Our mole at Forbidden Planet Edinburgh shares his favourite film adaptations with us.It’s summer again, and, as has become usual, the cinema is already being dominated by movies about musclebound men in colourful suits, punching things. Whilst being a huge fan of all things superhero (I’ve already seen Avengers Assemble and…See More

Last week, we attended a talk by Heather Middleton, Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz, at Edinburgh Central Library. Heather took us through the almost secret history of women working in the comics industry, from silent partners of male counterparts to colourful society ladies, up to women of the modern age.  As one…See More

A couple of weeks ago, a huge number of publishers got together for a bookfair. The kind where you can’t even buy books (also known as the worst kind). As a student the whole thing is rather intimidating and tiring. I may not have been learning much while gaping open-mouthed at the scale of it all in my ill fitting, un-ironed ‘grownup’ clothes while the real grownups had important meetings and did important deals but at least there were talks. Most importantly at least there was a talk about…See More