Archive | September, 2007

Laura Howell joins the blogosphere

19. September 2007

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One of our favourite British comics artists, Laura Howell, is joining the blogosphere with The Panel Beat. As regular readers will know Laura already maintains a very fine website which is awash with comics goodness, from her work in Brit institution The Beano (often with the brilliant Hunt Emerson) to her manga work and her [...]

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Scottish ‘Spider-Man’ fined

19. September 2007

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Student Duncan Binnie has been fined £150 after pleading guilty to a charge of breach of the peace at Perth Sheriff Court in Scotland. At this summer’s T in the Park music festival Binnie, in Spider-Man garb, decided he could do whatever a spider can and scuttled up a thirty foot speaker gantry, endangering himself [...]

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More Trek heroes join Heroes

18. September 2007

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I see this story on TV.com was posted a while back, but I missed it – Nichelle Nichols, beloved to generations of science fiction fans for her portrayal of Lt Uhura in the original Star Trek – is joining the cast of the second series of Heroes, where she is rumoured to be playing the [...]

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Gerard Way signing at Forbidden Planet New York

18. September 2007

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The one and only Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance, will be signing copies of his new comic the Umbrella Academy at the Forbidden Planet store in New York tomorrow (Wednesday 19th) from 4 to 6pm – check the FP NYC site for more details. Given how astonishingly popular the Free Comic Book [...]

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Oscar Grillo at Animacor’07

18. September 2007

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Marko at Neorama has a bilingual post up detailing the upcoming Animacor’07, Festival internacional de animación/the Third Córdoba Animation Festival, which takes place from the 5th to the 10th of November. The festival has a truly international mix, with works from around the world in competition, a new Children’s Story Competition (which ties in neatly [...]

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Ripper

18. September 2007

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Digital Spy speculates on the (hopefully) increased likelihood of Ripper becoming reality. Nothing to do with bloody Jack from Whitechapel, the title Ripper refers (as Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans will doubtless know) to Rupert Giles, Buffy’s Watcher. There has been talk for ages about a Buffy spin-off series based around Giles, played by Anthony [...]

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Robert Jordan passes away

17. September 2007

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News is just starting to filter out that one of the biggest selling authors in fantasy, Robert Jordan, has passed away. I didn’t notice the news appearing on the main news agency sites but a number of others, from Boing Boing to UK SF Book News have noted the story. Jordan – actually James Oliver [...]

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IndieReview launches

17. September 2007

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IndieReview is a new website with the laudable aim of improving the visibility of the UK’s small press comics scene, as well as supplying reviews of works (the reviews already boast entries by Garen Ewing and Accent UK’s Dave West) and information on our homegrown independent comics creators: “The idea behind IndieReview is that it’s [...]

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From our Continental Correspondent – cycling through comics

17. September 2007

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I came across the comic “La Primavera” recently by Alexis Frederick-Frost (Center of Cartoon Studies Class of 2006) recently, and, having been infected with the cycling bug by my grandfather myself, it immediately caught my attention. This book, for which Frederick-Frost received a Xeric grant, tells the tale of the heroic Milan-San Remo bicycle race [...]

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Panel Borders: the art of Andrzej Klimowski

17. September 2007

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Tonight’s Panel Borders show from Alex Fitch will feature the first part of a chat with artist, novelist and lecturer Andrzej Klimowski. As Alex notes this is pretty much a thematic contrast to the last show which discussed mainstream publishers adapting prose works into graphic novels, instead this week looking at the work of a [...]

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Iranian animation at Swedish festival

17. September 2007

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Sweden has been dealing with yet another outbreak of outrage over cartoons depicting the prophet Mohamed recently (Tom at Comics Reporter has covered it very well if you need brought up to speed), so it is interesting to note that the Uppsala short film festival will be screening a ten minute animated film, Cotton Tie, [...]

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Emmy awards

17. September 2007

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The 59th Primetime Emmy awards were given out last night in the US at LA’s Shrine Auditorium. SF&F themed shows were a little thin on the winning ground, although Terry O’Quinn picked up a win for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Locke in the cult show Lost (although since [...]

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Rare signed Harry Potter novels to be auctioned

17. September 2007

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The BBC reports that the world’s only complete set of Harry Potter novels which are signed by author J K Rowling will be auctioned later this week via Ebay. The set – which is so valuable the books are being kept safe and sound in a police station in Aberdeenshire – will be auctioned off [...]

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Cultural Bond

17. September 2007

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Good news for the venerable James Bond franchise this week – after news last week that the Harry Potter movies may have overtaken the Bond series as the biggest box office franchise earner the king of superspies has come out top in the UK’s first ‘culture chart’. The new chart combines sales of books, DVDs, [...]

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Kirby in the park

17. September 2007

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“What I discovered this weekend was that if you put up a big display about Jack Kirby in a New York City public park, you get tons of people stopping by. And I mean people who were Kirby fans. Painters and actors and musicians participating in the festival were coming over and telling us how [...]

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