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Comic Book Guy: The Ultimates
Thanks to the success and added controversy of the Kick Ass graphic novel and its near hundred million dollar grossing movie counterpart, Glasgow-based Mark ... Read more »| 12 Jul 2010 -
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The Power of Golden Hour!
Golden Hour comes to the Spiegeltent - brace yourselves... Read more »| 01 Jul 2010 -
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Keeping It Irregular
Irregular is a literary club night, which runs, yes, irregularly, and is put on by Canongate publishing. Canongate’s Francis Bickford told us, “W... Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
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A Bit of Bissett
A chat with renowned author Alan Bissett about Discombobulate, his work in general, and storytelling Read more »| 30 Jun 2010 -
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Opening Doors to New Writing
The Year of Open Doors is an upcoming collection of new Scottish writing, edited by Rodge Glass (properly: Dr Rodge Glass, novelist and eminent Gravian) and published by Mark Buckland (properly: Mr M. Buckland esq, head of Cargo Publishing), which will showcase a selection of its stories at Unbound on 22 August. The Skinny met up with the pair to talk books, events and Tory names Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
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Unbound at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Unbound events happen every night from 15 to 30 August in the Highland Park Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square, part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. All events bar the closing party are free and unticketed. To get in, simply turn up on the night. We suggest arriving in advance of the start time for a better chance of securing a seat. Events start at 9pm and the bar is open until 1am Read more »| 29 Jun 2010
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A Night of Sex in the Gutter!
That's Gutter Magazine, so don't get too excited. Or maybe you should, because they've a very unusual event planned... Read more »| 29 Jun 2010 -
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Comic Book Guy: Let's Get Wasted
Even those who can’t read know that you are not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but when it comes to issue #4 of Bad Press Ltd’s Wasted yo... Read more »| 11 Jun 2010 -
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Comic Book Guy: Thunderbolts
In the comic book world there are staple story arcs that just continue to work, whether this may be a cross-over event featuring two favourite characters com... Read more »| 04 Jun 2010 -
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Comic Book Guy: We Could Be Heroes
All good things must come to an end, preferably sooner if they haven’t been good for a while, as May saw American network NBC cancel their once huge He... Read more »| 25 May 2010 -
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Comic Book Guy: The L-Team
It’s never a great idea to double-cross a team of crack soldiers each with their own specialist abilities, yet clandestine agencies continue to fall fo... Read more »| 24 May 2010 -
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Comic Book Guy: Out of the Darkness
This week in the Marvel universe saw the end of an event continually pushed as ‘seven years in the making’. The four-part Siege focused on Norman... Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
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Comic Book Guy: Rise of the Graphic Novel
Bob Dylan’s The times they are a changing choruses slowly over the opening credits of The Watchmen, before crime fighters in slightly camp-looking cost... Read more »| 17 May 2010 -
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Tell Me a Story...
Stories and tales, poems and ceilidhs, Music and dancing and opera for babies! There's a lot going on at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.... Read more »| 02 Apr 2010 -
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All's Right at Aye Write!
The Aye Write! festival is back, with as strong a lineup as ever. Read more »| 23 Feb 2010