Archive | March, 2008
Local Heroes: the Art of the Graphic Novel
The National Library of Scotland will be hosting the exhibition Local Heroes: the Art of the Graphic Novel this spring, running from the 4th of April to the 1st of June. Although Scotland has obviously produced some top writing and artistic talent for the medium (he said in an utterly unbiased manner, ahem) and there [...]
Continue reading...New Sci-Fi Modeller due
26. March 2008
Michael Reccia tells us that the new volume – the ninth already if you can believe it – of Sci-Fi & Fantasy Modeller will come out in mid-April. My geek senses are a-tingle because as well as the usual compliment of articles and features on model creation (which are interesting even if you are all [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Meanwhile in Holland
26. March 2008
We reported earlier on an exhibition that linked comics and visual arts in the Netherlands. It would seem that it’s caught on, because since then two similar initiatives were launched. The Jan Cunen Museum in Oss, a museum which specialises in local ephemera and post-war fine art, last week launched the Kunstkraker initiative. This [...]
Continue reading...Could 2008 have the blockbustingest summer ever?
26. March 2008
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see There Will Be Blood (excellent film), and during the trailers was struck by a sudden realisation: for science fiction and comics geeks, this summer’s cinema is going to be awesome. (the new Jolly Green Giant advert was deemed not to be friendly enough for consumers) Let’s see: we [...]
Continue reading...New South Park site
25. March 2008
Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have set up a new version of South Park Studios which will stream all of the episodes from the entire run of South Park Seasons. As Matt told Boing Boing clips and entire episodes have been available online illegally for years via bit torrents and cropping up on YouTube: [...]
Continue reading...Jim Medway interviewed
25. March 2008
Matthew Badham has posted the first part of an interview with Jim Medway where, among other things, he gives some solid advice on how artists should go about trying to obtain a grant from the Arts Council, a task which seems pretty grueling but in Jim’s case at least, worthwhile: “It was just exhausting and [...]
Continue reading...Oliver East on the Daily Cross Hatch
25. March 2008
Trains Are Mint creator Oliver East will be contributing a column on British and European comics for the Daily Cross Hatch and is open to reviewing work, so budding creators out there may want to get in touch with him (thanks to Matthew Badham for the link). Elsewhere on the Daily Cross Hatch the second [...]
Continue reading...Largecow open for business!
25. March 2008
The one and only Hunt Emerson announces that the all-new, all-singing, all-dancing Largecow website is open for business. As well as information and news about Hunt and his work there is a store where you can grab original artwork and other material, a gallery you just have to browse and an archive with even more [...]
Continue reading...Underground Comics, the movie
25. March 2008
That shy and retiring chap Oli Smith has uploaded a new video of the London Underground Comics stall at the Camden market, which looks like a total blast. Yes, he is utterly shameless in his quest to promote British small press comics, but we love him for it anyway.
Continue reading...Super-Sam – “What’s that coming over the hill? Is it a monster? Is it a monster?”
25. March 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)
Continue reading...Raymond Leblanc passes away
25. March 2008
Tom on Comics Reporter notes a rather sad story I missed over the Easter break, that respected Belgian publisher Raymond Leblanc has passed away at the age of 92. Raymond, a former Resistance member during the Nazi occupation, was one of the great figures of European comics; he founded the famous Tintin magazine (how many [...]
Continue reading...Dudley Watkins painting discovered
22. March 2008
A rare painting by Oor Wullie and The Broons creator Dudley Watkins has been discovered after more than fifty years, hanging on the wall of a family home in Fife. The painting which depicts Christ’s crucifixion is thought to have been a gift to his friends in the Kinnell family and was noticed when [...]
Continue reading...New Iron Man movie poster
21. March 2008
(Tony Stark wishes he’d included a visit to SpecSavers in his armour suit design...)
Continue reading...ElfQuest at 30
21. March 2008
A very excited-sounding Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing discloses that as part of a celebration of the 30th anniversary of Richard and Wendy Pini’s ElfQuest they will be making every issue available to read online, completely free. By the end of the year they hope to have every issue up – that’s some 6, 000 [...]
Continue reading...Tonight on Strip! – Mythologising Superheroes
20. March 2008
Alex Fitch kindly supplies us with details of tonight’s weekly aural fix of comics goodness: Strip! – mythologising Superheroes, 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast via Panel Borders. “Alex Fitch interviews Doug Braithwaite, a Scottish comics artist who is best known for his collaborations with painter Alex Ross & writer Jim Krueger on such titles as Universe X [...]
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