Tag Archive | "Ireland"

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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Reminder – meet the Eclectic Micks this Saturday in Dublin

Friday, November 13, 2009

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Readers in and around Dublin’s fair city, don’t forget Forbidden Planet Dubin has the crew from the Irish comics artist collective Eclectic Micks in the store tomorrow (Saturday 14th) from 3 to 5pm for the Irish launch of their Sketchbook, so come down and lend some support to Nick Roche, Stephen Thompson, Bob Byrne, Will [...]

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Irish 24 Hour Comics Day

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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Cliodhna kindly drops us a line to let us know just how pleased she was with how this year’s 24 Hour Comics Day went in Ireland “This years event was really great and the standard of art work produced was the highest yet and – can’t wait to get it all online – also great [...]

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Windell Superhero Showcase – kicking your favourite superheroes in the face for laughs.

Friday, October 30, 2009

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Windell Classics Compendium Presents: Superhero Showcase Written by Garret Shanley. Art by Cathal Duggan. Self Published A forty page superhero piss-take, that manages to be funny and pretty interesting at the same time. It sets itself out Viz style, as a complete package, mimicing the style of old Marvel comics, with a very tongue in [...]

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Eclectic Micks Sketchbook signing at FP Dublin

Monday, October 26, 2009

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Regular readers will already know we’ve been enjoying the art being shared on the Irish comics collective blog Eclectic Micks over the last while and that the Micks had decided to publish their very own sketchbook, drawing, no pun intended, on the artwork the seven of them take turns to post daily on the blog. [...]

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24 Hour Comic Day Dublin

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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Cliodhna Lyons fills us in on more details on this year’s Irish 24 Hour Comics Day, which will take place in Dublin’s Central Hotel (on Exchequer Street) from 11am on Saturday 17th of October through to 1pm on Sunday 18th; this year the Dublin 24 Hour Comic day has joined up with the Children’s Book [...]

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The History of Irish Comics part 1

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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No, this is not some strange comics-related sequel to Mel Brooks’ History of the World Part 1, it is in fact the start of what promises to be a fascinating look into the history of comics and cartooning by Irish creators. As Patrick Brown notes at the beginning, its not the easiest topic to research: [...]

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Peter Facinelli at FP Dublin

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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Actor Peter Facinelli will be familiar to many of our readers, I suspect, not least for his recent role in the first Twilight film and the upcoming New Moon second Twilight movie where he plays Doctor Carlisle Cullen, head of the good vampire family in the world of Twilight, adoptive father to Edward. Well we’ve [...]

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Animation at the Film Fest

Monday, June 29, 2009

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Among the movies I was eager to see during my annual week off at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival were two animated features which we’ve mentioned on here before (regular readers will know of my fascination for all forms of animation) -- the Australian stop-motion film Mary and Max (that rare thing, a feature [...]

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