Tag Archive | "events"

Lass Fest 2012

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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The Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester is playing host to Lassfest – all the way through January, and featuring some really intriguing events. Full details here, but here are three highlights: How about a stage adaptation of Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s Halo Jones? Or maybe a staging of the Doctor Who episode Midnight – [...]

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Nelson Week

Friday, November 4, 2011

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The Blank Slate Books posse proudly announce Nelson week from the 19th to the 27th of November, taking in a whole pile of exciting events, including a busy signing schedule at the fab Thought Bubble festival in Leeds, original art exhibited in the Cartoon Museum, a signing at the Forbidden Planet megastore in London and [...]

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London Comic Mart

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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There was little ceremony about The National Comic mart passing hands, but there is obvious evidence online and in the venue that an event which is borderline institution has changed management, so I made it my business to get into the National Hotel, venue of the re-branded ‘London Comic Mart‘. The company ‘Showmasters‘ who run [...]

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Nicola Streeten at Cartoon County this evening

Monday, October 24, 2011

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Nicola Streeten, who has recently published Billy, Me & You, a powerful graphic memoir of dealing with the loss of a child, will be the guest at the Cartoon County meeting tonight (24th October) from 7.30pm upstairs at the Cricketer’s, Black Lion Street, Brighton (thanks to David Lloyd for the link)

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Anders Nilsen in Nottingham

Monday, October 17, 2011

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The excellent Anders Nilsen has been over doing a short UK tour to support the launch of his massive Big Questions graphic novel (just out from the nice folks at Drawn & Quarterly). One of his stops was at Page 45 in Nottingham and good chum of the blog Oli East was there and managed [...]

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The Canny Con…. Newcastle joins the events list

Sunday, October 16, 2011

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The latest in a rather impressive list of regional comic events was announced this week – Canny Con: “The Canny Comic Con is a little festival of comics and sequential art. It will be held at Newcastle City Library all day on Saturday 10th December 2011. “Whilst it won’t be on the same scale as some of [...]

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Leeds Alternative Comics Fair – Report

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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Last Saturday saw the annual (well, hopefully) Leeds Alternative Comics Fair set itself up again. And yet again, I couldn’t make it. I think I’m fated never to get there. So whilst I spent Saturday shivering and filling a bin with snotty tissues, the good folk of Leeds had fun. Luckily, Hugh Raine agreed to [...]

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Steampunk in London tomorrow night

Monday, September 5, 2011

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Tomorrow night Vik­tor Wynd’s Lit­tle Shop of Horrors/The Last Tues­day Soci­ety (11 Mare Street, E8) hosts SJ Chambers, co-author (with Jeff VanderMeer) of the very fine new Steampunk Bible (which I highly recommend, it has fascinating sections on the fiction, makers and crafters, comics, style and more) as part of a talk , with further [...]

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Events Round Up – September 2011

Saturday, September 3, 2011

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The latest round up of the various comics, zines and related events coming up (caveat – this isn’t intended to be an exhaustive list, nor will it include individual store signings  etc etc)… Cartoon Museum – Doctor Who In Comics. Cartoon Museum, London, UK, 27th July – 30th October 2011. Thinking Outside The Box: London, UK, [...]

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Upcoming: Thinking Outside The Box

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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A new event for your diaries: Thinking Outside the Box: new publishing opportunities in comics and graphic novels aimed at children and young adults. This evening event, happening on 13th September at the Society of Authors (in association with Comica Festival). The event is hosted by Paul Gravett and Sarah McIntyre, and features guest speakers Lizzie Spratt [...]

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Events Round-up – July 2011

Saturday, July 9, 2011

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The latest round up of the various comics, zines and related events coming up (caveat – this isn’t intended to be an exhaustive list, nor will it include individual store signings and exhibitions etc etc)… Birmingham Zine Festival: Birmingham, UK, July 9th 2011 (Today in fact!) MCM Manchester Expo: Manchester, UK,  31st July 2011 Caption: Oxford, [...]

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We Are Words and Pictures – a special report from Sean

Friday, July 8, 2011

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We are Words and Pictures launched a window exhibition last Friday at the Bookartsbookshop in Hoxton. Organised by myself, with window dressing by Philippa Rice, it was another example of getting comics out into the public domain, beyond the normal comics community. Wawap have been active in music and poetry festivals and children’s workshops and [...]

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Dublin Comics Jam

Friday, July 1, 2011

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The Dublin Comic Jam takes place on the last Thursday of each month from 8pm onwards in the Lord Edward pub by Christchurch, organised by Phil Barrett and Paddy Lynch, a chance for creators to get together chat, drink and draw; more details to be found on their blog. Link via the Irish Comic News, [...]

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Dunny launch parties at FPI

Monday, June 13, 2011

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The super popular Kid Robot range from Urban Vinyl is about to have an exciting new launch for their brand new Dunny series of extremely collectable goodness. The 2011 Dunny series has some 18 different designs from 15 inspired artists, including KR vets Aya Kakeda, Chuckboy, Huck Gee, Kronk, MAD, Dirty Donny, Mister F®ame$ and [...]

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Scotch Corner presents Kingdom of Adventure

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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Checking out some cool Judda artwork on the Scotch Corner comics art collective’s blog (see below), I notice that the guys are planning a comics event in the near future: Kingdom of Adventure, taking place in the Kingdom of Fife at 21-23 Whytecauseway in sunny Kirkcaldy on the afternoon of Saturday 2nd of July, with [...]

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