Tag Archive | "Edinburgh"

Women in Comics – Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz in Edinburgh

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Last week I was lucky enough to catch a busy talk in Edinburgh’s Central Library, Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz. Heather Middleton from the Glasgow Women’s Library and also a member of Glasgow-based all-female collective Team Girl Comic. Heather was giving a talk on the history of women in comics and while there is no [...]

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Science Fiction at the National Library of Scotland

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

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Ken MacLeod directs us to a science fiction exhibition currently being run until the end of June at the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge in Edinburgh’s Old Town (a few minutes walk from our Edinburgh store in fact), where they have had some great exhibitions on Lewis Carroll and on Graphic Novels [...]

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Hysterical Women & Graphic Grrlz exhibition

Monday, April 30, 2012

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Last week I flagged up the upcoming Hysterical Women & Graphic Grrlz talk at Edinburgh’s Central Library, which is due to take place this Wednesday evening. The event is now sold out (well, not sold as such, it is free, but limited space meant tickets and those are now all accounted for) so sadly if [...]

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Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

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Edinburgh’s lovely Central Library (opposite the National Library on George IV Bridge, just one bridge along from the Edinburgh FPI as it happens) is holding a very interesting-sounding event next week, Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz. Illustrator and zinemaker Heather Middleton will give a talk on on the diverse types of comics created by female [...]

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Robert Louis Stevenson Day

Thursday, November 17, 2011

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My friends in the Edinburgh City of Literature tell me that today we are celebrating the very first Robert Louis Stevenson Day (on Twitter hashtag #RLSDay). Regular readers will already know of my passion for ‘dear Louis’; from childhood reading right through to today RLS has remained one of my very favourite writers, a sheer [...]

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Reminder – Paul Cornell in Edinburgh FP today

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Edinburgh peeps, don’t forget you have a rare chance to meet the very fine Paul Cornell this afternoon as he visits the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet from 5 to 6pm – great chance to meet one of our best scribes and also get your new DC 52 signed at the same time! See you there!

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Paul Cornell in FPI Glasgow tomorrow, Edinburgh Thursday

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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Reminder for folks in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the most excellent Paul Cornell, scribe behind numerous SF&F novels, some of the best scripts in the revived Doctor Who and a whole brace of comics (including, now, part of the massive DC 52 relaunch we’ve been covering extensively on the blog), will be in the Glasgow Forbidden [...]

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The Writing on Your Wall

Monday, September 19, 2011

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(Bill Skinner by and (c) Alasdair Gray) Not comics but I’d think bound to be of interest to many of our readers with the emphasis on printmaking, design and featuring some of those ancestors we proudly claim for our comics heritage such as the great Gillray – the Edinburgh Printmakers have a new exhibition entitled [...]

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Reminder – Paul Cornell in FP Glasgow and Edinburgh this month!

Friday, September 2, 2011

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A reminder for your diaries this month – screenwriter, novelist and comics scribe, the excellent Paul Cornell, will be in our Glasgow store on Buchanan Street on Wednesday 21st of September from 6 to 8pm and in the Edinburgh FPI on Thursday 22nd from 5 to 6pm. Mark it in your diaries now, peeps! Keep [...]

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Sarah’s Book Festival

Thursday, September 1, 2011

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I’ve been meaning to post a link to one of our regular faves, Sarah McIntyre’s blog. Sarah was up to host some comics and arts classes for kids at the recent Edinburgh International Book Festival and I managed to catch up with her, the pair of us going along to the Free Fringe in this [...]

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Edinburgh Book Festival: Pat Mills, Rodge Glass, William Goldsmith & Nick Hayes

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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(Pat Mills on the left and Rodge Glass on the right signing after their talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival at the weekend; all pics from my Flickr, click for the larger versions) The Edinburgh International Book Festival for 2011 came to an end last night and over the final weekend I was lucky [...]

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Windows on the Fringe

Thursday, August 25, 2011

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I spotted this art installation by Astrid Jaekel on my wanderings around the massive cultural explosion that is the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe recently, the artworks placed into a series of windows in a building at the top of the curving descent of Victoria Street which leads down from George IV Bridge to the Grassmarket [...]

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Paul Cornell signing in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

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The excellent Paul Cornell, writer extraordinaire with SF novels, a whole brace of major comics and, of course, some of the best episodes of the new Doctor Who series to his name, is going to be in Scotland next month and oh lucky readers, he will be making appearances in both our Glasgow and our [...]

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Grant Morrison at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Monday, August 22, 2011

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(Grant Morrison in conversation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival at the weekend, all pics from my Flickr) This weekend I enjoyed a late evening literary bash at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as Scots superstar comics scribe Grant Morrison took the stage in front of a packed audience, which, I’m delighted to note, had [...]

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Neil Gaiman at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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(Neil Gaiman and Audrey Niffenegger just before their event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday afternoon, all pics from my Flickr) On Wednesday I had the pleasure of seeing two excellent authors of both prose and comics works in conversation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as Neil Gaiman chatted to Audrey Niffenegger. It [...]

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