Tag Archive | "photographs"

Comic Cons – in pictures!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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Comics creator, snapper, gentleman and all round good chap Sean Azzopardi has taken a lot of photos at the many comics conventions and festivals he’s been to, from Bristol, Brimingham and Caption and Comica to Angouleme, Stripdagen, Malta and TCAF. Now he’s brought all his photo sets from the various conventions, covering several years and [...]

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Science fiction locations

Monday, December 27, 2010

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Trazzler on Salon.com has a cool slideshow up of a selection of real world locations that have featured in science fiction films, from Tattooine to Vulcan to the Earth of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. (link via IO9) (the iconic Devils Tower in Wyoming, seen in Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, pic [...]

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I’m Popeye the Sailor Man…

Sunday, September 19, 2010

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“I’m Popeye the Sailor Man, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man. I’m strong to the finich Cause I eats me spinach. I’m Popeye the Sailor Man.” (spotted on a beach in Scotland – sand doodles are clearly getting better! Pic from my Flickr)

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Birmingham Zine Fest in pictures

Monday, September 13, 2010

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That man Sean Azzopardi was at the weekend’s Birmingham Zine Fest and he’s got a whole set of pics on Flickr to prove it: (browsing, reading, buying at the Birmingham Zine Fest, photo shamelessly borrowed from Sean Azzopardi’s Flickr. Were you at the Zine Fest too? How was it?)

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Bikin’ Batman!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

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Forget Grant Morrison’s long, convoluted death and rebirth of Batman, now the truth can be revealed: the Dark Knight is actually on a motorbiking holiday in Scotland, taking in a bit of the world’s biggest arts festival in Edinburgh on the way: (pic of Edinburgh Fringe Cavalcade from my Flickr, click for the larger version) [...]

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Dancing at the Zombie Zoo

Monday, August 9, 2010

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Ahead of yesterday afternoon’s signing for Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary, which coincides with the show version of How To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this month (at the Zoo Southside, details on the official site), we had an invasion of the walking dead at the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet (pics from my [...]

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More Ian Rankin pics

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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Photographer Kenny Mathieson took some great shots of Amanda Palmer when she was delighting fans in our Edinburgh store during the Festival and was kind enough to share some with us; Kenny also swung by to take some more photos last week when Ian Rankin paid us a visit and again he’s been generous enough [...]

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Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramon Perez signing in FP Dublin

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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As well as playing host to the Eclectic Micks crew the Dublin Forbidden Planet also had the trio of Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramón Pérez signing for fans and creating sketches in the store last weekend as part of their TX Comics European tour, which will also see them at Thought Bubble this weekend [...]

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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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Who Killed Amanda Palmer?

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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No, fortunately I’m not reporting a homicide, it is, as I’m sure many of  you already know, a reference to the new book by Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman, a deliciously macabre offering of post-mortem photography accompanied by stories by Neil. And when not enjoying her hobby as a part-time corpse Amanda’s been known to [...]

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