Archive | November, 2006

Steph Swainston joins the blogosphere

30. November 2006

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My good chum and all-round SF community stalwart Ariel at the UK SF Book News site has a link to top fantasy author Steph Swainston (very highly recommended) who has started blogging. Not a huge amount on there yet, although she has managed to combine a trip to the natural spectacle of the Alps with [...]

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New Who and Torchwood details

30. November 2006

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SF Crowsnest has just posted an entire raft of news items on their site covering the Doctor Who Christmas Special and several upcoming episodes of the Who-spinoff show Torchwood (we like anything with Captain Jack Harkness in it round here). Rather than try to summarise several posts (with potential spoilers if you don’t want to [...]

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Charlie is mundane

30. November 2006

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Edinburgh-based author Charlie Stross tells SciFi Wire his forthcoming book Halting State is mundane. No, not boring or everyday (it would be hard to imagine Charlie’s fiction ever being that), but mundane as in mundane SF, one of these sub-genres that gets writers, reviewers and readers excitedly arguing in the bar of conventions – is [...]

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Fantasticar

30. November 2006

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USA Today (via Empire) has a picture of the Fantasticar from the forthcoming Fantastic Four movie Rise of the Silver Surfer, as well as some background on the design by Tim Flattery, the film’s conceptual artist.

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Hergé at the Pompidou, manga in Glasgow

30. November 2006

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Paul Gravett kindly passed on this link to an exhibition of Tintin creator Hergé coming up in the postmodern masterpiece/eyesore (delete as applicable) of the Centre Pompidou in Paris from December 20th to February 19th – admission is free (although of course you need to get to Paris to take advantage of that). From the [...]

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HBO to make Preacher

30. November 2006

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According to the Hollywood Reporter HBO is developing Preacher for television, with Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon onboard as co-executive producers. The pilot is being written by Mark Steven Johnson of Daredevil and the still-to-be-seen Ghost Rider fame with Howard Deutch set to direct. Given HBO’s gritty, adult dramas and their success record let’s hope [...]

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Comics event in Glasgow

30. November 2006

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Paul Gravett has dropped me a line to say that he will be taking part in a signing of his new work (picking up great reviews I am pleased to see) Great British Comics, alongside Marc Baines (Kingly Books) and Metaphrog (the gorgeous Louis books). As regular readers will recognise all of the participants took [...]

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Tales From the Flat

30. November 2006

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Laurence and Oliver from Modern Monstrosity (home of Tales From the Flat) have posted up a new online photocomic of their experiences at the London MCM Expo on their site and have also been indulging in a podcast as well, multimeda chaps that they are.

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Holocaust art

30. November 2006

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The LA Times reports on Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, an elderly artist living in the Santa Cruz mountains area. Dina is a survivor of the Holocaust, spared by the infamous Josef Mengele because of her artistic talent and forced to paint portraits of gypsies who would be murdered by the Nazis because her paints could capture [...]

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Cartooning in Iraq

30. November 2006

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The Editor’s Weblog discusses an article in Le Monde (article in French) with Iraqi cartoonists Yasser Abdulrahim and Khoudair Al-Hemyare who talk about cartooning both under the dictatorship of Saddam and his moustache brigades and… er.. well, under whatever they actually have in Iraq at the moment. Given online discussion on comics sites about the [...]

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We’re off to see the Wizard…

30. November 2006

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The BBC reports that the ever-green film The Wizard of Oz has been lovingly cleaned up and restored for a release in UK cinemas next month. Some may scoff and wonder why go to see a movie from 1939 in the cinema, especially one which most people have seen repeatedly on television (usually on holiday [...]

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New arrivals – Bolland, Ware and assorted creepy monsters!

29. November 2006

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You may recall a few weeks ago we had Joe Pruett chatting away here on the blog and one of the subjects that came up was the Art of Brian Bolland book Joe had been working heavily on for Image. It was due a number of months back and has seen its publication date pushed [...]

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Comics at the Cape

29. November 2006

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The Cape Town Book Fair, due to be held in South Africa next June, is going to double the amount of floor space for the 2007 event, the second to be held. And I’m pleased to see that among the new areas to be included in the expanded book fair is a whole area given [...]

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Gender in Battlestar Galactica

29. November 2006

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The blog Megatrouble has an interesting draft of an essay looking into gender portrayal in the new Battlestar Galactica, specifically focussing on the character of Starbuck, relating it to the Action Heroine, a figure many academics in media studies attribute to SF and Horror (Sarah Conner in Terminator, Ripley in Aliens, the Final Girl in [...]

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Churchill in SF fan shock

29. November 2006

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An article in the Sydney Morning Herald reports on a study by Cambridge history don Doctor Richard Toye where he claims that not only was Winston Churchill a secret SF fan, several of the famous orator’s speeches were drawn from the writings of H G Wells, with the two men corresponding regularly until Wells’ death. [...]

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