Archive | September, 2006

New Robin Hood

29. September 2006

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Jessica over on SF Crowsnest has a very handy cut-out-and-keep rundown of the characters in the eagerly anticipated new Legend of Robin Hood which is about to start soon on the BBC (and which Paul Cornell raved about at the EasterCon panel on telefantasy).

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How to Make Money Like a Porn Star

29. September 2006

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Artist Bernard Chang dropped me a line today about his latest book, the imminent How to Make Money Like a Porn Star from Reagan Books in the US. As Bernard notes, Reagan is part of a large publishing group but graphic novels are something a bit new to them, so he is keen to let [...]

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Downey is Iron Man

29. September 2006

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Comics Continuum reports that troubled actor Robert Downey Jr has been cast to play Tony Stark and his metal-clad heroic alter-ego Iron Man in the forthcoming movie adaptation. It may well be perfect casting since Downey has had more than his fair share of troubles with the bottle, just as Tony Stark has (just check [...]

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Set your lawgivers to hi-ex, kids – we speak with John Wagner

29. September 2006

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Folks, you’ve heard me gushing like the fanboy I am over some of the classic 2000AD material we have coming up for you as well as reminiscing about the comic back in British Comics Month and blogging on the new Dredd: Origins story arc. I can’t help it, I grew up with 2000AD, being right [...]

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Street Who

29. September 2006

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Former Coronation Street actress Thelmaw Barlow will play one of the baddies in the third season of Doctor Who, says the BB of C. Barlow, who has more recently been seen in the (in my opinion utterly dire, old-fashioned and unfunnny) comedy Dinnerladies is probably best known for her role of Mavis Riley in the [...]

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Del Toro for Oscar?

28. September 2006

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Empire reports that Hellboy and Devil’s Backbone director, Guillermo Del Toro’s forthcoming dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth will be Mexico’s entry for the foreign-language category for the next Oscar. It’s a huge boost for the movie which hasn’t opened in the US yet, but it follows huge ovations at Cannes and other film festivals and a [...]

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Doctor Who – record or not

28. September 2006

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BBC radio news decided it was a record, the folks on the news board of the Doctor Who official site are more confused. The 2007 Guinness Book of World Records does indeed mention our venerable Time Lord as the longest-running TV SF show, although it gets the number of episodes wrong. However for the longest [...]

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Zombie reportage

28. September 2006

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Over on Leah Moore and John Reppion’s blog there is a rather unique chance to break into the media in the exciting field of undead reporting as they have a pair of tickets for Max Brook’s Film Festival of the Living Dead at London’s Barbican (which from the architecture I assumed was designed by a [...]

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Rich Johnston to head new GN imprint?

28. September 2006

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ICV2 has picked up on a tale from Publisher’s Weekly that the Hachette Book Group has approached former DC VP of booktrade sales Rich Johnston to head a new graphic novels imprint. Few details have emerged but it it thought the new imprint would be quite diverse, covering manga, children’s work, adults, original material and [...]

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New FPI Podcast online

28. September 2006

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The virtual comics pirate ship has sailed once more as Crowbar and myself host the latest FPI podcast, discussing books, graphic novels, action figures and not forgetting the delightfully saucy new Princess Leia in her Jabba slave-girl bikini statue. As usual if you go to the main podcast page you can also see what items [...]

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Movies-comics-movies

28. September 2006

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In a lovely circular path of media Image’s new Occult Crimes Taskforce (OCT) comics series has been optioned by Dimension Films according to Variety. Not unusual to see a comics series or a novel optioned for film or TV of course (many of which may never actually get made) but since OCT is partly the [...]

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Peter Jackson signs to X-Box

28. September 2006

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Lord of the Rings (and King Kong, but let’s not dwell on that, shall we?) director Peter Jackson has signed a deal with Microsoft to develop a project for the X-Box 360. It will be a series based around the HALO franchise (Peter is also producing – but not directing – a movie based around [...]

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Scarlett’s Curse

27. September 2006

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Tom at Indy comics creators Praxis has sent me details of their first offering which will be coming up in January, Scarlett’s Curse. Written by Trevor Landolt with art from Jeannie Henning and inks from Rita Conradie I think this is a very slick and professional looking debut after being fortunate enough to get a [...]

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The Ventedspleen vents his ire publically in Aberdeen

27. September 2006

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The UK Indy comics creator and practising artistic misanthrope known to all and sundry as the Ventedspleen tells me he has an art exhibition coming up next month. Yes, not only are the Peacock Visual Arts gallery in Aberdeen showing off – gasp of shock – comic artwork in a real gallery, they are showing [...]

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Mike Carey talks ghosts, superheroes, fallen angels and the Devil You Know

27. September 2006

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FPI: Books, comics, films; today I’m lucky enough to be talking to Mike Carey who has his talented fingers in all of these pies and quite possibly some more I don’t know about (you’re not writing a Forward-winning collection of poetry as well, are you??). Mike, hello and welcome back to the FPI blog. Many [...]

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