Tag Archive | "Manchester"

Increased Leisure Citizen

Monday, January 9, 2012

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As we blogged last week the fine Lass O’Gowrie in Manchester continued their tradition of support for comics and science fiction with a new stage adaptation of one of early 2000 AD’s more unusual series, Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s brilliant Halo Jones (see here for Mutt Badham’s interview about the play with the Lass’ [...]

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Manchester’s answer to Joel Silver: An interview with Gareth Kavanagh

Sunday, January 1, 2012

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When the Forbidden Planet International blog heard that there was going to be a new stage version of Halo Jones produced at the Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester (a spot already well known to local science fiction and comics fans), they sent roving reporter Bat Cardigan to find out what it was all about! The [...]

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Manchester after the Apocalypse

Friday, December 9, 2011

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The BBC site has a cool slideshow of a series of images by James Chadderton depicting Manchester after an unspecified apocalypse, very dystopian sci-fi. James explained to the Beeb that his “aim was to create a series of images that depicted Manchester evacuated, eroded and derelict, as if left to degrade for years – I [...]

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Open for business

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Following news of the attack on our much loved Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham the day before last (see yesterday’s blog) I came in from the Fringe here in Edinburgh last night to find many of our friends in the comics community in Manchester posting on Twitter, distressed to find that our Manchester branch [...]

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Video from the MCM Manchester bash

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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The MCM Expo folks have posted up a couple of videos from the recent Manchester MCM Comic Con bash – it ain’t a proper comics bash till someone cosplays!: MCM Expo Manchester Cosplay Fun July 2011 from MCM EXPO GROUP on Vimeo. MCM Expo Manchester Comic Con 2011 from MCM EXPO GROUP on Vimeo.

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Batman Live in Manchester – Bat-reporter Bat-Baz was there

Friday, July 22, 2011

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The massive theatrical event Batman Live hit Manchester this week and our special roving reporter Bat-Baz – better known to the comics community as writer, artist & editor Barry Renshaw – was in the audience. He sends in a special report by way of carrier bat (which is much cuter than a carrier pigeon): Fireworks [...]

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Not One For Knocking Off: Badman, Duff, Porcellino and Santoro in Manchester

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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The excellent Oli East takes time out from rubbing shoulders with rock star royalty as he brings his artistic skills to bear once more for Elbow,  to alert us to an upcoming exhibition which sounds ace, featuring, as it does, Derik Badman, Malcy Duff, John Porcellino and Frank Santoro. Not One For Knocking Off #2 [...]

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Manchester birthday party!

Friday, September 17, 2010

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The Manchester FPI will be celebrating their thirtieth year as a comics store this October and to mark this very special occassion the Manchester crew are flinging a party: (some of the FPI Manchester posse) “The shop is now 30 years old and we thought it would be good to celebrate 30 years of awesomeness [...]

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Doctor Who Live!

Monday, September 13, 2010

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Prepare yourselves for some Doctor Who awesomeness coming to a venue near you soon! Prepare for excited kids demanding to be taken along and equally excited parents too for that matter! The monsters are coming! A new musical stage show featuring the monsters from Doctor Who – Daleks, Weeping Angels, Cybermen and more – is [...]

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Miguelanxo Prado in Manchester

Monday, September 6, 2010

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The Manchester Literature Festival and the Instituto Cervantes are giving Manchester comics readers a fabulous and rare (for the UK anyway) chance to see the great Spanish artist Miguelanxo Prado in October. It’s not everyday you get a chance to see one of Europe’s best comics artist so if you’re in the area then you [...]

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New MCC site

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

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Adam Cadwell points us to the rather nice new home for the Manchester Comix Collective, which he’s set up after the original host Ning announced a “hefy pricing plan”. As Adam points out the MCC was set up in 2007 to offer a spot for local comics creators to come together to discuss the medium [...]

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Oli East and friends exhibiting in Manchester this week

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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As Richard noted at the weekend Oli East has the third of his Trains Are Mint series from Blank Slate, Berlin and That, coming out this week, and to go along with it there’s an exhibition of artwork from Oli and his friends who contributed to the work, opening this week in Manchester. For this [...]

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Stomach Pump and the Salford Zine Library

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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Craig Barr and Matthew Walkerdine drops us a line to let us know of  some upcoming ‘zine goodness happening in Salford next month, with the Stomach Pump exhibition which showcases  “a collection of over 400 mimeographed and xeroxed zines, publications and mixtapes featuring fandom, letters and science-fiction commentary dating back nearly 40 years.” Alongside this [...]

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Comics happenings in the UK

Friday, April 9, 2010

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As spring breaks out – albeit somewhat erratically – across the UK there also seems to be a sudden blooming of comics events. We’ve just had The Thing and Hi-Ex, now there’s a slew of upcoming events. Manchester Metropolitan University hosts a conference on comics and graphic novels from the 12th to 14th of April, [...]

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Not One For Knocking On – self published comics exhibition

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Not One For Knocking On is the name of a forthcoming comic art exhibition which Oli East is going to be curating at the Rogue Artists studios gallery and project space in Manchester this November. Its all drawn from self-published creators and the artists to be featured include Blaisse Larmee, Malcy Duff, Warren Craghead and [...]

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