Archive | May, 2007

Wyrd Sisters

31. May 2007

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BBC Radio 7 is broadcasting a four part adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters this week, with Linda Baron and Sheila Hancock. As usual the Beeb makes the shows available online for a week from transmission – if you got to the Listen Again section of BBC 7’s site the first part is in Monday’s [...]

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The society wedding of the year

31. May 2007

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Thanks to Moore expert Pádraig for pointing me to this Flickr set of pictures from the recent wedding of Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore. I do like that hat. (sorry, we’ve had to remove the picture from the set at the Flickr owner’s request, you’ll need to follow the link to see them)

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New Doctor Who figures for Season 3

31. May 2007

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We’ve been really pleased with some of the top Doctor Who merchandise that’s accompanied the show since its relaunch; it’s also nice to see that as each new season progresses on the BBC we get treated to the announcement of further ranges based on the latest episodes. The very latest to be announced is this [...]

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‘Lost’ Oliver Postgate animation found

31. May 2007

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Cartoon Brew has news of an incredibly early television animation. Pingwings, by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, beloved by generations of British viewers young and old as the creators of essential animated tea-time viewing like Bagpuss and the Clangers. Tony Milnes from Spite Your Face Productions described a bit more about this early 60s series [...]

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Australian cartoonist in trouble over Tintin

31. May 2007

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Bill Leak, the editorial cartoonist for The Australian, has been subjected to the threat of legal action by Moulinsart SA in Belgium, who own the worldwide commerical rights to Hergé’s Tintin. Leak has been portraying the Australian opposition leader Kevin Rudd in a Tintin style for several months, with most readers apparently finding his caricature [...]

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The Deconstructionist asks “what do librarians know about comics?”

31. May 2007

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After several recent instances of demands for more controls or even outright censorship of graphic novels in public libraries, Gordon Weir on BBT magazine’s Deconstructionist column (playing on the old ’seduction of the innocent’ phrase nicely) has a slightly different take on things, wondering how much the librarians actually know about the graphic novels they [...]

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Edinburgh SF Book Group

31. May 2007

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The next meeting of the Edinburgh SF Book Group will be on Tuesday June 26th from 6 to 7pm in the usual location of Henderson’s on Hanover Street. The book under discussion for June will be Russell Hoban’s acclaimed Riddley Walker. The book group meets once a month to pick a work chosen by members [...]

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Painted on the ceiling

31. May 2007

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Nothing to do with comics, but this gorgeous piece of art caught my eye this morning – it is the latest image the BBC site has posted in a regular partnership with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (bit of a mouthful, so normally abbreviated to RCAHMS). Each week [...]

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Zograf and Talbot at Italia Wave Love Festival

31. May 2007

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Aleksandar Zograf who wished us all Regards From Serbia will be appearing as part of the Comics Wave section of the Italia Wave Love Festival, along with Bryan Talbot. The Festival takes place in Florence, Italy from July 17th to 22nd and takes in a wide mixture of different artistic forms, from music to cinema [...]

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Heavy Lies the Crown

31. May 2007

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You might recall that several months ago I mentioned an article in the Scotsman which discussed a group of Star Trek fans in Dundee who were busy creating their very own Star Trek fan film. Well Nick Cook from Starship Intrepid has been in touch to say that “Heavy Lies the Crown” has been finished [...]

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Frank Miller talks to EW

31. May 2007

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Missy Schwartz at EW talks to Frank Miller as he does his Movie Maker Thang at the Cannes Film Festival – he sounds pretty enthused for getting on with bringing his friend Will Eisner’s Spirit to the big screen: “It’s everything from scary to ”can’t wait!” The next thing I do is draw, so I’ll [...]

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Can you ink Thor better than Vince Colletta?

31. May 2007

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Ape Lad has posted up a challenge on a Flickr picture pool offering a chance for budding artists to have a go at inking a Jack Kirby Thor page from issue #144 and see if they are better than Vince Colletta: “If you’re a fan of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s epic run on the Mighty [...]

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“Mike McMahon has still got it”

30. May 2007

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Of course we all knew it but Chris Weston puts it into words on his blog as well as sharing the following page from this weeks new 2000AD. Mike McMahon has long been one of the most influential of the 70’s school of 2000AD cartoonists – where he developed new ways of showing many of the [...]

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Alan Moore on Arcade

30. May 2007

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Over on the excellent Read Yourself Raw they have Alan Moore’s piece on the old Arcade comics magazine taken from the Infinity fanzine back in 1984. It has a look at the magazine’s short life and takes in some of the seriously worthy contributors, including Art Spiegelman, Bill Griffith, Kim Deitch, R. Crumb and more [...]

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Constellation awards voting announced

30. May 2007

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Canada has, as the Constellation site observes, been served by SF literature awards in the form of the Sunburst and Aurora Awards and there’s the Shuster awards for comics, but SF&F in television and film has been largely ignored; odd since so many shows are filmed in Canada – the Constellation Awards aim to redress [...]

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