Archive | April, 2007

Doctor Who helps build Character

27. April 2007

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The Manchester Evening News reports that local company Character Group has seen turnover and profits boosted; in case you didn’t know, Character Group is one of the companies who make some of the excellent range of new Doctor Who merchandise we’ve been enjoying, from the large – Cyberman voice-changer helmets – to the small, such [...]

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Best 18-rated movie scenes

27. April 2007

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The movie mag Empire is celebrating its 18th birthday and as part of this has published a list of the top 18-rated scenes from movies; unsurprisingly SF and horror movies make up the bulk of the list, with the now-famous chest-buster scene from Alien topping the poll. This oft-parodied scene was a real shocker to [...]

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Belleville director in Edinburgh

27. April 2007

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As part of a celebration of le cinéma Français Sylvian Chomet, patron of the French Film Festival UK, will be giving at talk after the screening of Paris, Je t’Aime at the Edinburgh Filmhouse on Saturday 28th of April. Sylvian is, of course, the director of one of the best animated films to come out [...]

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Morrison on Gødland

27. April 2007

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The latest newsletter from Image contains a hearty endorsement of Joe Casey and Tom Scioloi’s brilliant Gødland comics from a certain Mr Grant Morrison: “There have been any number of clever pastiches of Jack Kirby’s work over the last decade or so but Casey and Scioli go beyond mere nostalgic homage to completely overhaul the essentials [...]

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FPI Ebay comics sale

26. April 2007

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My colleague Gary who maintains our Comics Back Issues site has been busy putting up sets of comics – mini-series and ongoing – onto Ebay, with prices starting at an incredibly low 99 pence (including this set of Books of Doom pictured below), so go and have a good browse.

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Sue Storm – superhotty?

26. April 2007

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The readers of FHM UK have selected Jessica Alba as the sexiest woman in the world, which means, I suspect, that a lot more than just comics fans will be going along to see her in her tight costume as Sue Storm in the upcoming Fantastic Four sequel. I’m sure this is a high honour [...]

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Metaphrog appearing in Dundee

26. April 2007

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Two of my favourite Scottish-based comics creators, John and Sandra from Metaphrog (home to the wonderful Louis graphic novels), dropped me a line to say they will be taking part in the Six Cities Design Festival in bonnie Dundee towards the end of May, where they will be giving a talk as well as exhibiting [...]

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More library censorship threats for graphic novels

26. April 2007

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The Wanganui Chronicle reports that the controversy over what graphic novels a public library can carry has spread even to New Zealand, with a part-time teacher Julie Gordon (no relation) passing round a petition to call for several graphic novels (which aren’t named, unfortunately) to be removed or censored because of what she considers explicit [...]

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God’s holy comic book artist

26. April 2007

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Remember the article I posted a few days ago, borrowed from Dirk’s Journalista entry, about the Catholic Church using manga-style comics art to recruit younger folks to an ecclesiatstical calling? Read the hip manga, see The Light, become a priest or nun. Well, Garen Ewing, creator of the excellent Rainbow Orchid, dropped me a line [...]

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The greatest ever Batman film?

26. April 2007

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Boing Boing has a link via Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog to a YouTube of what may be truly the most awesome Batman movie you will ever see – Batman: Defenders of the Night. Imagine Ed Wood armed with a modern video camera, a Batman and Robin suit and a suburban background…

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ILM in pictures

26. April 2007

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The BB of C follows up their three-day look behind the scenes of Industrial Light and Magic with a round of photographs from ILM’s homebase, where work has been ongoing on the third Pirates of the Caribbean film, with some famous earlier LucasFilm characters in the building being piratised in the process. (aren’t you a little [...]

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Thomas Haden Church on SFX

26. April 2007

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SFX has a brief chat with Thomas Haden Church about his role as the Sandman in the upcoming Spider-Man 3 flick, where he confirmed that the third outing is indeed a bit darker than the previous two: “People have been saying the movie seems darker and it is, not just because there’s a black suited [...]

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Scott McCloud’s got The Right Number

26. April 2007

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Scott McCloud has put the first two parts of his graphic novella from 2003, The Right Number, up online free for readers, with an interesting reading interface (which he has thoughtfully supplied tips on usage as well). From his own explanation on his site: “The Right Number was originally presented in June 2003 using a [...]

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Andrew James Jones exhibition in London

26. April 2007

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Marko at Neorama points me in the direction of this exhibition of art by Andrew James Jones beginning in London today: “the work represents an ongoing investigation into the notion of the contemporary grotesque. Clashing the disparate concepts of the abject and the humorous into a single and contained image in an attempt to activate [...]

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Robot Chicken Star Wars

26. April 2007

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Hollywood Reporter carries news that Seth Green and Matthew Senreich are to create a special 30 minute stop-motion animation for Adult Swim called “Robot Chicken: Star Wars”. George Lucas is onboard to voice his own character (it is being produced in collaboration with LucasFilm) and Mark Hamill, himself no stranger to animation voice-overs, will supply [...]

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