Tag Archive | "charity"

Oxfam Edinburgh comics event coming soon

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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On Saturday July 23rd the Oxfam 2011 Edinburgh Comic Event will take place in the city’s McDonald Road Library from 11.30am, with a theme of war comics this year. Guest confirmed so far include Gary Erskine, Colin McNeil, Andy Diggle, David Bishop, Kohn McShane, George Low, Morris Heggie and Jeremy Briggs. There will be discussions, [...]

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Steve Rude and Todd Klein’s Hope

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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That fine gentleman of letters and lettering, Todd Klein, has unveiled a new collaboration with one of the medium’s finest, this time working with Steve Rude, with Steve’s art in the print, entitled Hope, depicting the mythological Pandora. As with previous collaborations each print will be signed and Todd will be selling them via his [...]

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Adrian Tomine and Drawn & Quarterly: limited edition prints for charity

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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The excellent Adrian Tomine and fine independent purveyors of top comics Drawn & Quarterly are coming together to offer some very limited edition signed and numbered prints by Adrian to raise funds towards rebuilding lives and homes after the shattering earthquake and tsnunami in Japan. From the official description: “In response to the devastating Tohoku [...]

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Comics for the Bus Fare

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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Artist David Pugh gets in touch to tell us about a commendable charity project he is involved with, Bus Fare. The basic idea is to assist refugees and migrants who are often separated from their families by a mixture of political situations and economic necessity, such as the many Tibetans who have settled in India, [...]

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Science Fiction fun at Oxfam in Reading

Monday, January 31, 2011

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Steve at the Oxfam charity bookstore in Reading tells us that they are going to be holding a science fiction spectacular from the 10th to the 24th of March, in conjunction with some other SF and comics stores in the area. Acclaimed author Brian Stableford did an event with that fine chap Dave Langford in [...]

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Alan Moore – Santa Claus

Monday, November 29, 2010

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(photo of Alan Moore by the Northampton Chronicle & Echo) Hard winter weather, strikes, protests, foreign wars, economic disaster after disaster… But for once here’s something to smile about in the newspapers. In the Northampton Chronicle & Echo newspaper, to be precise, which covers the beat in the manor of a certain, highly regarded gentleman [...]

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You can be a character in a Peter F Hamilton novel

Friday, November 5, 2010

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Bestselling science fiction author and all-round good egg Peter F Hamilton tells me that, along with a whole slew of writers, he is offering readers the chance to bid on Ebay to have a character named after them in his next novel, with the funds raised going to Autistica, which campaigns to invest more into [...]

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The dead shall walk… Leeds

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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Sabrina Peyton alerts us to the fact that the walking dead shall be shambling their way through Leeds for charity on the 21st of November as part of Zombie Aid, the day after the upcoming Thought Bubble comics bash in Leeds, so it’s going to be a happening weekend there (please remember some zombies may [...]

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Oxfam comics gig

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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A whole set of photos is up on specchum’s Flickr page from the weekend’s Oxfam comics event in Edinburgh, part of the Oxfam book festival.  Taking part in the proceedings for the charity were Frank Quitely, Gordon Rennie, Ferg Handley, David Bishop, John Ross, Morris Heggie, George Low and John McShane. (pics are (c) specchum, [...]

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Doug Wright Awards Charity Artworks….

Saturday, May 15, 2010

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A lovely set of artworks sold to benefit charity over at the Flickrstream of the Doug Wright Awards. You could have had this gorgeous Seth Dr Fate for just $1450.79 Canadian – bargain! And amongst all the other great works there’s a Kate Beaton Wonder Woman, which gives me the flimsiest of excuses to remind [...]

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Hi-Ex charity auction

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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(signed original page of art from Grandville by and (c) Bryan Talbot) With the third Hi-Ex Highlands comics convention due to see a number of comics creators riding into Inverness on the backs of giant atomic mutant haggis in just over a month the website has up some of the fine goodies that have been [...]

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Ed Brubaker Wants You Dead

Saturday, September 5, 2009

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No, not a writer having a really bad day – this is the latest in a host of charity events to raise money for operations needed to save veteran writer John Ostrander’s sight. Ostrander suffers from Glaucoma and, like so many US comic professionals, doesn’t have the necessary medical insurance cover to meet the costs [...]

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Tank Girl at Oxfam

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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As part of the charity Oxfam’s Book Festival some of the comics crew, including Rufus Dayglo, will be doing their bit for a very good cause: “As part of the inaugrual Book Fest for Oxfam, Rufus Dayglo and friends will be signing copies of 2000AD, The Megazine and IDW’s Tank Girl to raise funds and [...]

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