Archive | December, 2007

Propaganda – Train wreck comics

11. December 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: Ultimates 3 #1 Written by Jeph Loeb, Art and cover by Joe Madureira and Christian Lichtner This was truly, absolutely, quite amazingly bad. I’d like to think that whoever put it into my box at Nostalgia and Comics did so for [...]

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Super-Sam – those pesky kids!

11. December 2007

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(click the pic to visit 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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Best of the Year – Steve Holland

11. December 2007

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Today I’m pleased to say that Steve Holland has contributed some of his comics choices for the Best of the Year. Steve, as many of you will know, is a life-long comics fan and staunch supporter of British comics and illustration in particular; his excellent Bear Alley site regularly features articles and artwork from all [...]

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Propaganda – “A is for Apple, B if for Bear… Z is for Zombie, trying to bite my brain right through my hair…”

10. December 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: Recess Pieces by Bob Fingerman Zombies. The things are bloody everywhere at the moment. Personally I blame Shaun of the Dead. As is the way with these things, one genre re-inventing piece of brilliance just leads to more and more, paler [...]

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Outrageous cartoons – the other side

10. December 2007

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Joel Brinkley, professor of journalism at Stanford University, writes on the outrage caused by political cartoons for the San Francisco Chronicle. This time though the focus is not on calls for the beheading of Danish cartoons for outraging the Arab world but on the cartoons from the Arab world which are designed to create negative [...]

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Best of the Year – Kenny’s picks

10. December 2007

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Continuing our look at what comics, books, films and other cultural delights impressed folks in the last twelve months (you can see all of the posts by clicking ‘Best of the Year 2007‘ in the categories menu on the right), today we kick off a new week with some personal picks (and some exciting news [...]

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CBLDF party in NYC

10. December 2007

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Tonight sees a major party for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund in New York at the Village Pourhouse, the first of several across the US in December – entry is free for members or you can sign up on the door, with the first fifty members to arrive getting the gift of a goody [...]

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An animated Christmas

10. December 2007

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Animator and artist Llyn Hunter – who has worked on a lot of different animations in the last decade or so, from Animaniacs (which I really enjoy) to Kampung Boy and Curious George, go have a browse on her site and do check out those excellent caricatures too – has teamed up with Paul Evans [...]

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Horrific Scotland

8. December 2007

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The Scotsman reports on a mini-boom on the filming of horror films in Scotland, with acclaimed director Neil Marshall (who set his highly enjoyable squaddies versus werewolves film Dog Soldiers in the Scottish Highlands and also shot some of his more disappointing and predictable Descent in the country) working on Doomsday, a post-apocalyptic flick starring [...]

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Ken Southworth passes away

7. December 2007

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Sad news as Animation Magazine and many other sites are reporting that British-born animator Ken Southworth has passed away at the age of 89 from a stroke. Looking over some of the tributes (Cartoons on Film reproduces a particularly good one from a friend of Ken’s, Ray Pointer) I think it is fair to say [...]

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Propaganda – “Everybody was Kung-Fu fighting…”

7. December 2007

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately… The Immortal Iron Fist: the Last Iron Fist Written by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction, Art by David Aja, Russ Heath, John Severin and Sal Buscema I know what Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker are trying to achieve in Iron Fist. [...]

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Comics to help pass your exams

7. December 2007

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Artist Jon Haward, currently hard at work illustrating the adaptation of Macbeth for Classical Comics, drops me a line to point me to this page which Classical have set up specifically to help teachers and students. Among the various texts, images and free downloads Jon notes that you can also see some of John Stokes’ [...]

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Spider Jerusalem cosplayer

6. December 2007

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Over on Boing Boing Cory Doctorow has posted this brilliant image from PenguiCon, an open source/Science Fiction convention near Detroit, of a fan adding some ‘tattoos’ for a spot of cosplaying as one of the best comics characters of the last couple of decades, Warren Ellis‘ Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan.

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Tamara Drewe and the Walking Dead

6. December 2007

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Alex Fitch updates us on this evening’s Strip! show, which goes out at 5pm on Resonance FM, and tonight Alex has a chat with the artist behind one of my favourite ongoing series and the show also features one of the UK’s best female creators: “Following our double bill of comics supposedly aimed at boys [...]

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Best of the Year – Bryan Talbot and Leo Baxendale

6. December 2007

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Today’s look at favourite works from the last year comes courtesy of two of Britain’s finest exponents of the Ninth Art, Messrs Bryan Talbot and Leo Baxendale. Since Leo and Bryan are good friends and Leo contributed a page to Bryan’s epic undertaking Alice in Sunderland I thought I’d present their take on the year [...]

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