Tag Archive | "Birmingham"

One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…

Friday, November 20, 2009

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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 [...]

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Gilbert Shelton in N&C

Monday, November 16, 2009

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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 [...]

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Reminder – your chance to meet comics legend Gilbert Shelton tomorrow

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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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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Its comics events a go-go this weekend at FPI

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Its a great weekend of comics events coming up at FPI – kicking off on Friday 13th we’ve got the comics legend Gilbert Shelton at our Nostalgia & Comics store in sunny Birmingham from 4 to 5.30pm to celebrate the publication of the Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus; a rare chance to meet a serious comics [...]

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Gilbert Shelton at Nostalgia & Comics this Friday!

Monday, November 9, 2009

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It is a real pleasure to tell you that our colleagues in the much-loved Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham will be hosting a real legend of the comics scene, Gilbert Shelton, on Friday the 13th of November from 4 to 5.30pm to celebrate the publication of the Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus from the good [...]

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Halloween fun at N&C!

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Our colleagues in our much-loved Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham enjoyed some Halloween fun at the weekend, with costumes encouraged in-store; even flaming skulled Ghost Rider needs to stop by to get his new comics, you know: Some young fans enjoy some Halloween costume fun: And the N&C guys also ran an art competition where budding [...]

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Birmingham Zine Fest….

Sunday, October 11, 2009

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Following hot on the heels of the biggest comics convention in the country comes something a little smaller. This week sees the first Birmingham Zine Fest (well, the first one for a while anyway): “What with our love for all things Zine….Gallery of Owls presents: All You Can Eat Zine. Thursday 15th October, 8pm-late, The Sunflower [...]

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BICS 2009 – Pictures and things…..

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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The British International Comics Show, as mentioned previously, was a huge success according to most of the reports I’ve read so far (the Launch Party gets universally panned, but the show itself was much loved). As is my want on Saturday and Sunday I wandered around with a camera, taking some photos. Most of them [...]

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BICS Links – Who’s saying what….

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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BICS links: we’ll keep updating these over the next few days – send us your link! More BICS stuff from the FPI Blog Comic Show part 1, Comic Show Part 2 (pics and stuff!), Alexi Conman: BICS Report. Andy Bloor: BICS Report. Andy Winter: BICS report. Birmingham Mail: BICS Report. Cy Dethan: BICS Report (done in choose your own adventure style – [...]

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More great new stuff at BICS this weekend…. Matthew Craig

Friday, October 2, 2009

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Matthew Craig writes to tell us that he’s debuting not one but two new comics this weekend at The British International Comics Show: BOSTIN HEROES #2: GODVILLA! Birmingham’s Bull Ring is menaced by the malevolent monstrosity known as Godvilla, and only the Bostin Heroes can save the city! In their first day on the job, [...]

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British International Comics Show 2009 – one month to go….

Sunday, September 6, 2009

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The British International Comics Show 2009 takes place over the weekend of October 2nd-4th in Birmingham. The whole thing starts off with the traditional launch party where lots of your favourite comic people get drunk spend an enjoyable evening watching comic people in bands and generally catching up. A great night for all – if you [...]

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Would you like to Watch the Watchmen with Dave Gibbons?

Sunday, August 30, 2009

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The British International Comics Show (BICS) is gearing up for it’s 3rd annual weekend (- and I shall probably only get the hang of calling it the British show rather than the Birmingham one by the 10th anniversary)at Birmingham’s Millenium Point with more and more events and guests announced over on their website. [...]

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Birmingham/British International Comics Show – now with added arts council backing….

Sunday, July 26, 2009

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Shane Chebsey emailed us earlier this week with the great news that the annual BICS comic convention in Birmingham has secured a grant from The Arts Council of England to help further their work in bringing the medium of comics to a wider audience. “We are very honoured to receive this funding from the Arts Council. [...]

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BICs got talent

Friday, July 3, 2009

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British International Comics Show’s Shane Chebsey tells us that they are all excited over the publication of the first winner of their BICS Got Talent writing contest: ” The lucky winner John Howson has had his Future Shock story “9 to 5” illustrated by the talented artist Ben Willsher in the latest issue of the [...]

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