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University Of Northampton Labels V for Vendetta For Upsetting Material
The University Of Northampton has been criticised after a Freedom of Information request by The Mail on Sunday revealed that the University had included explicit warnings on certain books on courses They, naturally jump on the ironies of 1984 by George Orwell being included on the grounds that it contains 'explicit material' which some students[...]
Northampton Opens The Panel Gallery, Dedicated To Comic Book Artwork
In comic book circles, Northampton is best known as the home town of comic book writer Alan Moore, and it features prominently in much of his work, including The BoJeffries Saga, Big Numbers, Voice Of The Fire, Jerusalem, Show Pieces, and The Show But the English town may be about to have yet another claim[...]
Alan Moore’s The Show: Shout! Acquires North American Rights
Written by Moore and directed by Mitch Jenkins, the film will be launched on all major platforms later this year. Tom Burke in Alan Moore's "The Show," Protagonist Pictures The movie stars Tom Burke as a mysterious man who arrives in Northampton on a mysterious mission to find a stolen artifact for his menacing client[...]
And Finally… When Alan Moore And Friends Talked Counter Culture For A Day
Thanks to SpaceGuruu, who went to an day of counter culture discussion at Northampton University , called Under The Austerity The Beach with Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie, Robin Ince, Scroobius Pip, Josie Long and more. And who videoed and edited a few clips… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJYFxD1kk6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCkTPZcAlvkVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: AUSTERITY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCkTPZcAlvk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCkTPZcAlvkVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript[...]
Alan Moore's Open Letter To Northampton Council Makes The Front Page
We've covered a few of those efforts. Earlier this year, the Northampton Herald & Post reported on Alan Moore working with the library and children who had been excluded from school, as Moore himself was as a teenager. A very personal connection, he agreed to gie the project the name Voices Of The Fire, after Moore's Northampton-set novel Voice Of[...]
Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic Gets An Italian Job
It has been noted that if you meet Alan Moore in Northampton, he is more than likely to take you to an Italian restaurant of his favour. Well, maybe they might be interested in stocking this publication. The Best Of Dodgem Logic collects a number of articles, features and comics from the much loved Alan Moore-created magazine,[...]
Alan Moore – "I'm Going To A Comic Convention By Accident"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQHRjocfWb4[/youtube] Alan Moore talks about attending N.I.C.E., a comic convention near Northampton this weekend Tickets still available, and Bleeding Cool's Tom Huxley will be in attendance. And here's that Withnail And I clip to refresh your memory… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2P9Px3enI[/youtube] [...]
The Comic Book Convention With A Theme Park – And Alan Moore
David decided to tell us why; Jeff Chahal runs the Close Encounters comics shops in Bedford and Northampton and is known for hosting some of the coolest signing sessions in the UK Several months back Jeff told me about his plans for a new kind of Comic Convention with a more laid-back style than the usual[...]
Alan Moore's Local Shop Boycotts Before Watchmen
In this video, around the fourteen minute mark, blogger Ghost Critic reports that the comic shop Close Encounters in Northampton, the organisers of the NICE convention in September, has chosen not to order the Before Watchmen line of comic books. And he's rather ambivalent about the whole situation… is this censorship? Is this a favour for[...]
Alan Moore To Guest At Northampton Comic Convention (UPDATE)
The folks at Close Encounters, a comic shop in Northampton, England, are organising a comic convention for later in the year, possibly around September time, the Northants International Comics Expo. They will confirm fifteen guests on Monday. One of those guests will be Alan Moore. Intriguingly, admission will be gained by donating a graphic novel for a local[...]
Alan Moore Participates In "Read-In" To Save Local Library
On February the 5th, there will be a protest "read in" at the St James Library in Northampton with Alan Moore, that follows a protest held there tomorrow from midday to 2pm. The library, along with many others, is suffering from local council budget cuts as the British government has been reducing council funding Alan Moore[...]
Alan Moore Campaigns Against Local Library Closures
Remember, remember, the fifth of February… That's when Alan Moore will be speaking at a reading event, part of an event to campaign against the planned potential closure of the St James Library in his home town of Northampton. The library is one of eight that may be closed by the local council as part of spending[...]
Alan Moore Plays Santa Claus To Northampton
Well he does have the beard for it. According to the Northampton Chronicle, Alan Moore is using the profits from his Dodgem Logic magazine to donate three hundred Christmas hampers to Northampton residents living in sheltered housing located in Spring Boroughs, the area he grew up in, and to the Northampton homeless drop-in centre through[...]
Alan Moore's Magical Northampton Tour by Casey Lau
Casey Lau writes for Bleeding Cool. I've been reading Alan Moore's work since I worked at a comic shop in Vancouver and reading Watchmen monthly as it came out totally destroyed my love for The Uncanny X-Men even though I probably only understood half of it. Rich Johnston, proprietor of one of my favorite comic book blogs[...]