Archive | February, 2008
Tennant on Chain Reaction
BBC Radio 4’s Chain Reaction puts two performers together, one interviewing the other, then the following week the subject of the interview then becomes the questioner for a new guest, who the following week comes back to question another and so on, creating the eponymous ‘chain’. I missed hearing yesterday’s episode which featured two members [...]
Continue reading...The Beagle Awards
22. February 2008
The Beagle Awards, you say? Is this a new award honouring cartoon dogs, name in celebration of Snoopy’s breed? Or possibly a small-press take/rival to the Eagle Awards? That man Matthew Badham knows, but he’s playing his cards close to his chest. That’s why none of us will play poker in hotel bars at comics [...]
Continue reading...“Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler?”
22. February 2008
Here’s your bizarre story of the week: William Hakvaag, director of a war museum in northern Norway, has claimed that he has discovered three cartoons supposedly penned by a rather feeble artist who is better known for turning his artistic energies into other arenas such as global domination and genocide – Adolf Hitler. According [...]
Continue reading...More Clone Wars updates
22. February 2008
General Grievous (gotta love those characters names!) is getting a makeover for the new Clone Wars animated series. Sadly for those of us who just didn’t take to him it is rumoured that Jar Jar Binks may also crop up in the new CGI series. Oh well, I know some folks love him… (link [...]
Continue reading...Your guide to the world of manga – Katherine talks to Jason Thompson
22. February 2008
Manga can be a little intimidating for the newcomer. For one thing, the Japanese have a culture that had almost no contact with the West until the late 19th century, and developed along its own unique lines in ways that can look very odd to outsiders. For another, most manga’s printed right-to-left, which is an [...]
Continue reading...New kids comic from David Fickling
21. February 2008
This May David Fickling – publisher of the successful David Fickling imprint, part of Random House’s highly regarded children’s range – will be doing something fairly unusual in contemporary Britain – launching a new weekly comic for younger readers. “I still remember the heart pounding excitement of receiving my very own comic on the [...]
Continue reading...The Sweeney
21. February 2008
Alex Fitch has been behind an I’m Ready for my Close-up special, Looking for Sweeney Todd: “Recently brought to the attention of a new generation of media consumers through Tim Burton’s adaptation of the musical “Sweeney Todd: The demon barber of Fleet Street”, Todd has been terrifying Londoners for over 160 years. In a monologue written [...]
Continue reading...Taters of the Lost Ark
21. February 2008
Normally when it comes to movie merchandise we like to see highly detailed creations, be they statues of the characters or movie props. But when the Mr Potato Head toy was first adapted (remember the Imperial Spudtrooper??) we thought to heck with all that, this is very silly but great fun! Obviously a lot of [...]
Continue reading...A small press round-up
21. February 2008
Richard Krauss from Midnight Fiction kindly sent me a copy of his and Bob Vojtko’s new Bug Infested Comics mini-comic and since I was going to mention it here I thought while I was having a look at one mini-comic from the States I should also bring up a couple of British small press titles [...]
Continue reading...Gamerz screenings in Glasgow and Edinburgh
20. February 2008
Back towards the end of 2005 we mentioned a low-budget Scottish movie called Gamerz, which had its premiere at that year’s Worldcon. Paul Gavin drops us a line to say that the independent movie will get a release in the Cineworld cinemas in Glasgow (Renfrew Street) and Edinburgh (Fountain Park) from the 22nd of February. [...]
Continue reading...Animated radio
19. February 2008
Nemone’s show on digital radio station BBC 6 Music will feature Oscar-nominated animator Mark ‘Ratatouille’ Walsh from Pixar as a guest this afternoon; the show runs from 1 to 4pm and is usually also archived for 7 days as most BBC radio programmes are if you miss the live version.
Continue reading...Eagles voting opens – “for your consideration…”
19. February 2008
The initial voting for the Eagle Awards, the UK’s top comics and graphic novel awards, has opened – yes, it does say ‘2007′, but it is this year’s; I’d imagine the ‘2007′ refers to the fact we will mostly be nominating titles published during that year. The site is in a beta version at the [...]
Continue reading...Who exhibition in Earl’s Court
19. February 2008
An exhibition billed as being “the largest ever Doctor Who display in the UK” is set to open in Earl’s Court, London, this Easter. In addition to sets and props from the series’ history apparently some items from the fourth season will also make an appearance, following their transmission dates, so brand-new material will be [...]
Continue reading...From Our Continental Correspondent – Spirou celebrates seventy years of comics
19. February 2008
It would seem these days that every other week, another luminary in what could be called Franco-Belgian comics celebrates some kind of anniversary. Last year we had Toppfer and especially Hergé, while this year promises to be blue as a Smurf until we are sick of it. 50 years of Smurfdom will probably [...]
Continue reading...Super-Sam shows why you should never walk down dark alleys
19. February 2008
Boss Millions’ hitman Jimmy Cyclops continues his fiendish attempts to assassinate our hero… (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) Could this be the end for Super-Sam? Will [...]
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