Archive | June, 2007

Panter plates

19. June 2007

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Gary Panter has some very colourful plates – “good for hanging on a wall or for eating food off of” – all one-of-a-kind and hand painted up for sale on his site. $125 might be expensive for a plate but as Kenny remarked to me, it is pretty good for an original Panter.

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Eric Johnson talks the new Flash Gordon

19. June 2007

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I missed this recently on Entertainment Weekly, but luckily SF Signal picked up on it – Eric Johnson, formerly from Smallville and now taking the lead in the upcoming new TV incarnation of Flash Gordon talks to Entertainment Weekly about the show. The road to Mongo this time round is via a wormhole (created by [...]

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That La Muse sex tape scandal

19. June 2007

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Adi and Hugo, as promised, complete the arc around their superheroine La Muse‘s sex scandal video which involved our superpowered gal, a bunch of violent neo-nazis and lubricants and kept me giggling for a week. I love the way the guys have taken the mickey out of the fad for celebrities to make media out [...]

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Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and George Lucas interviewed

19. June 2007

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Empire has caught up with Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and George Lucas as they got together for the first time in years to watch Star Wars together on the big screen. In among the memories of 1977 there is a nice line in humour between these old comrades-in-celluloid as Lucas is asked about how he [...]

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Red Raven animated records

19. June 2007

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Wim sent me a link to this rather lovely post on Retro Thing about old animated vinyl records – basically picturediscs (remember those?) but instead of a single colour picture printed onto the surface of the vinyl a number of smaller images, all slightly different from one another, like the frames of a motion film, [...]

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Retrofuturism in the comics of Dean Motter

18. June 2007

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Henry Jenkins continues his blogging on the recent conference on comics and urban spaces in Berlin (see last week for his first part). Today Henry begins posting the first of a four part blog which gives the text of his own talk at the conference, “The Tomorrow That Never Was”: Retrofuturism in the Comics of [...]

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New Bat-bike revealed

18. June 2007

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Movie mag Empire has a picture of the new Batman motorbike for Chris Nolan’s second Bat-flick. Obviously following a similar design style to the Batmobile from Batman Begins, I think Empire hits it on the nose when they remarked that it looked like a cross between a lightcycle from Tron and Judge Dredd’s Lawmaster bike [...]

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Gaiman talks to AICN

18. June 2007

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“Tolkien is wonderful, I am a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, but having said that it’s always been something where you look at Lord of the Rings and it changed everything everybody did in fantasy ever after and what fascinated me was that period, back before 1930, where every now and then people [...]

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Howard Webster on Broken Frontier

18. June 2007

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Howard Webster talks about the upcoming Jonas Moore multimedia webcomic over on Broken Frontier‘s podcast.

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Brit animation steals the show at Annecy

18. June 2007

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British animation has swept the board at this year’s Annecy awards held over the weekend in Paris. The animation festival’s top award, the Cristal for Best Feature went to Christopher Nielsen’s UK-Norway co-production “Free Jimmy“, which also features and English-language screenplay by Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz’s Simon Pegg and boasting current Doctor [...]

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Comics have evolved again – tell us it’s not true

18. June 2007

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One species’ evolution is another’s dead end. The comic as we know it may be evolving into graphic novels and webcomics but the thought of viewing your comic material frame by frame on a mobile phone sends a bit of a shiver through me – and this cover doesn’t do anything to dispel that. Leaving [...]

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New Asterix trailer up

18. June 2007

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The trailer for the new Asterix film, Asterix and The Olympic Games, featuring Albert Uderzo and Rene Goscinny’s immortal and internationally beloved characters, has been made available online, although is seems to be more of an early ‘teaser’ trailer rather than showing much in the way of scenes from the film (Asterix and Obelix don’t [...]

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Iranian government feels insulted shocker

18. June 2007

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Not a comics-related tale (although there is a tinge of fantasy in some of his books) but given the number of times the Iranian authorities crop up for condemning a cartoon, comic or film for insulting the nation and/or Islam it seems relevant – Salman Rushdie was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s birthday honours [...]

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Lost Boys

16. June 2007

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“People are strange when you’re a stranger Faces look ugly when you’re alone Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted Streets are uneven when you’re down When you’re strange Faces come out of the rain When you’re strange No one remembers your name When you’re strange When you’re strange When you’re strange ” Remember that song [...]

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Art out loud

16. June 2007

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The Lines and Colors blog has news of an upcoming Art Out Loud event, the fifth in a series of events of painting and illustration demonstrations at the Society of Illustrators in New York, organised by Irene Gallo, art director for Tor/Forge books. The focus this time is on comics illustration, with Michael Avon Oeming, [...]

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