On the same day as artist Bryan Talbot and others will be in Dundee for the Dundee Literary Festival, writer Alan Grant will be at Melrose in the Scottish Borders for the Borders Book Festival. Alan Grant will be interviewed… Read More ›
Scotland
Prestonpandemonium 3
A reminder for those readers in the south east of Scotland and the north east of England that Saturday 31 May sees the return of the Prestonpandemonium comic mart to Prestonpans just off the A1 near Edinburgh. The third PP… Read More ›
From Inverness, With Love: Hi-Ex 2009
After the success of Hi-Ex, the Highlands International Comics Expo in Inverness last February, the dates for the follow up convention have been announced. The 2009 Expo will take place on St Valentine’s weekend, Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 February… Read More ›
Dundee Literary Festival – Comics Day
Scotland’s love affair with comics continues in June in Dundee, the home of publishers D C Thomson. In January writer Alan Grant gave one of the Edinburgh Lectures, while February was the successful Hi-Ex comics convention in Inverness and the… Read More ›
In Review: Local Heroes Exhibition
Don’t miss this impressive exhibition
More Local Heroes Events In Edinburgh
The National Library of Scotland have released details of more free events to tie-in with their Local Heroes exhibition on the art of graphic novels. In addition to the events already mentioned here on downthetubes, two more talks plus two… Read More ›
Local Heroes Events in Edinburgh
As the National Library of Scotland’s graphic novel exhibition Local Heroes approaches, the Library have announced a program of talks in conjuction with the Edinburgh exhibition. On Wednesday 9 April at 7pm Alan Grant and Cam Kennedy will return to… Read More ›
Edinburgh Is Reading Jekyll And Hyde
Previously mentioned here on Down The Tubes, the 2008 One Book – One Edinburgh citywide reading campaign is now in full swing. After the success of Kidnapped in 2007, this year’s book is Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case Of Dr… Read More ›
Aye Write!
The third Aye Write! Book Festival takes place in Glasgow’s Mitchell Library from 7 to 15 March 2008. Included this year in the programme are talks by Scottish science fiction authors Iain M Banks and Ken MacLeod who will be… Read More ›
Hi-Ex Lives On
One of the organisers of the Hi-Ex comics convention in Inverness, Vicky Stonebridge, will be returning to Hi-Ex’s Eden Court venue on Sunday 25 May 2008 to host two workshops on How to Draw Manga. The two sessions will be… Read More ›