Archive | April, 2006

Jewish anti-Semitic cartoon winner

29. April 2006

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A while back I blogged about some of the Israeli cartoonists from Dimona who decided to pre-empt the Iranian newspapers who had run a Holocaust cartoon competition in response to the Danish cartoons of the Prophet. I’m afraid I missed hearing the result being announced, but better late than never here’s a link to a [...]

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Trek at Worldcon

29. April 2006

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Cheryl reports on Emerald City of a rather nice 40th anniversary celebration for Star Trek. The original pilot was shown some 40 years ago at Worldcon (I didn’t know that) and now the show will be returning to Worldcon, along with a number of guests including Marina Sirtis and Walter Koening.

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Edinburgh SF Book Group May

28. April 2006

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The May meeting of the Edinburgh SF Book Group will take place on Tuesday the 30th, from 6 to 7pm in Henderson’s on Hanover Street in the city’s New Town. The book under discussion will be Polystom by one of my personal favourite writers, Adam Roberts

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Pekar speaks

28. April 2006

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The Globe and Mail has a good interview with our favourite comics curmudgeon Harvey Pekar as he tours to support the publication of his new (a non American Splendor collection, despite the cover) graphic novel Ego & Hubris: the Michael Malice Story.

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Marvel makes more ‘Marvel’lous movies

28. April 2006

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Okay, how was that for alliteration?!?! The Hollywood Reporter covers some new Marvel movie news, specifically that Jon Favreau has been talen on to both develop and direct the big screen version of Iron Man (all together now, “I am Iron Man…” Yeah, you’ll have that song in your heads all day now, heh heh!). [...]

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Brainchild

28. April 2006

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Scott at Omnibucket points me in the direction of their site where you can check out a very limited run of a horror anthology entitled Brainchild. It is a delightfully macabre illustrated collection of short zombie stories, which looks like the perfect thing to read as you snack on fresh brains… Mmmm, brains… The site [...]

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Gibson’s Idoru to go anime

28. April 2006

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ICV2 picks up on a story from Now Playing Magazine who reported that the godfather of cyberpunk, William Gibson, has one of his books, Idoru, set to be adapted into an anime film by Alex Steyermark. With the focus on a heavily multimedia Tokyo and J-pop idols it seems like a perfect book to anime [...]

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Star Wars canvases

28. April 2006

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My colleagues have just added on some very cool new Star Wars items to the main webstore in the form of Star Wars artwork on canvas. There are several to choose from, limited editions, signed and numbered with a certificate for the serious collector. And yes, I was looking for any excuse to use a [...]

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Battlestar spin-off

27. April 2006

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The (in my opinion) excellent new Battlestar Galactica series is to give birth to a spin-off called Caprica, according to SciFi Wire. The producers pitched the idea to sponsors this week; the show would be set 50 years before the current show when the Colonies were at peace. It would take place at the time [...]

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The Arthur C Clarke winner

27. April 2006

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Cheryl on Emerald City had an early scoop, now confirmed on Locus – that towering talent (in both the physical and literary senses) Geoff Ryman has followed his success with the Tiptree and the more recent BSFA awards by scooping the coveted Arthur C Clarke award for Air. Wow, well done, Geoff, that is one [...]

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Spidey in Cleveland

27. April 2006

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Some pictures have been emerging of the filming in Cleveland (Harv Pekar country) for Spider-Man 3, including shots of a man in the Spidey suit (thought to be a stuntman) ‘surfing’ the street on a ripped off door behind a runaway vehicle.

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Manga Trek

27. April 2006

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Tokyopop have released the cover artwork for the forthcoming Star Trek Manga graphic novel I blogged about recently. The first volume is due this autumn and covers the original classic Trek series and characters, as you can see from the cover. This new Manga is aimed to be a part of Star Trek‘s fortieth anniversary [...]

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New look blog

26. April 2006

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The observant among you will have noticed that we have revamped the FPI blog and moved to Word Press. The older posts, comments and links from the old Blogger version have been imported and should work okay, but if you are trying to track down an older post and the link gives you problems, let [...]

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Chariots of the Gods on SciFi

26. April 2006

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The Hollywood Reporter carries news that the SciFi Channel is to adapt Erich Von Daniken’s book (if that isn’t too grandiose a title for it) Chariots of the God, into one of their six hour mini-series. Von Daniken was very famous indays gone past for his wild books explaining how we were all descended from [...]

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End of an era

26. April 2006

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The curtain should be coming down towards the end of today on our standalone graphic novels site. With the much more flexible and dynamic new FPI webstore now having every graphic novel listed there too the time has finally come to wind down the GN site and move everything to the new home. It won’t [...]

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