Archive | December, 2006

Oscars FX

18. December 2006

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Variety reports that the Oscar contenders for the special effects category have been announced, with seven movies competing for the small, gold statue, two of them comics-based films. Casino Royale, Eragon, Night at the Museum, X-Men: The Last Stand, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Poseidon and Superman Returns are all in the running, [...]

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Angoulême contenders

18. December 2006

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Dirk at Journalista has a full list of the awards candidates for next year’s prestigious Angoulême Comics Festival, competing in a revised awards structure for this first time.

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John Cassaday to work on Watchmen movie

18. December 2006

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Eisner-winning artist John Cassaday has been confirmed as the designer for the costumes on Zack Snyder’s proposed adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, joining the previously confirmed Adam Hughes: “I’ve turned down film design work before, but this was ‘Watchmen, that’s different.” (link via Comics News Tracker)

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UK & Ireland comics events calendar

18. December 2006

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Dan Fish on Bugpowder has created the UK and Ireland Comics Events using Google Calendar; any upcoming events not listed so far, drop him a line and let him know.

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Palestinian cartoons

18. December 2006

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The Washington Post has an interesting feature on political cartoons in al-Quds, the leading Palestinian newspaper, where cartoonists like Khalil Abu Arafeh are now lampooning not just Israeli figures but also Hamas members. His work has earned him angry complaints and death threats, but his editor Maher el-Sheikh maintain that the cartoonist’s work remains popular [...]

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Moore in new anthology

18. December 2006

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Tim Webber from Read Yourself Raw kindly points out that Mister Alan Moore is one of the contributors to Iain Sinclair’s London: City of Disappearances (published by Penguin’s Hamish Hamilton imprint) where he explores the London you don’t see in the glossy PR exercises by the Olympics committee; as Iain puts it: “The reason for [...]

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Modern Monstrosity Comics Christmas bash

18. December 2006

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The gang at Brit small press Modern Monstrosity, home to Tales From the Flat, are having a Christmas bash (they apologise for the short notice, but hey, it is that time of year when social things just happen). It will be this Tuesday (19th) at their usual haunt of Inigo in the exotic land of [...]

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Anthony talks FAB

18. December 2006

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Anthony Taylor, author of The Future was FAB – the Art of Mike Trim, a lovingly researched and illustrated look at the iconic artist and designer Mike Trim who has created work ranging from Gerry Anderson’s incredibly detailed miniatures to the cover painting of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds album, let me know he [...]

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Mignola loves the Portent

15. December 2006

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The Most Excellent Mike Mignola in the Image Newsletter postively raves about the new graphic novel The Portent by Peter Berting, which which just arrived on the shelves yesterday and does indeed look most intriguing (in fact the creatures on the front put me in mind of Mike’s art): “The Portent is one of the [...]

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Library recommends graphic novels

15. December 2006

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On the Jackson County Library blog Lori extols the virtues of graphic novels to those not yet converted and also to female readers who might think the whole comics genre is a boy’s toy area, as well as recommending some very good titles for the first timer: “I was never much into comic books when [...]

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Ed Pinsent in Plan B Magazine

15. December 2006

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Writer and illustrator Ed Pinsent is featured in the current issue of Plan B Magazine, as is Malcy Duff who is working on a new comics for 2007. You can check out Ed’s site here (he has some very limited supplies of some of his older comics available there) while you can see some of [...]

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NPR lists graphic novels for presents

15. December 2006

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National Public Radio’s Karen Grigsby Bates lists Books For Everyone on your Holiday Gift List (also on audio), including two graphic novels, Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s autobiographical work Cancer Vixen: “Marchetto’s illustrated chronicle is as much about the support and love she received as it is about her fight against the disease. Cancer Vixen is definitely [...]

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Civil War graphic novels

15. December 2006

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Chris at the fine Collected Comics Library podcast runs his eye over the Marvel Civil War collections in this week’s podcast (#99 – nearly at the magic 100!). For those of you who have been eagerly waiting on the collected graphic novel editions of Marvel’s Civil War titles, there are quite a few listed on [...]

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La Muse preview

14. December 2006

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A few weeks back I mentioned that Adi and Scott from Big Head Press sent in some details of their fothcoming web-based graphic novel La Muse, which begins its run on the Big Head site in January. Well, now the guys have started releasing some more details: “Susan La Muse is a sexy, fun-loving political [...]

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Mosh – punk webcomic

14. December 2006

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Julian slips me a note via the new ComicSpace site to say that you can now see Mosh online, which is described as “a punk Romeo and Juliet with two Juliets and no Romeo in sight”, adapted from a novel by Kristyn Dunnion and hopefully being adapted for animation. The main site also features a [...]

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