Archive | December, 2006

Blue

21. December 2006

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Via Drawn comes this link to Julien Tromeur’s wordless cartoon strip .blue. I think Johnny at Drawn is on the money with his take on it – the odd strip just doesn’t work, but most of them do and when they do they are simple but brilliant, like this pastiche of one of the most [...]

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Dark Tower trailer on Marvel

21. December 2006

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Marvel’s site has a trailer up for the forthcoming comics adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, beginning with the Gunslinger Born.

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Brian K Vaughan joins Lost team

21. December 2006

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Top comics scribe Brian K Vaughan is to work his writing magic for cult TV show Lost; rumours have been circulating but now BKV has officially announced the news on his own blog. Fortunately it will not mean him giving up on comics: “And no, I’m absolutely not leaving comics. There are a lot of [...]

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Peter Lord praises Barbera

21. December 2006

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Peter Lord, one of the founders of the brilliant Aardman Animation (home to Wallace and Gromit) has paid tribute to Joseph Barbera on the BBC’s site: “I was brought up on Hanna-Barbera cartoons. I still remember the impact of seeing, for the first time, The Huckleberry Hound Show. To a child in the late ’50s, whose previous [...]

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new arrivals – from Daredevil to Yellow Brick Roads

20. December 2006

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Still hunting for a last minute gift for someone? Or maybe you need to buy yourself a gift as a reward for all your diligent Christmas shopping? There’s a fair mix of new titles going out on the shelves tomorrow, including some very attractive hardback collections from Marvel in the shape of David Finch and [...]

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New podcast up

20. December 2006

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Crowbar and myself have just posted a new FPI podcast over on our main site for your aural pleasures, picking out a selection of graphic novels, SF&F books (you are going to love Joe Hill’s Heart Shaped Box!) and some top cool merchandise we have coming up (new Who action figures, hurrah!) as well as [...]

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Coffee and Comics – graphic novels in Edinburgh

20. December 2006

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A couple of us from the Edinburgh SF Book Group have decided to form an offshoot to focus on graphic novels starting in January. The format will be similar to the SF Book Group, with a meeting once a month for roughly an hour in a cafe bar in the city to discuss a particular [...]

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French comics in the Economist

20. December 2006

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Our beloved funnybooks continue their march into the respectable pages of mainstream media with even the Economist providing coverage. Actually kudos to the Economist for not only discussing comics and graphic novels but for discussing the French market, mentioning La Face Karchée de Sarkozy (a satire on one of the likely candidates for next year’s [...]

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New Who merch

19. December 2006

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A couple of new items have been added to the forthcoming slate of new Doctor Who merchandise for 2007 in the shape of these very cool box sets drawn from the final story of the second season with the huge fanboy dream of an all-out Cyberman versus Dalek battle. The Doomsday Box Set comes with three [...]

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Stephen King talks comics

19. December 2006

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Via the good offices of the Newsarama blog comes this link to an interview in USA Today with Stephen King talking about the comics adaptation of his Dark Tower fantasy novels series and other comics-related matters: “The first few issues, I should add, are almost entirely drawn from the books. Readers will recognize them and hopefully [...]

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Fun Home – Time Book of the Year

19. December 2006

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Dirk at Journalista flags up the great news that Time magazine has picked out Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home as their book of the year. This follows Time naming Watchmen several months back as one of the best novels of the last few decades; I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – [...]

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24 Hour Comics Day 2006 creators

19. December 2006

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The 24 Hour Comic Day blog has details of the final line-up of contributors for the 2006 volume, which will be solicited in the January Previews. Among those featured in the latest volume are: Frazer Irving, Jeremy Bear, Tita Larasati, Roseline Lau, Edward J. Grug III, Rodrigo Bravo, Steve Troop, Alam Muammar, Rob Osborne and [...]

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Joseph Barbera

19. December 2006

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Cartoon fans are waking up to the sad news that Joseph Barbera, one half of the enormously successful Hanna-Barbera cartoon partnership, has died at the age of 95 (the BBC has a video report here); as a Seventh Day Cartoonist I’m deeply saddened. Alongside his collaborator William Hanna (who died a few years ago) the [...]

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Grindhouse

18. December 2006

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My colleague Crowbar has just added on some unusual merchandise for the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino movie Grindhouse (an old American term for exploitation movies and cinemas), including this wonderfully weird and disturbing action figure of Cherry (played by Rose McGowan) complete with an interchangeable machine gun leg. Blimey, we’ve come a long way since Micronauts [...]

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Shrek III trailer online

18. December 2006

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It is but a reindeer’s whisker away from Christmas but already the first rumblings of the Big Summer Movies have been heard online, with the latest being this trailer for the big green guy. No, not the Hulk, but Shrek in his third movie, where it looks like Shrek and Fiona may end up becoming [...]

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