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British comics – the journalistic coverage

24. July 2006

FPI: Today we’re going to be taking a slightly different tack for British Comics Month and talk to some of the folks who dedicate a fair bit of their time to reporting on and promoting British (and other) comics. I’m joined by Dez Skinn of Comics International, Barry ‘Baz’ Renshaw of Engine Comics‘ journal Redeye, [...]

Dumbass in Japan

24. July 2006

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Neill Cameron, who we spoke to the other week alongside his comics compadre Jason Cobley as part of British Comics Month, drops me a line to say that he created a Manga-esque strip based on the recent trip to Japan he and his wife Di made. The full strip – in glorious colour – runs to [...]

Chris Lynch’s Photonic Graffiti

24. July 2006

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Not content with Monkeys With Machine Guns (yes, I still love that name!) Chris Lynch has sent me a link to his rather unusual webcomic, Photonic Graffiti. Actually, I say webcomic, but as a label that doesn’t really quite describe it properly – the title Photonic Graffiti is perhaps more fitting as Chris takes images [...]

The Eisner Awards 2006 announced

24. July 2006

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This year’s Eisner Awards were announced the annual San Diego Comic Con, the largest comics event in the US, over the weekend, with Bill Morrison of Bongo Comics performing MC duties in a tie which reportedly would put Jon Snow to shame. Congratulations to all those who won. Best Short Story “Teenage Sidekick,” by Paul Pope, [...]

Shooting War Chapter nine up

22. July 2006

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Sorry, it has been such a busy week I clean forgot to mention that artist Dan Goldman dropped me a line to say that chapter 9 of the excellent Shooting War is up on Smithmag. Fans, go read it now – folks who haven’t read it yet, go start from the beginning, it is all [...]

British Comics Month – new titles roundup, week 3

21. July 2006

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It’s the end of week three of British Comics Month, so it is time to have a quick look at some of the latest British Indy comics creators who have come onboard the FPI webstore in the last few days. Once again it has been great to see the diversity in subjects, style and art [...]

Movie news: new DC options, Trek, Bond

21. July 2006

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DC’s parent company Warner Brothers have taken advantage of the biggest US comics convention in San Diego this weekend to announce their latest comics movie news. Two DC titles have been optioned for movie development, although we shouldn’t get too excited as options do not always end up as actual movies (although from what Neil [...]

Tom Frame passes

20. July 2006

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I was very saddened to read on Down the Tubes today about the death of Tom Frame, a name I well remember from my more youthful comics days. I never met Tom but his work on 2000AD is a part of what made it such a damned special comic to me and his passing away [...]

Leah Moore and John Reppion talk Albion

20. July 2006

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So far in British Comics Month we’ve looked at new works and we have looked at classic titles. Today we combine the new with the classic as we join top comics scribes Leah Moore and John Reppion to discuss their latest work, Albion. In some ways Albion itself is almost a microcosm of what we [...]

First Southland Tales arrives in-store

20. July 2006

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The first volume of Richard Kelly and Brett Weldele’s Southland Tales arrives in the stores this week. Three graphic novels are scheduled to come out to go alongside the Donnie Darko director’s Southland Tales movie, which stars Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy fame as a porn star (which no doubt excites many a fanboy and [...]

Frank Miller to direct The Spirit

20. July 2006

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Frank Miller, flushed with success from his co-directing gig on the visually ravishing Sin City flick, is to direct the movie based on Will Eisner’s classic The Spirit works according to Comics Continuum. The film is being produced by Michael Uslan, the man behind the Batman movies among many others and a huge comics buff [...]

Web Cartoonist’s Choice Awards

19. July 2006

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My colleague Kenny pointed me in the direction of the recent awards for webcomics here (via Comics Reporter), the WCCAs. Webcomics is another area I’ve been slowly feeling my way into, coming across ever more diverse strips (both in terms of subject and quality). There are some like Penny Arcade which have also made the [...]

James Lovegrove – British Comics Memories

19. July 2006

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Chatting to top British SF novelist James Lovegrove recently I mentioned British Comics Month, knowing this was an area he had an interest in. Actually that’s putting it mildly as James is a serious comics fiend – you may recall his excellent piece about how he became a comics fan way back in the first [...]

Avast, ye lubbers!

18. July 2006

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You may have noticed issue 198 of the highly respected Comics International hoving into view over the horizon. Fix your spyglass to your eye – no, not the one with the patch over it, the other one – and direct your gaze across that shimmering comics sea to the pirate galleon, also known as the [...]

The Rough Guide to Ambergris

18. July 2006

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Jeff VanderMeer has been a very busy multimedia man, even by his standards. The Shriek movie site is now up alongside the special blog for news of the movie. It is choc full of goodies, including the Rough Guide to Ambergris, which is an indisepensable guide to those intending to travel to semi-fictional lands (although [...]

Archive | July, 2006

British comics – the journalistic coverage

Dumbass in Japan

Chris Lynch’s Photonic Graffiti

The Eisner Awards 2006 announced

Shooting War Chapter nine up

British Comics Month – new titles roundup, week 3

Movie news: new DC options, Trek, Bond

Tom Frame passes

Leah Moore and John Reppion talk Albion

First Southland Tales arrives in-store

Frank Miller to direct The Spirit

Web Cartoonist’s Choice Awards

James Lovegrove – British Comics Memories

Avast, ye lubbers!

The Rough Guide to Ambergris

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