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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...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!
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 11, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 20, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...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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