Archive | February, 2007

Neorama roundup

23. February 2007

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Marko Ajdaric of Brazlian comics site Neorama dos Quadrinhos has sent me a bunch of links to some recent articles of interest on the Neorama blog. First up Marko has a couple of posts on some new books pertaining to comics and cartooning, beginning with “Killed Cartoons: Casualties From the War on Free Expression”, edited [...]

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War of the Independents poster

23. February 2007

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Red Anvil Press has details of a signed and limited number of posters for the upcoming War of the Independents mentioned here a few weeks ago, which will go on sale at the New York Comic Con (at Arcana’s stand, booth #759). Nice to see the finished, coloured version of the earlier picture I posted [...]

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Shane Oakley interviewed on Down The Tubes

23. February 2007

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John Freeman has posted a third part to his ongoing look at Albion on top Brit comics site Down The Tubes, this time talking to Shane Oakley who was far more than the artist on the series, being also a large part of the driving force behind the whole idea to bring back some classic [...]

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Let Jelle Hugaert be your guide to the world of comics in Finland

23. February 2007

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As many of you will vaguely know Finland has a very active comics self publishing scene. A number of these works come with English translations and others have appeared in US mags such as Drawn and Quarterly and others. Bries books are about to publish Tommi Musturi’s “The first book of Hope” in English (look [...]

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Resident Evil 3 trailer online

23. February 2007

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Movie mag Empire‘s site reports that the trailer is up for Resident Evil 3: Extinction. Okay, not the top end of great movie-making, but let’s be honest, a lot of us loved the games and, if pressed, will have to admit to a certain guilty pleasure at watching the first two (not least for Milla [...]

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Kleist’s Cash sells out first print run

22. February 2007

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We’ve mentioned German comics creator Reinhard Kleist here recently, when he was one of four comics creators covered in an article in Die Welt and then again when Spiegel Online posted some of his rather lovely work from his Johnny Cash comic. Well, now we’ve just heard from our buyer Isobel (thanks, Iz), via the [...]

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300 is coming…

22. February 2007

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Warner Brothers have a UK website up for the movie adaptation of 300, which is marching towards us like a well-disciplined phalanx of Spartan warriors. Like most of you I’ve been looking at the various trailers that have teased us online, but last weekend when I went to see Hot Fuzz (highly recommended) I saw [...]

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Jon Haward celebrates 20 years in comics

22. February 2007

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Jon Haward tells me that 2007 is a very special year for him as it marks the twentieth anniversary of him becoming a published comics artist. Like many artists Jon has worked in a variety of areas, from illustrating children’s books, story boards for film and TV to art design for computer games, but the [...]

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Steve Bell’s Grand Old Duke of York

22. February 2007

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Round these parts we happily take any excuse to post on the cartoons by the bloody brilliant Steve Bell in the Guardian. Today’s excuse is simply because this one commenting on Tony Blair’s announcement about (maybe) bringing more British troops home (sometime) tickled me just right, covering modern concerns but in a style clearly reminiscent [...]

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Yab Daba Doo at the ‘henge

22. February 2007

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I’m giggling over my keyboard here as BBC Radio news has just reported that the Fathers for Justice organisation has staged a new protest. For those unfamiliar, the group is trying to highlight the imbalance between men and women in access to their children following divorces and break-ups. They have used some incredibly media-savvy stunts [...]

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Heidi McDonald to be an editor at Fox Atomic

22. February 2007

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ICV2 reports that The Beat‘s Heidi McDonald will be returning to the world of comics editing for Fox Atomic’s graphic novel imprint, which will be present at the NYC Comic Con, as will Heidi. Heidi is, as we say in Scotland “a well kent face” on the comics scene and I’m sure she’ll do well [...]

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Rick Veitch reads from “Can’t Get No”

22. February 2007

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DC has writer and artist Rick Veitch reading from his own original graphic novel Can’t Get No to listen to free over on the DC site.

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The ladies of SF-TV

22. February 2007

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John at Down The Tubes passed on some news about a trio of telefantasy’s leading ladies who all have upcoming appearances on our screens. Stargate SG-1‘s Amanda Tapping will be reprising her role of Samantha Carter as she joins the Stargate Atlantis team in the Pegasus galaxy, much to the delight of many fans mourning [...]

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Cyberfashion

22. February 2007

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Tuffy at the Fandumb blog has been having fun comparing some of the bizarre offerings from New York Fashion Week with the finest in SF couture, spotting many a rip-off… Sorry, meangingful homage from TV and film SF recycled by the fashionistas, including this chap who was part of a set of three be-helmeted models [...]

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Classic 30s Fleischer animation

22. February 2007

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Via Boing Boing comes this link to a video of a classic Max Fleischer cartoon from 1938 “All’s Fair at the Fair“, a fantastical look at the future wonders they expected to be revealed at the New York World’s Fair the following year; of course now, like Dan Dare and Flash Gordon, that futuristic look [...]

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