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Tomorrow: Darryl Cunningham at Gosh…

Monday, April 23, 2012

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Chatting and book launching Science Tales, with a bookplate available at Gosh on the night as an exclusive:

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BD Passion site is live

Thursday, April 19, 2012

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The site for this year’s BD Passion event celebrating French and British comics culture is now live and choc-full of details of some great bande dessinee gigs in the heart of London. Taking place over May 24th to the 27th, the festival will include a reading group with Paul Gravett (doubtless in his full Jackanory [...]

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Graphic Novel Night in Polmont

Monday, April 16, 2012

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Meadowbank Library on Stevenson Avenue, Polmont, is holding a Graphic Novel Night on Saturday 21st of April from 7 to 9.30pm. The speakers and guests include RoughCut Comics, James Lundy from Emancipation Studios, former Tharg David Bishop, artist Gary Erskine and Glasgow comics duo Metaphrog. From the description: “The event will involve graphic novelists and [...]

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Upcoming: Lizz Lunney

Saturday, April 7, 2012

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Lizz Luney‘s quirky, tiny comics are always fun, always funny, always a pleasure to see and hold. And now there are more for you to get your hands on: Two new comics are available: The 16-page At The Caves and her latest mini flip comic; Curse of the Bogmen/Horseome, plus there’s a reprint of the [...]

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‘Entertaining Dundee: From the Comical to the Comic, the Ridiculous to the Sublime’

Monday, April 2, 2012

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‘Entertaining Dundee: From the Comical to the Comic, the Ridiculous to the Sublime’ is an upcoming event which sees Doctor Chris Murray (who we know from his excellent comics academic work in Dundee) pitched against Eddie Small, an authority on Dundee’s well-kent son William ‘the great’ McGonagall (often celebrated as one of the worst poets [...]

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Another new comics event… ELCAF

Saturday, March 31, 2012

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Another entry on the comic event list – ELCAF 2012, East London Comics and Arts Festival is a new, small affair, organised by Nobrow and taking place on 17th of June at the rather splendid looking space of The Village Underground at Shoreditch. “We are very pleased to announce that on June 17th, we are [...]

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May The Fourth…

Friday, March 30, 2012

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Hugh Shug Raine writes to tell us about what looks like a fun thing happening in Leeds, starting on May the 4th, a date beloved by all Star Wars fans the world over. “To commemorate Star Wars day ‘May the 4th’ FullCircle Gallery Leeds, The Hang Gang and Leeds Alternative Comics, have got together to [...]

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Comics and Philosophy – coming to Leeds…

Sunday, March 25, 2012

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Poster says it all really. Part of the partnership between Leeds’ Thought Bubble Festival and Comics Forum.

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Dublin comics jam tomorrow

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

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The monthly Dublin comics jam takes place tomorrow, Thursday 22nd March, in the Lord Edward pub from 8pm onwards, check the blog for more details and to check out some of the comics work knocked out at previous jams.  (via Irish Comic News)

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Halcyon & Tenderfoot Launch at Newcastle Library

Sunday, March 18, 2012

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Daniel Clifford and Lee Robinson’s Art Heroes company have their first comic series Halcyon & Tenderfoot series launching in a few weeks time. They’ve already released a preview issue zero, but the actual issue 1 launches at Newcastle City Library, Saturday 31st March in an all day event mixing signing and sketching sessions with a morning Art [...]

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Mark your London diary: Tom Gauld at Gosh! tomorrow, Tripwire on Saturday, Simone Lia in April

Thursday, March 8, 2012

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The brilliant Tom Gauld will be in fine London comics emporium Gosh! this Friday, 9th March, from 6.30pm to celebrate the publication of his new book from Drawn & Quarterly, Goliath; he’s already popped into the store to create some fab artwork on the shop windows and even do a quick interview: And the very [...]

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Rowson and Bell at the Guardian’s Open Weekend

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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The Guardian newspaper – often a very good supporter of comics and graphic novels, as well as being home to some of the best editorial cartooning in the UK – is holding an Open Weekend at the end of March (Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th). There will be a wide variety of events, talks, workshops [...]

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Craig Thompson in London

Friday, January 27, 2012

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Regular fave with the blog crew Sarah McIntyre was at Monday’s Comica event with the brilliant Craig Thompson in London; she has a report on it with photos up on her blog and, Sarah being Sarah, she, of course, sketched a bit of the evening too and posted the rather lovely results up:

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Craig Thompson at Comica

Friday, January 13, 2012

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Paul Gravett reminds us that Comica has a corker of an event coming up this month – the excellent Craig Thompson (who created one of my favourite comics works, Blankets) is in town to promote Habibi and will be giving an illustrated talk, then talking about his work with Marcel Theroux, to be followed by [...]

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Lambeth Graphic Novel Readers Group

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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The Lambeth Graphic Novel Readers Group will meet at Streatham Library at 7.30pm on the 16th of January. The theme for this meeting is the emerging comics and graphic narrative scene coming out of Arabic and North African countries at the moment, which should be a pretty interesting topic – as we blogged about just [...]

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