Archive | August, 2007

Touched

15. August 2007

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Phil Barrett, an Irish comics creator currently residing in Canada, has been busy posting a lot of his comics pages to his blog, including a series of pages from Touched, which has a nice Dan Clowes meet Los Bros Hernandez look – go and enjoy a browse. (link via Bugpowder) (Phil Barrett’s Touched)

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World Fantasy Awards shortlist

15. August 2007

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The shortlist for the World Fantasy awards are now up; nice to see Susanna Clarke and Scott Lynch in there (in the Collections and Novels categories, respectively for Ladies of Grace, Adieu and The Lies of Locke Lamora) while I see Edward Miller and John Picacio have themselves on yet another awards shortlist for the [...]

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Comics and animation in Tel Aviv

14. August 2007

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The seventh annual festival of animation, comics and cartoons will take place in Tel Aviv’s Cinematheque from August 25th to 28th, reports the Jerusalem Post. As well as workshops, talks, kid’s events and a comic fair the festival will also feature Super-Camel, an animated feature jointly created by Israeli and Palestinian animators under the auspices [...]

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Blast from the past

14. August 2007

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My friend and noted comics enthusiast Padraig has posted up this comic convention flyer from his collection – just look at some of the names on that list, must have been a great con. Were any of our readers actually at this?

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New Forbidden Planet Catalogue Cover

13. August 2007

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Here’s a sneak peek at the new Forbidden Planet International Catalogue front cover! Keep an eye out for this issue very soon in our stores or coming through your letterbox!  

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Propaganda joins The Other Side

13. August 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: The Other Side Written by Jason Aaron, Art by Cameron Stewart Perhaps the easiest criticism of this book is that it’s all been seen before, but as Captain Dale Dye USMC (Ret.) explains in the introduction, the book is deeply rooted in the existing [...]

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Comics Britannia update

13. August 2007

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The BBC has a short press release on the upcoming Comics Britannia series this September (spotted via Padraig’s LiveJournal). I heard from one of the folks involved with this recently and the transmission dates aren’t fixed exactly yet, but should be quite soon. They have talked to a number of top UK comics creators – [...]

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Grant and Kennedy to follow up Kidnapped

13. August 2007

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At the launch party for the Edinburgh International Book Festival I bumped into Ron Grosset from Scottish publisher Waverley Books and the man most directly responsible for getting the ball rolling on the recent graphic novel adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped. Since Kidnapped went down so well with readers, teachers, the UNESCO City [...]

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“Aren’t you a little short for a Stormtrooper?”

12. August 2007

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Not to mention a little under-dressed? RedandJonny’s Flickr site documents a couple of Star Wars fans who enjoy wearing their Imperial Stormtrooper helmets in a variety on unusual scenes, from going grocery shopping to sun-worshipping – first time I’ve seen a Stormtrooper in a bikini… (link via Boing Boing)

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Charlie Stross, Vernor Vinge and Peter Watts live chat

11. August 2007

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Xfire will be hosting a week of science fiction live chats beginning on Monday 13th at 9pm BST, with three of this year’s Hugo nominees Vernor Vinge, Peter Watts and Charlie Stross kicking things off. Later in the week we’re promised a number of other top SF&F writers, including Brian Herbert, Larry Niven, James Patrick [...]

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More Kelly…

11. August 2007

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…Because we all really, really need to know the mysterious origins of the swastika tattoo on Kelly’s bum. Dan Goldman is a very strange man, but we love him anyway.

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Mission Galactica

10. August 2007

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While we’re all waiting impatiently for the final season of the rebooted (and bloody brilliant) Battlestar Galactica, let’s take a trip back in time to the series which started it all, brainchild of Glen A Larson (who also brought us the disco-suited version of Buck Rogers), with a rather more paternal Commander Adama in the [...]

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Illustrators of Politikin Zabavnik

10. August 2007

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Neorama reports on an upcoming exhibition entitled “Illustrators of Politikin Zabavnik” at the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade. The exhibition will showcase work from over a hundred artists who have created comic strips, illustrations and caricatures for the Politikin Zabavnik magazine, a long-running culture magazine in the region, and will feature work from 1939 [...]

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More Who guests announced

10. August 2007

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The BBC continues its cunning scheme of keeping up interest in Doctor Who in-between seasons by letting out little announcements a piece at a time. This week they are announcing that Felicity Kendall, best known for her appearance in the BBC sit-com The Good Life (and also once voted ‘Rear of the Year’) will guest [...]

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From our Continental Correspondent – le Pennetier and Berthet’s Poison Ivy

10. August 2007

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This is the story of a girl who grows up in the bayou in the 1940’s, and is saved from a certain and unavoidable death with the help of a voodoo priestess. Too her dismay, however, death has not left her body, and anybody who so much as kisses her, drops dead instantly. [...]

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