Aye Write!, Glasgow’s Book Festival, run by Glasgow Council’s libraries department at the Mitchell Library is much smaller than Edinburgh’s International Book Festival but normally turns up some comics talks and this year is no exception. Writing For Graphic Novels… Read More ›
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Comics @ Glasgow Film Festival
Comics fans in Scotland have until now been looking at a prolonged dry spell when it came to major comics events in the country in the first half of 2011 with the postponement of the Hi-Ex convention expected in March… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Comic Heroes, Jon Haward, Dragons and Night Salad
We’ve run Mr Matthew Badham ragged with our demands on his multi-layered brain, so he’s taking a little break. You will, instead, have to put up with my meanderings around various British comic creators equally meandering (at times, anyway) web… Read More ›
Metaphrog’s Louis – Night Salad graphic novel gets YouTube trail
A trailer for the Louis – Night Salad graphic novel, created by Scotland’s fab folks metaphrog, is now live on YouTube. “Our friend hey from Berlin has made an amazing soundtrack inspired by Bach’s beautifully emotive “Air on a G-string”… Read More ›
Forfar ‘Phrogs
The Glasgow based graphic novelists Metaphrog, who are artist Sandra Marrs and writer John Chalmers, are a busy pair when it comes to giving talks and demonstrations of their work on the Louis graphic novel series. Most of the events… Read More ›
Hard Working ‘Phrogs
For Glasgow based graphic novelists Metaphrog, who are artist Sandra Marrs and writer John Chalmers, 2009 has been a busy year. As part of National Poetry Day in October they adapted the poem The First Men on Mercury by Edwin… Read More ›
Comics, science fiction and poetry
Next month sees the return of National Poetry Day in the UK, with a theme sure to appeal to comics as well as poetry fans – Heroes and Heroines. To mark the day, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has… Read More ›
Bristol Expo Sells Out, No Tickets on Door
With four weeks still to go, tickets for this May’s Bristol International Comic Expo (featuring the Small Press Expo) at the Ramada Plaza Hotel on 9th and 10th May 2009 (and Mercure Holland House Hotel (Sat 9th only) have completely… Read More ›
Biff! Bam!! Crikey!!! Seeing New Worlds In Dundee
Scotland is currently in the middle of the Six Cities Design Festival and Dundee, the home of Beano and Dandy publishers DC Thomson, has been running comics related events as part of the festival. Jeremy Briggs reports… The Dundee Contemporary Arts… Read More ›