Archive | October, 2006

Fountain movie pics

27. October 2006

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Comic Book Resources has a good article and a whole pile o’ pictures from the Darren Aronofsky movie The Fountain, starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. The film has a troubled development history, with original star Brad Pitt walking early on and leaving the picture in the lurch. The budget was reduced, more editing was [...]

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Ruthe wins at Frankfurt

27. October 2006

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My colleague Isobel tells me that Ralph Ruthe has picked up the Sondermann Award in the Cartoons category at the Frankfurt Bookfair (text is in German), one of the publishing world’s major international events, for the second year in a row. Ralph is one of the gifted European artists who is featured in the comics [...]

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Crikey!

27. October 2006

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Fellow FPI comics pirate Crowbar spotted this article on Sky News while he was aloft in the virtual rigging fiddling with the mainsail (or at least, that’s what he said he was doing): South Park is courting controversy (shock! gasp! can you imagine such a thing?!?) by having an appearance from Steve Irwin, the recently-deceased [...]

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Using words

26. October 2006

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My colleague Kenny sent me this one: if you are looking for a bit of fun or just whiling away the hours Word Count is a fascinating look at how we use language. Stick in any word and find how it rates in terms of usedness (bet that one isn’t there) from 86,000 words. It [...]

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Halloween pumpkin Dalek

26. October 2006

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Yep, you read that right: it is indeed a Dalek made for the Witching Season out of a pumpkin! The Evil Mad Scientists who gave the world the Cylon jack-o-lantern have also published a ‘how-to’ guide to create your own radio-controlled, motorised, pumpkin-based Skaro mutant. Presumably the Doctor would leave aside his trusty sonic screwdriver [...]

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Lost in Translation comics event

26. October 2006

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The nice library people at Glasgow’s Goethe Institut sent me this wonderfully colourful postcard promoting the Lost in Translation event they are hosting on Friday 3rd of November and Walking Miracles, a comics workshop on Saturday 4th. I’m hoping to be there for the Friday talk with Paul Gravett, Germany’s Arne Bellstorf and the lovely [...]

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Mega-comic challenge

26. October 2006

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Is Kevin Cannon a glutton for punishment? The rigours of the 24-Hour Comics challenge is not enough and he is embarking on an attempt to create a graphic novel in 288 hours (roughly a chapter a month he says). We’re either going to see something remarkable taking palce in front of us or else a [...]

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Gene Yang interviewed

26. October 2006

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SFGate has an interview up with Gene Yang, creator of American Born Chinese, which, as we reported here a couple of weeks ago, is the first graphic novel to be shortlisted for a National Book Award, which is quite a feather in the cap of both Gene and publisher First Second who are still in [...]

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They’re all together ooky

26. October 2006

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Comics Reporter pointed me in the direction of this piece for the New York Observer by cartoonist Ed Sorel on the great Charles Addams. I do wish someone would do a nice big anthology of Addams Family cartoons in the way we have Edward Gorey’s work like Amphigorey Again (and I’m sure I’m not alone [...]

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Moon Knight TV-bound?

26. October 2006

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ICV2 reports that Marvel has cut a deal with Equal Entertainment in Vancouver (where many an American show is filmed) to create a live-action TV show of Moon Knight. The recent mini-series (now an ongoing series) of Moon Knight by novelist Charlie Huston and artist David Finch has been very well received and seems to [...]

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The sculpting of Bruce

26. October 2006

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Recently I was in my raving fanboy mode discussing the superb Bruce Lee figure from Enterbay which is based around his appearance in the movie Game of Death. Brian Harrison is a huge fan of the great martial arts movie master and as well as promoting the Bruce Lee Club UK (a perfect webspot for [...]

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Frank Miller talks 300 and the Spirit

26. October 2006

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Comic Book Resources has a good interview with Frank Miller, discussing the adaptation of his classic (pun intended) 300 and Will Eisner’s The Spirit, with Frank saying he intends to draw on Will’s earlier, ’scarier’ work. As with Sin City and 300 the plan is to shoot most of The Spirit on a digital set [...]

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Six word story

25. October 2006

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Boing Boing drew my attention to this article in Wired, where they took Hemmingway (not my favourite writer) and his creation of a story using six words and asked a bunch of SF & F,fantasy, horror, comics writers and other figures to do the same: Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so. - Joss Whedon Automobile warranty expires. [...]

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Edinburgh SF Book Group November

25. October 2006

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October’s meeting (which covered Michel Faber’s excellent Under the Skin) will be a hard act to follow, but for November the Book Group has the latest novel from one of the UK’s sharpest SF writers and a good friend of the blog, James Lovegrove. The book will be Provender Gleed, set in a Britain slightly [...]

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Stargate signing in FPI Edinburgh

25. October 2006

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Paul McGillion, well-known to SF fans for his role as Doctor Carson Beckett in Stargate Atlantis, will be signing for fans in the Edinburgh branch of FPI on Thursday November 16th from 4.30pm. The Edinburgh branch is located at 40-41 Southbridge Street, minutes from the city’s historic Royal Mile and all are welcome to come [...]

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