Archive | August, 2007

Geek Syndicate features Jonas Moore

29. August 2007

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The Geek Syndicate podcast has a special feature on the fascinating-looking multimedia webcomic The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore, with regular co-host Dave sitting down for a chat with Howard Webster, the driving force behind the series (link via the UK Comic Book Podcast Group, thanks to my colleague Gary for the heads-up).

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Comics Britannia website live and choc-full of goodies!

28. August 2007

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Andy Hall from the BBC’s Comics Britannia production kindly drops me a line to say that the Beeb’s web wizards have been busy creating a site to support the upcoming Comics Britannia season on BBC 4. If you’ve been keeping up to date with events you’ll know that the series – the cornerstone of a [...]

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Bringing the War home

28. August 2007

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Among the mail waiting for me when I returned from my break this week was something rather special – a sampler from Weidenfeld & Nicolson (part of the Orion group which also includes the excellent SF imprint Gollancz); inside the sampler the first chapter of the print version of Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman’s Shooting [...]

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“Who wants sonic when you can have laser?”

28. August 2007

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Check it out, fellow Who fans – coming up this autumn we have the Laser Screwdriver, as used by John Simm’s bonkers incarnation of the Doctor’s nemesis, The Master. The Master taunted the Doc in the season finale by asking him who’d bother with a sonic screwdriver when they could have laser, but we all [...]

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Comics Britannia details

28. August 2007

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Since I’ve been off enjoying the Edinburgh Festival I haven’t had time to keep up with the comics news, so I missed the BBC finally announcing the details and broadcast schedule for their Comics Britannia season, which I’ve been eagerly looking forward to since first hearing about it towards the end of last year, expectations [...]

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Opus censored by editors

27. August 2007

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Boing Boing has a number of links to the story that Berke Breathed’s Opus (the follow-on from his more Reagan-Bush Snr era Bloom County) has effectively been censored by editors in various newspapers which carry the strip who have decided not to run a storyline with fad-of-the-week gal Lola Granola who has now decided that [...]

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The ‘other’ Black Diamond Detective Agency

22. August 2007

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Over on top webcomics collective Act-I-Vate! Nick Bertozzi has posted a fascinating glimpse into an alternative version of the Black Diamond Detective Agency. As we know the excellent Eddie Campbell adapted this unproduced movie screenplay into a graphic novel, recently published by First Second (who have grown remarkably quickly to be one of the graphic [...]

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Cartoonist video interview archive

21. August 2007

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The excellent Drawn! blog has trawled the new website for PBS journalist Charlie Rose, which has made a huge amount of archive interviews available online – among the many interviewees from politicians to celebrities Drawn! has found many with some very famous cartoonists, including the late, great Peanuts creator Charles M Schulz, Art Spiegelman, Scott [...]

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Rowling to be honoured in Edinburgh

20. August 2007

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Harry Potter creator J K Rowling is to be officially honoured by Edinburgh, the city where she wrote most of the original work. At present the only real public sign of her city connection is a plaque on Nicolson Street on the Southside which commemorates her writing part of the first novel in the nearby [...]

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Graphic novels at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

19. August 2007

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A very sunny Friday afternoon yesterday found me walking through the extremely pleasant environs of the Edinburgh International Book Festival in the city’s Charlotte Square, right across from the Georgian splendour of Bute House, the official residence of the country’s First Minister. As ever the Book Festival seems even busier than previous years (a trend [...]

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Yesterday’s Tomorrows

18. August 2007

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Over on Comics Reporter it looks like Tom approves of the rather splendid Yesterday’s Tomorrows collection by Rian Hughes: “Hughes has an angular style that derives color and shading not from some sort of inherent vibrancy of the figures but from the key placement of light sources. His overall style may remind some of a [...]

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Rosario Dawson in online SF

17. August 2007

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Rosario Dawson, fresh from her own comics series for Image – Occult Crimes Taksforce – is again dipping her toes into the fantastic genres, this time in the form of an online science fiction series. The Gemini Division comes from the same group who created the online series Afterworld (which Rosario lent her voice to) [...]

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The Spirit’s Scarlett woman

17. August 2007

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Scarlett Johansson is set to return to the world of comics to movie adaptations several years after her early break-out role in Ghost World as the Hollywood Reporter announces that she has been signed on to appear in Frank Miller’s film version of the late, great Will Eisner’s The Spirit. It probably won’t surprise folks [...]

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New Spires online

16. August 2007

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The latest part of David A J Berner’s science fiction strip The Spires has gone up on the very fine Broken Voice Comics site (home to a number of webcomics, all well worth a browse) and sees a world of politics full of veiled insults, threats and double-dealing (so nothing like real life politics, then): (panels [...]

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What’s in a name?

15. August 2007

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The Australian Daily Telegraph covers a book by Robert Schnakenberg who has compiled a new baby name book; there are plenty of baby name books out there for parents-to-be, from straightforward collections to specific ones such as Gaelic names, but this one is a little different since it lists a selection of names with science [...]

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