Archive | October, 2006

Mignola podcast

25. October 2006

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Word Balloon has a podcast interview with the Most Excellent Mike Mignola up on their site, talking about Hellboy, the BPRD, a forthcoming new mini-series from Dark Horse and the animated Hellboy “Sword of Storms” which is due to air on the Cartoon Network in the US soon (I wonder when we will get it [...]

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Fun lovin’ Criminal – talking with Sean Phillips

24. October 2006

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FPI: Today we’re delighted to be talking with British artist Sean Phillips who has kindly taken some time from working on his new series with Ed Brubaker, Criminal. Hi, Sean and thanks very much for joining us. Like a number of British writers and artists you have come through that great proving ground that is [...]

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Trudeau profiled

24. October 2006

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The Washington Post has a great piece profiling one of the best cartoonist around, G.B. Trudeau. It is certainly one of the more unusual articles on a cartoonist I have read, being set against a background of Gary spending time in a steak house not far from the White House which was serving up a [...]

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Another BAFTA for Wallace and Gromit?

24. October 2006

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Our plasticine faves and all-round British icons, Wallace and Gromit, could pull off a double-header – after winning Best British Film at the main BAFTAs earlier in the year the Curse of the Were-Rabbit is on the shortlist for the BAFTA Children’s Awards, again in the Best Film category as well as being one of [...]

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Space Dude

24. October 2006

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Darren Douglas dropped us a line after reading the comics insert with some of our small press friends in the new FPI catalogue to tell us about his own work, Space Dude: Devil-Chick Planet of Peril, which he recently finished after years of working on it in his spare time (most of our small press [...]

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Serializer does Louis

24. October 2006

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For those of you who adore Glasgow-based Metaphrog’s Louis books as much as I do Louis: Lying to Clive is appearing on Serializer.net. If you have ever wondered who this wonderful character Louis I talk about actually is then here’s a good chance to experience him, then go check out the books, which are delightful, [...]

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Freedom of speech index

24. October 2006

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Comics Reporter carries an article about Reporters Sans Frontieres and their annual report which includes their freedom of Worldwide Press Freedom Index (available as a PDF). Obviously freedom of the presses, speech and expression are subjects pretty close to the hearts of booksellers, publishers and readers alike at the best of times, but this year [...]

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Hellraiser remake

24. October 2006

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ICV2 carries news that Clive Barker is to remake his original Hellraiser movie. Clive is writing a new version of the 1987 classic film which has since entered horror movie popular culture; he will produce the movie as well, but has no wish to direct it. As a horror fan I am normally not too [...]

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Attention, otaku! Ilya tells us about the Mammoth Best New Manga

23. October 2006

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FPI: This is something of a first for me as today I am talking to someone who moves in an area of Comicdom that I must confess I don’t know a huge amount about: manga. So, Ilya, welcome to the FPI blog and please bear with my relative lack of knowledge here. I read a [...]

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Corto Maltese returns

23. October 2006

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Various comics sites are abuzz with the news that Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese books are finally returning to print in the English language. I’ll confess that I have heard the name but never actually come across these graphic novels, although my colleague Kenny is a fan and seems to be in good company [...]

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Kristanna Loken in Painkiller Jane series

23. October 2006

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Arnie’s striking nemesis from Terminator 3, Kristanna Loken, has been cast in the lead role for the TV series of Painkiller Jane, taking over the role from Emmanuelle Vaugier who starred in the pilot. SciFi has commissioned 22 one-hour episodes which will begin shooting in the heartland of American TV – Vancouver in Canada – [...]

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Ian Rankin moves into comics

21. October 2006

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I first heard this story from another author a few weeks ago, but since it hadn’t been officially announced I’ve had to keep it to myself, but since the next edition of SFX which is just about to hit the stands carries the news it looks like it has gone public: top Scottish crime writer [...]

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Great British Comics website

20. October 2006

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Paul Gravett tells me that the site for Great British Comics will become active from this Sunday (22nd) in the run up to the publication of the quite excellent-looking book he and Peter Stanbury have penned (I just love that Korky the Cat image – I want a T-shirt with that on the front!). The [...]

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Winterbirth gazeteer

20. October 2006

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Edinburgh author Brian Ruckley has been adding to his site and expanding entries in the Gazeteer section which provides readers with more information on the Godless World of Winterbirth (highly recommended) including background information and maps (and we know how much we fantasy folks like our maps of imaginary realms) – you can keep up [...]

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Second 718 episode up

20. October 2006

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Shooting War artist Dan Goldman has posted up the second part of his violent supernatural thriller 718 on the ACT-I-VATE webcomic collective, despite being “stretched thin the last few weeks… like an octopus hobbling out of a sushi bar… but I made you some new comics.”

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