Archive | July, 2007

Comics Britannia

20. July 2007

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Leo Baxendale tells me the BBC have let him know that the episode of Comics Britannia which will focus on D.C. Thomson’s Dandy and Beano comics (which of course will have Leo in it) is scheduled to go out sometime in the week beginning Monday September 10th on BBC4. Obviously broadcast times are subject to [...]

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Beaming down to Linlithgow

19. July 2007

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Linlithgow, famous for the beautiful palace which dominates the town, is set to celebrate the birth of a famous son of the town – a son not due to be born until the year 2222. Linlithgow, not too far from Edinburgh, has laid claim to being the birthplace of Commander Montgomery Scott, Chief Engineer of [...]

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Propaganda: Silver Surfer and silver bullets – a little Defenders reunion

19. July 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: Silver Surfer – Requiem issue 1 of 4 Written by J Michael Straczynski, Art by Esad Ribic How can anyone not have a little love for the Silver Surfer? As a character he’s possibly one of the more delightfully stupid designs [...]

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More William Gibson in Second Life

19. July 2007

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Margaret Sheehan kindly sends me some follow-up information to last week’s news about William Gibson, the godfather of cyberpunk, making some virtual appearances in Second Life to support the imminent publication of his new novel, Spook Country as well as showing his short movie online: “For anyone who missed the beginning of the film, or [...]

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Tres chic, n’est pas?

19. July 2007

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The PR machine for the upcoming Simpsons movie rolls on and continues to be quite inventive – we’ve had an outline of Homer next to an ancient chalk figure on the rolling slopes of southern England and dozens of Seven-Elevens turned into Kwik-e-Marts in the US. Now Fashionista has a great post up on a [...]

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Who invades San Diego

18. July 2007

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After having Daleks in Manhattan for season 3 of Doctor Who comics and SF fans at the upcoming San Diego Comic Con will be able to meet the demented pepperpots in person at the Underground Toys booth (# 5550): “As most of you already know – we will be selling two exclusive 5” action figures [...]

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Potter and the Cap

18. July 2007

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You know it just struck me, if J K Rowling is determined to kill off Harry Potter, why not have a sequel where Harry and the recently deceased Captain America team up to fight evil in the afterlife? Harry starts dating Dead Girl, he and the Cap eventually earn the right to be returned to [...]

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Pekka Alan Manninen talks Finnish comics

18. July 2007

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On his The Professor blog Terry Hooper posts up an interesting interview with Finnish comics creator Pekka Alan Manninen, discussing his own work, the Finnish comics scene, his own comic Sarjari and the struggle any independent comics creator or publisher will know too well in any country, trying to get material different from the mainstream [...]

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James Marsters in Torchwood

18. July 2007

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Buffy and Angel star James Marsters will be bringing his incredible cheekbones to the Doctor Who universe with an appearance in the adult-oriented spin-off Torchwood‘s second season, currently filming in and around Cardiff. Speaking to the BBC site, Marsters, beloved by legions of fans for his portrayal of bad boy vamp Spike, said of his [...]

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The Bridge in comics

18. July 2007

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Over on Steve Holland’s Bear Alley there’s a guest blog from Jeremy Briggs looking at a great Victorian piece of engineering which became a Scottish landmark in its own right, the Forth Bridge (technically the Forth Rail Bridge, but most Scots simply refer to it as the Forth Bridge, or even just ‘the Bridge’, so [...]

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Timothy Leary, Alan Moore – comics to change the consciousness?

18. July 2007

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Alterati discusses a largely forgotten (even by his adherents) work by Timothy Leary in comics form. Neurocomics was published in 1979 by Last Gasp and expounds on Leary’s ’8 circuit’ model of the brain; Alterati compares the Leary comic work with one of our best (and most transcendental) contemporary comics creators, Alan Moore, as well [...]

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Max and Moritz Awards

17. July 2007

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Over on the fine Collected Comics Library Podcast Chris has a special European guest in the shape of Ralf Schulze, who explains the background to Germany’s top comics awards, the Max and Moritz Awards, named for Wilhelm Busch’s 19th century creations. It’s a good introduction for anyone into their comics but perhaps less familiar with [...]

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Ancient Homer

17. July 2007

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As part of the PR hooplah surrounding the forthcoming Simpsons movie a giant Homer Simpson outline image has been painted on the rolling downs of southern England next to a famous landmark, the chalk image of the Cerne Abbas Giant, an outline image created by carving through the turf to expose the chalk beneath. The [...]

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More on Dirk Gently

17. July 2007

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Following on from the news of Harry Enfield playing the late Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently for a BBC radio adaptation this autumn Lee Leschasin from the Beeb has kindly dropped a line to confirm that the series will indeed be released onto CD and download in early November, as well as giving us some more [...]

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From off the streets of Ramallah

17. July 2007

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Among some of the cartoons from round the world that I’ve linked to here you may recall some which came courtesy of Katie, a volunteer in the West Bank who has posted up some interesting political cartoons coming out of the Middle East on her Postcards From Palestine LiveJournal, as well as blogging about her [...]

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