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Andy Luke follows up his impressive Abscence comic, which went out to a variety of organisations across Northern Ireland to promote awareness and understanding of living with epilepsy, with an exhibition at Belfast’s Arts & Disability Forum Gallery in Belfast. The exhibtion will include work from his comics such as “Gran, a reaction to the [...]
Continue reading...PJ Holden signing in FP Belfast Saturday
Thursday, December 1, 2011
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Noted Emerald Isle artist PJ Holden – Fearless, 2000 AD and the new Strip! magazine among many others – will be in our Belfast store (52-54 Ann Street) on Saturday December 3rd from 1 to 3pm, so Belfast comics peeps, get yourself down to meet a top local artist with a growing international rep. (via [...]
Continue reading...NutScrewsWashersNBolts
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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Irish Comics News reports that NutScrewsWashersNBolts, a small press comics anthology which came out of Belfast in the early 90s, is now online to download as PDFs. Alan Perry explains about the comic for those who haven’t come across it before – “the intention was to have a monthly collection of strips showcasing comic artists [...]
Continue reading...Reminder – Barcamp this weekend!
Friday, September 2, 2011
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Tomorrow, Saturday 3rd, sees the first Nothern Irish Barcamp at Blick Studios, Malone Road, in the fine city of Belfast, from 9 to 6 – organiser and no mean comics creator himself Andy Luke explained what it’s all about here on the blog earlier this week. Look forward to hearing from those of you going [...]
Continue reading...“This one time at barcamp…” Andy Luke explains
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Apologies to the delightful Alysson Hannigan’s character in American Pie for paraphrasing one of her lines for the title, but I couldn’t help it… What is a barcamp though? It may sound like the retreat where Australian and Kiwi backpackers hone their gin-slinging, cocktail mixing skills they use to pay their way on round the [...]
Continue reading...Manga nights in Edinburgh, Belfast, Hanley and Dublin
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Attention otaku! Grab your diaries and circle this date: Monday the 22nd of November. The Edinburgh (40-41 Southbridge), Hanley (48-52 Stafford Street), Belfast (52-54 Ann Street) and Dublin (5-6 Crampton Quay) Forbidden Planet Internationals will be hosting Manga Nights from 6 to 7pm those evenings, with fun for all, quizzes, cosplaying (with a prize for [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Get Lost
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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Tales of The… has posted up another complete work from the recent Belfast 24 Hour Comic Day, this time from Andy Luke. Andy cautions us, however, that the subject matter is pretty dark – the comic deals with sexual abuse and may not be suitable for everyone. (frames from Don’t Get Lost by and (c) [...]
Continue reading...24 Hour Comics Dublin – going Underground
Monday, October 18, 2010
From the busy pens of Cliodhna Lyons, artist extraordinaire, champion-level hugger and organiser of the successful Dublin 24 Hour Comic events, here’s a first peek at some of the work to come out of this year’s recent bash. Cliodhna is saying that for a change this year instead of dashing from table to table to [...]
Continue reading...Belfast 24 Hour Comics
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Over on Andy Luke’s LiveJournal he reports on the weekend’s 24 Hour Comic Day and it sounds like sleep deprivation and Too Much Coffee, Man took it’s toll! “Kyle Rogers calls in via Skype from the Dublin 24 Hour Comics group. Many fine artists are there racing the clock, including the shouty woman who has [...]
Continue reading...Doctor Who Live!
Monday, September 13, 2010
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Prepare yourselves for some Doctor Who awesomeness coming to a venue near you soon! Prepare for excited kids demanding to be taken along and equally excited parents too for that matter! The monsters are coming! A new musical stage show featuring the monsters from Doctor Who – Daleks, Weeping Angels, Cybermen and more – is [...]
Continue reading...Drop Dead Gorgeous in Belfast this Halloween
Thursday, September 24, 2009
My colleagues at the Belfast FP (52 -54 Ann Street, phone 028 9043 8744) tell me they are planning a highly appropriate event for Halloween with local writer Wayne Simmons. On the 31st of October Wayne will be in the Belfast FP from 2 to 4pm to sign from his recent novel Drop Dead Gorgeous, [...]
Continue reading...John McCrea and PJ Holden at FPI Belfast
Friday, July 31, 2009
(Jenny Sparks strikes a light, art by Jon McCrea, pinched shamelessly from his site) John at our Belfast branch tells me that he’s lined up a signing with two local artists I’m sure our readers are familiar with already, PJ Holden and John McCrea. PJ, of course, has carved himself a good (and growing) rep [...]
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