Tag Archive | "Forbidden Planet International"

Reminder – Paul Cornell in Edinburgh FP today

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Edinburgh peeps, don’t forget you have a rare chance to meet the very fine Paul Cornell this afternoon as he visits the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet from 5 to 6pm – great chance to meet one of our best scribes and also get your new DC 52 signed at the same time! See you there!

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Reminder – Paul Cornell in Glasgow FP this evening

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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Glasgow peeps, don’t forget, not only can you pick up the latest new issues from New Comics Day today, including the next batch of the DC 52 issues, you can also meet scribe Paul Cornell and get them signed! Paul is at our Glasgow store on Buchanan Street from 6 to 8pm this very day, [...]

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Declan Shalvey in FP Dublin this afternoon!

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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Dublin peeps, don’t forget that Declan Shalvey is being released out into the community today (under responsible adult supervision, of course) so he can sign in our Dublin store this afternoon from 2 to 4pm as the new Thunderbolts (which he created the art for) hits shelves from Marvel and he has his own new [...]

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Paul Cornell in FPI Glasgow tomorrow, Edinburgh Thursday

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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Reminder for folks in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the most excellent Paul Cornell, scribe behind numerous SF&F novels, some of the best scripts in the revived Doctor Who and a whole brace of comics (including, now, part of the massive DC 52 relaunch we’ve been covering extensively on the blog), will be in the Glasgow Forbidden [...]

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Declan Shalvey in FP Dublin tomorrow

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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A quick reminder to our Irish comics peeps that Declan Shalvey will be in our Dublin Forbidden Planet tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday 21st Sept) from 2 to 4pm singning his new sketchbook and the latest issues of Thunderbolts, so come on down!

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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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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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Open for business

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Following news of the attack on our much loved Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham the day before last (see yesterday’s blog) I came in from the Fringe here in Edinburgh last night to find many of our friends in the comics community in Manchester posting on Twitter, distressed to find that our Manchester branch [...]

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Grant Morrison in Glasgow

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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My colleague Kevin tells me that the Grant Morrison event in our Glasgow store at the end of last week was a huge success, running on for about three and a half hours due to the turn out! Huge thank yous to all of you who came along and waited patiently to meet Grant and [...]

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Grant Morrison signing in FPI Glasgow tomorrow

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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Don’t forget the brilliant Grant Morrison will be making his hometown signing for his new book Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero tomorrow in our Glasgow store (right by the Buchanan Street Underground) from 5 to 7.30pm. We’ve got piles of the books in from Jonathan Cape and having been treated to [...]

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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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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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Sprouse, Witterstaetter, McKinnon and Adkins in FP Glasgow

Thursday, April 21, 2011

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The Glasgow Forbidden Planet International has a couple of great in-store events coming up for your pleasure next month. On Saturday May 14th Iain McKinnon and Travis Adkins will be in the store (on Buchanan Street, right by the Underground) from 4 to 6pm to sign their work – there will also be face painting [...]

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