Archive | March, 2008

David Baillie – en Francais!

29. March 2008

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Blighty’s own David Baillie is interviewed (in French) in the latest issue of BDzine (#19). If like me you weren’t familiar with this publication it seems to be a very laudable journal – from the site’s description: “BDzine is distributed freely in selected comic book shops in France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Netherlands. Each issue is solely [...]

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Tales From the Flat

29. March 2008

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2008 is already shaping up to be a good year for fans (of which I am one) of Oliver Lambden and Laurence Powell’s excellent Tales From the Flat. We’ve got the brand-new seventh issue to enjoy, which the guys tell me kicks off the start of a new three-part story which will explore Fred’s origins [...]

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Malice in Sunderland?

28. March 2008

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A new film take on Alice in Wonderland, entitled Malice in Sunderland, will now be relocated from Tyneside to Southend, which is a shame since as anyone who knows their Lewis Carroll (and/or has read Bryan Talbot’s brilliant Alice in Sunderland) will be aware that the original story and its creator have strong links to [...]

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Oli East gets the Elbow

28. March 2008

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Oliver East has created art for the advert for the new Elbow album! How damned cool is that? It’s cooler than a penguin’s bum on an ice floe, that’s how cool it is! (thanks to Matthew Badham for the link)

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Bienvenue a Dropsie Avenue

28. March 2008

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Another little treat from the BoDoï Angoulême special – I think this is another good example of a strip which largely works even if you don’t know any French, you can pick up inferences easily from the expressions and body language alone as the neighbours try to tell some annoyed cops about domestic abuse only [...]

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Gianluca Costantini show this weekend

28. March 2008

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I love this simple but bold and striking image for the Gianluca Costantini “Sangue in Algeria” (is that ‘blood in Algeria’?) exhibition which opens tomorrow in the Galleria Miomao in Italy:

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The Diagram Prize

28. March 2008

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This isn’t anything to do with comics or science fiction, but it is an annual bit of fun in the British bookselling calendar which I always look forward to and I thought you might get a smile from – the Bookseller magazine’s annual Diagram Prize, which is awarded to the oddest-titled published book of the [...]

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Steven Tillotson talks to Oli East

27. March 2008

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As I mentioned the other day Trains Are Mint creator Oliver East will be writing on comics from this side of the pond for the Daily Cross Hatch. And he’s kicking off with an interview with fellow Brit small press creator Steven Tillotson, the man who has gleefully inflicted the Banal Pig upon a world [...]

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This week on Strip!

27. March 2008

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It’s a big update from Alex Fitch, alerting us to a series of comics and science fiction related aural pleasures wafting their way to us over the airwaves or via the magic of podcast; over to Alex for the details: “Strip! – China Comics (in the cities) Now!, 5pm tonight on Resonance FM, podcast on Panel [...]

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Virtual Violent! and online Girly Comic

27. March 2008

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I missed this over the recent holiday weekend, but Jay Eales and Selina Lock announced that Factor Fiction were officially launched as webcomics last Saturday. As anyone who has visited the site before will know there was already quite a bit of archive material available to read, but this new move marks a serious push [...]

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Wolverine star to pen comic

27. March 2008

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The man who has played Wolverine to great acclaim in the blockbusting X-Men movies, Hugh Jackman, is the latest celeb to be involved in creating a comic for Virgin. Jackman will be working with another name familiar to fans of the big-clawed mutant, Marc Guggenheim, on Nowhere Man. According to the BBC website Jackman hopes [...]

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Jeff Brown gets sexed up

27. March 2008

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That very fine chap Jeffrey Brown made an appearance on Canada’s SexTV; fortunately for those of us not in Canada we can catch Jeff’s segment of the show (almost ten minutes worth) on the SexTV website. We do like Jeff’s work round here and it was terrific to see him over at the Bristol comics [...]

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Amazonian knitting patterns

26. March 2008

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Kaby spent some 14 months knitting herself this fantastic-looking Wonder Woman sweater. Sadly I suspect if anyone were to knit me a jumper from the comics universe I’d end up in an Oswald Cobblepot top… (link via Boing Boing).

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Hitman competition

26. March 2008

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We have a humdinger of a competition for you – not only a chance to win the Blue-Ray version of Hitman , the Extreme Edition, but for one lucky winner a Playstation 3 and an LCD TV to watch it on!Get on over to the competition page and answer a simple question to be in [...]

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March

26. March 2008

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From the comics calendar sitting on my desk: This is by the king of the cool cats, John Porcellino, and comes from the very cool comics calendar Richard Krauss at Midnight Fiction kindly sent me at the end of last year (other artists who contributed pics for the months include Hunt Emerson and Sean Azzopardi as [...]

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