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Sean Phillips in Glasgow tomorrow!

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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Don’t forget, folks, the excellent Sean Phillips will be in the Glasgow Forbidden Planet tomorrow evening from 5 to 7pm signing copies of his new Fatale  comic – a great chance to come on down and meet one of our top artists.

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Electric Man and more comics movies at the Glasgow Film Festival

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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You may recall last year we blogged about Dugbus seeking – and thankfully obtaining – funding for their micro budget Indy movie set in Edinburgh and based around the world’s rarest and most valuable comic – Electric Man #1 – and a pair of loveable losers in a failing comic store. The guys were kind [...]

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Charlie Adlard in FP Glasgow

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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Glasgow peeps! The excellent Charlie Adlard will brave the zombie hordes that so often plague Buchanan Street to head into our store there for a signing session on Thursday 23rd of February from 5 to 6pm, a great chance to get your Walking Dead comics signed by the man who gives them their distinctive visual [...]

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Sean Phillips in FP Glasgow this month

Monday, January 9, 2012

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A reminder for your diaries – top comics artist Sean Phillips will be paying a visit to the Glasgow Forbidden Planet International on the city’s Buchanan Street (handily close to the Underground and Queen Street Station) on Wednesday 25th January (Burns Night, as it happens, bring your own haggis) from 5 to 7pm, signing copies [...]

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Sean Phillips in FP Glasgow!

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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Top comics artist Sean Phillips will be paying to the Glasgow Forbidden Planet International on Wednesday 25th January (Burns Night, as it happens, bring your own haggis) from 5 to 7pm, signing copies of his very tasty looking new creator-owned collaboration with Ed Brubaker, Fatale, the firt issue of which comes out from Image in [...]

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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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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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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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Alan Grant talks

Friday, July 29, 2011

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James Lundy posts up a video of an impromptu interview with the fine Scots comics scribe Alan Grant at the recent Glasgow Comic-Con: ALAN GRANT INTERVIEW @ GCC ’11 from James Lundy on Vimeo.

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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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The Photographs

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

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The Photographs is a short comic work by Sandra and John of Glasgow’s Metaphrog (home of the gorgeous Louis graphic novels, which I adore). The guys explained to us that The Photographs is the result of a commission by Glasgow Life and is a response to a series of workshops they did with groups of [...]

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