Archive | September, 2006

Ken speaks to Locus

27. September 2006

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Top Scottish SF author, political philosopher and all-round good guy Ken MacLeod is interviewed in the September edition of Locus. As a taster those nice folk at Locus Online have posted some excerpts from the interview on their site, including a tantalising hint at Ken’s next book, The Execution Channel, which he has only recently [...]

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Judge Dredd – Origins collected

26. September 2006

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Holy Drokk! Yes, I know it has only just started running in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic in the last couple of week’s (I remember blogging about the first part in a very excited mood) but those nice folks at Rebellion just sent me details for their publications for March 2007. And let me tell you [...]

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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

26. September 2006

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Colin at Penguin UK has been telling me about a rather intriguing new publishing project, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by G.W. Dahlquist, a new Victorian-era fantasy adventure. What makes this unusual is that before a hardback volume is printed next year the story will be published in a very Victorian manner, with [...]

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Kidults

26. September 2006

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Dirk over on TCJ’s blog Journalista posted an interesting piece pondering self-censorship by the major comics publishers, relating it to a readership which tends mostly to be adult now but with publishers still dealing with their comics as if kids are reading them but still wanting to include more edgy material. It is adult reading [...]

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Doctor on the radio

25. September 2006

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Top Doctor Who site Outpost Gallifrey has news up on a series of Doctor Who audio adventures set to be broadcast on digital and online radio station BBC 7, beginning on December 31st and starring Paul McGann: Blood of the Daleks (two-parter) Written by Steve Lyons, directed by Nicholas Briggs With Paul McGann (the Doctor), Sheridan Smith [...]

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Templesmith on Fractal

25. September 2006

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Top comics artist Ben Templesmith is interviewed over on the excellent Fractal Matter.

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British Fantasy Awards 2006

25. September 2006

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Neil Gaiman has won the coveted Best Novel (the August Derleth Fantasy Award) for Anansi Boys at the the British Fantasy Awards, announced over the weekend at Fantasycon. Ariel has a full list of all of the other winners up on the Alien Online. On a personal note I’m delighted to see Peter Crowther’s PS [...]

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Silver Surfer, Weta style

25. September 2006

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According to UK movie mag Empire it is now official: Weta, the pioneering effects crew behind Lord of the Rings, will create the Silver Surfer for the Fantastic Four sequel. Doug Jones, a creature actor from the excellent Hellboy movie (and also in HB director Guilermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth) will be put through the [...]

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Cate Blanchett to play Vixen

25. September 2006

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Cate Blanchett looks likely to star in and produce a movie adaptation of the graphic novel Cancer Vixen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The graphic novel which is just about to be released is an autobiographical work by ‘fashionista’ cartoonist for the New Yorker and Glamour magazine Marisa Acocella Marchetto. Happily living the Sex and [...]

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New Photonic Graffiti online

25. September 2006

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Chris Lynch of Monkeys With Machineguns fame has a brand-new work up on his ongoing Photonic Graffiti series. As you may recall from a previous post these are not so much webcomics, more an experiment in digital photography and text as Chris takes an image, reworks it and marries it to appropriate text to create [...]

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Independent on Sunday doing Comics-themed edition

25. September 2006

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I’m indebted to Tim Webber for pointing out this posting by Paul Gravett: “As media partner for the Comica festival and to preview some of the guests and events, The Independent is publishing a special comics-themed edition of their Sunday Review, edited by Tim Lewis with assistance from Comica director Paul Gravett. As [...]

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Jeff at New York Comic Con

25. September 2006

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This winter’s New York Comic Con has announced the creator the incredibly popular Bone (the new edition of the one-volume Bone has sold in incredible numbers round the world, I’m pleased to say), Jeff Smith as their second confirmed Guest of Honour. Jeff joins the legendary Stan Lee on the GoH roll’ other guest confirmed [...]

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New graphic novels

22. September 2006

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It has been a busy old week on the graphic novels front. Following on from a whole new batch of DC titles added to our pre-orders (blogged here) we’ve added new pre-orders for Marvel, Image and Fantagraphics all in the last few days, so there’s a pretty darn diverse range of titles on there to [...]

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Kelly #18 live

22. September 2006

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Shooting War artist Dan Goldman tells me that part 18 of his online series Kelly is now live and you can access it via the webcomics collective he is part of, ACT-I-VATE.

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Novels by comics authors

22. September 2006

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Good chum of the FPI blog Chris who runs the Collected Comics Library podcast, has a thread running on his forums discussing comics writers who also write novels, which is worth having a look at.

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