Tag Archive | "Nostalgia & Comics"

…. and this about sums it all up…..

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Window of Nostalgia & Comics, Birmingham. Photo by N&C staffer David Raithby We hope everything remains good and quiet out there tonight, whether you’re in Birmingham, London, Manchester or anywhere else.

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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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Brum’s Nostalgia & Comics damaged during riots

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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Kenny is reporting to us this morning that our Nostlagia & Comics store, long a landmark in Birmingham’s comics scene, was damaged last night as the shameful rioting spread from London to Brum and cities further afield; I don’t have much in the way of details but have been told there is some pretty expensive [...]

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Paul Cornell, Jimmy Broxton and some cosplay: FCBD at N&C

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton were guests at our Nostalgia and Comics store in sunny Birmingham for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, seen here relaxing with a cuppa generously laced with laudanum before the events kicked off (it’s how we keep the writers and artists manageable). And of course it wouldn’t really be FCBD [...]

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To do tomorrow – the Nostalgia & Comics Free Comic Book Day event….

Friday, May 6, 2011

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Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham – my favourite comic shop in the world (yes, I’m biased, I did work there for 19 happy years off and on after all) is having a very special event for tomorrow’s Free Comic Book Day. There are, of course, the usual piles and piles of free comics for the [...]

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Best Of The Year – Dave Hopkins, Manager Nostalgia & Comics

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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A second best of the year today from my favourite comic shop in the world; Nostalgia & Comics Birmingham. And even though I’m very biased, having worked there, man and boy, for 19 years up until 2006 when we moved up here to Yorkshire, I think the recent refit and a renewed concentration in the store [...]

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Best Of Year – Michael Gee, Nostalgia & Comics

Thursday, January 6, 2011

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Michael, our representative on the FPI blog from Nostalgia & Comics Birmingham has come up with a wonderfully mixed-media best of list – from music to movies, comics to games – he’s got a top 3 for you….. COMICS Scalped by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guerra While this series is running I will be thoroughly [...]

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Hammo Time!

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

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Okay, just how utterly cool are these designs? These are the fab, wonderfully retro 50s B-movie SciFi themed designs that Manchester-based artist Hammo came up with when our own Kenny asked him to create some art to adorn bags for two of our affiliate stores, Liverpool’s World’s Apart and Birmingham’s Nostalgia & Comics. I love [...]

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Bag Wars! Grey, Green, Pink – which shall win?

Sunday, October 10, 2010

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There’s an awful lot of work and thought goes into retailing you know. Take designing a new bag for two of our Forbidden Planet International affiliate stores; Worlds Apart in Liverpool and my old favourite Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham. Kenny, who has commissioned the work, has been posting some of the design process over on his Facebook [...]

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Nostalgia & Comics, Birmingham – Looking great and now with added small press and back issues

Monday, September 13, 2010

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Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham is one of the UK’s original comic shops, started in 1977, which makes it the second oldest in the UK (The SciFi Bookshop, now Forbidden Planet, Edinburgh, started life in 1975. It became a Forbidden Planet International store in 1997 and has, over the last year, seen a huge refurbishment [...]

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Alan Moore on Unearthing and the origins of UK fandom….

Sunday, August 1, 2010

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Over at Lew Stringer’s excellent blog, comes this story tying into Alan Moore’s recent New York Times article talking about his new spoken world project Unearthing. Lew points out the UK fandom connection: “All well and good, but why am I mentioning it here? Well, the subject of Alan’s narrative is none other than his fellow [...]

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One reaction to that Green Lantern teaser….

Saturday, July 31, 2010

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Over on the Superfriends Of Nostalgia & Comics Facebook page (which you should really be a member of – tis a great comic shop after all), Michael has a few things to say about the new Green Lantern teaser poster series….. “It looks like a really bad video game version of Sinestro. All it looks [...]

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Free Comic Book Day at FPI!

Saturday, May 8, 2010

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Last Saturday was Free Comic Book Day at various FPI stores, where customers came in, costumes were worn, pictures were drawn, children amused, lots of comics were given away and hopefully, just maybe, if we’re really lucky – a few new comic readers found out about this wonderful medium. Thanks to everyone across the country [...]

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Nostalgic memories of Nostalgia & Comics…..

Saturday, April 17, 2010

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Some of you may already know that, before I moved up to Yorkshire, I was perhaps the longest serving Saturday & holiday boy in comic retail-dom at the FPI store in Birmingham: Nostalgia & Comics. And if you don’t I’ve written about it lots over on my blog in a series of posts called Nostalgia [...]

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Back Issues coming back – big time

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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Over the years the Forbidden Planet Int stores have lost, as have many others, their back issues. A couple of our stores still carry little sections but for the most part they’re gone. It all seemed so obvious, when they faded away, that their time had come as something you could profitably display and sell [...]

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