Archive | February, 2007
JMS to adapt World War Z?
The Cinema Blend site reports that Babylon 5 creator and comics scribe supreme J M Straczynski is working on adapting the international best-seller World War Z for Paramount (with Brad Pitt tipped as a star, but these things often change in pre-production). If you are unfamiliar with it, the novel is presented as a sort [...]
Continue reading...Octavia Butler tribute in Seattle
27. February 2007
The SFWA has details of a tribute to the sadly missed writer Octavia Butler coming up on Thursday 1st of March at 7pm at the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library. Regular readers will recall how shocked the SF&F community was last year at Octavia’s untimely and sudden death. I’m sad [...]
Continue reading...“He’s riding through the streets with his head on fire…”
27. February 2007
The BBC reports that Nic Cage’s take on the Ghost Rider has hung on to the top box office spot for the second week running in the US of A, beating out even the might of Jim Carey with the Number 23. The UK sees the arrival (at last) of our favourite demonic biker this [...]
Continue reading...‘Under new management’ – FPI speaks to Mike Conroy, new editor of Comics International
27. February 2007
As many of you will know Comics International easily the UK’s longest running magazine connected with the comics news and features field changed hands sometime in early January; Mike Conroy will now head up the magazine as editor for the new owners. Mike has many comics related credits to his resume including the creation of [...]
Continue reading...2000AD on the Beeb
26. February 2007
Even the BBC is getting in on the act, with an article on the Beeb’s site celebrating the 30th anniversary of 2000AD where Finlo Rohrer looks at “30 Years of the Future“, comparing the SF imaginings of older 2000AD stories against the modern fact of today: “Imagine a society where cities blend into each other to [...]
Continue reading...Interzone’s 25th anniversary
26. February 2007
One of the true pillars of the British SF&F community is about to celebrate the big quarter of a century marker: yes, folks, believe it or not, Interzone turns twenty five with the next issue due on the 10th of March. Andy Cox, who is also responsible for the excellent The Third Alternative, tells me [...]
Continue reading...“Living in the new world, thinking in the past” – digital versus paper comics
26. February 2007
New York Comicon is filling many of the blogs and comics news sites this week as the publishers push their upcoming products for the year. For me the most interesting article so far has been the admission by Marvel president and Publisher Dan Buckley that Marvel are looking at the digital distribution of comics as [...]
Continue reading...Oscar time
26. February 2007
Tinsel Town’s annual red carpet fashion catwalk (the movies are secondary to fashion these days for some, it seems) has been and gone for another year. Guillermo Del Toro’s brilliant Pan’s Labyrinth was up in a number of major categories, including Best Original Screenplay (very unusual for a non English language film) but lost out, [...]
Continue reading...New Blake’s Seven
26. February 2007
B7 Media has posted interviews with the writers of a new series of Blake’s Seven audio adventures, including Ben Aaronovitch and Marc Platt who have,as mnay fans will know, Doctor Who among their writing credits. The new audio shows will feature Derek Riddel as the eponymous Roj Blake (can the fans take anyone other than [...]
Continue reading...Korean cartoons accused of anti-Semitism
26. February 2007
The Jerusalem Post (and a number of other sites) are reporting on cartoons in a book written by a Korean university lecturer Lee Won-bok as part of the “Distant Countries and Neighbouring Countries” series which is designed to teach children about other cultures and nations. Some cartoons were held to be offensive and anti-Semitic, such [...]
Continue reading...Kolašin awards for cartoons
26. February 2007
Marko on the Neorama blog has details of the cartoon contest from the 1st International Cartoon Festival in Kolašin, Montenegro, which was organised by Darko Drljević on a theme of snow and mountains. First prize of a thousand Euros and a plaque went to Muhamed Đerlek (aka Maks) of Serbia, with second prize going to [...]
Continue reading...Really Heavy Wiki
26. February 2007
John Freeman writes on the Down The Tubes blog about a problem which he has encountered on Wikipedia, where the entry on The Really Heavy Greatcoat strip was deleted. John and artist Nick Miller have been creating the comic strip for two decades now, with it appearing in the highly respected Comics International (hardly an [...]
Continue reading...2000AD competition winner
23. February 2007
That’s it, our 2000AD thirtieth anniversary competition is now over and as the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic prepares to celebrate becoming a thirtysomething I can announce that the winner of the signed Judge Dredd Case Files and Complete Nemesis the Warlock is Chris Hughes from Leicestershire. Congratulations to Chris and sympathies to those who didn’t win [...]
Continue reading...A cartoonist’s guide to fine art
23. February 2007
You may remember me recently posting on a new exhibition of work by William Hogarth at Tate Britain and remarking that some of Hogarth’s sequential paintings and engravings have been viewed as distant ancestors of visual storytelling in modern comics. Today the Guardian has one of our best contemporary cartoonists, Steve Bell, along with critic [...]
Continue reading...Live action Dilbert in the offing?
23. February 2007
ICV2 has news that Chris Columbus, who directed the first couple of Harry Potter movies, has picked up the rights to make a live action movie based on the champion of cubicle dwellers everywhere, Scott Adams’ Dilbert. Hmmm, wouldn’t a live action film of Dilbert be a little too similar to The Office territory?
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