Archive | October, 2007

Albert Uderzo on the BBC’s magazine

18. October 2007

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Albert Uderzo, the co-creator of one of the most internationally beloved comics characters of all time, Asterix the Gaul, is interviewed in the BBC site’s Magazine section about the incredibly popular and long-lived series and also how he got into his own career: “I started very young, not to earn money – because at the [...]

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Tonight on Strip! – comic book writers

18. October 2007

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On this evening’s edition of Strip! on Resonance FM (5 to 6pm, or check Alex’s blog afterwards for the podcasts) Alex Fitch will be chatting to Neil Gaiman about the movie adaptation of Stardust (which I thought was wonderful) and also to Zan Christensen about his homoerotic vigilante comics ‘The Mark of Aeacus’ (a legendary [...]

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Propaganda’s Big Day Out – the Birmingham International Comics Show in pictures

18. October 2007

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FPI’s Minister of Propaganda, Richard Bruton, left the rural idyll of his Yorkshire estates to return to the big city streets of Birmingham (where he worked for many years at Nostalgia & Comics) for last weekend’s Birmingham International Comics Show, and he kindly took a lot of pictures of the event to share with us. [...]

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Monkeys With Machine Guns sign deal with Markosia

18. October 2007

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Chris Lynch tells me that the very groovy British small press comics team Monkeys With Machine Guns has signed a deal with Markosia for a new four-part mini-series “Magpye”, which co-creator Chris describes as a “psychological supernatural super-hero-horror story.” (sample art from “Magpye” by MWM’s Chris Lynch and Stu-Art, coming in 2008 from Markosia) “I’ve [...]

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Art in perspective

18. October 2007

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The BBC news site had this eye-catching image this morning – it’s by street artist Kurt Wenner and if you think it is screwing with your eyes a bit that’s because it is. The artwork at London’s Waterloo Station is designed to give a ‘pop-up’ 3D effect when viewed from certain angles; the art was [...]

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James Lovegrove reviewing graphic novels for the FT

18. October 2007

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Top UK science fiction writer and comics fan (and good friend of the FP blog) James Lovegrove has been reviewing for the Financial Times (you may need to register free to read the full article), covering Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings, Brian Selznick’s illustrated prose novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret and also what may be the [...]

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George Lucas talks Star Wars TV

17. October 2007

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The BBC has a short article with George Lucas briefly discussing a few things about the two upcoming Star Wars television spin-offs. One, as I’ve mentioned here before, is an animated series drawing (no pun intended) on the successful (and damned enjoyable) Clone Wars cartoons and will be set between events in Attack of the [...]

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Hindu Hogwarts

17. October 2007

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A Delhi court has turned down a claim for breach of copyright by Warner Brothers, makers of the Harry Potter films. The studio, with author J K Rowling’s backing, were attempting to halt the construction of a huge model of Hogwarts which a community group in Calcutta are building for a Hindu festival celebrating the [...]

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Canongate joins the graphic novel world

17. October 2007

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The last few years have seen quite a growth in the number of mainstream book publishers who are showing an increasing interest in graphic novels as the medium becomes more acceptable among general bookstores as well as specialist comics stores. The latest to join this expansion of interest in sequential art is Edinburgh-based Canongate, an [...]

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Art for sale

17. October 2007

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Malcy Duff now has some original artwork for sale via his Missing Twin website (where you can also pick up his comics works like a 52 Second Silence for Topsy, reviewed here), so if you fancy an original by one of our most unique Indy comics creators get yourself over to Malcy’s site. (one of [...]

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Stuart Kolakovic exhibition in Manchester

17. October 2007

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Stuart Kolakovic, who took the second prize in last weekend’s Observer/Jonathan Cape Graphic Short Story competition (see here for links to the winning strips), has an exhibition of art and “little comic books” coming up at Project SMCR, 36-40 Edge Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, from Saturday 8th of December through to Sunday 3rd of February, [...]

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“Smile”

17. October 2007

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DC has announced a 20th anniversary special hardback edition of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s classic Batman tale The Killing Joke, one of the best standalone Batman tales of the last couple of decades in my book. Alan – as usual – created a lot of atmosphere for such a short tale, delving beneath the [...]

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“We’ll tear your soul apart…” – again…

17. October 2007

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Hollywood’s seemingly insatiable appetite for recycling old ideas continues unabated – no sooner has Rob Zombie desecrated one of the landmark horror movies of the late 20th century, Halloween (and he a horror fan too, shame on him) than another fairly recent iconic horror is lined up for the remake treatment. Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, based [...]

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Rowling in America

16. October 2007

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Harry Potter author J K Rowling has begun her Open Book tour of the US with an appearance at the Kodak Theatre (home of the Oscars ceremony) in Los Angeles to a rapturous reception from 1600 specially invited schoolchildren. The author, rarely one to court the press, gave only 20 minutes to the assembled media [...]

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“I’m breaking up!” “Eject! Eject!”

16. October 2007

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Remember at the start of October I mentioned the impressive life-sized Star Wars X-Wing fighter built by a group of enthusiasts, complete with four rocket motors to actually power it in flight? Well, they launched it and sadly, Boing Boing is reporting it broke up in the air (no real R2 units were harmed in [...]

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