Tag Archive | "Ireland"

Guest post: Andy and Gar fill us on on this year’s 2D Festivalguest

Friday, June 10, 2011

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Derry/Londonderry is home to Northern Ireland’s most notable comics convention. Last weekend, 2-D celebrated it’s fifth year. So, not one but two guest reviews this morning, as Belfast’s Andy Luke and Dublin’s Gar Shanley attempt to fill in the gaps in missing memory: Andy Luke Last weekend’s 2D Festival in Derry will stay with me [...]

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Róisín Dubh

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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Róisín Dubh Maura McHugh, Stephen Daly Atomic Diner (cover art to Roisin Dubh #1 by Stephen Byrne) This comic comes loaded, baby. Filled with modern Chick Power, a dangerous mix of brilliance and style with a political reality lurking just under the surface. One of the writers, Maura McHugh is a fairly well known blogger. [...]

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League of Volunteers – Irish alternate history and mythology mix

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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Today we have a nice treat with a new guest review of some interesting sounding work coming out of the Irish Indy comics scene, so please welcome James Bacon stepping up to the reviewing plate: League of Volunteers By Robert Curley and Barry Keegan Atomic Diner This quickly paced comic neatly sets us up for [...]

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The Micks hit Dublin

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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Irish comics collective the Eclectic Micks paid a successful return visit to the Dublin Forbidden Planet at the end of last week (thanks to Kev and the FP Dublin crew for the pics; no Irish comics artists were harmed during the making of this event).

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The Story of Comics

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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Maeve Clancy has posted up a brief look at the history of comics, created for a community art project. It’s brief, but still interesting as a quick outline of the comics and I like that at the end she brings us up to date with comics creators in Ireland today, like Declan Shalvey, Philip Barrett, [...]

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The Irish 24 Hour Comics Day is coming

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

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The annual Irish 24 Hour Comics Day is coming soon, from noon till noon across October the 9th and 10th in the Central Hall, Dublin. Busy organiser Cliodhna Lyons tells me that among the many activities going on this year are some related events of comics workshops for kids in conjunction with Children’s Books Ireland, [...]

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Declan in Dublin

Friday, September 17, 2010

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The Dublin FPI crew tell me that Thursday’s signing with Declan Shalvey went very well, with Declan happily signing away with brand new Thunderbolts issues fresh from the comics oven – thanks to all who came along to give him their support (thanks to Kev and the Dublin crew for the pics, you can see [...]

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Declan Shalvey signing in Dublin tomorrow

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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Don’t forget we have Declan Shalvey in the Dublin Forbidden Planet International (5-6 Crampton Quay) on tomorrow afternoon (from 12 to 2pm) to sign copies of Thunderbolts #148, so come on down and say hi.

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Declan shalvey signing in Dublin

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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Declan Shalvey – no stranger to the blog – will be in the Dublin Forbidden Planet International (5-6 Crampton Quay) on Thursday 16th of September from 12 to 2 pm to sign copies of Thunderbolts #148, so come on down and say hi.

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Talking comics at the Electric Picnic

Friday, August 6, 2010

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John Byrne (not the X-Men John Byrne!) kindly updates us on the upcoming Electric Picnic festival which takes place in Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland from the 3rd to the 5th of September. As with many festivals it’s no longer just about the music though, with plenty of other activities and events taking place during the [...]

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2000 AD fan comics go Irish

Thursday, July 1, 2010

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Pádraig passes on an email from David McDonald who’s looking for contributors who would be interested in putting together a small press comics drawing on Irish characters from 2000 AD (guessing something like the excellent Zarjaz but with more of a Celtic flavour) for ‘a bit of fun’: “So far the characters that I have [...]

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you; yes, on this side of the Atlantic we’re well aware there are probably more Americans wearing green wigs and leprechaun hats today than there are people in all of Ireland, but what the heck, it’s still a good excuse of a pint of the black stuff and a good [...]

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Irish 24 Hour Comics Day

Friday, February 12, 2010

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Cliodhna is giving us plenty of advanced warning for this year’s Irish 24 Hour Comics Day – the fifth annual bash will take place in the Central Hotel in Dublin from noon on Saturday 30th of October to noon on the Sunday 31st. Which I guess means you can also go along in costume since [...]

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2D Northern Ireland festival

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

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David Campbell updates us with the good news that Northern Ireland’s successful 2D comics festival will be returning once more this summer (from the 3rd to 5th of June), and once more it will be free to enter and table space for artists, authors and publishers is also free, although its first come, first served [...]

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The Eclectic Micks

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Our colleagues in FP Dublin have kindly sent us over a batch of pictures from Saturday’s Irish launch of the Eclectic Micks Sketchbook with Nick Roche, Stephen Thompson, Bob Byrne, Will Sliney, Stephen Mooney and Declan Shalvey meeting readers, signing books and comics and creating sketches; looks like a good time was had by all! [...]

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