Archive | December, 2007

Julie Doucet strip in the Walrus

18. December 2007

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Paul Isaacs at the Toronto-based arts and news magazine The Walrus kindly drops me a line to say they have a PDF version of a strip by Julie Doucet detailing her move to a new home in Montreal, which readers can enjoy free online, as well as a brief interview with Julie, whose new graphic [...]

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Andy Serkis in Tintin movie

17. December 2007

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Variety reports that Andy Serkis has been confirmed for the Peter Jackson-Steven Spielberg Tintin series of films, which means he will be once more donning a tight suit covered in little balls for a motion capture performance as he did for Gollum in Jackson’s Lord of the Rings and the titular hairy beast in the [...]

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Tintin on stage

17. December 2007

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The Stage has a glowing review of the theatrical adaptation of Tintin in Tibet currently running for the Christmas season (a nice alternative to traditional pantomime) at the Playhouse in Northumberland Avenue, London. The show runs through until January 12th, check the official site for full details. (link via Neorama)

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Propaganda – Best of the Year 2007

17. December 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: First, a mention of three books that didn’t make it to the list this year, but will very probably make the 2008 best of list. All three have been briefly perused and all three look incredible. Two of them are unread merely [...]

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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

17. December 2007

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Tom Humberstone – the artist sometimes known as The VentedSpleen – tells me he is heading off with a journalist chum Dan Hancox to the US of A shortly. The reason? Well, like the great Hunter S Thompson before them they will be hitting the election campaign trail for the US Presidential elections: “Let’s make this [...]

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The Snowman

17. December 2007

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Forget Raymond Brigg’s perennially popular Snowman, here’s a festive one from Brendan McCarthy: (art (c) Brendan McCarthy, thanks to Mark Cardwell at the Bad Librarianship blog for the tip)

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Animation makes the Best Visual Effects longlist for the Oscars

17. December 2007

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the longlist of movies which will be contending for the Visual Effects Oscar next year. As with the recently announced animations longlist (see here) the Academy is initially announcing a longlist (in this case 15 films) which will be narrowed down to a final seven [...]

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Best of the Year – a Brit triple header from Leah, John and Paul

17. December 2007

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For the latest of our nosey looks into what comics, books, TV and movies have been catching the eye of some of our friends in the last year we have a special British writer triple-bill today, as we are joined by Leah Moore and John Reppion as well as fellow British scribe Paul Cornell; with [...]

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David Tennant leaving … or staying … or maybe leaving …

17. December 2007

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According to new Doctor Who companion Catherine Tate the next season could well be David Tennant’s final season in the role; speaking to Jonathan Ross on BBC Radio 2 she remarked “I think it’s maybe David’s last series.” The BBC hasn’t commented on the veracity or falseness of this claim, which is bound to stir [...]

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Tintin, Hergé and racism

14. December 2007

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Cartoons are no stranger to controversy – to some they can be deeply insulting, so much so that they go to the ludicrous extremes of demanding books be banned or even that the artists should be killed. To many of the rest of us quite how anyone can be so worked up over a cartoon [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Wim’s Best of the Year

14. December 2007

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Today’s look back at personal highlights from the last year comes courtesy of our own Continental Correspondent, the man who eats croissants shaped like Tintin’s quiff for breakfast, the Ephemerist’s Wim Lockefeer, who selects some of the best graphic novels he’s enjoyed reading in the last twelve months, so without further pre-amble, over to Wim: The [...]

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JK Rowling book sells for two million pounds

13. December 2007

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The hand-written and hand-illustrated collection of fairy tales by JK Rowling, the Tales of Beedle the Bard, which I mentioned the other day has somewhat surpassed expectations at a charity auction. Sotheby’s had estimated earlier in the week it might go for up to fifty thousand pounds; in the event the only copy to be [...]

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Best of Year 2007 – Darryl Cunningham and Matthew Badham

13. December 2007

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Today’s Best of the Year is a double-header, with the first set of picks coming courtesy of British illustrator Darryl Cunningham, who is also, of course, FPI’s resident cartoonist now, delighting us all with his Super-Sam and John-of-the-Night comics strips every Tuesday here on the blog and our webstore, as well as having some brilliant [...]

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Digital Tharg

13. December 2007

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I totally missed this story until Dirk mentioned it on Journalista, but the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic is to start going down the digital download route kicking off from Wednesday December 19th, with new progs of 2000 AD being available in digital form a week after print publication. From the official site: “In just seven days’ [...]

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Tonight on Resonance

13. December 2007

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Alex Fitch kindly updates us on what aural delights we can look forward to on this evening’s broadcast of Strip! on Resonance FM (beginning at 5pm): “The first half of today’s show is continuing Resonance FM’s coverage of the London ComICA festival – the second half of a discussion held at the Comica festival in which [...]

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