Archive | May, 2006

Mega DC

16. May 2006

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DC’s office has been very busy – not only do we have a very full list of advance solicitations for September live on the site; we also have a selection of highlighted titles from their autumn list on the site, running through October (oohhh, Absolute New Frontier!), November (Showcase Presents Shazam! That’s for me!) and [...]

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FAB

16. May 2006

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There’s a very cool film/TV/art book due this summer in the shape of The Future Was Fab – the Art of Mike Trim. It’s a well-illustrated book which follows the 40-year career of Mike Trim from his early work in the 60s in the model-making shop for Gerry Anderson’s productions onwards. And lest we forget [...]

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Eagle Awards

16. May 2006

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The 2006 Eagle Awards were announced over the weekend at the Comic Expo in Bristol. And, as they say in showbiz, the winners were: Award for Favourite Comics Writer – Grant Morrison Award for Favourite Comics Writer/Artist – Howard Chaykin Award for Favourite Comics Artists (pencils) – Bryan Hitch Award for Favourite Comics Artist (inks) [...]

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Phase IV in Edinburgh

15. May 2006

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Short notice, but if you are in Edinburgh tomorrow evening, our chum Adele has details of a classic piece of thoughtful, evolutionary SF on show: “Phase IV (1973) Directed by Saul Bass and playing at Edinburgh Filmhouse on Tuesday 16 May at 8.45pm The runtime is 1h24m, it’s playing on 35mm and it’s rated PG [...]

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La Cite des Saints et des Fous

15. May 2006

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The international multimedia experience we know as Jeff VanderMeer kindly shares with us the French cover for his nouveau livre… Sorry, his book (slipped into Franglais for a moment), City of Saints and Madmen. I wonder what greycaps make of French?

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The Shrieking gun

13. May 2006

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Jeff VanderMeer has posted pictures of a prop for one of the guns the Kalif makes sure flood Ambergris in the run up to the War of the Houses (that’s trading houses, not actual brick houses coming to life and fighting each other, jabbing at each other’s masonry, although with Jeff that could easily have [...]

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Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award

12. May 2006

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Via the Anime News Network: Asahi Shimbun announced the 10th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award winners: Grand Prize: Shissou Nikki by Hideo Aduma New Hope Award: Ookiku Furikabutte by Asa Higuchi for showing new possibilities of expression in baseball manga Short Manga Prize: A series of works by Risa Itou: One Woman, Two Cats; Hey Pitan!; [...]

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Superman Returns

12. May 2006

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We’re on a roll after building our special X-Men page yesterday (with added X-Factor – the good type of X-Factor and not the TV programme). Today we have mostly been building our own Fortress of Solitude. Which is a geek’s way of saying we got together to build a cool new Superman page to mark [...]

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Comics by the seaside

12. May 2006

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As part of the 3 Harbours Festival, organised by the Prestoungrange Arts Festival over 6000 works of art will be on display in a variety of venues in and around Prestonpans, Cockenzie and Port Seton in East Lothian (just down the coast from Edinburgh). Monkey Loft Comics tells me that Malcy Duff and Neil ‘Nulsh’ [...]

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Terry Brooks goes Manga with Del Rey

12. May 2006

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Regular Manga fans will already be aware of the highly successful Manga range published by Del Rey. Now Del Rey is to publish their original graphic novel project and they’ve chosen international best-selling fantasy author Terry Brooks to write it. Illustrated by Edwin David and adapted by Robert Place Napton, Terry will provide the stories [...]

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Giant-sized X-Men (trailer)

12. May 2006

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Well, mere days after the giant-sized X-Men Omnibus hit the shelves (and fairly made them creak when it did), there is a rather longer-than-usual trailer for the new X-Men: the Last Stand movie. Unusually it isn’t on Apple or the IMDB or the usual movie trailers sites but hosted on Dell’s site (presumably they have [...]

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Stormcaller

12. May 2006

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My chum from The Alien Online and numerous other SF sites and magazines, Sandy Auden (queen of the SF interviews), has a cracking interview with a new fantasy author, Tom Lloyd, who has been creating a fair bit of excitement with his first book from Gollancz. You can read the full interview about Stormcaller, over [...]

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X marks the page

11. May 2006

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In the spirit of the recent Sin City and Star Wars feature pages my colleagues and I have been busy creating (yes, we are fanboys, but we’re proud of that – plus we get to share our fanboy fun with all of you!) Paul and I created a cool X-Men page for the main FPI [...]

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Xeric Grant Spring Awards

10. May 2006

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The Comics Reporter carries the news of the recipients of the spring round of Xeric Grant Awards, which, as regular readers will know, supports fresh talent in comics and graphic novels and helps them to publish their work. The latest creators to receive help from the good folks of the Xeric committee are: Emily Blair; [...]

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Superheroes steal for the poor in Hamburg

10. May 2006

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The Scotsman reports that a group of modern-day Robin Hoods are stealing from the rich to give to the poor while dressed as superheroes. The group of up to 30 individuals apparently favours robbing delicacies from expensive food shops, which they then distribute to the poor of the city, as well as being involved in [...]

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