Archive | February, 2007

2000AD on the radio

21. February 2007

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Alex Fitch kindly let me know that the “I’m Ready For My Close-up” show on Resonance FM will be continuing their recent (and welcome) run of programmes on comics by celebrating thirty years of The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, 2000AD on both this week’s show on Thursday and next week’s too (hey, it is an important [...]

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The Goldman Files – events in the life of a busy comics artist

21. February 2007

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Dan Goldman has been a very busy artist and for the sake of brevity he had decided to drop a line to friends summing up what he’s been up to – rather than paraphrase it I’ll just post from Dan’s email: “The cat is finally out of the bag: my next book project, an as-yet- [...]

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French cartoonist Plantu profiled

21. February 2007

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Worldpress.org has an article on one of France’s top cartoonists, Plantu, who graces a number of publications with his work, most notably Le Monde, frequently appearing on the front page (most unusual for cartoons). Talking about the aim of his work, Plantu remarked: “We are saturated with images that make us asleep, even if they [...]

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Broken Voice announces part 5 of “Shades”

21. February 2007

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The guys at Broken Voice Comics tell me that part five of their excellent web graphic novel “Shades” will be launched this very day, entitled “Without Wings”; from their release: “Written by David A J Berner and illustrated in full colour by artist Harsho Mohan Chattoraj, “Shades” tells the story of a group of heroes [...]

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33rd Annual Saturn Awards nominees announced

21. February 2007

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This year is the 35th anniversary of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, founded in 1972 with a mission to redress the imbalance in mainstream movie awards which all too often overlook our beloved fantastic genres. The nominees for the 33rd annual Saturn awards given out by the Academy have recently been [...]

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Indian street comics to fight HIV

21. February 2007

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Business Wire India carries news of a new initiative in India where a series of street comics are being distributed in Hindi, Telugu, Bengali and Urdu (with a limited edition in English too) to educate young men, especially in city slum areas, of the dangers of unsafe sexual practises. The comics were launched recently by [...]

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The Hobbit for 2009?

21. February 2007

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ICV2 picks up on a piece from the Sunday New York Times which I missed, where Robert Shaye of New Line (yes, the one who made legions of Tolkien fans take a dislike to him by saying less than pleasant things about Peter Jackson) was talking about the stalled development of the Hobbit film. Recent [...]

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New Babylon 5 Minbari revealed

20. February 2007

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With TV-writer-turned-top-comics-scribe J M Straczynski’s eagerly anticipated return to Babylon 5 in the works we can exclusively reveal the identity of the latest star to appear in the new shows: yes, it’s Britney Spears joining the cast as a Minbari woman on the run from a marriage gone wrong! Of course, I may just have [...]

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José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo on Metabunker

20. February 2007

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Matthias Wivel posts an older interview on Metabunker with this year’s Angoulême Grand Prix winner, Argentinian cartoonist José Muñoz and his collaborator Carlos Sampayo.

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Comics slideshow

20. February 2007

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Fantagraphic’s Flog has pictures up (plus links to a larger Flickr set of images) from the recent gig at their new Seattle store starring Gabrielle Bell, Kevin Huizenga, and Anders Nilsen so those of us who couldn’t be there can marvel at good comics creators trying to deal with a slide carousel.

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The making of From Hell

20. February 2007

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Eddie Campbell has posted several more pieces to his blog showing the scripting and illustrating of From Hell; this is slowly turning into a fascinating behind-the-scenes series on his and Alan Moore’s landmark work.

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Glyph Awards

20. February 2007

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Loren Javier has posted details of the second annual Glyph Comics Awards nominees for 2007, which celebrate the best black comics and creators. Bluesman Volume 3, The American Way, Day 8, Earthlight Volume 1 and Stagger Lee are all in the Story of the Year category – rather than just copy and paste all of [...]

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Ken MacLeod talks

20. February 2007

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Velcro City Tourist Board (now isn’t that a great name for a blog???) has more from a recent chat with Ken MacLeod concerning SF, transhumanism, where publishing is going, his friendship with Iain Banks and his upcoming new novel The Execution Channel. Ken is, without a doubt, one of the finest SF writers working today [...]

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Graphic novels at Jewish Book Week

20. February 2007

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Steve Bergson at the Jewish Comics blog has details of the upcoming event for Jewish Book Week in London, where Joann Sfar and JT Waldman will be in conversation with Paul Gravett on Sunday February 25th at 5.30pm. The venue is the Royal National Hotel, 38-51 Bedford Way, London and tickets range from £4 to [...]

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Cartooning our way through history – Larry Gonick talks to FPI

20. February 2007

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Today I’ve been lucky enough to talk to an artist who is not only a damned fine cartoonist but someone I’ve been reading and enjoying for many years, Larry Gonick. Larry has not only been creating some excellent satirical and informative comics over the years with his Cartoon History of the Universe, he’s used the [...]

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