Tag Archive | "Birmingham"

Birmingham Comicon revisited by Michael …..

Sunday, September 11, 2011

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After our reports from the recent Birmingham Comicon by comic artists Matthew Craig and Ryan Taylor, we’re pleased to present our third and final report – this time from Michael Gee, one of the team at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham, who casts a critical eye over the Comicon. Over to Michael: So on Saturday [...]

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Birmingham Comicon 2011 – More guest reports – Ryan Taylor

Saturday, September 3, 2011

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Here’s the second of our guest reports from the recent Birmingham Comicon 2011 (first one yesterday from Matthew Craig). This time it’s from Ryan Taylor, author of The Grinning Mask comic and member of the Midlands Comix Collective. Thanks very much to Ryan…… Hello trees, hello sky, welcome to Birmingham’s Comicon. Following the previous year’s [...]

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Birmingham Comicon 2011 – a little roundup and a guest report from Matthew Craig…

Friday, September 2, 2011

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Well I didn’t make it to this years Birmingham Comicon – Molly’s birthday weekend took precidence I’m afraid. Mark Millar didn’t make it either, flu to blame. So no word of what he and Dave Gibbons were rumoured to be announcing. However, all the mentions I’ve seen on facebook and twitter seem to be saying prettty [...]

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Mike Perkins at N&C Birmingham Tomorrow!

Friday, August 12, 2011

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The very fine Mike Perkins, who has worked on comics from 2000 AD to Captain America, Superman and The Stand, will be in our Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham this weekend – Mike will be signing in the store from 12 to 3pm on Saturday 13th of August.

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Open for business

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Following news of the attack on our much loved Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham the day before last (see yesterday’s blog) I came in from the Fringe here in Edinburgh last night to find many of our friends in the comics community in Manchester posting on Twitter, distressed to find that our Manchester branch [...]

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Brum’s Nostalgia & Comics damaged during riots

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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Kenny is reporting to us this morning that our Nostlagia & Comics store, long a landmark in Birmingham’s comics scene, was damaged last night as the shameful rioting spread from London to Brum and cities further afield; I don’t have much in the way of details but have been told there is some pretty expensive [...]

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Paul Cornell, Jimmy Broxton and some cosplay: FCBD at N&C

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton were guests at our Nostalgia and Comics store in sunny Birmingham for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, seen here relaxing with a cuppa generously laced with laudanum before the events kicked off (it’s how we keep the writers and artists manageable). And of course it wouldn’t really be FCBD [...]

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This weekend: Memorabilia – now with added Comics Village

Friday, March 25, 2011

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It’s been a huge event for many years, taking place at Birmingham’s NEC, but this is the first year that Memorabilia will have it’s own dedicated Comics Village. A little smaller than the massive MCM London Expo Comic Village perhaps, but still nice to see the Midland show acknowledging comics properly after many years of [...]

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Comics. In. Spaceeeeeeeeeeeee…

Thursday, December 23, 2010

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Lizz Lunney announces what has to be the most geek-pleasingly comics project of the year, happily combining two faves of many a geek: space exploration and comics. Yes, Lizz has a new comics project in which the Thinktank Planetarium at the Birmingham Science Centre will use it’s projectors to put her comics onto the dome [...]

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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 [...]

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Birmingham Zine Fest in pictures

Monday, September 13, 2010

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That man Sean Azzopardi was at the weekend’s Birmingham Zine Fest and he’s got a whole set of pics on Flickr to prove it: (browsing, reading, buying at the Birmingham Zine Fest, photo shamelessly borrowed from Sean Azzopardi’s Flickr. Were you at the Zine Fest too? How was it?)

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British International Comics Show events lineup announced

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

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Seems that as we get into autumn the comics events are really stacking up. Coming up over the weekend of 16th/17th October we have the 5th annual British International Comic Show held at Millenium Point in Birmingham. It’s one of the bigger events on the comic calendar and something I’ve been to for several years [...]

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BICS 2010 site online

Thursday, May 27, 2010

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The new site for the British International Comics Show in Birmingham, one of the major highlights of the annual UK comics scene,  is now live online and already starting to list details such as some of the guests who will be attending, like Charlie Adlard, Charles Vess, Bryan Hitch, Hunt Emerson and Tommy Lee Edwards. [...]

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Calling All Comic Superstars in Birmingham…..

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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Matthew Craig writes to tell us of an event in Birmingham this Wednesday (14th April) from 2pm-4pm run by Creative Open Workshops: “Through a series of games and discussions, we’ll be looking at the basics of comics language, as well as how to create a story in comics format out of anything from football to [...]

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Back Issues coming back – big time

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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Over the years the Forbidden Planet Int stores have lost, as have many others, their back issues. A couple of our stores still carry little sections but for the most part they’re gone. It all seemed so obvious, when they faded away, that their time had come as something you could profitably display and sell [...]

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