Tag Archive | "Edinburgh"

Galavanting in Edinburgh

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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Kayla Hillier’s fine Galavant series documenting her stay in the UK continues, with the latest pages seeing Kayla hit Scotland, visiting Edinburgh and Glasgow: (Galavant by and (c) Kayla Hillier) … And finds herself under the spell of the Scottish capital’s beauty. For which I can’t blame her, I’ve lived here for years and it [...]

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More (and Moore) from the Edinburgh Book Festival

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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As well as the Martin Rowson and Garry Trudeau events with Steve Bell at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last week (see here) there were several other comics folk present at the world’s biggest literary fest, including Garen Ewing, Sarah McIntyre and oh yeah, there was some bloke called Alan Moore… It was a sold [...]

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Norman Lovett in FP Edinburgh today

Saturday, August 28, 2010

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It’s the last weekend of the madness that is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this weekend and as part of the fun Norman Lovett, in town with his own show, lol, which runs until the 30th of August, is going to come in to do a signing in the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet on Southbridge, just a [...]

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Bell, Trudeau and Rowson at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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(Garry Trudeau being supplied with beer by Steve Bell at the signing after an extremely well attended talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday evening) Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Steve Bell in conversation with the celebrated cartoonist and Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Despite irregular [...]

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Books! Comics! Writers! Artists! Readers! The Edinburgh Book Fest begins!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

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Edinburgh is already heaving with the Fringe well underway – August is Festival time and a city already awash with global tourists are joined by legions of Festival goers, almost doubling the population. Today another major festival landmark begins as our friends in the 2010 Edinburgh International Book Festival open proceedings (excellent YA fantasy author [...]

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Norman Lovett in Edinburgh

Thursday, August 12, 2010

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Norman Lovett has appeared in many things but will always be loved by SF fans for playing Holly, the once all-knowing AI on Red Dwarf, now sadly subject to computer senility after several million years. Norman has also had a very long career as a stand-up and while he’s in an absolutely heaving Edinburgh for [...]

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Bikin’ Batman!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

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Forget Grant Morrison’s long, convoluted death and rebirth of Batman, now the truth can be revealed: the Dark Knight is actually on a motorbiking holiday in Scotland, taking in a bit of the world’s biggest arts festival in Edinburgh on the way: (pic of Edinburgh Fringe Cavalcade from my Flickr, click for the larger version) [...]

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Dancing at the Zombie Zoo

Monday, August 9, 2010

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Ahead of yesterday afternoon’s signing for Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary, which coincides with the show version of How To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this month (at the Zoo Southside, details on the official site), we had an invasion of the walking dead at the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet (pics from my [...]

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Lock up your brains: zombies hit the Edinburgh Fringe

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

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On Sunday 8th the Edinburgh chapter of Zombie-Aid will trudge and stagger their decrepit and decomposing way through the streets of the city, staggering through the massive Edinburgh Festival crowds, while on the Fringe there’s a showing of How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. Check their Facebook group for more info and I believe it [...]

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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Moore, Trudeau, Bell, Banks and more

Friday, July 30, 2010

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August is all but upon us and in the city of Edinburgh that means the world’s largest arts festival is about to take off. The population of the city almost double between tourists, festival goers and performers on every corner and during two weeks of that month long circus of every conceivable kind of artform [...]

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Berlin and That exhibition pics

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

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Artwork from Oli East’s recent Berlin and That was exhibited earlier this month in the J A Sinclair Gallery in Edinburgh; Andrew Gannon has the pics from the showing on his Facebook page. (artwork from various artists from Berlin and That, published Blank Slate, pic by Andrew Gannon)

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Frank Quitely at the West Port Book Festival

Thursday, July 1, 2010

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Acclaimed Scottish comics artist Frank Quitely was the surprise guest at the the recent West Port Book Festival, a series of literary events which took place in indpendent and second hand bookstores in Edinburgh, held several weeks ahead of the Edinburgh International Book Festival (the behemoth of Scottish literary fests). Frank was in conversation with [...]

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Animated Edinburgh: Chomet’s Illusionist at the Film Fest

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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I’ve spent the last week and a bit attending to one of my annual traditions: enjoying the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Among the many movies I managed to fit in there were, unsurprisingly a number from the comics and SF influenced end of films – mostly from the independent end of the pool -- and, [...]

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Burke & Hare talk in Edinburgh

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Martin Conaghan, the writer behind Insomnia’s Burke and Hare graphic novel, will be paying a return visit to Edinburgh in June for a talk on the city’s most infamous mass murderers (whose exploits will also be seen later this year in the new Simon Pegg and Andy Serkiss starring film; the comic’s artist Will Pickering [...]

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Pitching Electric Man

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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You might recall recently that I mentioned Electric Man, a micro budget comics movie set in Edinburgh which indy movie makers Dugbus are planning to make. Last night they had a very well put together presentation for the project in the very cool and stylish environs of Blue, above the Traverse Theatre, with the team [...]

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