Archive | February, 2008
Dong-A LG International Digital Cartoon Competition and the Tabriz International Cartoon Contest
Tabriz Cartoons has details up for the Dong-A LG International Digital Cartoon Competition 2008; as the title suggests this competition is only open to digitally created cartoons and caricatures, not scans of more traditionally created art. I’m sure some might throw up their hands in horror and mutter about how such works can’t be ‘real’ [...]
Continue reading...Dave Sim’s Judenhass online preview
27. February 2008
Dave Sim has a preview of Judenhass – literally meaning ‘Jew hatred’ – online. I know this will doubtless stir up a fair bit of comment when it comes out in May, but that’s as it should be, because its a subject matter which shouldn’t be forgotten and as more recent events have shown – [...]
Continue reading...BSFA holding 50th anniversary short story competition
27. February 2008
Over at the UKSF Book News Ariel has details of a special short story competition which the BSFA’s Martin McGrath has been telling him about, part of a celebration of the British Science Fiction Association’s 50th anniversary year, which will include the prestigious BSFA awards at EasterCon (which will include a special ‘retro’ award for [...]
Continue reading...Bale set for new Terminator next spring
26. February 2008
Variety is reporting that the fourth Terminator film -”Terminator Salvation: the Future Begins” – is set for a May 2009 release in the US. The new movie is the first in a mooted trilogy of Terminator films starring Christian ‘Batman’ Bale as John Connor; filming commences in New Mexico this May and although the story [...]
Continue reading...The Manchester Comix Collective
26. February 2008
We all know that trying to get into creating comics is a hard task, whether you are trying for professional work or creating small press works in your spare time. Obviously there is the actual creation itself – you probably have some ideas, but every writer and artist needs a bit of feedback; showing [...]
Continue reading...Frank Quitely in Dangerous Ink
26. February 2008
The second issue of Dangerous Ink, the UK and US’s newest alternative arts and culture magazine, is just hitting the shelves and among the features in this issue are looks at The Shatner Show (we love the Shat!), Kreepy Kat, an interview with Chris Ryniak and an in-depth (and well illustrated) interview with Frank Quitely, [...]
Continue reading...James Moran on the Geek Syndicate
26. February 2008
The guys from the fine Geek Syndicate podcast have just posted up an interview with writer James Moran who, among other things, wrote the British horror-comedy Severance, the well-received Torchwood season 2 episode ‘Sleeper‘ and an episode of the upcoming season 4 of Doctor Who (soon, my geeky friends, soon!!!). Among the questions posed were [...]
Continue reading...Super-Sam: it’s the thought behind a gift that counts
26. February 2008
(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) Darryl has asked me to tell readers that he wishes to dedicate this week’s cartoon to his fellow artist Steve Whitaker [...]
Continue reading...We are three!
25. February 2008
I’ve just realised that the FPI blog is a whole three years old today! Happy birthday us! We were just setting up on a basic Blogger account on February 25th 2005 and as you can imagine the first post was really just a ‘hello, here we are’ kind of thing. I had a quick look [...]
Continue reading...From Our Continental Correspondent – the Inkspot monologues
25. February 2008
The following is not really continental, nor is it strictly comics, but I happened to come across it and I am totally enamoured with it. From March 3rd until March 30th, the Freud Gallery (an appropriately-named venue for a psychologically-based series) – 198 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JL – presents the artwork from the [...]
Continue reading...Prestonpandemonium III set for May
25. February 2008
The organisers of Prestonpandemonium, the comics and small press event in Prestonpans, just down the coast a bit from Edinburgh, have announced that after a gap between the first and second bashes a third Prestonpandemonium will take place this summer on May 31st from 12 to 3pm at the Prestoungrange Gothenburg (a CAMRA-listed pub, meaning [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan blocks YouTube over Danish cartoons
25. February 2008
Yes, that Danish cartoon story just keeps going, as we pretty much all knew it would; it is quite amazing to me how long people will try and keep themselves violently angry, puts me in mind of Robert Burns’ line from Tam O’Shanter when he describes Tam’s long-suffering wife sitting at home “nursing her wrath [...]
Continue reading...Oscars
25. February 2008
As I write some of the parties will still be going on in La-La Land for the post Oscar celebrations. There seems to have been a very international flavour to the glitziest movie awards this year (all four of the main acting awards went to non-American actors according to the BBC, which has plenty of [...]
Continue reading...Han Solo desk
24. February 2008
How cool is this Han Solo in carbonite desk? It was created by Tom Spina Designs for a client – no, sadly it isn’t for me to work on! Probably just as well, its so cool I’d get too distracted simply looking at it all the time… (link via Boing Boing)
Continue reading...Free Comic Book Day 2008 offer
22. February 2008
We know many of you don’t get into our shops very often, or perhaps a branch just isn’t near enough to where you live, and so we thought we would make available some of the Free Comic Book Day titles to those who purchase their Graphic Novels online. Here’s how it works – there [...]
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