Archive | September, 2007

Zot! to be reprinted

26. September 2007

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Publisher’s Weekly reports that Scott McCloud’s early work, Zot!, will be reprinted in a new collection next summer, launching at the 2008 San Diego Comic Con. Interestingly the 576 page collection will be in black and white, apparently at Scott’s request: “When I switched to black and white, the series really got up to speed. [...]

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James Jean, fashionista

26. September 2007

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Remember a couple of days ago we posted about how Glaswegian comics scribe Grant Morrison was one of the shortlist nominees for this year’s Scottish Style Awards? Well contemporary comics links to the fickle world of fashion continue in this article by Patty Huntington on the recent Prada fashion show (with the brilliant title “Microchips, [...]

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Bitterkomix

26. September 2007

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You have to like this – reminiscences of South African underground comics by a Finnish comics enthusiast! Over on Pitkä Mies Jelle shares a recent article written for Kuti in which he recalls being a young reader and first being exposed to something very different from his comics experiences up until then as he encounters [...]

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Film maker killed on new Batman movie

25. September 2007

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Sky News is reporting the shocking news that a film maker on the Batman: the Dark Knight film has been killed in an accident during shooting. An as yet un-named special effects technician was killed when a vehicle carrying a camera platform crashed while following a stunt vehicle, (possibly the Batmobile, but little has [...]

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Orion’s Child

25. September 2007

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Back in the mid 1980s T. Joseph Cole published a couple of issues of a science fiction and fantasy magazine entitled Orion’s Child which boasted short fiction by authors including no less a figure than Ray Bradbury; now his son Gabriel M Cole has brought Orion’s Child back to life as an e-zine, with a [...]

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Propaganda – Welcome to the Mouse Kingdom

25. September 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: Mouse Guard: Fall, 1152 Story & Art by David Petersen Mouse Guard is one of those books that would be really simple to give a Hollywood pitch for either Watership Down with mice and swords or a Disney/Pixar adaptation of Lord Of The Rings. [...]

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Zombie lurch

25. September 2007

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The BBC (sorry, no direct link) posted this pic of the Sydney zombie lurch; organisers were apparently hoping to top the largest record zombie lurch of 894 held in the USA, but sadly although many rotting cadavers were happy to stumble around downtown Sydney looking for a koala and brains burger they didn’t quite make [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Dial P for Pulp

25. September 2007

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This month sees the birth of Dial P For Pulp, a new podcast for anyone interested in any aspect of the pulps, the predecessors of comics as we know them, quite often featuring heroes that later also had adventures in the comics (just think of Doc Savage, The Shadow, Tarzan and many others). Dial [...]

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Sponsor an Ent

25. September 2007

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On the UKSF Book News Sandy reports on an initiative by the Moseley Statue Group in Birmingham who are trying to raise funds through a public subscription to create a statue to celebrate the life of J R R Tolkien who lived in Moseley Village. The plan is to erect a twenty foot high statue [...]

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The Banana/Skin Joke

25. September 2007

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Malcy Duff has what he calls a ‘new old’ comic available via his Missing Twin site, the Banana/Skin Joke, a comic of his from 2003, which has recently been re-released and is now available via his site along with The Blackest Gnome (see a chat we had with Malcy a few months back) and A [...]

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More Heroes talent announced for Origins

24. September 2007

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According to the Hollywood Reporter NBC has been busy recruiting some top genre talent for the Heroes spin-off Origins, which brings in new characters just discovering their powers (some reports suggest that at least some of these characters may make the leap into the main show later on). Cult horror director-writer Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, [...]

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Grant Morrison – dapper man-about-town

24. September 2007

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The Scottish Style Awards are coming up in Glasgow on October 26th and among the nominees for most stylish female is Katie Leung, who became the envy of female (and possibly some male) Harry Potter fans the world over when she kissed the boy wizard on the big screen. The most stylish men category boasts [...]

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What movie made George Clooney cry?

24. September 2007

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“That has to be the premiere of Batman and Robin.” George Clooney’s joking (although one suspects partly true) response in an interview in the Scotsman.

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Simpsons movie comparisons

24. September 2007

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Here’s an enjoyable bit of fun to brighten your Monday – we all know the Simpsons has been brilliant at pastiching classic movie scenes right from its very beginnings. Sometimes it can be as simple as a single line (such as when Homer’s new home business is ruined by nasty chiropracters and Moe comforts him [...]

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British Fantasy Awards

24. September 2007

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The British Fantasy Awards were announced over the weekend in Nottingham at the annual Fantasycon, with the Sydney J Bounds Best Newcomer Award going to Joe Hill, who brought us one of the first novels to impress me this year, Heart Shaped Box, a superbly creepy and atmospheric ghost story, the type that makes you [...]

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