Archive | June, 2007

Sex in comics

25. June 2007

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“You know, we’d thought someone would send in emails telling us how offended they were by the sex, the politics, the wanton behaviour, but it’s 22 weeks since we started and there’s been no one complaint. No a peep. None. I may have to work harder…” Adi Tantimedh commenting on the fact [...]

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CR talks to To Shelf’s Brett Warnock

25. June 2007

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Tom Spurgeon on Comics Reporter talks to Brett Warnock, co-publisher and art director for the excellent independent comics publisher Top Shelf.

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Mmmmm… Simpsons movie…

25. June 2007

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My local cinema this weekend; a life sized Simpsons family on their couch in the cinema foyer. Cool.

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Glasgow comics institution Pete Root passes

25. June 2007

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Some very sad news this morning from Jim and our colleagues at FPI in Glasgow: “We are sad to report the the loss of our dear friend Pete Root who passed away on Sunday morning. He will be missed by all at the Glasgow store and was a loyal and true friend. Our thoughts and [...]

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Batman – Help Me!!!

25. June 2007

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Steve Ogden at AnimWatch reports on a very short but incredibly cool and stylish new animation from Isaak Fernandez Rodriguez of Barcelona featuring the Batman. I’ve just watched it myself (it is the first in a projected series) and I was highly impressed; the film, which has taken almost three years of part-time work in [...]

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Big Dumb Object looks at Glasshouse

25. June 2007

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Big Dumb Object is impressed with Charlie Stross’ latest from Orbit, Glasshouse. So am I. Playing with one of Charlie’s favourite themes – post-Singularity and post or agumented human society – it is a brilliant SF thriller with some nice digs at surveillance society, reality shows, gender roles and literal identity theft, all laced with [...]

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Propaganda special – “take my hand, I’m a Stranger in Paradise”

25. June 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore. 116 issues, 19 volumes. 1993-2007 (cover art to Strangers in Paradise volume 1 issue 1 by Terry Moore – check his official SiP website for more artwork) Strangers in Paradise, when it first appeared in 1993 from tiny Antarctic [...]

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Two-Coats McWhinnie

23. June 2007

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Jonathan Edwards has the very cool comics strip Two-Coats McWhinnie up on his I Heart Pencils blog; it was to be published by Slab-o-Concrete but they went the way of too many small publishers before it came out – now Jonathan has the whole thing up to enjoy on his blog, so go and [...]

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First pic from new Indiana Jones movie

23. June 2007

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The BBC site had the first photograph from the long, long, long-awaited fourth Indiana Jones movie which is due next summer. The shot was taken by Steven Spielberg himself of star Harrison Ford relaxing in his seat between takes, wearing his trademark Indy garb. And if you think perhaps Harrison is getting a bit old [...]

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Gerard Way talks Umbrella Academy

23. June 2007

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My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way is interviewed on Entertainment Weekly about his comic Umbrella Academy (due this September), which was our big hit of the recent Free Comic Book Day: “finding the interior artist was very tough. You needed somebody who captured a little bit of my art without having ever really seen it, [...]

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New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modeller

23. June 2007

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Michael Reccia has just sent us some information on the next (sixth) edition of Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modeller, which is due to be published in late July. You may recall Michael talking here on the blog last year, explaining the idea behind the magazine (which is really more like a book actually). Obviously it has [...]

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The Darkness competition

22. June 2007

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Top Cow’s The Darkness (a tale of a hitman with dreadful powers, nothing to do with the glam-rock crooners) has generated a new video game where Jackie Estacado must learn to master these new, dark powers to wrest control of the Franchetti family from his less-than-savoury Uncle Paulie. The game features a story by comics [...]

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New animation from Sylvian Chomet

22. June 2007

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You may recall me posting a few weeks ago about Belleville Rendezvous director Sylvian Chomet making a brief appearance at the Edinburgh Filmhouse for the screening of Paris, Je t’Aime (the film is a collection of shorts by different creators, including Sylvian and goes on general release next weekend). Well, I am indebted to one [...]

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Propaganda – Gaiman swaps the Endless for the Eternals

22. June 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: The Eternals Written by Neil Gaiman Art by John Romita Jr Of course, the first thing that you notice about this book is that it looks bloody awful. Eternals is only available in the UK as a British version from Panini UK who seem to [...]

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Pullman named best children’s book

22. June 2007

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Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights, part of the His Dark Materials series, has been named as the best children’s book of the last seventy years, picked from a list of the seventy winners of the prestigious Carnegie Medal, first set up by the Library Association in 1936 (Arthur Ransome was the first recipient for Pigeon Post, [...]

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