Archive | September, 2007

Mignola and Golden’s Vampire on way to the screen

30. September 2007

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Film rights have been snapped up for “Baltimore, or the Steadfast Tin Solider and the Vampire”, an illustrated novel by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola, with David Goyer (no stranger to the fantastic genre following his Blade outings) set to direct. The story follows Lord Henry Baltimore who is bitten by a vampire bat on [...]

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Lois Maxwell, RIP

30. September 2007

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Sad news for James Bond fans this weekend: Lois Maxwell, forever beloved to generations of movie-goers for her role as Miss Moneypenny, has passed away at the age of 80. Despite the fact that Lois last played her popular role more than twenty years ago (in the final Roger Moore Bond, A View to a [...]

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Future-wear

29. September 2007

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I’m glad to see a new batch of T-shirts drawing on classic 2000AD art coming out soon – I had to get myself the Brian Bolland “gaze into the fist of Dredd” T-shirt as soon as the first series came out and I’ve had several folks stop me when they see it to ask about [...]

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Drawing Dan Dare – a small mystery

28. September 2007

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Over on the always excellent Bear Alley Steve Holland has a follow-up article to a recent question regarding the page of Dan Dare art Frank Hampson is seen working on in some archive footage from the mid 50s seen on the BBC’s Comics Britannia – the trouble was, as Steve pointed out, what exactly was [...]

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Richard Morgan talks SF, Noir, Fantasy and comics

28. September 2007

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Over on CHUD Cameron Hughes makes his reading preferences clear before starting a good interview with Richard Morgan: “Richard K. Morgan is a brilliant writer. I’ve never seen such perfect worlds created using both cyberpunk and noir, and the dystopic worlds that Richard create are the most real and compelling I’ve come across since Blade [...]

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Komikazen: 3rd International Festival of Reality Comics

28. September 2007

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Gianluca Costantini kindly sends us some information on October’s Komikazen festival which will take place in the beautiful environs of Ravenna in Italy from October 12th and 13th (with exhibitions running right to the 9th of December), which looks like it is gearing up to be a major event celebrating the variety and imagination of [...]

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Webby Awards 2008

28. September 2007

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The 2008 Webby Awards, which promotes original film and video premiering online, has added new categories including one for the writing and use of animation. The deadline for entries for the awards is October 26th; the award is judged by a panel of industry figures, including director Darren Aronofsky and Harvey Weinstein. (link via AWN)

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Al Davison, Paul Gravett, Bryan Talbot and more at Manchester

28. September 2007

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A number of SF&F and comics related writers and artists will be taking part in the Manchester Literature Festival (October 4th to 14th), including Al Davison (creator of the intriguing Spiral Cage) who will be holding a graphic novel workshop for 12 – 16 year olds on Sunday October 7th at the Whitworth Gallery from [...]

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The Whores of Mensa

27. September 2007

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Ellen Lindner tips us off to the new issue of the wonderfully-named Whores of Mensa, a comic created by a collective of independent female writers and artists. The collective comprises of a rotating cast of ladies, including Jeremy Dennis, Mardou, Lucy Sweet and Ellen, while each issue normally has a theme for them to weave [...]

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Alex Fitch looks at the Art of Heath Robinson at the Cartoon Museum

27. September 2007

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Over on the I’m Ready for my Podcast blog Alex Fitch has posted a podcast of his recent chat with Anita O’Brien, the curator of the Cartoon Museum in London, about their current exhibition of work by W. Heath Robinson (which runs until the 7th of October). (Heath Robinson – “Deceiving the invader as to the [...]

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Welcome to the Big Meg

27. September 2007

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Over on BD Online, the architect’s website, Rory Olcayto has a look at architecture in comics, discussing the super-metropolis of Mega City One, home to 2000 AD’s iron lawman of the future, Judge Dredd: “Imagine a place the size of a hundred Londons, one that spreads across the entire eastern seaboard of America, and you’ll capture [...]

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More Simpsons movie comparisons

27. September 2007

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On Monday I mentioned a site found via Boing Boing which had posted up frames from various Simpsons episodes against frames from famous films which the scenes were pastiching. Dario left a comment saying that a Spanish site had actually run this first; now obviously I don’t know who did which posts and in which [...]

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Who in Rome

26. September 2007

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No, that shouldn’t have been ‘when in Rome’, because it refers to a certain country-hopping Time Lord filming an episode of season four of Doctor Who in the Eternal City. The episode, filmed in the Cinecitta studios in Rome, sees the Doctor and Donna travel back to AD79 – those with a half-decent Classical history [...]

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For sale – Castle Dracula

26. September 2007

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The windswept and foreboding mountains of Transylvania; the moon shines silver from behind clouds, bats move through the air and somewhere wolves howl, the ‘children of the night’ making ’sweet music’. Lightning flashes, illuminating an imposing fortress amid the peaks. We’ve seen similar set-ups in endless vampire films, but now Castle Bran, often referred to [...]

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The 5th International Istanbul Cartoon Festival

26. September 2007

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Neorama has details of the upcoming fifth International Istanbul Cartoon Festival, which runs from the 17th to 25th of November and is once more organised by the Yeni Yuksektepe Cultural Association. For those artists wishing to take part the theme for this year’s festival is ‘tolerance’ – from the official site (via Marko at Neorama): [...]

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