Tag Archive | "zombies"

Max Brooks in FP Glasgow today!

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Glasgow peeps and assorted zombies, don’t forget this evening we have World War Z author Max Brooks coming into our Glasgow store on Buchanan Street, right round the corner from where some of the filming for the movie vesion of his book has been going on, from 5.30 to 6.30pm!

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Zombie guide to the library

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

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I love this – BoingBoing reports that McPherson College Library has created a tutorial in comics form (with zombies!) as a guide to how to use the library. Brilliant! I could have used this back in my college days, I worked part time in the college library and was constantly amazed how some undergrads could [...]

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Sprouse, Witterstaetter, McKinnon and Adkins in FP Glasgow

Thursday, April 21, 2011

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The Glasgow Forbidden Planet International has a couple of great in-store events coming up for your pleasure next month. On Saturday May 14th Iain McKinnon and Travis Adkins will be in the store (on Buchanan Street, right by the Underground) from 4 to 6pm to sign their work – there will also be face painting [...]

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Zombie holidays

Friday, December 24, 2010

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Zombies – the undead apocalypse can be a nuisance at the best of times, but during the festive season it can really ruin your family holidays, so here’s some proper, good old-fashioned 50s style advice for dealing with a zombie outbreak over Christmas (via BoingBoing):

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Superheroes – Picasso style

Friday, November 5, 2010

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It’s the superheroes we’ve known and loved for decades, but influenced by the stylings of one of the 20th century’s most famous artists – yes, it’s Picasso style superheroes by Mike and Matt, the Wonderbros – their selling the portraits on their Etsy store, alongside their zombie Beatles (via Blastr and High Definite)

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In this week’s new releases: ducks, zombies and classic Brit boy’s war comics

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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It’s a bumper week for new releases, with a slew of graphic novels hitting our shelves for New Comic Day this very morning. But purely for the sheer visual fun of it this cover for Marvel Zombies Volume 5 made me smile, big time – I mean it’s Howard the Duck and he’s kicking undead [...]

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Villemolle 81 out on DVD

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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Full disclosure : I am a huge fan of the French publisher Les Requins Marteaux, and expecially of the books of one of their star cartoonists, Winshluss.  I am in awe of their ability to combine the grossest and most obnoxious subject matter with an absolute obsession with artistic and production quality.  Winschluss’s Pinocchio, in [...]

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Walking Dead behind the scenes

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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Enjoy a glimpse behind the scene of the forthcoming AMC TV adaptation of Kirkman and Adlard’s brilliant Walking Dead series which hits the US screens this autumn and the UK screens fairly soon afterwards (I haven’t seen a date yet, but FX in the UK have been showing clips from it in their upcoming new [...]

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The dead shall walk… Leeds

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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Sabrina Peyton alerts us to the fact that the walking dead shall be shambling their way through Leeds for charity on the 21st of November as part of Zombie Aid, the day after the upcoming Thought Bubble comics bash in Leeds, so it’s going to be a happening weekend there (please remember some zombies may [...]

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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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Lock up your brains: zombies hit the Edinburgh Fringe

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

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On Sunday 8th the Edinburgh chapter of Zombie-Aid will trudge and stagger their decrepit and decomposing way through the streets of the city, staggering through the massive Edinburgh Festival crowds, while on the Fringe there’s a showing of How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. Check their Facebook group for more info and I believe it [...]

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Walking Dead panel

Monday, July 26, 2010

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TFAW has been busy posting up video from the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con (check their YouTube channel here), including, I couldn’t help but notice, a panel with Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and Frank Darabont and others discussing the eagerly anticipated television adaptation of Kirkman and Adlard’s brilliant The Walking Dead zombie comics series, [...]

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Zombies at Tiffany’s

Monday, July 12, 2010

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How awesome is this? A zombie Adurey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s – it’s a cake based on a t-shirt design for Threadless. (via BoingBoing)

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Do zombies read comics?

Monday, March 22, 2010

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Thought Bubble Comics channel on YouTube has posted up a nearly ten minute video, part one of a panel discussion from last year’s Thought Bubble recorded in Saville Hall in Leeds with Charlie Adlard, Sean Phillips, Anthony Johnston and Ben Templesmith all discussing horror comics:

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Best new cover for a loooong time

Saturday, February 13, 2010

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The new Vertigo series I, Zombie by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred has not one but two great covers. Although no matter how good Allred’s cover is, the Darwyn Cooke variant just blows it away: Described as “a smart, witty detective series with a mix of urban fantasy and romantic dramedy … told from female [...]

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