Archive | March, 2007

Ray Bradbury interviewed

27. March 2007

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SciFi has an interview with one of my all-time favourite authors and one of the truly great writers (SF or otherwise) of the last century, Ray Bradbury. Ray has a new book coming up from Gauntlet, “Match to Flame: the Fictional Paths To Fahrenheit 451″ which explores some of the related themes which occurred in [...]

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Comic art auction for Fanta legal defence fund

27. March 2007

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Fantagraphic’s Flog has news of fresh comic art going under the hammer on Ebay to raise money for their legal defence fund in the ongoing spat with author Harlan Ellison. This latest round includes an original Iron Man by Barry Windsor-Smith, a signed poster by Art Spiegelman and, in a devilishly cheeky move, a portrait [...]

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Cracking Idea, Gromit

27. March 2007

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Animator Nick Park’s beloved creations Wallace & Gromit are being used by the British Patent Office to front a new campaign entitled Cracking Ideas. The animated duo’s popular adventures often make use of Wallace’s crackpot and home-made, Heath-Robinson inventions (Park says he wanted to be an inventor himself when he grew up and this childhood [...]

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Marshall Rogers

27. March 2007

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Marshall Rogers, who has died at the age of 57, will be remembered as one of the more unique artists to emerge from mainstream comics in the 70′s and 80′s. Trained as an architect, this influence often shows in his work where buildings can be as much a part of the feel of a story [...]

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27th International Nasreddin Hodja Cartoon Contest

27. March 2007

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Neorama puts me on to the 27th International Nasreddin Hodja Cartoon Contest from Turkey, which has put out a call for cartoonists to post entries for this year’s competition. The theme this year is open to the artist, while the deadline for work to arrive is the 16th of July, with winners announced on the [...]

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Spirou stamps

26. March 2007

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The Ephemerist has some lovely pictures of fake stamps created by the Belgian comics weekly Spirou as a giveaway for their readers back in 1961. I don’t know most of the characters here very well (or in some cases at all) but the artwork is lovely, so go relax for a few minutes out of [...]

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The 20th CG Challenge

26. March 2007

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The 20th CG Challenge, claimed to be the world’s largest CG art competition series, has announced this year’s winners. From the press release: ” Adelaide, South Australia (PRWEB) March 25, 2007 – The CGSociety (The Society of Digital Artists), a division of Ballistic Media, announced the winners of its 20th CGChallenge. The Challenges are the [...]

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Frank Miller, Esquire

26. March 2007

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As comics continue to become more fashionable with the mainstream, lifestyle mag Esquire talks to Frank Miller about 300 and working with Hollywood in general, not always a happy experience in the past for Frank.

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Charlie Huston talks Moon Knight

26. March 2007

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Novelist and comics scribe Charlie Huston talks to CBR’s Robert Taylor, where Charlie explains that although it is good that the comics biz has been attracting good novelists to write for them there is a drawback in that they have to juggle their comics deadlines with their books schedule, not an easy task (how Mike [...]

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Rand Holmes retrospective on Flickr

26. March 2007

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A few weeks back I posted about an exhibition celebrating the art of Rand Holmes, one time Underground Comix artist and creator of Harold Hedd, when Mark on Boing Boing mentioned it. Mark has a nice follow up on BB now as Patrick Rosenkranz – author of Rebel Visions, a history if underground comics – [...]

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Battlestar special

24. March 2007

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ICV2 reports that the US SciFi Channel is planning a two hour special Battlestar Galactica OAV this autumn, to be released on DVD shortly thereafter. I didn’t know what the smeg ‘OAV’ meant; a bit of Googling informs me that is can be a medical syndrome, an organic air vehicle and some sort of automatic [...]

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Digital art

24. March 2007

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For some time now we have been one of the few in Europe to offer the excellent range of digital art books from the Australian crew at Ballistic Publishing. Many of their books combine aspects of both an art book where you can simply admire the often astonishing (sometimes almost photo-real) digital art, reproduced to [...]

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The Centre for Recent Drawing combines comics and music

24. March 2007

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Adam de la Cour tells us that he is involved with a very unusual-sounding exhibition which will be combining the worlds of music and comics in London this April: “I’m currently promoting an exhibition at The Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) taking place between the 4th of April to the 20th. The exhibition will feature [...]

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Cartoon blogging from the future

23. March 2007

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Boing Boing stalwart and top SF writer Cory Doctorow (seriously, you need to read Down And Out in the Magic Kingdom and indeed anything by Cory, or check one of his frequent free podcasted readings of his work) is delighted to see himself name-checked in his favourite geeky comic strip xkcd (a “webcomic of romance, [...]

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Fishtown

23. March 2007

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Kevin Colden sent me a very enigmatic email for what I am assuming is an upcoming new strip on the excellent webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE! But I’m not sure since Kev has avoided any of the usual explanations, justifications, excited hyberbole or anything else which gives some context. The message simply reads “FISHTOWN on ACT-I-VATE and [...]

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