Archive | January, 2008

Euro Fruit Cartoonale

21. January 2008

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Start the week with an odd-sounding cartooning competition… I will confess right away that I am posting a link to this largely because I couldn’t resist the name: the Euro Fruit Cartoonale; it does sound like something from an old episode of Yes, Minister. This competition is calling for cartoonists to send in entries on [...]

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“These are the voyages…”

18. January 2008

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Oh. Oh. Oh! A glimpse of the USS Enterprise from JJ Abram’s forthcoming new Star Trek movie. It appears to show the classic Starship Enterprise still in drydock as her assembly is completed; older fans like me will appreciate the details such as the proper tube-shaped warp nacelles, complete with the ‘swirly nipples’ on the [...]

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Manga and anime in Dublin

18. January 2008

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My friend and comics/science fiction master, reviewer and sometimes organiser of conventions Pádraig Ó Méalóid draws my attention to an upcoming weekend of manga and anime fun at the start of February in Dublin. The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle will play host to events from Friday the 1st of February to Sunday 3rd, [...]

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Paul Grist signing in Manchester tomorrow

18. January 2008

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A little reminder that the one and only Paul Grist will be in the Manchester Forbidden Planet International store tomorrow between 3 and 4pm, so if you are in the area feel free to come down and meet one of the UK’s top comics creators. And if you missed it you can still catch Matthew [...]

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The positive side of the writer’s strike – don’t forget to validate your parking

18. January 2008

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Screenwriter Mike Le has found an outlet for his creativity during writer’s strike in the US – his webcomic Don’t Forget to Validate Your Parking. It’s bloody funny stuff, especially if you are a movie freak (like me) and enjoyed Hollywood insider titles like Altman’s The Player or Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Go [...]

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Amory Wars Volume 1 on the way

18. January 2008

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On the back of the announcement of a series of personal appearances and signings by Claudio Sanchez and Coheed and Cambria in a number of FPI branches as the band tours the UK, there’s more good news for the many fans of both their music and their epic SF comic as Image announces a graphic [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – from comics to celluloid

18. January 2008

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It’s no news that Hollywood in recent years has found a very fruitful and profitable source of inspiration in comics. Graphic novels and more traditional comics of all genres have been turned into films, with meagre (Ghost Rider) to moderate (Ghost World) to great success (Sin City), and new ones are announced seemingly almost every [...]

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Going Back – sex worker’s lives in comics form

17. January 2008

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Xeni at Boing Boing posts up a link to Susannah Breslin’s The Reverse Cow Girl blog where she has posted an interview with Peter S Conrad, a Californian-based writer and artist who talked to people working in the sex industry, then took their word and experiences to translate them into comic form. From the interview [...]

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Our Continental Correspondent goes all Coconino

17. January 2008

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French online luxury comics magazine Coconino opens the New Year with a bang – their Christmas issue contains no less than 400 new pages of cartoon work. There’s new and beautiful work by Guillaume Trouillard, David Prudhomme, Thomas Gosselin, and Grégory Elbaz (a biographical sketch of seminal jazzman Bix Beiderbecke), but the most exciting new [...]

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Tonight on Strip! – Edginton, D’Israeli, Holland and Roach go to war

17. January 2008

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Alex Fitch kindly updates us on what fine comics-related goodness we can look forward to this evening on Panel Borders: “Strip! – Genre comics part 1, Resonance FM, 5pm (also check Alex’s Panel Borders blog afterwards for the podcast version) The first of two shows looking at war and science-fiction comics. Alex Fitch interviews writer [...]

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New Many Worlds of Jonas Moore preview online

17. January 2008

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Howard Webster tells me that there is now a new and exclusive 8-minute extended preview trailer for the multi-media webcomic The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore available to view (in a variety of screen sizes) on the Factory website. James Bond, AvP and Resident Evil actor Colin Salmon (who will soon be seen again in [...]

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Vote Ventedspleen

17. January 2008

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Tom Humberstone – better known to British comics readers as the Ventedspleen – is still in the US on the trail of the presidential hopefuls in the company of journalist chum Dan Hancox and kindly drops us a line to update us as to how it’s going: “We’re now 2 weeks into the 6 week [...]

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More Smurfday

17. January 2008

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(I thought this pic of preparations for a press conference in Belgium to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Smurfs made a nice follow-up to Wim’s recent post on the celebrations; pic from AP, via the BBC)

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When music and comics collide – Claudio Sanchez signing at FPI

16. January 2008

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Claudio Sanchez, front man for the rock band Coheed and Cambria, is going to be combining music and comics in January and February: as the band are hitting the road with a UK tour Claudio, I’m pleased to say, will also be taking the opportunity to drop into a number of the Forbidden Planet International [...]

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Biff Bam Pow! – Propaganda gets Dorked

16. January 2008

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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: Biff Bam Pow #1 by Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer A while back I reviewed Evan Dorkin’s Circling The Drain, Volume 2 of Dork (see here), a tale of doom and gloom, misery and depression where the reader watches the author [...]

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