Archive | January, 2007

Classic Casper animations

25. January 2007

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Following on from the news that Dark Horse will be publishing Casper the Friendly Ghost as the start of their Harvey Comics Classics range (can we have some Sad Sack too, please?) Boing Boing has a link sent in by a fan to a whole batch of Casper cartoons from the 1950s.

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Channel Frederator Awards

25. January 2007

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The Channel Frederator Awards for animation have been announced; the site was set up in 2005 to create a venue to showcase the creative work by web video and animation makers, airing a wide variety of shorts from music videos and classic commercials to animation made with the most basic tools to professional-looking CG animation [...]

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Jeff Newelt in the Gothamist

25. January 2007

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Jeff Newelt, PR guru, sometimes comics commentator and comics editor at Smith Mag (where he was involved with the excellent Shooting War and the new A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge) is interviewed on the Gothamist, discussing the webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE among other things and also commenting on Shooting War: “One of the differences between [...]

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iFanboy video podcast with Brian K Vaughan

25. January 2007

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The guys at iFanboy have gone all video with their podcasts; for the second video podcast the boys travel to the Rocketship in NYC and a signing party with none other than Brian K Vaughan, chatting to Brian about wrapping up Y: the Last Man (sob!) and what comes next.

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Small Press Idol at Dimestore

25. January 2007

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Josh from ComicSpace (we’re there, are you?) emailed out to say he was going to be getting on with some of the additional functions for the site, which is good news – there aren’t many things you can do on ComicSpace at the moment, but it has been a decent place for all sorts of [...]

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Ah Jaysus, Fair Play To Ya

25. January 2007

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Kenny appears to be slowly building a theme this week as he sends me this: Hot on the heels of plugging one ex-employees blog ‘Fictions‘ here – another comes up. Blogarrah, Derek “The Voice of Ireland” O’Connor’s blog, isn’t comics but if you want to know what is really going on behind the scenes of [...]

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Nightmares and Fairy Tales

24. January 2007

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Dan at Slave Labor Graphics sent us a heads-up on not only a new artist joining Serena Valentino on Nightmares and Fairy Tales but the start of a new story arc: “It’s not your father’s Grimm, that’s for sure. With Nightmares and Fairy Tales #19, acclaimed writer Serena Valentino not only starts off a new [...]

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Kickback

24. January 2007

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David Lloyd sent us this quite spiffing animated banner to draw attention to his top-notch crime comic Kickback. What? You still haven’t read it? Well, that’s why we’re putting this up. How many times can we tell people they really do need to do themselves a favour and pick up a copy?

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Bon, c’est Angoulême!

24. January 2007

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It is almost time for the great French celebration of comics in Angoulême, which runs from tomorrow to 28th Janvier (that’s January to non-French speakers in case you couldn’t guess). The Angoulême site is also available in English and is choc-full of details and information – naturally we are all curious to see how the [...]

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From vampires to vigilantes, we chat with Charlie Huston

24. January 2007

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This week I have been talking to Charlie Huston, a writer who has already established himself in the US with his powerful crime novels featuring Henry Thompson, such as Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things and A Dangerous Man. From there Charlie has moved into a new series based around a character called Joe Pitt, a [...]

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Graphic novels in Newcastle

24. January 2007

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Via Bugpowder comes a link to Readers of the Lost Art, the Newcastle Graphic Novels Readers’ Group, which has been meeting every two weeks at the Newcastle City Library on Tuesdays to discuss work from the library’s graphic novels range. At the moment they are meeting in the Literary and Philosophical Society until the City [...]

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Be in a Hardy Boys comic!

24. January 2007

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Papercutz is running a competition for budding young amateur sleuths and fans of Franklin W Dixon’s evergreen Hardy Boys. Head on over to the Papercutz site where you will need to carefully read the comics sequence you find there for clues to be in with a chance of winning. The prize? You will appear alongside [...]

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New Weird

24. January 2007

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Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are working on a New Weird anthology for 2008, which will include a number of writers most of us probably wouldn’t consider New Weird usually, although perhaps the tales they are submitting for this collection will embrace that sub-genre (especially since the genre ‘rules’ aren’t exactly carved in stone). Among some [...]

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Pan’s Labyrinth in Oscars nominations

24. January 2007

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This year’s Oscars are not exactly replete with high-level nominations for SF&F and comics-based cinema (although there are a lot in the more technical categories, as usual), but as with several other recent movie awards it is Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro who is flying the flag for quality cine-fantasy as El Laberinto del Fauno [...]

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Coke settles animation case

24. January 2007

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Coca-Cola has reached an out of court settlement with British band 7 Seconds of Love after an animated advert by Coke in South America was found to be remarkably similar to the dancing ninja cats (yes, really!) the band has used in their videos. Joel Veitch of the band is also the man behind the [...]

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