Tag Archive | "Gilbert Shelton"

Gilbert Shelton in N&C

Monday, November 16, 2009

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The great Gilbert Shelton signing a stack of the newly released Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus from Knockabout at our Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham at the weekend. I can’t help but notice Gilbert has a wee pile of recent Blank Slate releases (Sparky O’Hare, Spleenal and Proper Go Well High) by his side. Brit comics [...]

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Reminder – your chance to meet comics legend Gilbert Shelton tomorrow

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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Readers in and around Birmingham, don’t forget the great Gilbert Shelton will be at our Nostalgia and Comics store tomorrow (Friday 13th) from 4 to 5.30pm to celebrate the publication of the Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus from Knockabout (for those in London he will be at Gosh! on Saturday afternoon). Don’t miss a rare chance [...]

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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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Gilbert Shelton at Nostalgia & Comics this Friday!

Monday, November 9, 2009

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It is a real pleasure to tell you that our colleagues in the much-loved Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham will be hosting a real legend of the comics scene, Gilbert Shelton, on Friday the 13th of November from 4 to 5.30pm to celebrate the publication of the Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus from the good [...]

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Gilbert Shelton at Gosh!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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The great Gilbert Shelton will be at Gosh! Comics on Saturday 14th of November from 3 to 5pm (check the blog for details) to sign copies of the recently published Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus from Knockabout; and stay tuned, hopefully have some more Gilbert related news for you in the near future.

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Underground Classics – Getting from comics to comix and doing it with style.

Friday, September 4, 2009

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Underground Classics – The Transformation Of Comics Into Comix by James Danky and Denis Kitchen Abrams ComicArts After reading a few of these comic related reference books recently I’m beginning to think they’re doing it wrong. After all, you don’t walk into an art gallery and sit down for an hour to read the brochure before looking at [...]

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Knockabout news

Friday, August 21, 2009

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Two bits of news in one here; British publisher Knockabout have set up a website (finally!). Knockabout have been stalwarts of the UK publishing scene for the longest time, formed in the 80s, publishing some brilliant works from the likes of Alan Moore, Hunt Emerson and Gilbert Shelton and always, always remaining strong when customs and [...]

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Fat Freddy’s Cat

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Rejoice, for Knockabout have a huge omnibus collection of the great Gilbert Shelton’s Fat Freddy’s Cat coming out this August. Spliff papers for a roll-up not included.

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