Streets of My Town: Auld Alliance Comics Festival 2026

Auld Alliance Comics Festival 2026, Edinburgh What a pleasure it was to attend the Auld Alliance Comics Festival 2026. Organised by La Belle Adventure bookshop in partnership with the Institut Français d’Écosse, the festival brought together Scottish and French comics creators in one of Edinburgh’s most beautiful cultural venues. La Belle Adventure is an amazing shop in Leith Walk specialising in bande dessinée and stocking … Continue reading Streets of My Town: Auld Alliance Comics Festival 2026

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Event, Review

Three Chords and a Photocopier (or a Riso machine)

Edinburgh Zine Fair – Nov 1st 2025 Comics and zines – close relatives but different in many ways. Like homo neanderthalis and homo florensis. A comic can be a zine and a zine can be a comic, or not. For me the essence of being a zine is DIY. Scalpel and Pritt Stick, printer and photocopier. The ever present Risograph – I mean if you … Continue reading Three Chords and a Photocopier (or a Riso machine)

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Event

Ghostly Glasgow

Ghost Comics Festival 2019 – Glasgow School of Art I dropped in on the Ghost Comics Festival at the weekend. This was a new event for me – I only heard about it a few days before, and it so happened I was going to be in Glasgow that day. There were a number of other events running as part of the festival including workshops … Continue reading Ghostly Glasgow

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