Archive | October, 2006

Absolute Long Halloween

17. October 2006

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My mate Chris, host of the excellent Collected Comics Library Podcast, drew my attention to news that there will be an Absolute edition of Batman: the Long Halloween by Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb. Tim himself has been talking about it over on his forums and also asking if any fans have any material from [...]

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Gerry Alanguilan interviewed

16. October 2006

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Tom Spurgeon over at Comics Reporter has a good interview up with Filipino cartoonist Gerry Alanguilan about his new Elmer series, which you may remember my colleague Kenny featured in one of his Did You Miss Me columns a few weeks back.

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New FPI catalogue out, now with Added Comics!

16. October 2006

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The latest FPI catalogue (and the one with our largest-ever amount of products goodness stuffed inside) arrived in the stores over the weekend. As ever it is crammed with the largest range of SF, comics and cult merchandise around, plus our SF book picks and graphic novels and this time something extra special: 15 pages [...]

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Tokyopop in live action movie venture

16. October 2006

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Manga publisher Tokyopop is planning to produce a live-action movie based on Kei Toume’s horror-manga series Lament of the Lamb, a tale of vampirism, alienation and and sexuality. Stu Levy of Tokyopop told ICV2 that the movie would be an international production: “We’ll script the story in Hollywood, attach a Japanese director, cast in the [...]

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Russell T Davies video interview

16. October 2006

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The BBC’s Torchwood site has posted a brief video interview with Russell T Davies. Well, it’s described as an interview, but since it is just Russell talking it is more of a monologue and he gives very little away. He does use the term ‘darkness’ a lot though. I am looking forward to the show, [...]

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CCL tries live podcasting

13. October 2006

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Chris over in sunny Michigan has posted up the 90th edition of his excellent Collected Comics Library, in which he is trying something new in the shape of a live conversation between him and some guest podcasters, in addition to the usual information on latest releases, upcoming titles and recommendations, so go check it out.

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Ban the books, follow-up

13. October 2006

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Several sites are reporting that a meeting of the Marshall library board over the alleged ‘pornography’ contained in the graphic novels Fun Home and Blankets (see yesterday’s post) has ended quietly with the decision to form a committee which will create a formal selections policy for titles for the library. Until these titles are approved [...]

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Bat Segundo – two new shows up

13. October 2006

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There are not one but two new episodes of the quite excellent Bat Segundo literary-based podcasts added to the Bat Segundo site, with number 69 being of especial interest to those with an SF-Fantasy-Horror bent as the subject is Capitalist Monsters and takes in Jekyll and Hyde, Sawny Beane (head of a notorious cannibal family [...]

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Dresden Files trailer

12. October 2006

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I’m indebted to my mate George at top SF publisher Orbit for passing on this link to me: SciFi in the US has a brief teaser trailer up for the TV adaptation of The Dresden Files. Regular readers will know that I am a huge fan of Jim Butcher’s series, which centres around Harry Dresden, [...]

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Ban those nasty books!

12. October 2006

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Newsarama’s blog has a round-up of the latest goings-on as small-town America tries to stem the evil and corrupting influence of that seedy genre we call graphic novels. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Craig Thompson’s Blankets are the target out outraged and concerned citizens who describes them as pornographic. Yes, I know, I feel the [...]

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Can’t touch this – talking with Joe Pruett

12. October 2006

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FPI: Today I am talking to a man who has worn many hats in the comics biz from writer to publisher, worked with a number of publishers (large and small), collaborated with some of the best names in the business, been behind the Eisner and Harvey-nominated Negative Burn series and worked hard to bring fresh [...]

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Who charity

12. October 2006

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A major charity event is being planned with the Doctor Who team for Children In Need, with a huge concert by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with Cybermen, Daleks, David Tennant, Russell T Davies and musician Murray Gold. SFX has more details of the charity fundraiser on Sunday 19th of October while tickets are [...]

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Spam-inspired animation

12. October 2006

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Boing Boing points me to the Brothers McLeod who are creating animations with the dialogue based on the often random words used by spambots to get past filters (the best one I received recently had the subject line of ‘suddenly lettuce’ which tickled me). Interesting idea; I’ve heard of folks online who make poetry out [...]

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Stargate afterlife on DVD?

12. October 2006

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News is filtering out about possible new Stargate SG-1 episodes after the end of the series as executive producer Robert Cooper told TV Guide that they were certainly interested in producing a couple of TV movies to tie up loose ends, with them probably going right to DVD. So perhaps like Farscape there is life [...]

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American Born Chinese shortlisted

12. October 2006

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Gene Luen Yang’s recently published American Born Chinese graphic novel is on the shortlist for the National Book Awards in the US. Nominated in the Young People’s Literature category it is the first time a graphic novel has been nominated, reports ICV2, so a considerable tip of the hat to Yang. It’s also quite a [...]

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