Archive | January, 2008

Torchwood time!

16. January 2008

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It seems like the SF world is going into a Torchwood tizzy right now. Obviously we’re all pretty excited about the second season of Torchwood which starts tonight at 9pm, now promoted to terrestrial channel BBC2 from the digital BBC3. We’re super-stoked about Captain Jack – the brilliant John Barrowman – we love John Barrowman, [...]

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BAFTA film nominations announced

16. January 2008

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BAFTA has announced the shortlist for this year’s movie awards and sadly it is slim pickings for the fantastic genres. Flicks like Pirates of the Caribbean: at World’s End, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Sweeney Todd do make the list but principally in the more technical categories such as Special Visual [...]

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Brad Renfro found dead

16. January 2008

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Actor Brad Renfro, who played the character Josh alongside Scarlet Johansson and Thora Birch in Terry Zwigoff’s movie adaptation of Daniel Clowes’ Ghost World, has been found dead according to a number of news sites. According to the BBC the 25 year old actor was found unresponsive in a residence; no cause of death has [...]

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The 8th International Editorial Cartoon Competition

16. January 2008

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Neorama has details for the 8th International Editorial Cartoon Competition, via the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom. This year’s theme for any cartoonists wanting to take part is a very good one in my opinion – ‘rewriting history’. Sad to say all too many people, at individual, group and even state level, either ignore [...]

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Wellington Srbek talks to David Lloyd

15. January 2008

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Wellington Srbek , who Neorama‘s Marko Ajdaric tells me is “the best Brazilian comics writer nowadays, besides Wander Antunes”, interviews David Lloyd over on his blog Mais Quadrinhos.

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Smurfmania hits Europe!

15. January 2008

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At a press conference in Brussels yesterday, Belgium and the world were once again made ready for yet another comics icon’s anniversary. Last year, we celebrated Hergé’s one hundredth birthday, this year its a hundred little blue gnomes who speak some kind of gibberish and are very apt at playing the flute with six holes. [...]

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Orson Scott Card honoured

15. January 2008

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Bestselling science fiction and fantasy author Orson Scott Card has been honoured by the American Library Association with the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award in recognition of his “outstanding lifetime contribution to writing for teens” for the novels Ender’s Shadow and Ender’s Game. Orson has been very well known to SF&F readers on both sides [...]

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Stephen Baxter interview in ActuaF

15. January 2008

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French science fiction site ActuaSF posts an interview with top British ‘hard’ SF writer, the excellent Stephen Baxter (in English) as his older novel Time finally gets translated into French (we get annoyed at the struggle to get good books and comics from Europe translated and sold in English we sometimes forget the reverse is [...]

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Russell T Davies on 6 Music

15. January 2008

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The man most directly responsible for bringing Doctor Who back so successfully to our screen (blessings upon him) and master of the omnisexual televisual dramatics, Mr Russell T Davies, will be the guest on BBC’s 6 Music radio station this afternoon on Nemone’s show, which runs from 1pm to 4pm. 6 Music is a digital [...]

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Who’s getting Wasted

15. January 2008

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You may recall the blog on the new British comics Wasted last week; we’ve been wondering – who else can we expect to see in the upcoming first issue of Wasted? That’s a question I asked Alan Grant. It is something of a mystery at the moment – partly to create an air of anticipation [...]

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Super-Sam promotes healthy eating

15. January 2008

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Even superheroes need to get their five-a-day fresh fruit and vegetable portions… (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 it you should ask him)

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The secret history of the fanzine

14. January 2008

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Pop musician and David Tennant look-a-like Jarvis Cocker will be presenting a programme on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow at 11.30am entitled Zine Scene. From the BBC description: “Jarvis Cocker explores the history of fanzines, small publications designed and produced by devotees of popular phenomena. With the help of fanzine makers, collectors and experts, including Roger [...]

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“Shave, sir?”

14. January 2008

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Tim Burton’s latest Gothic-tinged flick, Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has won at the Golden Globes (which was a much-reduced affair from its usual, glittering Tinsel Town self due to the writer’s strike with most actors and directors agreeing not to cross the picket line to attend). Sweeney Todd won the Golden [...]

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1st Amazon Humor Salon in Brazil talks ecological cartooning

14. January 2008

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Marko at Neorama points me to this link containing entry details for a new cartooning competition with a worthwhile message, the 1st Amazon Humor Salon. From the official site: “The 1st Amazon Humor Salon – Ecology in a line-drawing, intends to be part of the agenda of events related to cartoon production in Brazil and [...]

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Jack Staff Special – a little taster

14. January 2008

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Here’s a special treat for us to start the working week with and a welcome follow-up to the splendid interview Matthew Badham had with Paul Grist here on the blog on Friday (on a related note, Matthew has just posted a short Q&A with Rob Williams on his blog) – its a sneak, never-before-seen preview [...]

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