Archive | November, 2007

Oz Munchkins get star

22. November 2007

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The Wizard of Oz may be one of the most famous works of cinematic fantasy ever created, but it has taken nearly seven decades for the actors who played the Munchkins to get their own star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Ted Bulthaup, a Chicago cinema owner, became friends with one of the former Munchkin [...]

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Shrek at Tussauds

22. November 2007

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Animated ogre Shrek joins a host of celebrities and worthies depicted at Madame Tussauds, the famous waxworks exhibition. According to the BBC the Shrek figure stands some seven feet tall and is covered with a special soft skin so young fans can get close for a cuddle. (pic: Stuart Wilson/Getty Images, via the BBC [...]

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Tintin auction exceeds expectations

21. November 2007

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Last week an auction of comic memorabilia resulted in prices surpassing all expectations. The action focused on items related to Hergé and Tintin, with an original full page illustration from La Crabe Aux Pinces D’or (The Crab With the Golden Claws) selling for 58, 000 Euros (or £41, 500). A copy of Tintin [...]

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Willis in the Surrogates

20. November 2007

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An excited Chris Staros from excellent Indy publisher Top Shelf is telling everyone that Bruce Willis has signed to star in a film adaptation of Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele’s fine science fiction graphic novel Surrogate. Terminator 3’s (and U-571, but let’s not dwell on that, shall we) Jonathan Mostow is directing, with shooting due [...]

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XIII mini-series going ahead

20. November 2007

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Following Wim’s look at the end of Jean Van Hamme and William Vance’s XIII yesterday and his mention of a possible new screen outing for the character, Lisa Ghione has been in touch to confirm that there will indeed be a mini-series based on XIII and in fact the principal filming begins – well, today, [...]

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Super-breafkast for Super-Sam?

20. November 2007

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The ability to leap tall buildings in single bounds (with or without a run-up first) doesn’t guarantee you’re quite so good in the kitchen… ((click the pic for the full-size version and the archive of Darryl’s other strips. Art ©2007 Darryl Cunningham; if you want permission to reproduce any part of it you should ask him)

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Heroes creator apologises for ’slow’ start to new season

20. November 2007

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Heroes creator Tim Kring has apologised to fans for a slow start to the second season of the series. Already several episodes into the new run in the US the show, which was the top-rated US new drama last year, has seen a distinct fall off in audience, which critics believe is down to a [...]

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Propaganda gets its teenage kicks in glamorous suburbia

20. November 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: Suburban Glamour by Jamie McKelvie Emo girls and Emo boys living in small town in distinctly non-Emo Midlands, living normal teenage lives where the boredom and drudgery of going to school is broken only by a few parties, a bit of drinking, a [...]

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Mark Millar’s Superhero challenge

19. November 2007

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Scotland on Sunday reports that Mark Millar is involved with an art competition for local schoolkids from Lanarkshire, the same area where he went to school himself, in conjunction with a former classmate, Denise Connelly. The competition will appear in the next edition of Primary Life, a journal for parents and teachers in the area; [...]

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FPI Cardiff and customers raise money for Children in Need

19. November 2007

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If you’ll cast your mind back to last week you might recall some Imperial Stormtroopers from the 501st Legion gracing the blog; they were at Forbidden Planet in Cardiff helping to encourage donations for the annual Children in Need charity. The staff of our Cardiff branch would like to extend their thanks to the [...]

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Tehran International Cartoon Biennial

19. November 2007

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Via Neorma comes this link to Syria Cartoon which looks forward to this year’s Tehran International Cartoon Biennial which has its opening ceremony today and runs until December 13th, with this year’s event drawing on cartoonists from some 85 countries, as compared to 66 in the previous event, with entries from regional artists but also [...]

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Fearless in Belfast

19. November 2007

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Artist PJ Holden made an appearance in the Belfast branch of Forbidden Planet International on Saturday to celebrate the first issue of Fearless which he illustrated (with the script by Mark Sable and Dave Roth). PJ was understandably worried that most of the comics fans in the Emerald Isle would have been down south in [...]

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Vive la difference – the Beano’s Derek the Sheep in France

19. November 2007

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Gary Northfield drops me a line to say that his Derek the Sheep strip, which has been appearing on what he calls “a vaguely monthly basis” in the Beano and Beano Max for the last four years, is to be published in France by Thierry Groensteen’s L’ An 2. For the French market Derek, not [...]

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XIII to end? Who will tell…?

19. November 2007

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Last week saw one of the most successful comics series in Western Europe come to an end. After a run of more than 20 years, and with sales per book up from 12, 000 up to 500, 000 per issue, Jean Van Hamme and William Vance’s XIII reaches its penultimate “conclusion”, in which all [...]

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3-D Alice from Tim Burton

17. November 2007

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Tim Burton has signed a two-picture deal with Disney to direct two films, both in 3-D. One is the long-rumoured feature length version of his own short about a pet dog resurrected by it’s owner, Frankenweenie, which will make a lot of Burton fans very happy. The second is a 3-D version of Lewis Carroll’s [...]

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