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Comic Book Guy: Free Comic Book Day
This Saturday 7 May is a very auspicious day in the comic book calendar: it is Free Comic Book Day, held the first Saturday of every may since 2002. This doe... Read more »| 03 May 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: A Royal Kerching
Mugs, ashtrays, tea towels, lighters, cottage cream fudge, pens, pencils, scrapbooks, t-shirts, banners, books, DVDs, dress up dolls, cup cake toppers, lifes... Read more »| 28 Apr 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Feisty and fearless, feminist and ferocious, adventurer, investigator and collector of rare artefacts… This is not the gun-toting, hotpant adventures ... Read more »| 20 Apr 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: The Weekend That Was Kapow! Comic Con 2011
This past weekend saw the inaugural Kapow! Comic Con bathed in weather normally reserved for its California counterpart. Shame then, it was indoors. But ther... Read more »| 13 Apr 2011 -
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Glen Duncan: The Wolf Returns
Why would an acclaimed literary author write a book about werewolves and vampires? Why not, asks Glen Duncan Read more »| 07 Apr 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: The Weekend That Was WonderCon 2011
The organisers of WonderCon are no fools and on 1 April they celebrated their 25th anniversary as one of the leading comic book and arts conventions. The 201... Read more »| 06 Apr 2011
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Comic Book Guy: Kapow! Comic Con
Some people just don’t know when to stop. Not content with being the biggest selling British comic book writer of the last decade, spearheading his cre... Read more »| 29 Mar 2011 -
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New Books by the Cargo Crate
New publishing ‘label’ Cargo Crate describes itself as Scotland’s first eBook/print-on-demand publisher, and it has big ambitions for the future of ‘the book’ Read more »| 25 Mar 2011 -
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Some Standouts at StAnza
Want to learn more about poetry in one fell swoop? Fancy a trip to St Andrews? Read on... Read more »| 04 Mar 2011 -
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Doug Johnstone: Whisky Galore, And A Wee Bit More
Doug Johnstone's third novel, Smokeheads, is a thriller set on the island of Islay, whisky's spiritual home Read more »| 03 Mar 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: The Man Who Would Be Superman
Recently it was announced that the very English Henry Cavill of Tudors fame would don the blue tights, then slip the red underwear to become the Man of Steel... Read more »| 02 Feb 2011 -
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Mills & Boon: 'I Read These, So You Don't Have To'
Valentine's Day is coming up, so why don't you read one of Mills and Boon's romance novels? Because of everything that follows, that's why not Read more »| 01 Feb 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: DC Universe Online
There truly is a second life to be had in playing MMO games (massively multiplayer online), with titles such as, erm, Second Life and World of Warcraft racki... Read more »| 07 Jan 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: 2010 in review
While a voting constitution consisting of a single person may be unethical and entirely unfair, with the end of 2010 approaching the time comes to highlight ... Read more »| 21 Dec 2010 -
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Ryan Van Winkle: A Work In Progress
Ryan Van Winkle, reader in residence at The Scottish Poetry Library, Editor of The Edinburgh Review, and used to write reviews for The Skinny. So when he said his first book of poems was being published, our Reading Editor was so sure it’d be great that he thought it be best to get him to critique it himself… Read more »| 20 Dec 2010