Archive | July, 2007

The BBC remembers fallen cartoonist Naji al-Ali

24. July 2007

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The BBC has a simple but effective tribute to the life and work of one of the Arab world’s best cartoonists, Naji al-Ali, who was gunned down 20 years ago this month, remembering him through his art. In a bitter irony Naji wasn’t shot by Arab militants, angry settlers or trigger happy troops in the [...]

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Caption 2007

24. July 2007

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Caption, the festival of comics and mini-comics, will take place over the weekend of Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th of August in the fair city of Oxford, with panels, workshops and more on offer (including one lead by Al Davidson, creator of the excellent Spiral Cage) – check the site for more details. (via the [...]

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French National Library adds periodicals to online version

24. July 2007

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The digital site of the French National Library, Gallica, has begun scanning in and making available a range of French periodicals. So far only some are available, but it is a work in progress; even among those ones already on there are little nuggets to be found though, such as this cartoon from the famous [...]

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La Muse ‘summer reruns’

23. July 2007

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The reposting of large batches of earlier La Muse pages while the series is on a ‘summer hiatus’ before the next segment begins has just reached one of my favourite parts of the story so far – you know, we just don’t see omnisexual Neo-Nazi orgies instigated by superheroines as often as we might expect [...]

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More on El Jeuves cartoon

23. July 2007

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Following on from the weekend’s disturbing news about the Spanish judiciary banning a satirical magazine because a cartoon was offensive to the royal family El Jeuves has posted up on their site what I presume is the takedown notice from the courts. The heavy handed move seems to have backfired on the authorities however – [...]

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Comic-con

23. July 2007

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Among the many folks from all over the comics world attending the San Diego Comic Con this coming weekend will be Blighty’s own David Lloyd, who tells me he will be signing at the DC stand on the Friday from 12.30 to 1.30pm and also at Dark Horse’s booth from 5 to 6pm, with another [...]

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Terry Hoopers ComicBitsOnline

23. July 2007

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Terry Hooper tells me he has put up a new site, ComicBitsOnline, where he will continue posting comics news (such as the Bristol manga bash), reviews (there are several small press titles reviewed already) and, of course, his interviews. He also has a post giving his point of view on why Silver Bullet Comics and [...]

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Heroes ‘programme of the year’

23. July 2007

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The science fiction show Heroes has been named programme of the year by the Television Critics Association in LA. It continues a run of both critical and popular acclaim for the series (currently sitting with no less than eight Emmy nominations and a People’s Choice Award) which draws heavily on the comic book genre (going [...]

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Spanish cartoon banned by courts

21. July 2007

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Numerous news sites are reporting that the Spanish high court has effectively banned a cartoon by ordering the recall of all issues of El Jueves, a weekly satirical magazine. The offending cartoon depicted Crown Prince Felipe having sex with his wife and the prince commenting that sex was the closest he came to working (the [...]

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Panel Borders

20. July 2007

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Alex Fitch tells me the usual shows such as I’m Ready for my Close-up are being repeated this week as host radio station Resonance FM is moving premises. Monday’s Panel Borders should go out as usual, but if not it will still go out as a podcast – the show will celebrate the UK release [...]

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Aleksander Zograf taking part in Italy’s 24-hour comics day

20. July 2007

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This article (via Neorama) is in Italian, but at least those of us who can’t read the language can still see from the list which creators are taking part in this year’s Italian 24-hours comic day, with Regards From Serbia artist Aleksander Zograf being one of them.

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Potter on the streets

20. July 2007

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Already on the way to work this morning there were Harry Potter fans in glasses, lightning bolt tattoos on their heads and Hogwarts scarves around their necks on the streets of Edinburgh. Apparently Childline, the fine UK charity which offers a phone line to help kids, is gearing up for extra calls from young readers [...]

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Adi Tantimedh interviewed at BeyondChron

20. July 2007

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Adi Tantimedh, writer of one of my favourite online comics La Muse, is interviewed by Peter Wong on San Francisco’s BeyondChron. It is relatively brief but still packs in some interesting material – regular readers will have herd me going on about the series quite a bit on here, for which I make no apology [...]

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DIY Qee Project – Bart Simpson

20. July 2007

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Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard, LA, will be host to a special show on August 1st, which will feature customised Bart Simpsons made by a range of famous artists (including creator Matt Groening) using the 10″ Bart Simpson Qee figure as a basis. The exhibition is being presented by Diamond Comics and Toy2R, with plans [...]

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Terminator 4 – (Legal) Judgement Day

20. July 2007

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Terminator 4, which MGM had plans to release in 2009, may be further off than ever as the interested parties are now sniping at each other over a number of legal issues which I won’t even pretend to understand, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Does this break the hearts of Terminator fans? We’ve got the [...]

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