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April 22, 2008
Posted 2 years, 6 months ago on April 22, 2008
Thanks to the lovely people over at Movies.ie, we have two pairs of tickets for the preview screening of Iron Man movie to give away. The screening will be held at Cineworld Cinemas, Parnell Street, Dublin 1 on Wednesday the 30th of April, so this is going to be a very fast competition!
So, to be in with a chance to win tickets, just tell us in which year did the character of Iron Man first appear in comics: was it 1953, 1963, or 1973? Send answers, along with your land address, marked Iron Man Competition, to pomealoid[at]yahoo[dot]com, and the first two answers out of the hat on the evening of Thursday 24th April will get tickets sent to them, courtesy of Movies.ie. That’s in two days, so get to it!
You can also enter another competition to win tickets on the Movies.ie website, here. All you have to do is sign up to the site.
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April 17, 2007
Posted 3 years, 8 months ago on April 17, 2007
Two Irish comics are on the short list for the prestigious Eagle Awards, the comics industry’s longest established awards, given annually since 1976 to the best comics worldwide, to be presented at the Bristol International Comic Expo on Saturday, May 12 2007.
The two comics nominated are Sancho, produced by 20000 Leagues, and primarily written and drawn by Alan Nolan and Ian Whelan, which is nominated in category 16: Favourite European Comics; and Adam Murray’s Drastic Comics, which is nominated in category 27: Favourite Web-Based Comic.
I asked the nominees for a few words on their nominations. Alan Nolan of 20000 Leagues had this to say:
Ian and I are delighted and thrilled to be nominated. Over the three issues so far we’ve tried to keep the quality as high as possible, and have really enjoyed working with collaborators such as Derek O’Connor (who edits www.blogorrah.com), Charlie Gillespie (Psi Judge Anderson, Sinister Dexter) and the incomparable Davy Francis (Oink!). This year has been going great for us with the launch of the well-received issue 3 and the “small press” story, The Drowned Village, in Judge Dredd Megazine. Winning the Eagle for Favourite European Comic would be the icing on the cake, of course, with competition from such greats as Blacksad and Asterix, who won the category last year. Hopefully this year the Gaul won’t be so indomitable!
Meanwhile, Adam Murray said this:
While I am very grateful for the Eagle nomination, it sets the dangerous precedent that I am somehow doing something worthwhile with Drastic
Polls close at midnight Sunday, April 22, 2007, so get voting!
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February 25, 2007
Posted 3 years, 10 months ago on February 25, 2007
The Aeon Award for 2006-2007, brought to you by the wonderful people at Albedo One, is still open for submissions.
The Aeon Award short story competition is designed to promote new writers by raising their profile. But a prize of €1000 for the winner and publication in Ireland’s premier magazine of SF&F for the top three stories – as chosen by renowned SF and fantasy author Ian Watson – doesn’t do any harm either.
The winner will be announced at the upcoming, high profile European Science Fiction Convention in Copenhagen in September 2007. The entry fee is €5 and the contest is open until the end of June next.
More details on the Albedo One website.
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January 31, 2007
Posted 3 years, 10 months ago on January 31, 2007
It’s less than 40 days to the next P-Con. This year’s Phoenix Convention, the fourth, will be held in Wynn’s Hotel on Abbey Street in Dublin over the weekend of the 10th and 11th of March next.
Guest of Honour at the convention is Kim Newman. Other guests include the editorial team from Albedo 1, Michael Carroll, Paul Cornell, Raven Dane, Diane Duane, George Green, Conor Kostick, Oisin McGann, Juliet E McKenna, Ken MacLeod, Deborah J. Miller, Leah Moore, Peter Morwood, C E Murphy, John Reppion, John W Sexton, Colin Smythe and Charlie Stross.
More information as always from the P-Con website.
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November 19, 2006
Posted 4 years, 1 month ago on November 19, 2006
The Oireachtas na Gaeilge Irish Language Book of the Year Award for Young People for 2006 has been won by writer and publisher, Colmán Ó Raghallaigh, of Cló Mhaigh Eo for his graphic novel An Táin.
The award of €10,000, which is sponsored by Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge, was announced by Minister Éamon Ó Cuív and presented by playwright Brian Friel at a special ceremony in the City Hotel, Derry yesterday. The event, which formed part of the annual Oireachtas na Gaeilge festival, was broadcast live by Raidió na Gaeltachta.
The winning title is a retelling in contemporary graphic novel form of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, the famous cattle-raid on Ulster. The shortlisted books were chosen for their content, design, layout, including text and illustrations, standard of printing and how they meet the needs of their target audience. In total 16 titles were entered in the Young People’s Competition and reduced to a shortlist of 3.
Source: Cló Mhaigh Eo
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July 30, 2006
Posted 4 years, 5 months ago on July 30, 2006
Octocon, the National Irish Science Fiction Convention, which takes place in the Glenroyal Hotel in Maynooth, Co. Kildare over the weekend of the 14th and 15th of October, has announced some of its guests. A Guest of Honour has not been announced so far, however.
The five guests announced so far, in alphabetical order, are local SF author Michael Carroll; local comics writer and publisher Robert Curley; Irish-based SF writer James P. Hogan; UK-based SF reviewer and commentator Edward James, and local filmmaker John Vaughan.
October’s event will also play host to this year’s James White Award short story competition award celebration.
If you are attending this year’s Mecon in Belfast in a few days’ time, you can buy an Octocon membership from one of the committee members who will be in attendance.
More Octocon updates, as always, on the Octocon website.
