Tag Archive | "Forbidden Planet International"

FP Manchester on Facebook

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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Our colleagues in the Manchester Forbidden Planet have set up their own Facebook page; they explain “If you are a local customer this is the place to talk to the staff, check out what’s happening in the store and grab special offers etc. You’ll even find out that they aren’t fans of the 201 which [...]

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Now we are Five…

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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It’s hard for me to believe but today marks the fifth birthday of the Forbidden Planet blog. It’s a peculiar feeling because in one way it doesn’t really feel like it’s been five years since I posted that first blog item but on the other hand it also feels like we’ve been a part of [...]

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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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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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Eclectic Micks Sketchbook signing at FP Dublin

Monday, October 26, 2009

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Regular readers will already know we’ve been enjoying the art being shared on the Irish comics collective blog Eclectic Micks over the last while and that the Micks had decided to publish their very own sketchbook, drawing, no pun intended, on the artwork the seven of them take turns to post daily on the blog. [...]

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Drop Dead Gorgeous in Belfast this Halloween

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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My colleagues at the Belfast FP (52 -54 Ann Street, phone 028 9043 8744) tell me they are planning a highly appropriate event for Halloween with local writer Wayne Simmons. On the 31st of October Wayne will be in the Belfast FP from 2 to 4pm to sign from his recent novel Drop Dead Gorgeous, [...]

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Amanda Palmer in Edinburgh FPI

Sunday, August 16, 2009

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Okay, this is still going on right now, so just a couple of quick photos for the moment, but I promise more to follow and, if you are good boys and girls, maybe even some ukulele science fiction song action too! Stay tuned! (click to see the larger pics on the FPI Flickr; more pics to [...]

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Somersault – you want ice with that?

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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Cold, extra cold, super-chilled, cold filtered, over ice – anyone remember when you actually just asked for a pint in the pub? (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry and Dan Locke, if you want to reproduce any part of it you should contact them at somersaultsomersault@gmail.com; click the pic for the larger version. If you’ve missed any [...]

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Amanda Palmer at FPI Edinburgh

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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You might remember recently I mentioned that Amanda Palmer would be performing a gig in Edinburgh (in the HMV Picture House on Lothian Road, August 22nd) and is threatening all sorts of other sneaky performances during the annual madness of the Edinburgh Festival this month (will no-one think of the children???). I’m also delighted to [...]

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It was 20 years ago today….

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Well 21. I was recently home clearing out a load of stuff my dad left when he died early in the year and amongst the things he had kept was a little insert magazine I had written with my business partner Jim Hamilton. It was called ‘Cut Comics 88′ and we produced it for the Scottish [...]

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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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Peter Facinelli at FPI Dublin

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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As you can see, yesterday evening’s signing with Peter Facinelli, known to legions of fans as the good hearted Doctor Carlisle Cullen in the film adaptation of the Twilight novels, in the Dublin FPI store drew a good crowd of adoring fans… In fact the queue spilled out onto the street – I can’t help but [...]

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Turning Somersaults

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Starting today I’m delighted to announce we have a brand-new series of comic strips starting here on the blog. Somersault is the brainchild of Richard Cowdry and Daniel Locke and will be coming to us every Tuesday (as with Darryl’s Super-Sam we’ll post up strips into an online archive as it builds up,  so if [...]

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Peter Facinelli at FP Dublin

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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Actor Peter Facinelli will be familiar to many of our readers, I suspect, not least for his recent role in the first Twilight film and the upcoming New Moon second Twilight movie where he plays Doctor Carlisle Cullen, head of the good vampire family in the world of Twilight, adoptive father to Edward. Well we’ve [...]

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