Archive | October, 2007

V For … Halloween???

31. October 2007

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Colleagues in FPI’s Edinburgh branch tell me Halloween has occasioned a real run on V For Vendetta masks, with a substantial stockpile of the Fawkesian visages rapidly shrinking throughout today, with several folks standing in line at one point all to buy the masks. Looks like Edinburgh will have more than its fair share of [...]

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Shooting War in the media

31. October 2007

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Dan Goldman tells me that as part of the publisher’s push for the UK print edition of Shooting War he and Anthony Lappé will be doing media appearances to support the launch of the graphic novel; in addition to the talk at Comica on Tuesday 6th (see here) Dan has confirmed a couple of other [...]

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Banderas gets animated

31. October 2007

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Film superstar and heart-throb Antonio Banderas is moving from voicing an animated character (Shrek’s Puss in Boots) into animation production; Variety reports that Banderas’ production company Green Moon Producciones is forming a new animation house in partnership with Spanish animation studio Kandor Graphics. Spain’s brand-new animation house doesn’t have a name yet, but it does [...]

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Halloween Looney Tunes

31. October 2007

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Via Boing Boing comes this great Halloween image from Superape’s Flickr stream – the Looney Tunes animated characters as skeletons in a display for Day of the Dead (the festival, not the film, although it kinda works for the film too!) in a Hollywood cemetery. According to Superape’s Flickr description this is in the same [...]

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Webcomic pastiches webcomic pastiching SF author…

31. October 2007

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Webcomic Jack of All Blades has posted a pastiche of the super-geek webcomic XCKD‘s home/pastiche to Boing Boinger and top SF author Cory Doctorow (blogged back here). Now I’m blogging a strip paying homage to a strip about blogging – it’s multi-referential postmodernism gone made, I tells ya! Earlier this year Cory was delighted when [...]

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Meet Darryl Cunningham’s Super-Sam and John-of-the-Night

30. October 2007

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For a long time now we’ve been thinking it might be nice to have an original comic strip on our site; our New York store has Shannon Wheeler doing one for them weekly on their site and we’ve really been enjoying some of the many gems to be found out there in online comicland. Well, [...]

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Family Guy at 100

30. October 2007

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Family Guy – the show they couldn’t hang. Canceled twice and yet here it is, celebrating its 100th episode this week in the US (hopefully the BBC will continue to pick it up in the UK) with a story entitled “Stewie Kills Lois”. For any show, especially an animated one aimed at a late evening [...]

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The return of Sudden Interview – Robot Dreams, Spaniel Rages and teenage bedrooms

30. October 2007

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Paulo Patrício has returned with a whole bunch of Sudden Interviews for Mundo Fantasma; for those unfamiliar with it Paulo posts short but interesting interviews (in two languages, no less, shaming those of us who are less linguistically international) with a wide variety of comics creators. The new batch which has gone up following Paulo’s [...]

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Maw Broon’s munchies

30. October 2007

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The BBC reports that Maw Broon’s Cookbook, a new Scottish recipe book based on the long-lived D.C. Thomson comics family The Broons (still appearing each week in the Sunday Post), has attracted criticism for possibly encouraging obesity with a list of recipes high in fat and sugar. That a book of Scottish recipes – albeit [...]

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Wristcutters coming to the UK cinema

30. October 2007

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Long-time readers may recall me raving about the movie Wristcutters: a Love Story quite a while ago – in fact I actually saw it at the 2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival, where it was my favourite flick of the entire fest. As with any independent movie getting the finances and resources to make it is [...]

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Predator and Alien have love child shocker!

30. October 2007

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Filmdrunk has a picture (via USA Today) from the upcoming second Aliens Versus Predator (or AVP as the cool sci-fi kids call it) which shows an Alien/Predator hybrid creature (a ‘Predalien’?). Is it just me or does this make it look like a Jamaican Alien with dreads? Are they going all reggae with the new [...]

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This Day in Arf History

30. October 2007

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Over on Arf Lovers Craig Yoe has launched This Day in Arf History, where every day he is going to try and highlight one or two important events from the history of animation and comics. So far he’s already covered the inception of the evil Comics Code Authority (those nice people who protect your young [...]

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Green Lantern movie

29. October 2007

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The torrent of comics-to-movies adaptations continues unabated; an article in the Hollywood Reporter today announces that Warner Brothers have signed a deal with Greg Berlanti, creator of Everwood, to direct and co-write a big-screen, live-action film of Green Lantern. Screenwriter turned comics scribe Marc Guggenheim (CSI, Blade)will also co-write the script, along with Michael Green, [...]

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Hernandez video

29. October 2007

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Remember the gorgeous Jaime Hernandez poster from last week, the one created for Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour show? Well Boing Boing has a link to a very, very cool video created by Simon Neilsen, using Jaime’s lovely artwork and the opening Noir-style voice-overs from the show read by actress Ellen Barkin. Its simple [...]

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Mario Miranda to promote Spain through cartoons?

29. October 2007

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The Economic Times notes that the National Tourist Office of Spain has invited Mario Joao Carlos do Rosario de Britto Miranda – better known as Mario Miranda, one of India’s better known cartoonists – on a trip through Madrid, Barcelona and Andalusia, with a view to using the artist’s cartoons of Spain to promote the [...]

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