Tag Archive | "Northern 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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Upcoming: 2D Festival

Monday, May 30, 2011

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Northern Ireland’s 2D Festival returns in 2011 with a cracking poster from Rufus Dayglo and a very impressive lineup: Mick McMahon, Mark Chiarello, David Hine, Mike Collins, Glenn Fabry, Denise Mina, Dave Taylor, Garry Leach, Rufus Dayglo, Rob Davis, Gary Erskine, Will Simpson, Phil Winslade, Nick Roche, Garry Northfield, Jim Medway, Davy Francis, Trisha Deery, PJ Holden, Stephen Downey, Kevin Logue, Joe Campbell, Danny McLaughlin, Neill Cameron, D’Israeli, Bec Hill. The festival is organised by the Verbal Arts Centre, an [...]

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Absence

Friday, April 22, 2011

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Absence is a new work by two Northern Irish creators, Andy Luke and Stephen Downey, exploring the effects of living with epilepsy in a sensitive, understanding and compassionate manner. It can be a terribly disorientating disorder as the brainwaves get scrambled, leading to seizures, ‘lost’ time and a feeling of dislocation, as well as sometimes [...]

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2D Festival starts tomorrow

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

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The annual Northern Irish 2D comics festival kicks off tomorrow in Derry, running from June 3rd to 5th, with guests, workshops, presentations, dealers, sketching and all sorts of fun – certainly the previous few have already built up a pretty good reputation for a good time. Guests this year include Gary Erskine, Ilya, Rufus Dayglo, [...]

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Family values?

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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We’re more than used to politicians espousing family values (and just as used to many of them later being caught out violating those values) but a councillor in Omagh is considering Family Guy values. His nephew told the politician that he had a resemblance to Peter Griffin; Mr Hussey said he was not exactly flattered [...]

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John McCrea and PJ Holden at FPI Belfast

Friday, July 31, 2009

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(Jenny Sparks strikes a light, art by Jon McCrea, pinched shamelessly from his site) John at our Belfast branch tells me that he’s lined up a signing with two local artists I’m sure our readers are familiar with already, PJ Holden and John McCrea. PJ, of course, has carved himself a good (and growing) rep [...]

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