Archive | November, 2007

Dragonball movie greenlit

15. November 2007

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20th Century Fox has greenlit a live-action, big-screen outing for the phenomenally popular Dragonball manga (and anime, games and more) series by Akira Toriyama. Stephen Chow who brought us the bonkers-but-brilliant Shaolin Soccer will produce the movie which is scheduled for a release date of August 2008. Justin Chatwin will star as the hero Goku [...]

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Comica, animation and Malcolm McDowell on Resonance FM

14. November 2007

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Alex Fitch has several interesting programmes coming up on Resonance FM – tonight in a special ‘micro’ Clear Spot he talks to famed actor Malcolm McDowell (no stranger to the fantastic genres, with appearances in films as diverse as Clockwork Orange, If, Tank Girl and even Star Trek) and Mike Kaplan about their new work [...]

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Ira Levin dies

14. November 2007

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Author Ira Levin has passed away from a heart attack in his Manhattan home at the age of 78, his agent has confirmed. Although not exclusively a writer of science fiction, Levin was responsible for some landmark genre tales, including Rosemary’s Baby (filmed by Roman Polanski in the late 60s, one of the more effective [...]

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El Jueves cartoonist “vilified the crown in the most gratuitous and unnecessary way”

14. November 2007

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Numerous sources in both the Spanish and English-language media are reporting that cartoonist Guillermo Torres and writer-editor Manel Fontdevila have been found guilty by a judge in Spain of offending the Spanish royal family, with the judge saying they had “vilified the crown in the most gratuitous and unnecessary way.” Regular readers may recall back [...]

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Propaganda enters the strange world of shared apartments with Tales From the Flat

14. November 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: Tales From The Flat 1 Laurence Powell writes and Oliver Lambden draws I miss the regular looks at some small press stuff that I used to do back when I worked in Nostalgia & Comics. Sure, most of the black and [...]

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The monstrous work of Jack Kirby

13. November 2007

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Prepare yourself for a pulp science fiction treat of Kirbyesque goodness – the Monster Blog has been collecting scans from collectors of classic Jack Kirby monster tales which have never been reprinted in collections. Come and gaze in wonder and terror (and chronological order!) at The Creatures in the Volcano, I was Face to Face [...]

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Ellison angry with Paramount over new Trek?

13. November 2007

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Michael Hinman at SyFy Portal reports that author Harlan Ellison is apparently less than happy about rumours that JJ Abram’s new Star Trek film may use elements from the original 60s Trek episode City on the Edge of Forever, an episode which is often held up as one of the original series’ finest and which [...]

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TK-3681 on duty

13. November 2007

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TK-3681 was one of the Imperial Stormtroopers from the 501st who were pictured on the blog yesterday, strutting their Imperial stuff for Children in Need at the Cardiff Forbidden Planet International. He also has his own Flickr stream, Trooperman, and has added some more pictures for us to browse with the promise of more to [...]

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Let them read comics

13. November 2007

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Kids don’t read. You wouldn’t say from the way the lot at my house is acting on, but that seems to be the general opinion on youths and books: they’re not exactly bordering territories a lot of the time (Harry Potter being the exception). What to do, what to do? One thing scientists seem to [...]

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“I believe the children are our future…” – Super-Sam encourages the next generation of heroes

13. November 2007

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Never work with children or animals! (click the pic for the full-size version. art ©2007 Darryl Cunningham; if you want permission to reproduce any part of it you should ask him)

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Beowulf good for animation?

13. November 2007

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Remember when I was talking about the twelve animated features vying for attention from the Academy for possible Oscar nomination last week and how I mentioned that Beowulf was annoying some animation purists because it uses motion capture rather than fully animated from scratch characters? Animation Magazine‘s Ryan Ball has actually seen the film and [...]

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Jim Mahfood and Bill Shag show in London

13. November 2007

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Jim Mahfood, one of those comics creators who can move between mainstream work for major publishers like Marvel and DC but still keep his feet firmly in the Indy comics community too, will be putting on an exhibition with underground photographer Bill Shag (no we don’t mean he goes round taking pictures of Tube trains) [...]

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Wristcutters

12. November 2007

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Tim Struthers sent me the UK poster art for Wristcutters: a Love Story which opens in the UK a week on Friday. Regular readers are probably tired of hearing me mention the movie, which I first caught over a year and a half ago at the 2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival (reviewed back here), but [...]

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The Empire takes Cardiff

12. November 2007

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There’s never a Jedi Knight around when you need one! But worry not, this garrison of Imperial Stormtroopers who invaded Cardiff at the weekend were there for a good cause, standing guard outside the Cardiff branch of Forbidden Planet International and marching down St Mary’s Street handing out fliers and posing for photographs all to [...]

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Learning and Teaching Scotland Graphic Novels Resource

12. November 2007

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Last week I reported on the Go Graphic event here in Edinburgh, where a group of library professional were looking into graphic novels and how they could be used in a variety of situations, from general libraries to school classrooms, both to encourage reading and also as a teaching resource. One of the main speakers [...]

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