Archive | December, 2007

Christmas graphics game

22. December 2007

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This isn’t comics or SF-related but it is a nice bit of holiday-time fun and I like the nice, simple, clear graphics and the nostalgia element for those of us of a certain age. Jon Drew has created the Ghosts of Christmas Past on his graphical design site. Have a look at the numerous toys [...]

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New Digital Animation Studio opened

21. December 2007

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AWN reports that David Sproxton, co-founder and executive chairman (*) of the national treasure that is Aardman Animation was invited to open the new Digital Animation Studio at University College Falmouth, where he also got to meet and talk with the first students enrolled on their new BA (Hons) in Digital Animation. Course Leader Andy [...]

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Best of the Year – Garen Ewing

21. December 2007

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Today’s Best of the Year choices come courtesy of the writer and artist who has been consistently putting out one of the best and most professional-looking comics on the web (and hopefully eventually a proper-sized big print collection of it all when it concludes), Garen Ewing, creator of the brilliant Rainbow Orchid series, a brilliant [...]

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Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman video talk

21. December 2007

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Anthony Lappé and Art by Dan Goldman can be seen on a good, long video piece talking about the quite brilliant Shooting War graphic novel, which our resident Reviewer In Chief Richard recently picked as his top read for the year (it will surprise no regular reader that is is also my top choice for [...]

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Voicing Speed Racer – Peter Fernandez and Corinne Orr on Bat Seguno

21. December 2007

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The always-excellent Bat Segundo podcast has Peter Fernandez and Corinne Orr as guests, both actors who have contributed their voices to many a radio show and animated series for television among other roles, including the Speed Racer anime, which is rather timely since IDW have been reviving the old Now Comics version with volume 1 [...]

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The Dark Knight

20. December 2007

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Comic Foundry (via Neorama) has this poster up for next summer’s eagerly-anticipated The Dark Knight. I do like the look of this:

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Classic children’s comics on tonight’s Strip!

20. December 2007

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Alex Fitch updates us on what we will be hearing tonight on Resonance FM (as ever check Alex’s blog or the Panel Borders blog for more details and links to later podcast versions): Strip! – Classic Childrens’ characters Resonance 104.4FM, 20/11/07, 5pm In the last Strip! of the year, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott are looking at the [...]

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Best of the Year – Jelle Hugaerts

20. December 2007

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Today’s Best of the Year piece has a distinctly Scandinavian flavour as we are joined by Jelle Hugaerts , who I’m sure some of our regular readers will recognise because he’s been kind enough to send some comics news and thoughts from Scandinavia in our direction from time to time. Jelle is serious supporter of [...]

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Manga Jiman exhibition

20. December 2007

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You might remember some months ago I mentioned a competition to create between four and six pages of original manga for a competition being organised by the Embassy of Japan in London, as part of their ongoing activities to promote and share Japanese culture. Well the judges have been busy trying to narrow down the [...]

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Propaganda – Best of the Year 2007 Part III: Faster than a rubber bullet

19. December 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is the third part of my look back at the graphic novels I enjoyed the most in 2007. So far I’ve talked about some of the great books which narrowly missed out on making the final five and reviewed Shooting War, then yesterday I covered Fluffy and [...]

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Marjane speaks

19. December 2007

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Hollywood Reporter pretty much gushes on the animated feature adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis and talks to the artist about the great international success of both book and movie, with the latter looking likely to end up on the shortlist for both Best Animated Feature and Best Foreign Language movie come Oscar time, [...]

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“Should I stay or should I go now…”

19. December 2007

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Following Catherine Tate’s comments on Jonathan Ross’ Radio 2 show at the weekend, where she asserted that the next season of Doctor Who could be David Tennant’s final one, Tennant himself has come forward to say clear up all the rampant speculation by issuing a categorical, er, no, well, maybe, well… Speaking to the BBC [...]

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The Women of Star Trek

19. December 2007

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Here’s a bit of browsing fun as the holidays edge closer and closer – a Flickr user called Poletti has created a photo-stream of “Galactically Hot” women from the original 1960s Star Trek. Now, now, don’t tut-tut, you know fine well that you want a look, but only to examine those retro-futuristic clothes and hairstyles [...]

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“My, what big teeth you have…”

18. December 2007

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Feast your eyes on this lovely kitty cat! This sabre-toothed big cat will be one of the creatures appearing in the second season of ITV’s science fiction series Primeval, which has seen ruptures in the space-time fabric allowing people to pass through to epochs long gone – and for creatures long extinct to make their [...]

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Propaganda – Best of the Year 2007 Part II: Fluffy Bunnies and Warren Ellis

18. December 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is the second part of my look at the Best of the Year graphic novels. Following on from yesterday’s piece on Shooting War today we’re having a closer look at numbers 2 and 3 on my Best of Year list, Simone Lia’s Fluffy and Warren Ellis and [...]

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