Archive | September, 2005

Radio blog

30. September 2005

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Your humble blogger will be making a brief appearance on BBC Radio Five this Sunday to talk about blogging for business and pleasure. The piece is called the Five Live Report by by Saira Khan and is part of the Julian Worricker show. The programme goes out at 10.30am on 5 Live 909 / 693 [...]

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Dusk

30. September 2005

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Bram Stoker Award-winning author Tim Lebbon and his publishers at Bantam (US) very kindly sent me an advance copy of his new fantasy novel, Dusk, which is due in January. Tim is a respected British author but like some other writers here, such as Willie Meikle, has had better luck with the US publishing industry. [...]

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Marvel’s Carnivale

29. September 2005

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No, the House of Ideas isn’t going to Rio. But Marvel has just announced that Daniel Knauf, the creator of the disturbingly fascinating Carnivale series has become the latest TV writer to be signed up; Knauf will be writing six issues of Iron Man in 2006 for Marvel. He was quoted on Marvel’s site: “What [...]

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Courtney

27. September 2005

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Tinsel Town’s trade paper, Variety, reports that Graham Tallman has been hired to work on the script for the proposed film adaptation of Ted Naifeh’s wonderful Courtney Crumrin series from Oni Press. Effects legend Stan Winston may be involved in producing the film, which has to be good news for the creature effects. Ted’s delightful [...]

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Inkwell raises funds

27. September 2005

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Joe Quesada has been quoted on various comics sites today explaining the impressive amount of money that the comic charity Inkwell has raised for relief for victims of the recent horrendous hurricane in and around New Orleans. Many folks from throughout comicdom contributed money, collectable editions, art and other objects for the auction – well [...]

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Edinburgh sale

23. September 2005

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The FPI Edinburgh crew tell me that they are holding a special sale on a selection of books and T-shirts. Some Ts are up to 40% off the original price while some of the hardback novels have ten pounds off, including some copies of Saturna’s Quest by Star Trek legend Nichelle Nicholls, signed by Nichelle [...]

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FPI 2 – This time it’s personal

23. September 2005

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The time is drawing near for the second issue of our FPI magazine to hit the shelves (only a week or two to go!), so it’s over to FPI’s editor Matt Camp for a sneak peek at some of the goodies we have coming up for you in the second issue: “The second issue will [...]

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Talking books

22. September 2005

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Cheryl over on Emerald City reports that Jim Kelly has recorded some of his own short stories and can be heard reading them back in his own dulcet tones via free downloads (although if you would care to make a donation it is more than welcome). Sounds (sorry, very bad pun) like a great idea [...]

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Fantagraphics

20. September 2005

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The advance list for Fantagraphics January is now available for your perusing delight on the graphic novel site. There are two BLAB! Storybooks, both of which give the (misleading) appearance of being aimed at children but are really for adults: The Magic Bottle by Camille Rose Garcia which sounds like a fetching modern fairy tale [...]

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DC December

19. September 2005

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The advance details are now live on our graphic novel site for DC’s December releases. There are some choice selections you may wish to add to you wish list for your Christmas stocking, from the superheroic, such as Batgirl: Kicking Assassins and Lex Luthor: Man of Steel, to fantasy (the twelfth volume of ElfQuest) and [...]

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Edinburgh SF Book Group

19. September 2005

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The next meeting of the Edinburgh SF Book Group will take place on Tuesday the 4th of October at 6pm in Henderson’s 94 Hanover Street (the very tasty wholefood and veggie restaurant/café) in the New Town. The book under discussion in October will be V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. This once [...]

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Media – confirmations and possibilities

16. September 2005

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SciFi Channel has confirmed a third season for the revamped (and quite excellent I think) Battlestar Galactica series. Last year saw an unusual event where we poor souls in the UK got to see the series well ahead of the US audiences. Alas this year things have reverted to type with US SciFi showing season [...]

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Ultimate Lost

16. September 2005

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The leaked story that has been doing the rounds on the web comic forums and news spots like the Beat and Newsrama has been confirmed in USA Today with an article reporting that Damon Lindelof, co-creator of the hit series Lost has signed up to marvel. He is scripting Ultimate Wolverine Versus Hulk, a six [...]

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Rebellion

15. September 2005

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Our good chums over at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic have been kind enough to supply us with Rebellion’s latest release schedule. It’s fuller than the League of Fatties’ meeting room on chocolate cake night, replete with the finest tales from 2000 AD comic and we have some excellent graphic novels for you going right up [...]

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Swimini Purpose

15. September 2005

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What do such diverse tales such as Reboot and Rogan Gosh have in common with MTV videos, pop art, some cool 2000AD covers and the new Mad Max movie? The answer is one of the top Brit artists (in a number of fields, both in comics and without) Brendan McCarthy. With Peter Milligan he co-created [...]

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