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But even he was really pushing it to the limit at the Stripped strand of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Not content with multiple press interviews, co-interviewing with Grant Morrison, hosting evening events, taking over the Book Festivals twitter stream, four talks and at least SIXTEEN hours of signing he also helped organise the whole[...]

Turns out that because it's a Book festival the organisers are only allowed to invite creators who have material that is either published or collected in a book format, this is fair enough but surely an exception could have been made for a panel celebrating a weekly comic? But none of that really mattered for the[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; While this may have been physically the last talk at the Stripped stand of the Edinburgh International Book Festival it had such a bum note and was so out of touch with the spirit of everything and everyone else that I'm dropping this report randomly in during the run[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; For the next talk at the Stripped stand of the Edinburgh Book Festival it was appropriate that it was wholly different from Rob Davis and Martin Rowson's discussion of heavyweight literary adaptation Instead we were in the world of deeply personal work, talking to Glyn Dillon and Jon McNaught[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; Looking at the massive amount of notes I (attempted) to take at the next talk at Stripped, the comics strand of the Edinburgh Book Festival, I realised we were in a totally different territory to the other talks as it was double the rest and was utterly scrawled[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; Just one of the fantastic things about the Stripped strand at the Edinburgh International Book Festival has been how it has celebrated comics in all of it shapes and forms And one of those most vibrant and exciting forms is the small press self published comic, with a[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; Now this was one talk I was really looking forward to at the Stripped strand at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Rutu Modan and Leanne Shapton And why was this one of the ones I was really looking forward to? Well I don't know about you I'm fed up people[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; For the second last talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festivals Stripped strand's Sunday programme I'll be honest I was starting to flag, not through boredom But purely because I think I'd mainlined so much comic's discussion my synapses were fit to burst with the amount of in depth[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; For the first talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival's Sunday programme what better a way to kick the day off with Lauren Beukes and Inaki Miranda, and to make it special this was the first time the two creators had met each other in real life, with Miranda[...]

Well that's exactly the task that Stephen Collins and Tom Gauld had to do at the first talk at the Stripped strand at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday lunchtime. Compared to the previous evenings events it was a much smaller crowd for this event with about forty people in the Peppers tent with the[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; For the final talk on the Saturday night at the Edinburgh International Book Festival we had what was probably the funniest most surreal talk of the entire weekend with Gareth Brookes and Hannah Berry being interviewed by David Bishop (he got everywhere all weekend). Earlier in the day Bishop had[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; Grant Morrison opened his talk at this years Edinburgh International Book Festival with openly acknowledging his debt to Alan Moore How strange considering how fractured their relationship has been in recent years Morrison revealed that his own route back into comics was by reading Alan Moore's comics in Warrior[...]

Gary Gray, our Senior Scottish Correspondent, writes; As part of the Stripped strand at the Edinburgh Book Festival Graphic Scotland held an awards ceremony for the inaugural 9th Art Awards  last night, as some of you may know the 9th Art is a French term that describes comics as being the ninth type of art. Graphic Scotland[...]

Laura Sneddon's full interview with Grant Morrison is on YouTube, as part of Edinburgh Book Festival's Stripped event, and why he's at the show. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJjWcOVBQkw[/youtube] Highlights include the word that Morrison listened to heavy metal music when writing Batman, he describes Annihilator with Frazer Irving as his "next Big Personal Thing" which will be followed by "something[...]