Archive | February, 2008

Alisa’s Tale

18. February 2008

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When I mentioned the Creature Discomforts series of animated adverts Aardman were producing for the Leonard Cheshire charity several weeks ago it brought to mind Al Davison and his powerful graphic novel The Spiral Cage, in which he uses his own experience of living with Spina Bifida to create a remarkable tale which garnered enormous [...]

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Propaganda beholds the devil

18. February 2008

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Grendel: Behold the Devil #1, Written & illustrated by Matt Wagner Don’t ever go back to a first love they say. And it’s so true. I fell for Matt Wagner’s Grendel back in 1986 when I caught a glimpse of it serialised in the back of Mage. This was the second outing of Grendel and [...]

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Iron Man movie pics slideshow

18. February 2008

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The Internet Movie Database has a slideshow up of images from the forthcoming Iron Man movie. All together now, “he was turned to steel, in the great magnetic field..” Oh, sorry, wrong Iron Man reference… (Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark, wondering if it might have been simpler to wear tights and build a utility [...]

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Gotham Knight

18. February 2008

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I must be sleeping because I totally missed hearing about Gotham Knight, a collection of animated Batman tales due on DVD this summer to tie in with the release of Chris Nolan’s second Bat-flick, The Dark Knight. According to Michael Moran at the Times the six story segments will fit into a chronology somewhere between [...]

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New Trek movie delayed

18. February 2008

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Paramount has announced that the still-untitled Star Trek XI release has been postponed; JJ Abrams take on the original series’ lineup with Young Kirk, Young Spock etc was due for a Christmas 2008 release (which if memory serves is pretty similar date territory to the previous Trek movie outings). However the film has now been [...]

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Charlie bags a Skylark

17. February 2008

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Feòrag informs us that her other half, Charlie Stross, has just picked up another award in the form of a Skylark, the E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith Memorial award. The Skylark, named for Smith’s famous early pulp SF classic series, is given annually by the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) for someone members consider has “contributed [...]

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Driller Penis

16. February 2008

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Now there are two words I don’t often use together in a blog header… Over on the Glycon Live Journal my old mate and master of all arcane knowledge pertaining to Alan Moore, Padraig, has posted up “Driller Penis” created by Alan Moore and Savage Pencil back in 1989. It is seriously adults-only stuff – [...]

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Red Dwarf star arrested

16. February 2008

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Danny John Jules, best known to science fiction fans for his long-running role in Grant and Naylor’s cult show Red Dwarf, has been arrested in connection with an alleged assault, according to the BBC. Sadly it isn’t the first brush with the law for one of the Dwarfers as Craig Charles, now fronting a Funk [...]

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Kate Brown in the Guardian

15. February 2008

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UK cartoonist and illustrator Kate Brown has been featured all this week in the Half-Term special comic (practically the whole front page) the Guardian has been producing to occupy all those bored schoolkids. Kate’s work has appeared in the Mammoth Best New Manga volumes and she is drawing ‘A Midsummer’s Nights Dream‘ for the Manga [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Ever forever

15. February 2008

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It is no secret that I am a life-long Ever Meulen fan. I could not have been more than 15 when I first started sifting through waste paper, looking for old issues of Humo Magazine, and tearing off Ever’s wonderful covers. It’s a habit that stuck with me up until the present day (we are [...]

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How manga took over the world

15. February 2008

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The Urbis exhibition centre in Manchester will be host to the exhibition “How manga took over the world” from March 13th to September 27th. From the site’s description: “This exhibition will explore the art of Manga in its many guises, tracing the journey from its early origins to its many modern day manifestations. The exhibition [...]

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You can’t get better than a Kwik-Fit… er… animator?

15. February 2008

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Here’s an interesting little aside to the recent animation news I’ve been posting: you may recall when I was discussing the BAA nominations I mentioned how they also include animation created for adverts and how this was an important source of work for many animators (as well as a place to practise their skills and [...]

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Jonas Moore shortlisted for a Webby

15. February 2008

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Factory Publishing’s Howard Webster is having a good week – Variety announced that he will make his feature directorial debut with Green Street 2, a sequel to 2005′s Green Street Hooligans, being produced by Odd Lot who are involved right now in post-production on Frank Miller’s take on Will Eisner’s The Spirit. And the intriguing [...]

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“Macho, Macho Man, I wanna be a Macho Man…”

15. February 2008

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That fine chap we call Lew Stringer (for it is he) has been constructing a new website recently and is in the middle of adding in scans of some of his older artwork. As Lew says it is still under construction, but already there are some gems to find there, including Combat Colin and Macho [...]

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Who reviews the reviewers?

15. February 2008

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Tales From the Flat’s Oliver Lambden turns the tables and conducts an interview with the brothers Hassan and Rachid Otsmane, who are normally on the other side of interviews and reviews of comics on their excellent Indie Review site which gives great coverage to the UK small press scene.

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