Archive | April, 2007

Tim Biskup mural

20. April 2007

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Check out this great YouTube, time-lapse video of artist Tim Biskup creating a new mural entitled Helio Ocean in Los Angeles; really fun to watch the artwork come to life as people move around Tim in a jerky fashion like a very poorly kept 1920 movie crossed with a Benny Hill sketch. (link via Boing [...]

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Persepolis goes to Cannes

20. April 2007

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AWN reports that among the forthcoming movie competing at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival this spring (May 16th to 27th) will be the film adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis (I have my fingers crossed it will turn up here at the Edinburgh International Film Festival later on). Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, the other [...]

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Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson talk The Boys

20. April 2007

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Michael Patrick Sullivan on Comic Book Resources has a chat with Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson on their controversial series The Boys and the equally controversial decision by DC to cancel it six issues into the run. Ennis confirms it was the content which made DC’s Wildstorm pull the plug, which seems very odd as [...]

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Simpsons quiz

20. April 2007

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The BBC website has a test-your-Simpsons-knowledge quiz to mark the 20th anniversary of the long-running animation show; I scored 90%, which is either an impressive sign or an indicator that I need to get out more, depending on your point of view…

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Voynich manuscript scans

20. April 2007

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The Voynich Manuscript is one of the great enigmas of the book world; this heavily illustrated book is amazing looking and supposedly dates from the 16th century. People have lost their fortunes and sanity attempting to decode the hidden knowledge in the strange text and the images (if there is any – it may be [...]

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The Eisner awards shortlist

19. April 2007

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Jeff VanderMeer, top notch fantasy writer, editor, cheese juggler and comics reviewer for Bookslut.com kindly directs my gaze to this year’s Eisner Awards shortlist (thanks, Jeff); Jeff, as many of you will know, was one of this year’s judges. I’ve been having a look and I think the shortlist reflects some decent diversity in there; [...]

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Pop-up art

19. April 2007

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Drawn! has a link to some image posted by the inventive Jim Woodring of hand-cut pop-up art he made in that great companion to many an artist and writer over the decades, the Moleskine book.

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Eric Bana, time traveller

19. April 2007

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A few days after it was announced that Edward Norton would take the role Eric Bana filled for a sequel to the Hulk movie it transpires that Bana is to appear in a movie adaptation of the bestselling SF novel The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, an intriguing tale of a man who finds [...]

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Court of the Air

18. April 2007

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Stephen Hunt – of the top SF Crowsnest site fame – not only has an exciting-looking new fantasy out, Court of the Air, he has a very cool short animation on YouTube to go along with it, so go and have a look. I haven’t had a copy yet, but Stephen knows his SF&F so [...]

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Massimo Belardinelli, 1938 – 2007; Pat Mills pays tribute

18. April 2007

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“His work had a European eccentricity about it that mainstream readers and professionals loved, admired and even took for granted as part of 2000AD’s unique and very British identity. The danger is, to adapt a line from Sin City, without artists like Massimo, comic artists will become like electric shavers – they will all look [...]

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You Havin’ a Laugh? The British Art of the Cartoon

18. April 2007

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Joanna Pitman in the Times has an article up about the new exhibition of political cartoons (and other cartooning works) which has opened at Chris Beetles Gallery in London, SW1. The exhibition ranges across the years and styles, from Henry Mayo Bateman’s “The Man Who…” series from the 1920s to the Times’ own Peter Brookes, [...]

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Freedom of expression – costs and consequences

18. April 2007

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Middle East Online has a lenghty article from Agnes Callamard, executive director of Article 19, an organisation which promotes the rights to the freedom of expression. Agnes’ piece is a very well-written and well thought-out look at events such as the controversy over the Danish cartoons of Muhammad, the right-wing historian David Irving (who famously [...]

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Writers With Bite chomp readers in Edinburgh

18. April 2007

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A strange literary beast with three heads and three bodies is about to arise in the darkest depths of Edinburgh’s Old Town. Among the old and winding streets where Robert Louis Stevenson dreamt of Jekyll and Hyde and Burke and Hare snatched bodies for Knox a new menace is rising in the shape of Brian [...]

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Rankin talks Hellblazer

17. April 2007

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Edinburgh-based best-selling crime novelist Ian Rankin talks to the Scotsman about writing a six-part Hellblazer story for DC, following in the footsteps of fellow Scots crime novelist Denise Mina. Ian offers a cautious approach as he is in America to promote his new novel, celebrate Tartan Week (our gift to you non Scots!) and also [...]

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Schröedinger’s artist – Massimo Belardinelli

17. April 2007

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Erwin Schröedinger’s created a famous thought experiment which can end with a cat in a box being found alive or dead; he posited that there must be a sort of in-between state, before the experimenter opens the box to learn the outcome, at which point the cat is both alive and dead, in-between to different [...]

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