Archive | February, 2008

Indy trailer online

14. February 2008

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Michael Moran notes that the trailer has been released today for Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull (no, not a search for some over-priced objet d’art by Damien Hirst, thankfully) – Michael has the YouTube Version on his Times column and Yahoo Movies has a hi-def trailer (which was a bit slow when I checked [...]

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Alan Moore gets all slushy on a Valentine’s Day edition of Strip!

14. February 2008

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Alex Fitch’s guest on this evening’s broadcast of Strip! is none other than Alan Moore, who in the spirit of Saint Valentine will be reciting slushy love poetry while dancing with a rose between his teeth. Well, okay, perhaps not, but after the radio broadcast on Resonance Alex is promising us not just the usual [...]

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“Going underground…” – we talk to Oli Smith, bringing comics to Camden

14. February 2008

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“And the public gets what the public wants But I want nothing this society’s got - I’m going underground, (going underground)” Paul Weller/The Jam A lot of our readers, especially here in the UK, were probably delighted to see our Bearded God of Comics, Alan Moore, not only making an incredibly rare appearance in a [...]

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Shooting Wars film rights optioned

13. February 2008

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Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman‘s brilliant webcomic-turned-graphic novel Shooting War has just been optioned for a possible film adaptation, with Power Corporation UK (Casanova) winning the rights via Luke Speed at Marjacq and Brendan Deneen at Objective Enterainment. I hear confidentially that this news hasn’t really been aired properly as yet, but a trusted source [...]

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Buzzi Blog’s cartoon competition

13. February 2008

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Good friend of the FPI blog Marko Ajdaric, who runs the excellent Neorama website which picks up on multi-lingual comics news from round the globe, has just found out that he is to be one of four judges for a cartoon and caricature competition being run by Buzzi Blog, alongside Chris Murman, Pran Kumar and [...]

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Star Wars returns to the big scree

13. February 2008

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In the Times Michael Moran confirms the rumours that have been circulating from the Skywalker Ranch – the eagerly anticipated new CGI Clone Wars LucasFilm are working on will receive a theatrical release in cinemas before running as a TV series. Unlike the highly successful (and quite enjoyable for all ages) previous Clone Wars cartoons [...]

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Phoo-ey!

13. February 2008

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The Beeb aired Phoo Action last night, based on Jamie Hewlett’s Get the Freebies which ran in The Face back in the old 20th century. I thought briefly about trying to review it here, but then realised it is just one of those things you have to experience – a normal review outlining the basic [...]

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“You’re a spoiled, privileged American girl. You’ve never suffered in your life.”

13. February 2008

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Once again Adi Tantimedh and Hugo Petrus nail it in La Muse; I felt my own liberal guilt pangs kick in here, how easy it is to discuss suffering in far off lands as if we knew what we were talking about when the fact is, of course, most of us are damned lucky not [...]

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Jyllands-Posten reprints that Muhammad cartoon

13. February 2008

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The Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad which sparked off worldwide protests and violence (including the unsavoury spectacle of some protesters marching in London demanding the cartoonists be beheaded) are still continuing to have an effect – in fact it seems like every few weeks since 2005 there’s been some related story, whether it is [...]

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V Vs Scientology

12. February 2008

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Boing Boing has a video of a recent Anonymous Vs Scientology protest; I’m not going to get into the meat of what the protest is about, partly because I don’t fully understand it and partly because I’m worried Tom Cruise will pay me a visit to explain his spiritual beliefs to me. But it does [...]

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Super-Sam’s Secret Identity

12. February 2008

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As all our readers know it is vitally important for any powerful superhero to have a secret identity so that in-between saving the world they can lead some semblance of a normal life. With their superhero persona being so public it is essential their secret identity be well thought-out and secure to protect them. Super-Sam [...]

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Steve Gerber passes away

12. February 2008

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I was shocked and saddened this morning to read of the death of Steve Gerber; I imagine a lot of comics fans will be feeling the same. I thought, this can’t be right, Steve’s not old, he’s only 60… I recall reading somewhere that he had been ill, but I hadn’t realised just how ill; [...]

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Charles Burns on Bat Segundo

12. February 2008

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Among several new podcasts with literary figures recently added to the excellent Bat Segundo Show podcasts is one with Charles Burns, writer and illustrator of El Borbah, Big Baby and the very interesting graphic novel Black Hole, which explores teenage life, insecurities, worries and sexuality; from the show: “My intention was just to write a [...]

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Even the French are at it

12. February 2008

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It’s no coincidence that the two cultures I’m most likely to be starry-eyed about – the French and the Japanese – are the two cultures with the biggest comics industries and the best history of taking comics seriously. So it was a bit disheartening when yesterday I wandered into Dublin’s Francophone library, picked up the [...]

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What’s big, has tusks and comes from thousands of years in the past? We ask Paul Cornell

11. February 2008

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Those of you who have been enjoying the second season of ITV’s Primeval (which I think has really improved this season) will be aware that next week’s episode features a runaway mammoth. What you may not be aware of is that this particular episode comes from the pen of one of our top UK writers, [...]

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