Tag Archive | "Garry Trudeau"

Bell, Trudeau and Rowson at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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(Garry Trudeau being supplied with beer by Steve Bell at the signing after an extremely well attended talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday evening) Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Steve Bell in conversation with the celebrated cartoonist and Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Despite irregular [...]

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Comics at Edinburgh Book Festival – Trudeau, Rowson, Bell, McIntyre, Ewing, Moore (and more)

Friday, August 20, 2010

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Hopefully our very own Edinburgh resident Joe Gordon will have pics and reports on various events of interest at this years Edinburgh Boook Festival, but as a teaser to you all, here’s a few comic related highlights…… (full events schedule is available from the Edinburgh Book Festival website). Sunday 22nd August: Comics with Glenn Dakin [...]

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Books! Comics! Writers! Artists! Readers! The Edinburgh Book Fest begins!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

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Edinburgh is already heaving with the Fringe well underway – August is Festival time and a city already awash with global tourists are joined by legions of Festival goers, almost doubling the population. Today another major festival landmark begins as our friends in the 2010 Edinburgh International Book Festival open proceedings (excellent YA fantasy author [...]

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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Moore, Trudeau, Bell, Banks and more

Friday, July 30, 2010

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August is all but upon us and in the city of Edinburgh that means the world’s largest arts festival is about to take off. The population of the city almost double between tourists, festival goers and performers on every corner and during two weeks of that month long circus of every conceivable kind of artform [...]

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World AIDS Day

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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December 1st is Worlds AIDS Day; it seems to have slipped down the media’s radar in the last few years, as indeed has the progress of the disease. Years of often terrifying awareness raising campaigns hammered the safe sex message into one generation (even the comics did their part, who remembers DC’s use of John [...]

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