Archive | September, 2007

From our Continental Correspondent- comics for the hard of hearing

24. September 2007

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Dupuis Editeurs has launched a new website especially aimed at hearing impaired children. On the website, selected titles from their children’s comics imprint Punaise & Puceron are made available in sign language format. Sign language is the first effective language that many deaf or hearing impaired people learn, it seems. Sometimes they never get around [...]

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Uhura role cast for Abrams’ Trek

24. September 2007

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IVC2 reports that JJ Abrams has cast another role for his upcoming Star Trek movie, set in the early days of the characters from the original series while they were still at Starfleet Academy (as many Trek fans will no doubt know the idea of a series set at the Academy was floated as a [...]

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Nosferatu

23. September 2007

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Over the next couple of weeks a special screening of the classic silent horror film by F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu, will be touring the UK including Edinburgh’s gorgeous Cameo and other Picturehouse cinemas (details of the tour can be found here). The screenings kick off at Greenwich Screening Room on Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th of [...]

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Moebius on the BBC

23. September 2007

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As part of the comics season on BBC4 centred around Comics Britannia, tonight the Beeb turns the spotlight onto one of France’s most influential comics illustrators with In Search of Moebius: Jean Giraud at 10pm. Meanwhile tomorrow night’s third and final Comics Britannia episode (which starts slightly later than the previous two parts at 10.30pm) [...]

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Miller to direct JLA movie

22. September 2007

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The Hollywood Reporter posts that former Mad Max Director George Miller is likely to direct the big-screen version of the Justice League of America for Warner Bros. The script (by Kieran and Michele Mulroney) is being kept under wraps but it is know that the film will feature some of DC’s big hitters such as [...]

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The Beano wears a black armband

21. September 2007

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The Scotsman‘s Jim Gilchrist celebrates the life and work of Ian Gray, a long-time writer of comics for the mighty DC Thomson empire. Ian passed away recently of a heart attack, ironically just as the classic work from the heyday of the Beano and others was about to be celebrated in Comics Britannia on the [...]

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Ira R Schnapp

21. September 2007

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Via the good offices of Boing Boing comes a link to Dial B For Blog and, as BB puts it, “an insanely detailed ten part post” on the life and work of Ira R Schnapp. Who? No, you’re not alone, I hadn’t heard the name either, but read on: “But who in the world is [...]

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Graphic war at Comica

21. September 2007

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Dan Goldman tells me how excited he and Anthony Lappé are to be taking part in this year’s Comica in London this November. With the publication of Shooting War coming up (also in November) the guys will be taking part in a Comica event at the ICA on the 6th of November entitled Iraq: the [...]

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Sarah Jane is coming

21. September 2007

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This autumn season sees two different Sarahs from the world of science fiction getting their own shows: from the US there is the Terminator spin-off the Sarah Connor Chronicles, but closer to home and much closer to the hearts of any Doctor Who fan who was raised on the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker episodes [...]

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PJ Holden is Fearless

21. September 2007

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Fearless Written by Mark Sable and David Roth Artwork by PJ Holden Fearless is a new superhero title starting this November from Image. Another superhero title in a crowded market trying to do something a little different with the genre, to stand out. Yep, you say, oh jaded comics veteran, been there, read that, bought [...]

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Jings and crivens! Signed Broons book sells for pile of cash

21. September 2007

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The BBC reports that a rare 1959 Broons annual signed by the legendary DC Thomson comics creator Dudley D. Watkins has sold at auction in Saint Andrews, going for £1, 350 (well in excess of $2, 000 in US funds) to an un-named bidder, with an original drawing of Oor Wullie by Watkins also going [...]

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Next Narnia movies delayed

20. September 2007

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The Narnia movie sequels, based on the fantasy novels of C.S. Lewis, have been delayed, with the second film, Prince Caspian, put back by five months, apparently because the production company, Walden Media, had another film – the Water Horse – already scheduled for release this winter, so Caspian has been bumped back to a [...]

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“Ziggy played guitar…”

20. September 2007

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Sean Collins approached a number of comics book artists and cartoonists to render their own versions of the Thin White Duke in his sketchbook, the resultant images of the chameleon of rock and pop, David Bowie, are now available for all to enjoy via Sean’s Flickr stream; artists include Paul Hornschemeier, Becky Cloonan, Gary Panter, [...]

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Propaganda – hanging out with The Boys

19. September 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: The Boys Volume 1 – The Name Of The Game Written by Garth Ennis Art by Darick Robertson When you’re living in a world full of shiny costumed heroes tearing through the sky and dark, shadow-living vigilantes stalking criminals through the [...]

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Yar!

19. September 2007

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Yar, me fine buckoes and fellow rogues, ’tis International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so as ye swig yer rum and waves yer cutlass around in the rigging, I offers ye a reminder of piratical adventures from two men who be fine gents, even if they be landlubbers, Messrs Moore and Gibbons, Esquire. (the macabre [...]

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