Archive | February, 2007

Call for work for the VI Encuentro Internacional de Caricatura e Historieta en la XXI Feria Internacional del Libro

28. February 2007

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Marko on the Neorama blog has news of a call for artists to submit work for the VI Encuentro Internacional de Caricatura e Historieta en la XXI Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara-México. Neorama has a bilingual explanation of the details; the English version is a little off (I think “call to expose” should probably [...]

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Wiki decides to wear The Really Heavy Greatcoat

28. February 2007

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Good news from John Freeman – following support for the entry on his and Nick Miller’s top comics strip The Really Heavy Greatcoat and a “knowledgeable Wiki editor” as John puts it, the entry, which had been deleted as not ‘noteworthy’ enough then temporarily restored while the merits were discussed, has now been fully restored [...]

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Introducing the Propaganda reviews

28. February 2007

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My names Richard Bruton. Until last October I used to work at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham UK, where I spent 19 years as the longest serving Saturday boy in their history. Not so much a job, more a great place to see my friends and share a love of comics with the customers. During my [...]

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2000AD – early memories

28. February 2007

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Lew Stringer has a great spread of pictures from the very earliest days of 2000AD (including one which predates the actual comic, being an advert for Prog 1 in an early February 1977 issue of sister publication Battle). For those of us of a certain age these images and the 30th anniversary of the comic [...]

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One Last Song

28. February 2007

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Artist Shawn Richter kindly gave me a peek at the first issue of One Last Song this week; you may recall I’ve mentioned the comic he and CJ Hurtt have been creating a couple of times here before. It’s the near future – 2046 in an America driven to ever more extreme paranoia by the [...]

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Chinese cartoons hurt by imports

28. February 2007

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The Shanghai Daily mentions a report from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Social Sciences Academic Press which claims that the native Chinese animation industry is being damaged by imported cartoons, primarily from America and Japan, with ‘by-products’ from such cartoons (I suspect from the context they mean sales of merchandise tied to the [...]

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Nebula Awards nominees

28. February 2007

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The SFWA has details of the nominees from the final ballot for this year’s Nebula Awards; on the shortlist for Best Novel are: The Privilege of the Sword – Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra, Jul06) Seeker – Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov05) The Girl in the Glass – Jeffrey Ford (Dark Alley, Aug05) Farthing – Jo Walton (Tor Books, Aug06) From the [...]

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The naked wizard

28. February 2007

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Steady yourselves, fans, for Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter star and lust object to countless teen girls (and boys), has bared all on the London stage for the play Equus, displaying a very toned bod to West End audiences. If you can peel your eyes away from his physique the BBC article declares that both his [...]

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SLG talks digital

28. February 2007

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The Slave Labor Graphics Live Journal picks up on Kenny’s recent post about the possible future of digital comics issues, reflecting on their own experiences thus far; quite shocking to learn how big a chunk of a sale the credit card fee accounts for.

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Batmobile sold off

28. February 2007

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The Batmobile mentioned on the blog the other week has been auctioned off; the car was built to tour the USA in the 1960s, promoting the Adam West Batman TV series. The BBC reports that it was expected to go for around £75K but actually went for almost £120K. Holy humungous bids, Batman! Do you [...]

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Vicente Catan

28. February 2007

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Gerry Alanguilan has been scanning some art sent to him by the wife of the late comics artist Vicente Catan Jr, better known as Vicatan, for the online Philippine Comics Art Museum; I love this Vicatan image from an adaptation of Melville’s “Billy Budd” on the Museum, the composition of the picture, with crowded foreground [...]

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Voyage dans la Lune

27. February 2007

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Boing Boing has a link to a reworked version of Georges Méliès “Voyage Dans la Lune” (dating from 1902), widely held by most to be the first SF film (although one commentator on BB believes the Lumieres very short clip “Charcuterie Mecanique” about a machine which takes pigs in one end and produces perfect sausages [...]

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Fantagraphics needs you

27. February 2007

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Fantagraphics is, as many of you will know, engaged in litigation with the author Harlan Ellison and fighting in courts, especially in the US, is a very expensive undertaking; for an independent publisher it is one that can have obvious repercussions on their ability to actually publish some of their works (see here on our [...]

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Dave Ryan talks War of the Independents

27. February 2007

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Following hot on the heels of the recently revealed artwork for the upcoming War of the Independents, Dave Ryan discusses the series with Andy Khouri over at Comic Book Resources.

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Boldly going where other actors have been before…

27. February 2007

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Rotten Tomatoes has a report via IGN about alleged casting for the JJ Abrams take on Star Trek XI, with Matt Damon, Adrien Brody and Gary Sinise supposedly in talks to play, respectively, the younger versions of James T Kirk, Mr Spock and Doctor McCoy. According to the article ’studio sources’ confirmed they were in [...]

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