Archive | March, 2007

Heroic Tim Sale art auction

23. March 2007

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In the Heroes series – surely one of the best things on TV right now (yes, finally the UK has it thanks to SciFi!) – we often see paintings in Isaac’s studio, the paintings he creates while high and which predict (often terrifying) future events. NBC are arranging an auction on March 26th to sell [...]

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300 Vs History

23. March 2007

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With 300 opening nationwide across the UK this weekend the BBC returns to that old chestnut about historical accuracy in the movies (and by extension the comics in this case I suppose). Previous poor examples of Hollywood rewriting history have been trotted out, from Lawrence of Arabia to the laughable U571 (which managed to show [...]

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German Comics ARE Literature now.

23. March 2007

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It seems the promotion of comics from the backwater of public scorn or, at least, indifference continues apace worldwide with German comics the latest to be touted as real Literature. German literature magazine ‘Schreibheft‘ will dedicate a large part of its April issue to comics under the title “Geteilte Beute – Comics & Literatur” (meaning [...]

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David Mitchell interviewed

23. March 2007

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Sifting through the backlog of email after being off I came across one from Ian Hocking, one of the first SF writers I talked to back in the early days of the blog and in a better late than never spirit I thought I would mention it. Ian has turned interviewer himself and posted an [...]

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Ron Turner art collection on Flickr

22. March 2007

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Boing Boing puts me on to this Flickr gallery of covers for 1950s SciFi pulps, books and journals by the British artist Ron Turner. Although a lot of Ron’s stuff was well before my time I do recall encountering him several times in my youth when he illustrated some Judge Dredd for 2000AD as well [...]

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Galactica’s Sackhoff goes bionic

22. March 2007

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The Beam Me Up blog reports that Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff, who plays the troubled Starbuck, has apparently been signed up for the remake of The Bionic Woman. The new Bionic Woman show, as we mentioned here recently, will star former British soap star Michelle Ryan although what role Katee will play is not clear [...]

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Lions, Tigers and Bears nominated for Ursa Major Award

22. March 2007

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Mike Bullock announced on his ComicSpace site that Lions, Tigers and Bears – recently re-issued by Image – has again been nominated for an Ursa Major Award. If you’re not familiar with them, the official site describes the Ursas thus: “More formally known as the Annual Anthropomorphic Literature and Arts Award, the Ursa Major Award [...]

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Spiegelman discusses “Comics Marching into the Canon”

22. March 2007

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Marc Tracy on Bwog (compiled by Columbia University’s undergrad magazine Blue and White) talks to Art Spiegelman who has been lecturing at the university, teaching an American Studies seminar “Comics Marching into the Canon”. The course has proved to involve a lot more work than Art initially thought it would, but he seems to be [...]

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Bosher online

22. March 2007

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Chris Denton and artist Steve Denton have been busy working on Walking Wounded: Our Boys Verus Zombies, which pits World War 2 era British soldiers against undead Nazis (how can you go wrong??!?!) but have also found time to start an online strip featuring Bosher for our continued comics entertainment, so swing by the main [...]

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The 2000AD Prog Slog Blog

22. March 2007

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Paul B Rainey, the comics creator who brings us There’s No Time Like the Present and the hilarious Book of Lists (examples of which were to be found in our last free comics insert in the previous FPI catalogue) has informed me that he has embarked upon an ardous task, tackling the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic: [...]

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Doctor Who is coming!

22. March 2007

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Time to get excited, fellow fans, as the third season of the revamped Doctor Who is almost here, with the cast and producers cropping up on a number of programmes and magazines (including BBC’s Breakfast News just this morning) to plug the imminent new show, which materialises on our screens on the 31st of March. [...]

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Terry Brooks at Fantasycon

22. March 2007

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My friend George at top UK SF&F publisher Orbit tells me that Terry Brooks, one of the biggest names in the fantasy genre (his Shannara books alone have sold by the ton over many years in many countries), will be the guest of honour at this year’s Fantasycon. The convention, run by the good folks [...]

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Join Reppion’s Zombie Army!

21. March 2007

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Months ago while interviewing John Reppion and Leah Moore I made some throw-away (I thought) reference to John’s Zombie Army he was planning to use for his seasonal shopping, an innocent comment which got bandied around until Down The Tubes‘ John Freeman mentioned it to his artist friend Paul Harrison Davies, who took this idea [...]

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Angelina Jolie is Wanted

21. March 2007

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Okay, I’m guessing most of you know she is pretty wanted already, but in this case I’m referring to Timur Bekmambetov’s movie adaptation of Mark Millar’s Wanted graphic novel. Variety reports that The World’s Sexiest Woman (TM) will be taking time out from adopting children from around the globe to star alongside Morgan Freeman and [...]

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Mignola talks his 2007 projects

21. March 2007

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Steve Ekstrom at Newsarama has an interview with the excellent Mike Mignola, discussing his very busy slate of projects for 2007, which include the BPRD Garden of Souls, an Abe Sapien mini series and some new Hellboy (hurray!!! I do like the big, red guy) following up from last year’s The Island (collected in the [...]

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