Archive | June, 2007

Jonas Moore video-music mash-up

22. June 2007

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There’s a mash-up of the multi-media webcomic Jonas Moore by indie band The Marvis on YouTube; pretty groovy way to raise the profile of a new comic and I have to say Colin Salmon looks so damned cool on a Triumph motorbike leaping right out of a game on a giant screen on a tower [...]

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Spitting Image puppets sell at auction

21. June 2007

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Two puppets from the satirical show Spitting Image have sold at auction in London, with a puppet of Margaret Thatcher outclassing the bid for one of prime-minister-to-be Gordon Brown (could that be a troubling omen for him?!?) with the Thatch’s less than flattering puppet caricature going for £5, 040 to £4, 800 for the Gordon [...]

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New Gaiman novel optioned for film

21. June 2007

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Neil Gaiman‘s next novel (being co-written with Michael Reeves), Interworld, has been optioned already by Dreamworks for a possible film adaptation. The book follows Joey, a man who has the ability to travel between different dimensions and finds himself sought after by opposing forces of magic and science. When he realises how much evil both [...]

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From our Continental Correspondent – animator fears deportation

21. June 2007

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At this year’s Annecy Animation Festival, no less than seven Flemish animators were selected to present their work. One of them could not go: Roman Klochkov, who is of Cazach origin, fears he will be evicted from the country, the Belgian daily De Morgen reports. Klochkov, 25, fled from Kasachstan in 1999 together with his [...]

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Chris Staros interviewed

21. June 2007

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The very nice Chris Staros from the excellent independent comics publisher Top Shelf is interviewed on Creative Loafing as Top Shelf is about to celebrate their tenth anniversary at MoCCA on June 23rd. Among other things Chris talks about life as an indy press, trying to create works which appeal to adults and to younger [...]

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I’m Ready for my Close-up interviews Jodorowsky

21. June 2007

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Alex Fitch tells me that this week’s I’m Ready for my Close-up show on Resonance FM will be a special where “guest presenter Virginie Sélavy (Electric Sheep magazine) interviews legendary film director and comics writer Alejandro Jodorowsky about his work focusing on his admiration of eerie sound effects, Sam Peckinpah and the ‘Conquest of Mexico’”. [...]

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Jeff VanderMeer is Ecstatic these Days

21. June 2007

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Jeff VanderMeer has moved his excellent blog, which is always a pleasure to read because A) Jeff is a great writer, B) he has Evil Monkey co-writing it and C) he frequently uses it to promote other good writers with reviews and his ‘walk-the-plank’ interviews, and relocated it to his new Ecstatic Days site. Regular [...]

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A new angle on art and architecture

21. June 2007

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Not comics, but certainly a fascinating and eye-catching bit of visual art/architecture, the BBC has a short clip (lacking much in the way of details, sadly) of this astonishing installation in a defunct old building due for demolition next year in Liverpool, where a huge round section of the wall has been cut out and [...]

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The Marvelous Adventures of the Amazing Dr. Rizal

20. June 2007

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Feast your eyes on the delights of The Marvelous Adventures of the Amazing Dr. Rizal, a new all-ages series from the excellent Gerry Alanguilan. Gerry has posted up some artwork and details on his own blog and also on the DeviantArt site; Jose Rizal is an actual historical figure and one of Gerry’s own personal [...]

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Lotte Reiniger to be honoured in Coventry

20. June 2007

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Early pioneer of film animation Lotte Reiniger is to be honoured by the city of Coventry on Tuesday 26th of June, where there are still warm memories of screenings of her works shown there after she fled Nazi Germany in the 30s (ironically the city would be devastated only a few years later by bombers [...]

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Arab cartoons – anti-Semitic?

20. June 2007

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Middle East News carries a report that the recent violent in-fighting between different groups in the Gaza Strip has led to a number of cartoons in the Arab press which could be considered anti-Semitic and appear to be blaming the Palestinian in-fighting on Israel. There certainly are some in the article which would appear to [...]

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ROK mobile comics gets more notice

20. June 2007

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Well, whatever your opinion on comics and cartoons on mobile phones (and Kenny’s post the other day seems to have generated a fair bit of discussion on the blogosphere) it certainly looks like more interest is being paid to the idea, with PrimeNewswire running a story on ROK Comics. There isn’t much there that John [...]

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Harry Potter actors interviewed

20. June 2007

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The BBC site has an interview with four of the young actors who play Harry Potter‘s friends and members of ‘Dumbledore’s Army’ in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie, with Bonnie Wright, (Ginny Weasley), Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom), Katie Leung (Cho Chang) and newcomer Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) talking about [...]

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New Bond director named

20. June 2007

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Marc Forster has been named as the director of the as-yet untitled next James Bond movie, quashing rumours that Martin Campbell would return to helm it following the huge commercial and critical success he enjoyed with Casino Royale, Daniel Craig’s triumphant debut in the iconic role as Ian Fleming’s British superspy. Forster has previously directed [...]

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Strip Turnhout

20. June 2007

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Following up from last week’s post here by Wim about Richard McGuire creating the poster for this year’s Strip Turnhout comics festival in Belgium (which takes place in December) Wim has posted up a look at the actual design on the Ephemerist, which I have shamelessly pinched:

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