Tag Archive | "signing"

Dan Clowes and Chris Ware at Gosh!

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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London’s Gosh! Comics have what has to be one of the best looking comics signings of the spring in the UK – Dan Clowes and Chris Ware. I don’t mind admitting I am extremely jealous – I heard some of the London based artists at Hi-Ex at the weekend talking about going to this and [...]

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Kaufman and Williams at FPNYC

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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Our colleagues in the New York Forbidden Planet have a couple of cracking events coming up this month. Cult director Lloyd Kaufman, co-founder of Troma (we’re not worthy!) will be at FPNYC on Monday 22nd for a special midnight launch of the Blu Ray of Polutry Geist: Night of the Chicken Dead. Sunday 28th sees [...]

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Chris Lynch goes Dark in Cardiff

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

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Chris Lynch, esquire, one part of Monkeys With Machineguns (stalwarts on the British comics scene) has a new graphic novel, The Dark, coming out from Markosia this spring and the advance word on it is that its full of comicy goodness (check out the Geek Syndicate boys talking about the first few issues). I’m really [...]

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Burke and Hare events in Edinburgh tomorrow

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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A reminder that we have Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering coming to our Edinburgh store on Southbridge tomorow -  Thursday January 28th – to sign copies of their recently published Burke and Hare graphic novel (reviewed here by Richard); for those with a literary bent and a fascination for history the boys will also be [...]

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Forty Five signing in FP Cardiff today!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

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Folks in the Cardiff area, don’t forget our colleagues in the Cardiff FPI are hosting Andi Ewington and his travelling troupe of mostly house trained comics artists to celebrate the launch of Com.x’s Forty Five graphic novel this very afternoon – FPI Cardiff, 5 Duke Street, from 1pm on today, come on down!

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Forty Five launches this weekend in Cardiff

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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A reminder that this Saturday (23rd) sees a whole gang of folks from Com.X‘s multi-creator graphic novel Forty Five in the Cardiff Forbidden Planet store (5 Duke Street, phone 02920 228885), with numerous artists joining writer Andi Ewington for a signing starting at 1pm, so please do come on down, enjoy yourselves, get your books [...]

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Burke and Hare signing in Edinburgh

Friday, January 15, 2010

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A reminder that we have Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering coming to our Edinburgh store on Southbridge on Thursday January 28th to sign copies of their recently published Burke and Hare graphic novel (reviewed here by Richard); for those with a literary bent and a fascination for history the boys will also be taking part [...]

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Forty Five launching at Forbidden Planet Cardiff

Monday, January 11, 2010

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Com.X‘s intriguing new multi-creator graphic novel Forty Five will be getting its big launch at our Cardiff FPI this month; the book, penned by Andi Ewington, boasts a huge array of comics artists, each contributing a page to Andi’s tale of a journalist interviewing forty five superpowered heroes as he awaits the birth of his [...]

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Ian Rankin signing in Edinburgh

Friday, December 11, 2009

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We had the pleasure of hosting bestselling author Ian Rankin in the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet last night, signing copies of his debut graphic novel Dark Entries, which sees John Constantine involved in a demonic reality show (what do you mean, all reality shows are secretly demonic?) for a delighted crowd of readers (click the pics [...]

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Reminder – Ian Rankin signing in Edinburgh tomorrow

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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For readers in and around Edinburgh, remember tomorrow evening we have bestselling author Ian Rankin coming in to sign copies of his comics debut Dark Entries from 5 to 7pm on our branch in Southbridge, just a haggis-toss from the Royal Mile, so please do come along (the event is free but ticketed, check with [...]

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Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering signing Burke and Hare in Edinburgh

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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I’m delighted to announce that the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet on South Bridge will be hosting Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering, who are coming through to celebrate the release of their fascinating new graphic novel detailing the grisly, true-life crimes of Messrs Burke and Hare, the infamous serial killers who saw the easy money to be [...]

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Ian Rankin signing in FP Edinburgh this week

Monday, December 7, 2009

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A reminder that this week we have internationally bestselling author Ian Rankin coming into our Edinburgh branch (40-41 South Bridge, just a moment’s walk from the historic Royal Mile). A lifelong comics fan, the creator of the incredibly successful Rebus novels will be here to sign copies of his comics debut Dark Entries, which sees [...]

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Stargate Atlantis’ Jason Momoa signing

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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It looks like Monday November 30th is going to be an especially great day for fans of the fantastic genres in Birmingham; as announced a few days ago the great Robert Englund will be in our Nostalgia & Comics store (14-16 Smallbrook, Queensway) in Brum that afternoon and now he will be joined by the [...]

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One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…

Friday, November 20, 2009

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One, two, Freddy’s coming for you, three four, better lock your door... Yes, folks, we have horror icon Robert Englund coming soon. Englund has been well known and beloved of SF and horror genre fans for many years, appearing in a large number of productions from playing the good alien in the original V mini-series [...]

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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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