Archive | May, 2007

You always need to know where your towel is

25. May 2007

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This Friday is international Towel Day, when the enlightened take a moment to remember a particularly tall ape-descendant who thought digital watches were a pretty neat idea. As fans remember Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy creator Douglas Adams, some fans have put together their own fan-cast podcast of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency to enjoy. [...]

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100 Great Comics Pages – Joe’s take

24. May 2007

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Inspired by Stephen Frug’s attempt to pick out 100 of his favourite comics pages and since Kenny has chosen one of his own (Alex Toth’s ‘taps’ from Bop 1) I thought I should probably throw in my tuppence worth – besides we can’t fairly ask readers what their favourite page is if we don’t say [...]

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Serieteket – a library for comics and graphic literature

24. May 2007

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“Serieteket, the library for comics and graphic literature, is still unique among Swedish libraries. During our first ten years we have constantly strived to broaden our own and the reading public’s conception of what comics can achieve as an artform. We want to be a place where you can read and check out comics and [...]

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Presentation of Persepolis feature results in Iranian protest

24. May 2007

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Marjane Satrapi’s feature length animated film, Persépolis, is presented to the world at the 60th international film festival in Cannes. The film, which is based on Satrapi’s graphic novel of the same title, tells of how her world changed when the Islamist government took over in Iran, and how the war with Iraq prompted her [...]

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Bryan Talbot on “I’m Ready for My Close-up”

24. May 2007

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Not comics or specifically SF, but the Curzon Cinema Podcast is run by Alex Fitch, who regular readers will know does a regular radio show “I’m Ready for my Close-up” which he makes available online and has featured a number of top SF and comics talent, so I think it is fair enough to think [...]

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Fluent in over six million forms of communication

24. May 2007

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Anthony Daniels, the actor who breathes live into C-3PO, chats to the BBC about life and a little thing called Star Wars: “It doesn’t feel like 30 years. But I’m looking forward rather than back. I’m still doing the Clone Wars cartoons, the animated series – Star Wars isn’t over yet.”

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Pooh Bear illustration goes for £21k

24. May 2007

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The rare unpublished Pooh Bear drawing by R.H. Shepard I mentioned a couple of weeks ago sold in London this week, going for £21, 600 – lower than the expected price of £30K. The accompanying illustration, Pooh Visiting Owl’s Parlour failed to sell, which I have to say is a huge surprise to me given [...]

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100 Great Comics Pages

24. May 2007

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Whenever I see a survey of the 100 best comics or 100 best graphic novels I always spend time, like everyone else, wondering how that, that and THAT made the list. Truth is, so many factors influence the decision – and almost all of them are subjective – are you mainstream or indy, include comic [...]

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Rodriguez to direct new Barbarella

23. May 2007

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Sin City director Robert Rodriguez is to direct a new version of the cult movie Barbarella, based on the comics by Jean-Claude Forest. Dino and Martha de Laurentis are producing it through Universal, with a mooted release date sometime in 2008. The comics were serialised in the early 60s before going on to their own [...]

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Tomb Raider retrospective and animation draws on top comics talent

23. May 2007

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Game Tap have joined up with Eidos to create 10 Years of Tomb Raider – a Game Tap Retrospective which looks into the history and development of the game, the fans, the live action models and all aspects of the first lady of computer gaming, Lara Croft. “We wanted to do something special for Lara’s [...]

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How did Hergé die?

23. May 2007

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As Belgium and the world celebrates the centenary of Hergé’s birth, Wim Lockefeer spots some darker aspects to the famous Tintin creator’s life and death in the Belgian press: When Hergé died in 1983, leukaemia was cited as the probable cause. Near the end of his life, the creator of Tintin had contracted numerous and [...]

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For the Love of God

23. May 2007

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The British contingent at the Cannes Film Festival is rather thin on the ground this year, compared to previous seasons, but the BBC reports that there is one outstanding exception – an 11 minute stop-motion animated movie called For The Love of God. Joe Tucker and Raphael Warner spent three months making the film at [...]

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The art of war

22. May 2007

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The always-excellent Drawn! has a link to The Art of War on the National Archives site, which is stuffed full of artwork, comics and caricatures from Second World War, as well as propaganda and even a section which, unusually for the time, depicted some of the more horrific elements of life and death under the [...]

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Gerry Alanguilan restores and recolours

22. May 2007

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Many of you will know Gerry as the artist and writer of the excellent Elmer or maybe even from his past mainstream work on titles such as Superman: Birthright or the 2001 FF annual. He is also a formidable blogger, writing a very passionate blog which whilst dealing with many topics has a particular reverance [...]

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Toon-a-MILF winner announced

22. May 2007

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A subject of great importance to admirers of sequential art across the world has been discussed and debated in depth recently on Craig Yoe’s Arf Lover’s site – as the comics quarter of the blogosphere argued over the Mary Jane statue’s merits – a giggle or misogny incarnate? – Craig’s readers had more weighty matters [...]

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