Archive | September, 2006

Lea Hernandez progress

22. September 2006

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Gail Simone has posted on Newsarama about progress in helping comics artist Lea Hernandez. You will remember that Lea and her family suffered a fire which has gutted their home very recently (luckily they all got out but many of their pets didn’t and of course they have lost an enormous amount); word spread quickly [...]

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BBC TV programme on British comics

22. September 2006

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My chum Pádraig drops me a note about a thread running on the discussion boards over on Leah Moore and John Reppion’s site. It appears that the BB of C are working on a three part programme due around November or so on British Comics and dropped by Leah and John’s forums to ask members [...]

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Rex Mundi movie

22. September 2006

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News has been filtering out online this week that Arvid Nelson’s Rex Mundi series of comics and graphic novels is set to become a film, with Johnny Depp’s production company involved. Good news also as it appears that Jim Uhls who managed to create a terrific script for Fight Club based on Chuck Palahniuk’s supposedly [...]

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Sandman Mastermind

21. September 2006

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The recent BBC Mastermind episode where one contestant (who proudly proclaimed his geekdom in the face of a less than understanding John Humphreys) had for his specialist subject Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series has been posted up in two YouTube videos, one for his specialist round and one for his second general knowledge round. Long time [...]

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Brian Ruckley talks Winterbirth

21. September 2006

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FPI: Regular readers may recall me discussing a forthcoming debut fantasy novel, Winterbirth, on the blog and the podcast a few months ago. Well, the book’s arrival is now imminent and I’m lucky enough to be talking today with the author, Brian Ruckley. Hi, Brian and thanks for taking some time out to chat with [...]

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Harlan sues Fantagraphics?

21. September 2006

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Esteemed SF writer Harlan Ellison is suing the excellent Indy comics publisher Fantagraphics, owners Gary Groth and Kim Thompson and 20 other un-named persons for an alleged defamation and a violation of his privacy, reports ICV2. Fantagraphic’s forthcoming Comics As Art is one of the sources of the alleged defamation while the other pertains to [...]

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New Civil War trailer from Marvel

21. September 2006

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They may have been lambasted by both retailers and readers for running late with the series, but at least Marvel can now offer us a new trailer for Civil War which shows of some Iron Man and Captain America action.

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Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers – new movie clip

20. September 2006

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Thanks to John at Down the Tubes for pointing out this YouTube link to a video for the forthcoming stop-motion animated movie of Glibert Shelton’s the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

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New Who will be mostly Earthbound

19. September 2006

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Russell T Davies announced that, as with the first two seasons the third series of the new Doctor Who will remain mostly set on Earth with little in the way of alien worlds. There was a lot of folks who were disappointed that the show has remained so resolutely Earthbound so far, myself included. Russell [...]

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The Superhero

19. September 2006

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Manchester seems to be well-served by UK standards, now having two superheroes all to itself. You may already be familiar with Bevis Musson’s Queen of Diamonds but I’m indebted to Ariel at the Alien Online for passing this link about a low-budget film made in the city to me. There’s an interview with the Adam [...]

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New DC graphic novels

19. September 2006

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There’s a nice fresh batch of graphic novel goodness right out the comics oven in the form of DC’s latest pre-orders. I’m looking forward to the second volume of Douglas Rushkoff’s Testament: West of Eden. I thought the first collection was excellent, mixing mythological and Biblical scenes with near-future events which served comment on contemporary [...]

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‘New’ Tolkien

19. September 2006

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Christopher Tolkien, already well known to readers of J R R Tolkien for his work on his father’s tales, has edited an incomplete work begun by his father in 1918 for publication next year. Christopher has been working on The Children of Hurin which his father abandoned for some thirty years according to the BBC [...]

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Vess art

18. September 2006

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Comics Reporter draws attention to the welcome fact that the excellent Charles Vess has been busy posting on his new blog (which we mentioned last week) with some very cool new fantasy artwork from his work with George R R Martin and also an updated image of his Stardust art. Staying with the fantasy theme, [...]

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Marianne joins the blogosphere

18. September 2006

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An email from the Land Down Under arrives bearing the faint whiff of the Tert and mutant kangaroos as top Oz scribe Marianne de Pierres drops a line to say she has joined the blogosphere with her new live journal Echo Beach. Marianne is hard at work editing her next book, Dark Space, which sees [...]

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Calling all hairy feet

18. September 2006

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Are you short? Do you have hairy feet? Then you may be the person the producers of the Lord of the Rings stage adaptation are looking for as they search for appropriate actors to play their various Hobbits for the London show, according to the BBC.

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