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July 11, 2006
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago on July 11, 2006
Irish bookshop chain Eason’s, in association with TokyoPop, are having a Manga Event in two of their Dublin bookshops on Friday the 14th of July.
The event will take place in the shop in Dundrum Shopping Centre from 12 midday, and in their O’Connell Street shop from 5 PM. In both cases these will be ticketed events, with free tickets available from the respective Customer information Desks.
As well as free gifts, a quiz, and a prize draw, both events will also feature guest appearances by rising Irish Manga creators Sinead Lynch and Leeann Hamilton, runners-up in the recent TokyoPop Rising Stars of Manga competition. They both also featured in a recent issue of Irish comic Havoc 21 with the excellent story Shinimegami Kate agus na Marbh Súile.
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July 6, 2006
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago on July 6, 2006
John Hendrick tells me this:
The 3rd Place in Association with Warner Brothers proudly presents:
SUPERMAN RETURNS
Date: July 14th 2006
Venue: Cineworld, Parnell Street
Film Time: 21:00
How To Qualify For a Free Ticket:
1: Spend 20 Euro or more in The 3rd Place between now and 8 P.M. on July 13th and you will be entered into a draw to win one of 20 passes to Superman Returns.
2: Winning Entrants will be notified by 1 P.M. on the 14th of July, passes will be made available for collection at The 3rd Place on July 14th up to 7:30 P.M. Winning entrants will be notified by phone once only. If you don’t answer the phone you don’t get your pass.
3: For Further information contact The 3rd Place on 01-6336964 or info[at]irishcomicshop.com
4: One entry per purchase of €20. Customers can enter as often as they like.
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July 4, 2006
Posted 4 years, 6 months ago on July 4, 2006
Word reaches me from Albedo One, Ireland’s Magazine of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, that they are launching the Aeon Award for 2006-2007, with a grand prize of €1000, as well as guaranteed publication in a future issue of Albedo One. This is a competition for short fiction in any speculative genre.
The inaugural award, for the period 2004-2005, was won by Julian West for his story My Marriage, eventually chosen from a shortlist by well-known writer Ian Watson, with the award ceremony being part of 2005 Worldcon SF Convention in Glasgow. Julian has also won the other Irish SF short story competition, the James White Award.
Full guidelines for submissions can be found on the Albedo One website. In brief, however: stories should be no longer than 8000 words, can be sent either snail mail or electronically, and require an entrance fee of either €5, STG£4 or US$6. Stories will be judged by a panel of judges on a ongoing basis, with the final deadline for submissions being June 2007. The final shortlist of stories will once again be sent to Ian Watson, who will chose the winner. The top three stories will be published in Albedo One.
So get writing, folks!
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June 2, 2006
Posted 4 years, 7 months ago on June 2, 2006
Two of Dublin’s comic shops are getting caught up in a Civil War. This is not between themselves, of course, but rather ties in with Marvel Comics’ big summer event, Civil War.
This, for those who don’t know about these things, is where the comic company have a storyline running through all of their titles during the summer, hopefully to boost sales. This time around, Marvel’s summer offering is called Civil War, and pits lots of the Marvel Universe’s characters against one another. By all accounts, this is proving to be phenomenally popular, and both SubCity in Exchequer Street and The 3rd Place in Crow Street are running promotions to add to the excitement.
Robert Curley of SubCity is running a competition for those who pre-order the second issue of the series. In his email newsletter he says:
With the summer on the way Marvel are pulling out the big guns with Civil War. To celebrate its success and to add to the hype we have concocted our own competition for the crossover.
If you pre-book your copy of Civil War #2 you will be automatically entered into a draw to win the following:
1. A 1 in 75 sketch variant cover of that issue, as well as the rest of the Civil War main title and all related tie-ins absolutely free.
Also, the first twenty runners up will receive their copy of Civil War #3 absolutely free.
Rob
Meantime, John Hendrick of The 3rd Place is planning on opening late to allow the public to buy Civil War #2 at midnight. In his weekly email, he says:
The 3rd Place Civil War #2 Midnight Opening
Store Opens 00:01 A.M. 15/06/2006
We would just like to inform you all of our first ever midnight opening in honour of what will be the most talked about comic book of recent years, Civil War #2.
Although we’ve no idea what exactly happens in this issue Mark Millar [the writer of the comic] has gone on record as saying that both this and issue #3 will be HUGE and in anticipation of this we are offering all our customers the chance to get their hands on Civil War #2 at one minute past midnight on the night of Wednesday the 14th of June, going into Thursday the 15th.
The reason why we’re doing this is that the store will be hosting a number of events throughout the year in aid of the Crohn’s Disease lab Millar has started fund raising for. I know a number of people that suffer with this disease and it can be extremely debilitating.
Now here’s the hook, this is the part where we get cash out of you. We’re offering anyone who buys Civil War on the night a chance to get it signed by Mark Millar. We’re going to pay the postage for your copy of Civil War to arrive at Stately Millar Manor and be sent back for the paltry sum of five Euro. Yep that’s right only 5 quid. And that fiver will then be donated to the Crohn’s lab. Obviously the first ten people will receive their goody bags but now everyone has a chance to get their copies signed.
And all for a fiver.
What’s even better is, is that whatever the shop raises from the night I’ll then match and send on. How does that sound?
There’s more information about this on the Millarworld Forum, here.
Both shops run electronic newsletters. You can subscribe to them by sending a mail to the relevant address below:
SubCity: robsubcity[at]Eircom[dot]net
The 3rd Place: info[at]irishcomicshop[dot]com
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