Tag Archive | "events"

Metaphrog in March

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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Glasgow’s Metaphrog are going to be pretty busy during March, being involved in a number of events, starting with the Glow Live Meet tomorrow (March 3rd), “a virtual comic workshop available to view on the Glow network by subscribing schools”, two school visits in Glasgow on March 4th for World Book Day, two workshops for [...]

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Brighton Zine Fest

Friday, February 19, 2010

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A reminder that the Brighton Zine Fest is running now through to Sunday 21st, with a ‘zines fayre, vegan dinner, alt cabaret and more.

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London Book Fair embraces comics, sort of……

Saturday, February 13, 2010

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The London Book Fair takes place 19th – 21st April. This annual trade event has decided that comics and graphic novels are worth some attention as well and tells us so on the specially created Comic & Graphic Novel Pavillion: “Comic books, graphic novels, manga and animé have finally emerged as a serious part of [...]

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Chris Lynch goes Dark in Cardiff

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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Chris Lynch, esquire, one part of Monkeys With Machineguns (stalwarts on the British comics scene) has a new graphic novel, The Dark, coming out from Markosia this spring and the advance word on it is that its full of comicy goodness (check out the Geek Syndicate boys talking about the first few issues). I’m really [...]

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More on that W+P Valentines….

Saturday, January 30, 2010

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Last week we reported on the double Words And Pictures event taking place on Valentines Day this year; complete with a flyer for the evening event Modern Romance (comics, music, DJs) by Julia Scheele. Well, here’s her flyer for the day event: Part 1: 3-7pm – Drop In + Draw. A mini-mini convention with group draw sessions, [...]

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Its comics events a go-go this weekend at FPI

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Its a great weekend of comics events coming up at FPI – kicking off on Friday 13th we’ve got the comics legend Gilbert Shelton at our Nostalgia & Comics store in sunny Birmingham from 4 to 5.30pm to celebrate the publication of the Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus; a rare chance to meet a serious comics [...]

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Are You Zine Friendly?

Sunday, October 18, 2009

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Jimi Gherkin (see Matt’s recent interview here) tells us that Alternative Press are going to be hosting another night of Zines & Comics on the 12th November. It sounds like a very relaxed night with a communal table for small pressers to sell their work, a cake sale with free tea and even a knitting [...]

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Joe Sacco in the UK

Sunday, September 6, 2009

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(Joe Sacco – in the flesh and as you probably know him.) In advance of the release of his latest book; Footnotes In Gaza (released December from Jonathan Cape), Joe Sacco is in the UK for a couple of appearances. He’s at Comica 2009 on September 29th and GOSH London on 30th September. Sacco may well [...]

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Grant Morrison & Clive Barker in conversation

Saturday, August 22, 2009

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(Grant Morrison (left) and Clive Barker (right) in conversation at Meltdown Comics. Image from the Meltdown site.) A recent discussion between Clive Barker and Grant Morrison at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles July 1st 2009 has been posted with both video footage and a full transcript of the entire 3/4 hour event. It goes through a lot [...]

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John McCrea and PJ Holden at FPI Belfast

Friday, July 31, 2009

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(Jenny Sparks strikes a light, art by Jon McCrea, pinched shamelessly from his site) John at our Belfast branch tells me that he’s lined up a signing with two local artists I’m sure our readers are familiar with already, PJ Holden and John McCrea. PJ, of course, has carved himself a good (and growing) rep with [...]

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Alternative Press Festival – Starts July 29th

Sunday, July 19, 2009

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Next up on a packed summer of comic events: Alternative Press Festival 2009; Wednesday 29th July – Sunday 2nd August 2009 A festival of events over five days celebrating the small press, self publishing and being creative in the print media. Sounds like there’s a lot involved across the 5 days. It all kicks off with the anthology [...]

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