Tag Archive | "Inverness"

Things I learned at Hi-Ex

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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As well as having a great, family-friendly comics con (see yesterday’s report), I also learned some things at Hi-Ex: Co-organiser Vicky Stonebridge lost her voice after much over-use directing events; fortunately she keeps a spare in her backpack. Such preparatory skills are one of the reasons she is a mighty organiser of the con. Maura [...]

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Hi-Ex 2012 – comics fun in the sunny Scottish Highlands

Monday, April 2, 2012

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It’s the final day of March, Scotland has been enjoying a wonderful week of warm, bright, spring weather (yes, really, it has been known to happen from time to time) and today on this sunny Saturday the capital of the Scottish Highlands, Inverness, is basking in golden sunlight as the crowds head to the splendid [...]

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Coming this month – Hi-Ex 2012!

Thursday, March 8, 2012

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I am so looking forward to this and hope to be heading up there once more, the welcome return of Hi-Ex comic con in the capital of the Scottish Highlands, Inverness. I’ve really enjoyed my visits to Hi-Ex; it has grown nicely since I was at the very first con, but remains a good size [...]

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For your spring diary – Hi-Ex

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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(Highlands superhero Nessie, along with Tank Girl, Dredd and Dennis the Menace, art by Tanya Roberts, TG (c) Martin & Hewlett, Dredd (c) Rebellion and Dennis is (c) DC Thomson) Richmond Clements and Vicky Stonebridge drop us a line to update us to the latest details for the return of the Hi-Ex comics con in [...]

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Hi-Ex is back!!!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

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Rejoice my Caledonian chums, for the extremely fine Scottish comics convention Hi-Ex will be returning to the Highlands next year! Organisers Rich and Vicky have announced after the hiatus this year Hi-Ex will return for its fourth edition on Saturday March 31st and Sunday April 1st 2012. Regular readers will know I’ve really enjoyed the [...]

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No Hi-Ex next year

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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John Freeman at Down The Tubes picks up on some bad news from the Hi-Ex website – it looks like there won’t be an Inverness convention next year, I’m afraid, it looks like organisers Rich and Vicky just have too much on to be able to take on the massive amount of time and effort [...]

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Tim Quinn at Eden Court

Thursday, June 10, 2010

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Eden Court in Inverness – home to the excellent Hi-Ex Highlands comics-con – has veteran comics creator Tim Quinn coming to visit, where he will be talking about all sorts of comics, from working on strips like Beryl the Peril and the Bash Street Kids to Spider-Man: “Tim will take you on a hilarious trip [...]

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Hi-Ex 2010, a great hurl in the Highlands

Monday, March 29, 2010

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On Saturday I took a very pleasant trip northwards from Edinburgh to Inverness to attend the third Hi-Ex, crossing over the mighty Forth Bridge (images of the 39 Steps playing in my mind as always when crossing this huge landmark which rears from the Forth like a Steel cousin to the Loch Ness Monster), around [...]

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Tweeting from Hi-Ex

Saturday, March 27, 2010

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(looking down into the main space at Hi-Ex with all the dealers and artists – click the pics for the larger version on Flickr) Those of you who follow our Twitter feed will have already spotted that I am up in Inverness, capital of the Scottish Highlands, for this year’s Hi-Ex! comics con. The venue, [...]

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Hi-Ex this month!

Monday, March 1, 2010

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Oh yeah, this month it’s Lawgiver to Hi-ex!

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Hi-Ex charity auction

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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(signed original page of art from Grandville by and (c) Bryan Talbot) With the third Hi-Ex Highlands comics convention due to see a number of comics creators riding into Inverness on the backs of giant atomic mutant haggis in just over a month the website has up some of the fine goodies that have been [...]

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Great comic book team ups – Dredd and Nessie!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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Hi-Ex gets a nice mention on the BBC site for the teaming up of the UK’s biggest comics character, Judge Dredd, with one of the Scottish Highland’s best known inhabitants, Nessie, courtesy of the pens and brushes of Colin MacNeil: (Nessie and Dredd – with Ro-Jaws! enjoying a spot of fishing on Loch Ness in [...]

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Hi-Ex secures funding, announces guests

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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The BBC website reports that the Hi-Ex comics convention held for the last two years in the heart of the incomparably beautiful Scottish Highlands has secured some funding from the Highland Council. I know organisers Rich and Vicky have been campaigning hard with the authorities, pointing out the event’s success in bringing in audiences and [...]

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We are Family: A conversation with Vicky Stonebridge

Friday, July 31, 2009

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In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider [...]

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