Archive | August, 2007

The Retrospective Detective

31. August 2007

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If you cast your mind back to January of this year you might recall Paul Burke, Garry Brown and Thomas Mauer kindly took some time out to not only show us some of the early pages for the science fiction Noir comic Hard Boiled Ed but also talked us through some of the scenes, letting [...]

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Holy exploding buildings, Batman!!!

31. August 2007

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Sky News has a short but spectacular video of a multi-storey building exploding in Chicago, apparently as part of the filming for the next Batman movie “The Dark Knight.”

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From our Continental Correspondent – Quick & Flupke in India

31. August 2007

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Even with all the festivities celebrating his 100th anniversary, you’d almost think that Hergé only ever created one comic character, the omnipresent Tintin. Well, think again: Quick & Flupke, two kids from the streets of Brussels, are ready to take on the world. Again, only this time it’s serious. Hergé created the two young rascals [...]

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“To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower”

31. August 2007

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The quote comes from one of my favourite poets and artists, William Blake, but it seemed appropriate for this week’s episode of Kelly from Dan Goldman. Dan told me he was running later than usual with this episode partly because he was experimenting with the artwork and effectively showing an interpretation of Heaven. I love [...]

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Edinburgh gets ‘Warholised’

30. August 2007

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Not a comics story but since Andy Warhol is a modern artist anyone interested in visual arts can really ignore it seems worth mentioning: as part of the large Warhol exhibition currently running in Edinburgh (where the pillars of the Royal Academy have been re-dressed to resemble Campbell’s soup tins) performance group Mischief La-bas will [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Stripburger at the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts

30. August 2007

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Stripburger, the Slovenian cartoon and comic magazine, is contributing to the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, which is being organized for the 27th time as we speak. They have invited Les Requins Marteaux, the celebrated French independent publisher of comics and graphic novels, for two very special events. On September 4th at 9 PM, the [...]

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I’m Ready for my Close-up and Panel Borders latest: publishing graphic novels, comics art and horror

30. August 2007

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Tonight Resonance FM’s Alex Fitch will be talking to Pete Tombs, producer of Zibahkhana (Hell’s Ground) and writer of Mondo Macabro as well as Tejinder Jouhal from the ICA about their season of ‘Bolly Horror’ movies. Monday’s Panel Borders show will feature an interview with David Brawn from HarperCollins on mainstream publishers moving into graphic [...]

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Big Brother is Watching You

30. August 2007

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I know several comics sites discussed the rather cool Hey, Oscar Wilde! It’s Clobbering Time! site (where different artists create interpretations of famous literary works and characters) recently, but since I was off I missed most that. But I can’t resist belatedly chipping in with the entry by Chris Weston that Alex from Culpable y [...]

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Blob sex in La Muse

30. August 2007

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Adi Tantimedh and Hugo Petrus’ La Muse continues to be one of the few comics – in print or online – that uses sex in a way that is consistently clever, often damned funny and yet still manages not to be exploitative (unlike the costumes of most female characters in mainstream comics for instance). This [...]

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John Howe interviewed at the Little Chimp Society

29. August 2007

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Darren from the Little Chimp Society (an excellent site for all sorts of news on all things illustration) tells me that they have an interview with the Most Excellent John Howe, probably one of the most famous illustrators working in the fantasy genre today and probably best known to millions for his outstanding work visualising [...]

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William Gibson – cyberspace, science fiction and warm blankets

29. August 2007

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William Gibson is interviewed about his new novel Spook Country in one of the latest shows from the excellent and quirky literary podcast the Bat Segundo Show, where the conversation takes in technology, Cory Doctorow, ZX81s (hands up who remembers using those!) and escaping handcuffs using a ball point pen before somehow turning to the [...]

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I Encuentro Internacional de Humoristas Gráficos en Granada – Humorous cartoons festival in Spain

29. August 2007

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Neorama has details of the upcoming International Festival of Graphic Humourists in the Spanish city of Granda (home to one of the world’s great architectural treasures, the Moorish Alhambra) from October 26th to 28th, along with instructions on how interested artists can take part (instructions are in both English and Spanish) – up to three [...]

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Zack Snyder to helm Bradbury’s Illustrated Man

29. August 2007

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Zack Snyder, currently working on the big screen adaptation of The Watchmen, has signed a deal with Warner Bros to direct a new adaptation of The Illustrated Man, the classic short story collection by one of the greatest of SF writers (actually one of the best writers, regardless of genre), Ray Bradbury, according to the [...]

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The Pilot of the Future returns

29. August 2007

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Several news sites are confirming rumours that had been circling concerning a return for one of the most respected and beloved of all British comics characters, Dan Dare. It has now been confirmed that a new monthly series of Dan Dare comics will launch this November from Virgin, penned by Garth Ennis, with artwork from [...]

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Spidey wall-climbing suit possible according to boffins

29. August 2007

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The BBC reports on an article in The Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter which has looked at creatures which have a naturally evolved ability to scale walls and even run across smooth ceilings such as gecko lizards to see if this ability can be replicated artificially for human use. The millions of fine hairs on [...]

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