Tag Archive | "Goethe Institut"

Baby’s in black

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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(Arne signing last night, pic from my Flickr) I was lucky enough to get to the Arne Bellstorf event last night in the Goethe Institut in Glasgow where the English language edition of Arne’s Baby’s in Black was being launched by the fine SelfMadeHero as part of a programme by the Goethe to bring German [...]

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Arne Bellstorf in Glasgow tomorrow

Monday, March 14, 2011

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A reminder that tomorrow evening (Tuesday 15th March) top German comics creator Arne Bellstorf will be paying a return visit to the Goethe Institut in Glasgow, to celebrate the launch of SelfMadeHero‘s translation of his graphic biography of Astrid Kirchher and Stuart Sutcliffe, the ‘fifth Beatle’, Baby’s in Black, a book I have been very [...]

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Baby’s in Black: Arne Bellstorf in Glasgow

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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Doug Wallace at one of our fave UK publishers, SelfMadeHero, has been in touch to confirm an event I’d been hoping was going to happen – German artist Arne Bellstorf will be coming to the Goethe Institut in Glasgow for a launch of the English language edition of his Baby’s in Black, a graphic biography [...]

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Max and Moritz Award winners

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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For some reason we totally missed reading about this year’s winners of the prestigious Max and Moritz award, pretty much the major comics lit award in Germany, announced at the highly respected Erlangen festival. Fortunately Kenny noticed that the good folks at the Goethe Institut did cover it – Nicolas Mahler won best German-language draughtsman, [...]

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Mawil and Trondheim at the Goethe

Monday, November 30, 2009

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(Lewis Trondheim, Mawil and Marc Baines at the Goethe in Glasgow, overseen by Mr O and Mr I) Okay, when I posted up the report of last week’s wonderful European comics night with Germany’s Mawil and France’s Lewis Trondheim organised by the Goethe Institut and the Alliance Français in Glasgow I teased you by alluding [...]

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Mawil and Trondheim in Glasgow

Friday, November 27, 2009

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‘Twas a dark and stormy night as I set off for Glasgow; howling wind and driving, slushy rain falling out of the dark night. I’m glad to say the dreadful weather didn’t dampen spirits though and any fears that it might put off people from venturing out to Glasgow’s Goethe Institut were put to rest; [...]

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Mawil and Trondheim in Glasgow this Wednesday

Monday, November 23, 2009

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This week in Glasgow there’s a rare chance to see and hear two highly acclaimed comics creators from the European scene, with Mawil and Lewis Trondheim appearing in the city’s Goethe Institut (in conjunction with the Alliance Français) on Wednesday 25th November at 7pm. The evening will be chaired by cartoonist, publisher and lecturer Marc [...]

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