Archive | May, 2007

Paul Cornell on I’m Ready For My Close-up

30. May 2007

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Paul Cornell, well known to Brit readers and viewers for his SF novels, Doctor Who New Adventures books and many TV scripts (including the current creepy two-parter Doctor Who story ‘Human Nature‘ which started last weekend), will be the subject of this week’s I’m Read For My Close-up show, Alex Fitch tells me. Paul is [...]

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David Baillie in the Big Meg

30. May 2007

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Top UK indy comics creator David Baillie tells me he is going to be penning a regular column in Rebellion’s 2000AD companion comic the Judge Dredd Megazine, starting this week with issue 259. David will be discussing “life as an indie comics superstar and offer advice on making comics, self-publishing and the UK small-press scene. [...]

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Coraline previews

30. May 2007

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Neil Gaiman posts on his journal (spotted via Educating Alice) that he has been busy proofreading the forthcoming graphic novel adaptation of his own younger readers novel Coraline. If you’ve not read it, Coraline is a nice, modern take on classic fairy tale territory; young Coraline (who gets fed up with people calling her Caroline [...]

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Slave Leia visual feast

30. May 2007

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Bonnie Burton shot some pics and video footage at Star Wars Celebration IV and has posted them online to the delight of millions of fans and Ross from Friends. I, of course, was only interested in the way the medium was portraying women. Ahem. Really. I like some of the later pics where there appears [...]

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Elric movie on the cards?

29. May 2007

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Elric of Melniboné, the immortal creation of the great Michael Moorcock (I’m not worthy!) may be heading for the big screen, decades after his first appearance in print. A large number of books and short stories have appeared over the years, as well as adaptations into comics, notably by P Craig Russell and Walt Simonson [...]

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Imax Dark Knight

29. May 2007

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The Hollywood Reporter carries news that Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight, the follow-up to the well-received Batman Begins, will be partially filmed using Imax cameras. While previous big screen outings have also been shown in Imax theatres this is apparently the first time such a major feature film has actually used Imax cameras to capture [...]

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Draw Hitler

29. May 2007

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Craig Yoe shares an old ‘how to’ book on cartooning from 1941 with instructions on how to depcit your very own cartoon Fuhrer, or Tojo, or Stalin. As you might imagine for a wartime piece the descriptions of the Bad Guys (Stalin is still a Good Guy at this point, of course) are less than [...]

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New Frank Bellamy site

29. May 2007

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Norman Boyd and friends have launched an extensive website celebrating the work of famous British comics artists Frank Bellamy, a hugely influential artist (just last week Rian Hughes namechecked Frank as an early influence on him). The site boasts a large number of factual resources on many aspects of Frank’s work, from advertising illustration to [...]

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Madame Tutli-Putli wins at Cannes

29. May 2007

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Pat Dillon-Moore from the National Film Board of Canada drops me a note to say how over the moon the NFB folks are as one of their animated films, Madame Tutli-Putli, picked up not one but two awards at the prestigious Cannes film festival. From the official press release: “Montreal, May 25, 2007 – It [...]

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David Sheridan art exhibition

29. May 2007

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That mighty organ of the free press The Marin Independent Journal reports on an upcoming exhibition of art by the late underground cartoonist David Sheridan. The exhibition of Dave’s work is part of a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love at San Geronimo Valley Community Center on June 2nd, which will [...]

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Art for sale

29. May 2007

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Dirk at Journalista has a link to some new art goodies being auctioned on Ebay to aid the Fantagraphics legal fund, including a painting of Louis by one of my favourite Scots-based creative teams, Metaphrog (I want it!) and a silkscreen print by Ralph Steadman. On which note Ralph cropped up over the holiday weekend [...]

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The Horned God

29. May 2007

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Over the holiday weekend I heard there was a fan video based on the great Pat Mills’ mighty Celtic warrior Slaine (“kiss my axe!”) and the Horned God saga doing the rounds online, but the popularity was causing problems as Miguel Mesas’ website was being overloaded with fans attempting to stream or download the film [...]

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Star Wars Clone Wars preview trailer

29. May 2007

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More to be excited by for Force Fans as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars – the official site has a trailer up previewing the forthcoming Clone Wars CGI animated series. Although CG this new series shares a similar stylistic look to the previous cartoon Clone Wars series which were so successful (not [...]

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If you’re going to San Diego

28. May 2007

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Be sure to wear some ……. well, actually no. However you should check out Tom Spurgeon’s incredibly detailed gude of how to get the most out of or even just survive the world’s largest mainstream comics convention. If you have been before there will be many things you can relate to in Tom’s comments, recommendations [...]

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Read Yourself Raw returns

28. May 2007

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Read Yourself Raw is one of those sites that I know bubbles just under the radar of most people which I’ve have always thought a shame as it is simply the best designed comics site on the web in terms of its presentation. Essentially the front page looks like a magazine cover and then takes [...]

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