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Joe has been a bookseller since the early 1990s, with a special love for comics, graphic novels and science fiction. He has written for The Alien Online, created & edited the Forbidden Planet Blog and chaired numerous events for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He's more or less house-trained.

• In Review: Alan Moore takes us to The Great When

  By Joe Gordon on October 2, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Joe Gordon checks out Alan Moore’s latest novel

• La Belle Adventure – A new European Graphic Novel bookshop in Edinburgh

  By Joe Gordon on June 7, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  Joe Gordon explores Edinburgh’s newest comic shop…

• In Review: “Le Monde Sans Fin” Exhibition, Edinburgh

  By Joe Gordon on April 23, 2024

  

  Joe Gorodn checks out the thought-provoking exhibition at Institut Francais D’Ecosse

• In Review: Making It So, the memoirs of Sir Patrick Stewart

  By Joe Gordon on November 5, 2023

  

  Joe Gordon checks out actor and director Patrick Stewart’s new memoir

• Autumn 2023 Slate Announced for Avery Hill, new books from Owen D. Pomery, Claire Scully and George Wylesol

  By Joe Gordon on April 14, 2023

  

  The very fine Indy comics press crew at Avery Hill Publishing have announced their slate of planned releases for autumn of 2023, and those of us who have been following this publisher since the early days will be delighted to… Read More ›

• 2023 Independent Bookshop of the Year Awards regional and country winners announced

  By Joe Gordon on March 17, 2023

  

  The winners for the annual regional and country sections of the Independent Bookshop of the Year Awards, part of the British Book Awards and sponsored by Gardners distribution, have been announced. I’m beyond delighted to say that the small but… Read More ›

• Doctor Who: Worlds of Wonder Exhibition

  By Joe Gordon on January 10, 2023 • ( 3 )

  

  Joe Gordon explores the latest Doctor Who exhibition, now in Edinburgh

• “Pure joy” – Bumble & Snug and the Excited Unicorn

  By Joe Gordon on July 15, 2022

  

  Joe Gordon has been waiting for this new book from Mark Bradley for AGES – and isn’t disappointed!

• BFI Announces Major Anime Season

  By Joe Gordon on March 15, 2022

  

  Visit the BFI and be surprised that Anime can be so much more than you ever imagined…

• In Review: Art Deco Dredd with Megatropolis

  By Joe Gordon on October 10, 2021

  

  Joe Gordon checks out a stunning alternate take on Mega City One from Kenneth Niemand and Dave Taylor…

• In Review: Putin’s Russia – the Rise of a Dictator

  By Joe Gordon on September 16, 2021

  

  Darryl Cunningham delivers a complex, fascinating, disturbing history of Russia’s president, says Joe Gordon…

• In Review: The Stainless Steel Rat Deluxe Edition

  By Joe Gordon on August 5, 2021

  

  Pitch perfect, it’s great to see The Stainless Steel Rat back in action