Archive | January, 2008
Tonight on Strip! – British small press creators let loose!
Alex Fitch kindly drops me his customary update on what aural goodness we can expect this evening on Resonance FM’s Strip! show – and I’m really delighted to see that a couple of our top notch creators from the British small press scene are in the spotlight: Strip! – New Comic creators, 5pm on Resonance 104.4 [...]
Continue reading...Graphic novels on RTE
31. January 2008
The Arts Show on RTE 1 – a public service broadcaster, essentially Ireland’s equivalent to the BBC – has an episode dedicated to discussing graphic novels and comics. In fact I note with some pleasure they are also happy to use the term ‘comics’ and not just graphic novels which sometimes seems to be substituted [...]
Continue reading...Signal
31. January 2008
Andrew at MagPicutres sent me a link to a new horror film they have coming up in the near future, Signal, which sounds a bit unusual – for starters it has three directors (David Bruckner, Dan Bush, and Jacob Gentry), each showing the events from a different perspective. The titular signal is a pervasive transmission [...]
Continue reading...BilBolbul International comic festival
31. January 2008
Italy will be host to the second BilBolbul International comic festival from the 5th to the 9th of March in the city of Bologna, organised by the Hamelin Associazione Culturale. Among the events scheduled is a tribute to the influential Italian comics creator Gianni de Luca, which will run from the 6th of March to [...]
Continue reading...BSFA new forums now live
31. January 2008
The British Science Fiction Association – which only recently announced the shortlist for their coveted BSFA Awards – has just opened up their brand spanking new forums, which you can browse here or register to join in yourself here: “The Forum is open to all and gives you the opportunity to talk all things Science [...]
Continue reading...Alan Moore in London
31. January 2008
Alan Moore, principal Wizard of the Dark and Sequential Arts for this island kingdom, will be making an incredibly rare appearance to sign copies of the Lost Girls, along with Melinda Gebbie. Gosh! Comics of 39 Great Russell Street, London, have managed to pull off this feat which I’m sure has most of the rest [...]
Continue reading...Franglais comics
30. January 2008
Over on the excellent Bear Alley Steve Holland has a guest posting from Richard Sheaf; we’ve talked on here a number of times about the interesting comics works in Europe and how we don’t see enough of them translated and republished for the English language readers. Well, here’s the flipside, with Richard taking a look [...]
Continue reading...The Edinburgh Lectures – Alan Grant
30. January 2008
This is the imposing 19th century facade of Surgeon’s Hall in Edinburgh’s Southside; last night’s talk by Alan Grant as part of the highly respected Edinburgh Lectures series actually took place in Quincentenary Hall, a modern, custom-designed event space inside the grounds, but I thought this picture was nicer (and my attempt at a quick [...]
Continue reading...More Angoulême – Plunk style!
30. January 2008
Futher discussion and analysis of the weekend’s Angoulême Festival continue to appear on a number of comics sites (check Tom’s indispensable Comics Reporter for a number of recent links), but if you want a slightly different look at this prestigious event you should really go and have a look at the Plunk blog. (Plunk on the [...]
Continue reading...New Interzone
30. January 2008
The latest issue of that excellent stalwart of the British science fiction scene, Interzone, is out now (issue #214, dated February 2008). This issue’s short fiction – one of the components Interzone is rightly respected for – boasts a fairly lengthy ’short’ by Jason Stoddard, “Far Horizon”, which you can get your teeth into, more [...]
Continue reading...“She’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 5, 000 blocks of Lego”
30. January 2008
Boing Boing has a terrific time-lapse video of their own Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson assembling the largest Lego set yet sold, the massive Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon. And boy does it look big, judging its scale against Joel’s hands as they flit around, speeded up in the time lapse so that several evening’s [...]
Continue reading...Marvel splits from EA Games
29. January 2008
MCV and other sources are reporting that Marvel and EA Games have dissolved their relationship formed in 2004 and which has only produced one game so far, Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects in 2005. Naturally this has lead to some speculation that the House of Ideas may have ideas about setting up their own [...]
Continue reading...Kevin Colden on the Daily Crosshatch
29. January 2008
Kevin Colden talks to Brian Heater over on the Daily Crosshatch about his fine webcomic series Fishtown, which has been running on the excellent webcomics collective Act-I-Vate. Kevin talks about trying to get Fishtown out to the reading public, traipsing round various publishers, approaching the Xeric Grant foundation and then talking to Dan Goldman and [...]
Continue reading...“He’ll stop them all, you’ll see” – square-jawed heroics in Dan Dare
29. January 2008
Dan Dare #2 and #3, Written by Garth Ennis, with art by Gary Erskine If you read my review of the first issue of Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine’s take on Dan Dare you’ll know I really enjoyed it, with its good mix of modern comics laced with enough nods to classic Dan Dare to keep it [...]
Continue reading...Super-Sam – Boss Millions’ devious, dastardly plot
29. January 2008
We met crime lord Boss Millions only last week; now this fiendishly fiendish fiend seems set to threaten our intrepid wig-wearing hero, Super-Sam! (cue sinister music) (click the pic to visit full-size version and the archive of Darryl’s Super-Sam and other John-of-the-night strips. Art ©2008 Darryl Cunningham; if you want permission to reproduce any part of [...]
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