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At 9pm on this semi-cold February evening, I left my warm house after a warm dinner to come and join the assembled collective of artists, writers and getters-of-sugar-and-all-things-sustaining, all conspiring together in Aras na MacLeinn to produce a many paged behemoth of great importance to the co

Last Monday, actor, director, writer, debutante and all round tall guy, Shaun Leonard, took time out of his busy schedule (scraping ceilings) to drop into our weekly meeting to drop a few superhero knowledge bombs on all of us. I now profess myself as something of a no-cape zone, but found myself ve

For this weeks talk, our elder statesman, Gar O’Brien, gave part 1 of his talk on comic books you have heard of (probably – or at least should know about and get your read on of) Final Crisis (Grant Morrisson [writer], J.G. Jones [artist] & Marco Rudy [artist])       Batman & Robin Must Die [...]

The wonderful and lovely (not SHOUTING. never SHOUTING) Matt Burke came to visit ComicSoc’s Monday meeting tonight, and schooled us all in a world of comic books (most of us) had unheard of – til now. We hope very shortly to have Matt’s mellifluous tones and accompanying presentation online for you

This literally just in. Eoin Butler Thornton, being the fearless discoverer of information that is required of him, recently discovered a small amount of essential comic book reading material available in the library. Here follows a short list Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons: This graphic novel