Tag Archive | "event"

In Time

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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Andy Luke follows up his impressive Abscence comic, which went out to a variety of organisations across Northern Ireland to promote awareness and understanding of living with epilepsy, with an exhibition at Belfast’s Arts & Disability Forum Gallery in Belfast. The exhibtion will include work from his comics such as “Gran, a reaction to the [...]

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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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Max Brooks in FP Glasgow today!

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Glasgow peeps and assorted zombies, don’t forget this evening we have World War Z author Max Brooks coming into our Glasgow store on Buchanan Street, right round the corner from where some of the filming for the movie vesion of his book has been going on, from 5.30 to 6.30pm!

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Fave comics from the Fabulous Fifties

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Paul Gravett, one of our finest ambassadors for the comics medium in Blighty, tells us that he is giving a free illustrated talk on Wokingham Library on Thursday 8th September from 7pm. The theme will be favourite comics from the 1950s and will take in comics as different as Asterix, Green Lantern, Dennis the Menace, [...]

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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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Max Brooks signing in FP Glasgow this Friday!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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As many of you will know Glasgow has been hosting the big Brad Pitt-starring movie adaptation of Max Brooks‘ international bestseller World War Z, a fab zombie apocalypse tale (the city’s George Square, right round the corner from our Glasgow store, has been made over to resemble an American city). Great news for our undead, [...]

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Grant morrison signing in Glasgow

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

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Scottish superstar comics scribe, the one and only Grant Morrison, will be returning to one of his old haunts where he’s picked up many a comic, Glasgow’s Forbidden Planet International on Buchanan Street (right by the Underground station). Grant will be signing copies of his upcoming book Supergods; I’ve been lucky enough to see a preview [...]

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Baby’s in black

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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(Arne signing last night, pic from my Flickr) I was lucky enough to get to the Arne Bellstorf event last night in the Goethe Institut in Glasgow where the English language edition of Arne’s Baby’s in Black was being launched by the fine SelfMadeHero as part of a programme by the Goethe to bring German [...]

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Manga night tonight in FP Glasgow!

Monday, October 11, 2010

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The Glasgow Forbidden Planet International (handily adjacent to Queen Street station and the Buchanan Street Underground station) is having a fun Manga Night this evening from 6 to 8pm with cosplaying, quizzes, special offers and more; from the description: “Everything instore will have a 20% discount, and there are great prizes for the best-dressed, and [...]

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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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Burke and Hare signing in Edinburgh

Friday, January 15, 2010

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A reminder that we have Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering coming to our Edinburgh store on Southbridge on Thursday January 28th to sign copies of their recently published Burke and Hare graphic novel (reviewed here by Richard); for those with a literary bent and a fascination for history the boys will also be taking part [...]

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How a comic is made

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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On Thursday 21st of January you can “discover the secrets behind writing and drawing comics, graphic novels and manga, revealed by creators featured in the ComiXmas Exhibition at a free event held at the LondonPrintStudio Gallery.” The event, chaired by Paul Gravett, will include Andrzej Klimowsk, Danusia Schejbal, Nana Li, Woodrow Phoenix and Brit comics [...]

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Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart & Ramon Perez signing at the Dublin FP

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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Mid-November is looking pretty darned good for comics fans in Dublin’s fair city; on Saturday 14th, as I mentioned last week, the Eclectic Micks crew will be in the Dublin Forbidden Planet. And I’m pleased to say that the following day, Sunday 15th November, there’s another multi-talented line-up in Dublin with Karl Kerschl (Superman, Teen [...]

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Dean Haspiel reading from the Activate Primer

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Enjoy some video of the recent Activate Primer event at the Book Court with Dean Haspiel reading live (along with Joan Reilly and George O’Connor) from Billy Dogma with comics art being projected behind him (via Dean’s FaceBook):

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Amanda sings!

Monday, August 17, 2009

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(have uke, will travel; Amanda signing copies of Who Killed Amanda Palmer in the Edinburgh FPI yesterday; more pics here) We had a great turnout for Amanda Palmer‘s visit to the Edinburgh FPI store. Edinburgh right now is in its annual Festival mode -- basically the biggest arts festival in the world is running here [...]

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