Archive | December, 2007

AvP opening online

13. December 2007

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FilmDrunk has the first five minutes of the upcoming second Alien Versus Predator movie, where an Alien gets loose on a Predator starship forcing it to crash-land on Earth. It looks utterly daft, which is to say you should just check your brain at the cinema door and sit back and enjoy this on the [...]

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Neil Gaiman – match-maker

13. December 2007

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Boing Boing reports that Neil Gaiman helped one of his readers, Jason, to propose to his girlfriend Maui while signing books in the Philippines. When Maui got to the front of the line to get her book signed Neil had written “ps, will you marry Jason?” next to a Sandman doodle in her copy of [...]

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D’Israeli posts on Stickleback

13. December 2007

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Top artist D’Israeli has started posting some ‘extras’ on his blog from the new series he and regular collaborator, the Most Excellent Ian Edginton, have started in 2000 AD. Stickleback: England’s Glory is a sequel to Mother London and D’Israeli promises it will be “A bit more of an action romp than the first series.” [...]

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“Sue Storm” pregnant

13. December 2007

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Jessica Alba, who legions of fanboys – and quite probably some fangirls too – have swooned over as in her tight, blue spandex as Sue Storm in the movie versions of the Fantastic Four and ‘little’ Nancy in the rather better Sin City film adaptation (and not forgetting her other main SF genre role which [...]

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“I say tomato, you say tomato…” – Malcy Duff’s It’s Just Ketchup

13. December 2007

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It’s Just Ketchup, Written and illustrated by Malcy Duff When you pick up a new comic from Malcy Duff you can never be sure what you’re going to find between the covers. Yes, there may be some elements you recognise from earlier works, but the actual story and the ideas behind it could be completely [...]

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Terry Pratchett announces he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s

13. December 2007

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Terry Pratchett has confirmed some terrible news on Paul Kidby’s Discworld News: he has been diagnosed with a form of Alzheimer’s. That is an enormously awful thing for anyone to have to deal with (and indeed for their loved ones to have to consider too), but as Cory Doctorow notes on Boing Boing, Terry is [...]

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Aurealis Awards shortlist

12. December 2007

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The prestigious Australian Aurealis Awards have announced their final shortlist; while Australia has other SF awards (notably the Ditmars) the people behind the Aurealis have tried to expand the range of categories so science fiction, fantasy and horror all get a level playing field for both novels and short fiction, plus young adult and children’s [...]

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Best of the Year – Adi Tantimedh

12. December 2007

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Today’s Best of the Year picks come courtesy of writer Adi Tantimedh. Regular blog readers will recognise Adi as the genius behind my favourite webcomic reading of the year, La Muse. Aided by Hugo Petrus’ fine artwork, Adi has taken one of the most clichéd genres in comics – the almost godlike superhero – and [...]

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MAiLmeART

12. December 2007

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Marko at Neorama has details of how to submit work to the MAiLmeART project, which sounds pretty interesting – the actual mail you send is the art, i.e. you draw on the actual envelope or parcel – although it is a shame that if any successful work is used in the likes of a book [...]

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Science fiction in My Weekly?

12. December 2007

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I’m somewhat surprised to see that D.C. Thomson‘s My Weekly of all places is looking for short genre stories in science fiction (and also in crime). It isn’t the sort of publication I’d normally think of as a place where crime and SF&F writers would be especially welcome (which may well just be my own [...]

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HumourFest 15 calls for entries

12. December 2007

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The organisers of HumourFest in Foligno, Italy, are calling for artists to enter the international competition which this year has a theme of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in China. With monetary prizes of 1550 Euros (first prize), 1050 (second) and 520 (third) there’s a definite incentive for artists to try their luck, with the [...]

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JK Rowling reads from fairy tales

11. December 2007

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Harry Potter creator JK Rowling gave a reading in London of some of the stories from Tales of Beedle the Bard. Rowling hand-wrote and illustrated just seven copies of the collection, which was first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Six of the hand-written, leather-bound collections are being given to people closely connected [...]

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Indy rocks!

11. December 2007

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How cool is this? News of a third Mummy film isn’t setting me alight, but the thought of a fourth Indiana Jones flick certainly is. Yes, I know Harrison Ford is getting on a bit (thanks to them taking so many years of faffing around before actually starting a film Lucas and Spielberg have been [...]

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Neorama’s Marko in Diarios de Festival

11. December 2007

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Marko Ajdaric is used to covering comics news – his excellent Neorama site picks up on stories from around the world and is one I check regularly because he always finds an interesting story or event going on in the wide, wide world of the ninth art that I’d otherwise not hear about (and then [...]

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Maw Broon’s Cookbook

11. December 2007

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Maw Broon’s Cookbook, featuring traditional Scottish recipes from D.C. Thomson’s famous Glebe Street mother, has been entered for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards according to BBC Scotland this morning. Sadly they don’t seem to be posting the story on the BBC new website, only on the radio and television news, so there isn’t a link [...]

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