Archive | January, 2007

YALSA’s top ten graphic novels for teens

30. January 2007

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Via ICV2 comes a link to the YALSA top ten great graphic novels for teens; the list is presented in alphabetical order rather than with any form of ranking and includes a good variety of graphic novels, from Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen’s Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. Volume 1 to Gilbert Hernandez’ Sloth, Brian Wood [...]

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Zippy the exhibit

30. January 2007

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Three of Bill Griffith’s Zippy the Pinhead comics will be part of an exhibition called “Living the American Dream: Levittown and the Suburban Boom” at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages in Stony Brook, New York, according to the Editor & Publisher. Griffith grew up in Levittown and was, apparently, less [...]

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Mutesi in New York

30. January 2007

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The Dartmouth has an article on a visit and talk by author Robert Bazambanza, who discussed the horrific events of the Rwandan genocide and how it has affected his graphic novels work. Speaking through an interpreter Bazambanza summed it up somewhat when he said “We were actually sleeping in paradise, But we woke up and [...]

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Native Americans in Comics on CBR

30. January 2007

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Emmett Furey has a fascinating multi-author interview over on Comic Book Resources, where he discusses the changing portrayal of Native Americans in comics over the years, with Jason Aaron, David Mack, Jeff Mariotte, Jay Odjick, Robert Schmidt, Michael Sheyahshe, Tim Truman and Mark Waid all taking part. It is interesting to see how different groups [...]

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Jedi couture

30. January 2007

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Angels, one of the most famous theatrical costumiers in showbiz (they have supplied everyone, from plays and TV to some of the biggest movies ever made) are having to clear some of their enormous back-stock of costumes and will be auctioning some 350 lots at Bonhams in March. Among the costumes going under the hammer [...]

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La Muse goes live

29. January 2007

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Adi Tantimedh and Hugo Petrus’ online graphic novel La Muse, which I’ve mentioned here a few times, has finally gone live on the Big Head Press site, so run over and enjoy a look.

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Living in the neo-noir shadows with Hard Boiled Ed

29. January 2007

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We have a nice treat for you this week; you may recall me posting a few times about the upcoming British small press title Hard Boiled Ed and how the team were showing the progress of this new noir on writer Paul Burke’s blog, letting us see how the comic came together, the story and [...]

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Web Cartoonist’s Choice Awards Nominations

29. January 2007

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Via The Beat comes this link to the Web Cartoonist’s Choice Awards Nominations; rather than simply repost the various categories and nominees here I’d agree with Heidi at the Beat and recommend you follow the link and check them out yourself, because as well as an awards nominations list it is also essentially a gateway [...]

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Gordon Rennie talks games and comics

29. January 2007

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Thanks to Brian from the Scottishgames.biz blog who kindly sent me this link to a recent interview with Gordon Rennie, well-known Brit comics writer (especially respected here for some of his top 2000 AD strips such as Necronauts and Caballistics; he’s also impressed so much he’s been let loose on Judge Dredd) and a man [...]

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Evan Dorking interviewed on Drawn!

29. January 2007

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Matt on Drawn! has belatedly posted a video interview with Evan Dorkin at last year’s New York Comic Con.

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Angoulême awards

29. January 2007

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Comics Reporter has great coverage of the award-winners from this year’s Angoulême festival at the weekend, with Bart Beatty giving a good write-up (with more promised once he is settled back home from his voyages) and Tom who has covers up for the winners, including Shigeru Mizuki’s Non Non Ba which becomes the first manga [...]

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The Center for Cartoon Studies

29. January 2007

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The Chicago Tribune carries an article (which looks to have originated in the LA Times) by Elizabeth Mehren on the Center for Cartoon Studies and co-founder James Sturm (creator of The Golem’s Mighty Swing) in White River Junction, Vermont. Its a brief but interesting article for both the comics reader and the would-be comics creator: [...]

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Mr. and Mrs. Natural – Crumbs in NYT

29. January 2007

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Kenny spotted this article in the NYT over the weekend: the New York Times in anticipation of the release of Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s book – “Need More Love” – has an article touching on the domestic lives of the “World’s Only Cartooning couple” as they brand themselves in one of the cartoons accompanying the piece (not [...]

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Civil War or not Civil War?

29. January 2007

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Charlie Huston, interviewed here just the other week, has been posting a fair bit to his blog (good news for US fans of his novels, looks like they will be getting the hardback treatment). He is also very honest about Moon Knight #7 and its relationship to the main Civil War story arc and how [...]

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Who’s getting animated?

29. January 2007

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The BBC has offered a glimpse of cartoon versions of David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in animated adventures of the Doctor and new companion Martha. The Infinite Quest is a 13-part animated adventure due to run weekly as part of the second series of Doctor Who Unlimited. Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Anthony Head, who [...]

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