Archive | July, 2006

Little Nemo in Slumberland

6. July 2006

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My colleague Kenny can’t help sharing his enthusiasm for a newly-arrived book. And since it is a quite gorgeous collection of the great Winsor McCay, he’s quite right to get so excited: This book has been out for a little time now but only just arrived with us and it is simply one of the [...]

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British Comics Month – the Beano and the Dandy

6. July 2006

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As part of our ongoing celebration of British Comics Month today we turn our attention to a publisher who prints not one but the two oldest continuing comics in these islands and two of the most popular; they are, of course, the Beano and the Dandy. Forget the great publishing houses of London, Paris and [...]

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Transformers teaser trailer

5. July 2006

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How’s that for alliteration? The first, short teaser trailer for Michael Bay’s Transfomers movie has just gone up on the movie’s official site. Not much sign of giant robots (in disguise or otherwise) yet, but still worth a look.

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Fab and furry? Must be Gilbert Shelton

5. July 2006

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Okay, maybe it is a tiny cheat to claim this as relating to British Comics Month since Gilbert isn’t British. But he’s living here at the moment and the excellent gang at Brit publishers Knockabout publish his work (more about Knockabout later this month). Besides we love Gilbert’s work – we were pretty excited by [...]

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They don’t know they’re lucky

5. July 2006

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The youth of today, that is. My friend’s young boys, both committed Who fans, have not taken to the occassional two-part episodes in the new Doctor Who. When their father explained to them that when he and Uncle Joe were boys we had cliffhangers almost every single week and usually had to wait between 4 [...]

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New Who companion announced

5. July 2006

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The BBC has officially announced that actress Freema Agyeman will be the new Doctor Who companion following the departure of Billie Piper in the second season finale this coming weekend (does Rose die? Well she said she does, but she is also narrating the tale of her death, so unless it is a film Noir…). [...]

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The final frontier – in Dundee?

4. July 2006

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Jim Gilchrist in the Scotsman newspaper has a great article on the Dundee-based crew of the Starship Intrepid (and yes, I am such a geek I remember the original Intrepid was the all-Vulcan crewed starship killed by a giant space amoeba). This group of Trek fans has boldly created their own Trek film, an unusual [...]

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What the Author Says – Mike Carey

4. July 2006

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I am absolutely delighted to welcome back for his second visit to the FPI blog British novelist and comics writer Mike Carey. You may recall Mike and his editor Darren Nash of Orbit talking to us last year about his (then forthcoming) first prose novel, Devil You Know, which introduced us to Felix Castor, the [...]

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Jack of Ravens blog

4. July 2006

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Fantasy novelist and now comics writer Mark Chadbourn has launched his own Jack of Ravens blog “partly to talk about the things that have inspired and informed the new book, but mainly to sound off about a whole range of things that interest me – from politics and music, to mythology, SF/F and all points [...]

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UK Comics Greats – Neil Gaiman

4. July 2006

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Prompted by British Comics Month the thought occurs to a couple of the FPI webteam, why not do the occasional profile of some of the most well-known Brits who have made a splash in the comics industry? Happy for any chance to talk about good writers and comics, of course I went for it. With [...]

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How 2000AD Changed My Life or How I Learned to Say Drokk and Love It

3. July 2006

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Something of a personal slant to the start of British Comics Month today. I’m a comics geek. I know it and you all know it. Most of you reading this are also proud members of the International Sister and Brother Hood of Comic and SF Geeks. You find us all over the world, younger, older, [...]

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Scar Night get thumbs up from JCG

2. July 2006

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Here’s a nice follow-up the the great WTAS post debut novelist Alan Campbell wrote here earlier this week: his book, Scar Night, has just picked up 4 and 1/2 stars in the brand-new SFX‘s book review pages. A real endorsement made all the sweeter by the fact the reviewer is the great Jon Courtenay Grimwood [...]

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