Tag Archive | "photography"

Mark your London diary: Tom Gauld at Gosh! tomorrow, Tripwire on Saturday, Simone Lia in April

Thursday, March 8, 2012

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The brilliant Tom Gauld will be in fine London comics emporium Gosh! this Friday, 9th March, from 6.30pm to celebrate the publication of his new book from Drawn & Quarterly, Goliath; he’s already popped into the store to create some fab artwork on the shop windows and even do a quick interview: And the very [...]

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Images of Angouleme

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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Good chum of the blog Sean Azzopardi was again at the Angoulême comics festival in France and he’s posted up a whole bunch of photographs so those of us who couldn’t go can at least have a glimpse of some of what it looked like:

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Best of the Year – Joel Meadows

Friday, January 6, 2012

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Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from writer, comics champion and photographer, Tripwire supremo Joel Meadows: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? JM: First of my choices is Joe The Barbarian by Grant Morrison and [...]

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Trip City Round Table, part one

Friday, December 16, 2011

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The website Trip City describes itself as a ‘Brooklyn-Filtered Literary Salon’, an intriguing and heady mixture of prose, comics, photography and more. Intrigued by just what this meant, the Forbidden Planet International blog sent ace reporter Stilts McGoon, equipped with battered Fedora, old Mac coat and enquiring attitude, to the city that never sleeps to [...]

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Face It Tiger….

Sunday, November 6, 2011

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The original – art by John Romita, Amazing Spider-Man #42 (1966) Photo by Steve Cook (from his Facebook) – Model Megan McGuire Do yours eyes a favour – go and lose yourself in some great photography at his website.

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London – a year in the life

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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(sundial at Tower Bridge, London, by and (c) Joel Meadows) Okay, this isn’t really anything to do with comics or SF, but I hope you’ll forgive me for posting a quick link to this Indie GoGo project for a photography book on London because it comes from a good friend of the blog and a [...]

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Neil Gaiman at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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(Neil Gaiman and Audrey Niffenegger just before their event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday afternoon, all pics from my Flickr) On Wednesday I had the pleasure of seeing two excellent authors of both prose and comics works in conversation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as Neil Gaiman chatted to Audrey Niffenegger. It [...]

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Autumn Leaves

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

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Fine science fiction scribe Michael Swanwick decided to pen a story – not an unusual thing for an author to do, of course. Except Michael decided to write his story, October Leaves, a letter at a time on fallen autumnal leaves then photograp them. Afterwards he left the leaves where they lay for passers-by to [...]

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McV for McVendetta

Friday, August 13, 2010

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Spotted outside one of the ever growing number of tartan souvenier shops in Edinburgh – did you know Codename V was Scottish? I’m sure the shopkeeps will even offer you genuine McVendetta clan tartan if you ask them. (pic from my Flickr, click for the bigger version)

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365 days with Stormtroopers

Monday, April 5, 2010

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Flickr user Stéfan Le Dû has a fab set inspired by the 365 days projects, decided to do his own 365 project but using a pair of 12″ Imperial Stormtrooper figures, with some great results. Talking to Wired he explained “I got a new camera and I had some Stormtroopers figures sleeping in their blister [...]

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More Amanda

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Kenny Mathieson who was kind enough to share some of his excellent photos he took when the dynamic Amanda Palmer performed for fans and signed copies of Who Killed Amanda Palmer in our Edinburgh branch during the Festival tells me that he has some of his photos from the Fringe and WOMAD currently exhibiting in [...]

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Secret Origins

Monday, September 14, 2009

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Orbital Comics Gallery (8 Great Newport Street, London) has a new exhibition opening this week: Secret Origins, Real Comic Book Heroes with photographs by Steven Cook, which will run from the 17th of September to the 17th of October: “Orbital Comics Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of photographs charting the rise of the key [...]

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Amanda Palmer at FPI Edinburgh

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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You might remember recently I mentioned that Amanda Palmer would be performing a gig in Edinburgh (in the HMV Picture House on Lothian Road, August 22nd) and is threatening all sorts of other sneaky performances during the annual madness of the Edinburgh Festival this month (will no-one think of the children???). I’m also delighted to [...]

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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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