Archive | March, 2007

Milton Caniff at the Hollywood Animation Archives

31. March 2007

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The excellent ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project blog has a special treat for comics fans – while archive supporter John Ellis was working with the family of Milton Caniff on material for a DVD of the live-action series of the Steve Canyon character he found original inks and Sunday pages the family were unaware of. They [...]

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Superchancellor

31. March 2007

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The wonderfully titled “Gad, Sir!Comics!” blog picks up on a disturbing item – a new Superman figure which has more than a passing resemblance to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, MP. (is the Chancellor’s dour Scots demeanour just a front to hide his true identity? And is this why he hasn’t been stronger on [...]

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Smith & Jones

30. March 2007

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The Beeb’s official Doctor Who site has a selection of pics and trailers to whet your appetite (like it needs any more whetting) for the first episode of season three tomorrow night, entitled Smith and Jones. Take the phone off the hook and prepare a bowl of the finest jellybabies, let nothing else distract you. (one [...]

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Alan Grant gets Wasted

30. March 2007

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No, not a comment about Alan’s lifestyle choices, but a new humour comic for “today’s youth gone wild” called Wasted which Alan Grant (of 2000AD, Kidnapped, Batman and, let’s face it, a huge amount of other comics fame) will be editing and which will be published by Bad Press (who also did Shit the Dog [...]

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Nemesis – the art of Kevin O’Neill, then and now

30. March 2007

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Since I mentioned Nemesis while talking about Invasion! yesterday it reminded me just how much I enjoyed re-reading the Complete Nemesis the Warlock from Rebellion recently. Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill’s far future, underground world, Termight, bizarre aliens and terrifying, xenophobic humans who embark on crusades to ‘purify’ all deviants (anyone who isn’t human, or [...]

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New Who pics

30. March 2007

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The BBC’s site has a selection of images up taken from the first episode of season three of the new Doctor Who, due to air in the UK this weekend. One day to go, I’m getting excited…

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Hothousing animators at the NFB

30. March 2007

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Pat Dillon-Moore from the internationally respected National Film Board of Canada drops us a line to say that the Animation Hothouse has made a return at the NFB, where eight up-and-coming film-makers will be followed throughout their first professional short animated movie. It is obviously a huge opportunity for new animators but also, as the [...]

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Lucky Luke animated movie

30. March 2007

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ICV2 reports that Xilam, a French animation company, will be creating an 85-minute animated Lucky Luke feature entitled Tous a l’Ouest, which is based on the album La Caravanne by René Goscinny and Morris. ICV2 notes this will actually be the fourth animated Lucky Luke movie, but the first to be made in over twenty [...]

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Star Wars goes postal

30. March 2007

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The US postal service will be releasing a set of 15 Star Wars stamps this May ; the 15 stamps will be released on a single sheet, after which people will be able to vote for their favourite (link via the Newsarama blog).

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Ray Winstone for Indy 4

30. March 2007

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Brit actor Ray Winstone will be in the long, long, long-awaited fourth Indiana Jones movie, joining Cate Blanchett and, naturally Harrison Ford. The Hollywood Reporter comments that the plot is still under wraps but believes Winstone will play Indy’s sidekick. The film is due to start lensing this summer with a release date of May [...]

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Windy Who

29. March 2007

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David Tennant will be interviewed on the Graham Norton show this evening on BBC 2 at 10pm, discussing the upcoming season of Doctor Who (two days to go!!!) and showing a side of life in the TARDIS we don’t normally see on screen – specifically farting competitions between our favourite Time Lord and John Barrowman’s [...]

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Something’s Fishy…

29. March 2007

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Kevin Colden continues to drop teasing hints about the upcoming Fishtown on webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE! What’s going on here? Has some terrible deed been committed? Or has this chap simply spilled a tin of Heinz Beans over himself? Perhaps it is just a painting accident? Or perhaps a mutant killer squid has just exploded in front [...]

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Hugo nominations for 2007

29. March 2007

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Hot on the heels of the Eagle awards final nominations comes news (via Boing Boing) of this year’s Hugo awards for Science Fiction: Novel Michael F. Flynn, Eifelheim (Tor) Naomi Novik, His Majesty’s Dragon (Del Rey) Charles Stross, Glasshouse (Ace) Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (Tor) Peter Watts, Blindsight (Tor) Novella “The Walls of the Universe” by Paul Melko (Asimov’s, April/May 2006) “A Billion Eyes” [...]

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Vote for the Eagle Awards

29. March 2007

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Dan at Bugpowder notices that the initial nominations for the Eagle Awards, the UK’s top gongs for comics, have been collated and you can now select from the final shortlist nominees in each category and cast your vote. Sadly we don’t appear to have made the final shortlist for the Favourite Comics Related Website this [...]

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Invasion

29. March 2007

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Just about to hits the shelves is a real blast from the past – a double-barrelled blast in the shape of Invasion! Part of Rebellion’s programme of classic 2000AD material, this takes me right back; Invasion was one of the original strips in Prog 1 of 2000AD. By today’s standards it might seem a pretty [...]

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