012

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Glasgow peeps! The excellent Charlie Adlard will brave the zombie hordes that so often plague Buchanan Street to head into our store there for a signing session on Thursday 23rd of February from 5 to 6pm, a great chance to get your Walking Dead comics signed by the man who gives them their distinctive visual [...]

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Craig Thompson at Comica

13. January 2012

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Paul Gravett reminds us that Comica has a corker of an event coming up this month – the excellent Craig Thompson (who created one of my favourite comics works, Blankets) is in town to promote Habibi and will be giving an illustrated talk, then talking about his work with Marcel Theroux, to be followed by [...]

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