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MattC Nov 26, 2022

It’s #scottishcomicbookday today. Here are a few projects I’ve written and will be coming out next year. ‘drops 2’ continues the story of the first with more psychological horror and political action. ‘Worm’ is an emotional relationship drama. And ‘Fates’ is a science-fiction tale split across three times. #comics #amwriting. You can find all my work at towerhillpress.com

Assoc for Scottish Literature Nov 26, 2022

Move over Gotham, there’s a more important city in comic-book history. #Glasgow is home to the world’s first comic, The Glasgow Looking Glass, which first appeared on 11 June, 1825. This podcast from the University of Glasgow’s College of Arts uncovers the story
#ScottishComicBookDay
img: “A Regular Row”, Vol 1, no. 14, 9 Jan 1826
#Scottish #19thcentury #periodicals #literature #culture
https://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/arts/aboutus/socialmedia/podcast/headline_889312_en.html

Stories from Glasgow: Episode Two - The World’s First Comic

Move over Gotham, there’s a more important city in comic book history. Glasgow is home to the world’s first comic, The Glasgow Looking Glass, and in this episode, we’re uncovering its fascinating story.

Quindrie Press Nov 26, 2022

Happy #ScottishComicBookDay! To celebrate, we're having a sale in our online shop until 10pm tonight: all PDFs are 50% off, and all books are 20% off! Slàinte mhath, a chairdean!

📚 Books: http://quindriepress.com/books
📜 PDFs: http://quindriepress.com/pdfs

Quindrie Press

Assoc for Scottish Literature Nov 26, 2022

—We come in peace from the third planet.
Would you take us to your leader?

Edwin Morgan’s #sciencefiction #poem “The First Men on Mercury” in comic strip form, by the amazing Glasgow #comics duo metaphrog
#ScottishComicBookDay

Download it free – with free teaching notes too – here:
http://metaphrog.com/the-first-men-on-mercury/

THE FIRST MEN ON MERCURY

John Chalmers & Sandra Marrs

Assoc for Scottish Literature Nov 26, 2022

IT’S LALDIE TIME!

In this article from 2009, Prof Alan Riach looks at Scotland in #comics, from home-grown heroes to the (pre-MCU) tartan adventures of #Batman, #SpiderMan, #NickFury & others

#ScottishComicBookDay
img: Middenface McNulty, by Carlos Ezquerra
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2009/05/its-laldie-time-scotland-and-the-comic-books/

It's laldie time! Scotland and the Comic Books - The Bottle Imp

It’s a familiar story: the vast popularity of Walter Scott helped promulgate the visualisation of Scotland as Romantic landscape, wild seascape or urban or Gothic cityscape. This process was well underway in paintings of the nineteenth century and the images associated with the country entered popular consciousness often with little regard for the material conditions […]

The Bottle Imp