Archive | September, 2006

Johnny gets musical

15. September 2006

Comments Off

Fantagraphic’s Flog has this terrific cover Johnny Ryan has created for Yo La Tengo‘s single Mr. Tough.

Continue reading...

David Gemmell memorial service

15. September 2006

Comments Off

Gareth Wilson of the David Gemmell fansite Wolfshead and SF online ‘zine Falcata Times reminded me that there will be a memorial service for the king of British heroic fantasy, David Gemmell, who we lost unexpectedly and shockingly early this summer. The memorial service will be at 3pm on October 30th at Saint James Church [...]

Continue reading...

Judge Dredd – Origins

15. September 2006

2 Comments

You may recall me blogging on the upcoming epic storyline in 2000AD which would explore the origins of not only Dredd but the history of the entire Judge system and how it came into power. We’ve had fragments over Dredd’s many years as Britain’s top comics character; right back in the first huge epic, The [...]

Continue reading...

Little Britain set for movie?

15. September 2006

Comments Off

Matt Lucas and swimmer extraordinaire David Walliams have announced that in addition to working on a US version of the cult hit Little Britain for HBO they are involved in a development deal for a possible movie based on the series. A spin-off series for the BBC based around the characters Lou and Andy is [...]

Continue reading...

Marvel movie news

14. September 2006

Comments Off

The Hollywood Reporter carries news that Marvel plans to work on a live-action movie of their famous superteam the Avengers. Meanwhile Tinsel Town trade mag Variety reports the news that Jonathan Mostow, director of Terminator 3, has signed up to direct and re-write the script for a movie version of Marvel’s Sub-Mariner. With Spidey 3 [...]

Continue reading...

Falcata Times now on PDF

14. September 2006

Comments Off

The online magazine of SF&F, the Falcata Times, is now available in a PDF format due to popular demand. The current (rather fine) issue has a number of reviews as well as interviews with the great George R R Martin and the wonderfully unusual Lilith Saintcrow (who wrote the excellent Working For the Devil recently [...]

Continue reading...

Dabel – Marvel

14. September 2006

Comments Off

Following hot on the heels of the news that Dabel Brothers will now become an imprint of Marvel (which is why many of their titles have been held up as the deal was secretly negotiated) I’ve just heard from Jimmy Bott who is the artist and co-creator on Dabel Brothers’ graphic novel Half Dead. You [...]

Continue reading...

Shake it

14. September 2006

Comments Off

Andrew Wildman and Jason Cobley, two of our more interesting independent creators, tell me that they working on their next comics project, Magic Theatre. It’s an unusual, music and lyric-based tale, which they are describing as “a story of the development and resolution of the human spirit, inspired by the themes and lyrics of Kula [...]

Continue reading...

J K Rowling falls foul of new airport security

14. September 2006

Comments Off

Bestselling author J K Rowling was one of the more high-profile airline passengers to have trouble with the stringent new regulations on carry-on luggage in the wake of recent events. J K was told she could not carry on the manuscript for the final Harry Potter book; understandably she was reluctant to add it to [...]

Continue reading...

Sienkiewicz blogs

13. September 2006

Comments Off

The Beat reports that Bill Sienkiewicz has begun blogging.

Continue reading...

Brit SF on BBC digital

13. September 2006

Comments Off

If you have digital TV, SF fans, then it looks like you will want to tune your Earth-type televisor equipment to BBC4 this autumn as Jessica over on SF Crowsnest has details of a whole raft of programming celebrating British SF, from the literary (John Wyndham) to the cheap and cheerful but still beloved (Blake’s [...]

Continue reading...

Be a part of Ambergris

13. September 2006

Comments Off

Jeff VanderMeer is allowing a lucky bidder at the Clarion Auction to become a part of Ambergris, with funds raised going to help Clarion. The succesful bidder may be a person, a building or even a new species of exotic fungi after their name is filtered through Jeff’s wonderfully odd imagination. This follows on from [...]

Continue reading...

Science Fiction writing course

13. September 2006

Comments Off

An email from Nick at Spread the Word somehow slipped my blogging net, so I apologise for posting it a little late. Spread the Word “is a charity funded by the Arts Council to provide support to writers in London to help develop their skills and give advice to help them get published. Most of [...]

Continue reading...

Grimwood in the Guardian no more

13. September 2006

Comments Off

Bad news on the reviewing front: Cheryl reports that the Guardian, which has been pretty good at covering SF&F (and pretty good at some graphic novel coverage too) in recent years has cancelled the regular SF&F reviews written by the excellent Jon Courtenay Grimwood. It seems a daft thing to do to me, especially since [...]

Continue reading...

Nabaztag

13. September 2006

Comments Off

Nabaztag? What or who the drokk is a Nabaztag? Nabaztag is your very own little Wi-Fi Bunny, that’s who! To be honest it looks bizarre and crazy and yet still compellingly cool! Full details on how Nabaztag can deliver all sorts of cool (customisable) info to you (dancing as he does so) over on the [...]

Continue reading...