Archive | January, 2007

Sammy Harkham’s Buenaventura promo ad

31. January 2007

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Via Kenny comes some news from Buenaventura Press: I hadn’t looked at the BP site for a while but they have a great, new, little promo poster drawn by Sammy Harkham online. If you order direct they will send you one and if you see them at a show – they just did Angoulême [...]

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Loss of Nerve

31. January 2007

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Another piece of ACT-I-VATE news appearing today from Dan Goldman: “Recently, I announced that Act Two of “KELLY” would begin on Nerve.com early this month. Yesterday morning, I was informed that it will in fact not be appearing on their site at all, saying the sex was too dark and not in line with the tone [...]

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Mark Steven Johnson webchat this afternoon

31. January 2007

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Almost too late, but just noticed it: Mark Steven Johnson is doing a live webchat about his Ghost Rider film on UK movie magazine Empire’s site this afternoon, beginning at 3.30pm – you can log in here.

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KISS comics – Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley speak

31. January 2007

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Following yesterday’s news that theatrical rock group KISS would be returning once more to the world of comics Comic Book Resources‘ Jonah Weiland has dived right in there to snatch an interview with the band’s front men Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley as well as Scott Rosenberg (no, not a new band member, he’s the [...]

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Will write for chocolate

31. January 2007

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Blog TO, a multi-person blog covering aspects of life in Toronto, has an interview by Ryan C with Debbie Ridpath Ohi, writer, illustrator and creator of the webcomic “Will Write for Chocolate” which tickled me just right. (Borrowed from Debbie Ridpath Ohi’s site, where new strips usually go up each Wednesday)

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Indian cartoon gallery

31. January 2007

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The Hindu has news of plans by the Indian Institute of Cartoonists to open a cartoon gallery on Mahatma Ghandi Road in Bangalore in fifteen days time, with plans to look for a permanent gallery space at the exotic-sounding and enchantingly-named location of the Bangalore-Mysore Infrastructure Corridor, with the Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise Limited (NICE) [...]

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ACT-I-VATE anniversary party

31. January 2007

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Dean Haspiel and the gang at online comics collective ACT-I-VATE are reminding folks that they will be celebrating their first anniversary of publishing quality free webcomics with a bash at the Village Pourhouse, 64 Third Avenue, NYC on Thursday 1st of February – and don’t forget to swing past the site for some damned fine [...]

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Aardman Animation and DreamWorks split

31. January 2007

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DreamWorks and Aardman Animation, home to the national treasures that are Wallace and Gromit, are parting company only two movies into a five-film deal. Flushed Away and the Oscar-winning Curse of the Were-Rabbit failed to bring in the box office returns that were hoped for, although DreamWorks said that the main reason for the break [...]

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Alan Moore Show & Tell

31. January 2007

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Stalwart supporter of the Irish SF and comics scene, convention organiser, reviewer, and gentleman (as well as a friend of mine) Mister Pádraig Ó Méalóid will be astonishing the members of the Unlikely Society (formerly the SciFi Club) in Cassidy’s (nothing to do with a certain whisky drinking vampire, so far as I know) on [...]

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Changes coming

30. January 2007

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As Bob Dylan put it, the times they are a changing; websites and blogs also change as new ideas occur and new options become feasible and ours is no exception. In the last couple of years alone we’ve made major changes to our sites, culminating in a new design lasy year. We started the FPI [...]

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Record year for Orbit

30. January 2007

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Orbit, a damned fine SF&F imprint, has had a record year, recording their highest sales since their inception in 1974 and taking a huge chunk of the UK SF&F books sales for 2006. Frankly I’m not surprised; I’ve had the pleasure of dealing with Orbit for many years and they consistently come across not only [...]

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Corto Maltese: Back from the Dead

30. January 2007

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Some seafarin’ comics news picked up by Cap’n Kenny as he sails the Sequential Arts Sea: Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese Stories are happily coming back into English soon but perhaps much more surprisingly they are coming back in French with ALL NEW stories. We found this story at Le Figaro (in French here or in [...]

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Shuster Awards seek webcomics noms

30. January 2007

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Drawn!reports that the Shuster awards are adding a new webcomic category to their annual gongs-fest and are actively seeking nominations of Canadian talent. Bribes of Molson should not be attempted.

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You gotta have faith, faith, faith…

30. January 2007

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Well, we’ve had books and TV documentaries about the science of superheroes, now we can check on their theological leanings as well via the Religious Affiliations of Comic Book Characters site,(found by Kenny at afNews) which not only gives the religious affiliation but also explains how they deduced it from evidence in the comics. Bruce [...]

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I want to rock and roll all night and read comics everyday

30. January 2007

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Newsarama has the frankly flabbergasting news that old rockers KISS are to dust themselves down and give themselves a new lick of (face) paint as Gene ‘the tongue’ Simmons and Paul Stanley form KISS Comics Group (what, not ‘Komics’ then?) in partnership with Platinum Studios: “Kiss 4K, the story of the transformation of Simmons, Stanley and [...]

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