Archive | March, 2008

Arthur C Clarke’s final interview at IEEE Spectrum

20. March 2008

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Via Boing Boing comes a link to IEEE Spectrum who sent Saswato Das to Sri Lanka in January. When Saswato arrived he found Sir Arthur had been taken into hospital, but despite pain and problems with breathing properly the 90-year old author still wanted to talk to him. In a piece of uncanny timing IEEE [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – a new Blake and Mortimer album

20. March 2008

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Their creator, Edgar P. Jacobs, may have passed away a long time ago now, but Blake and Mortimer still live on. And while it may pass virtually unnoticed in the world at large, in BD-land a new Blake And Mortimer album is still supposed to be a big deal. And so publisher Dargaud [...]

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Bin Laden – not a cartoon fan

20. March 2008

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And oh how the Danish cartoon story doth rumble on – now, allegedly, the West’s favourite bogey man Osama Bin Laden has decided not enough people are paying attention to him and belatedly jumped on the ‘death to the cartoonists’ bandwagon which seems awfully popular in some regions of the world (helped in no small [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Eisner magazine

19. March 2008

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Dutch literary publisher Podium is planning to launch a new literary magazine which will be completely devoted to the graphic novel and the better comic, book blog De Papier Man announces. This new periodical comes at a time when the traditional literary magazine seems to be in a less than healthy position, while the [...]

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“Any sufficiently advanced writer is indistinguishable from magic”

19. March 2008

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Many of you will recognise the above header as a paraphrase of a famous comment by an even more famous man, Sir Arthur C Clarke: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I make no apologies for adapting Clarke’s Law because in my mind books, like science, draw on both the rational and the [...]

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Art will eat itself

18. March 2008

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And another little European treat for you from the BoDoï Angoulême special, two pages from “Inside Moebius #4″; the imaginative life of the artist is not always a safe one (but what great imagery!): (art (c) Stardom/Moebius Productions)

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Match it for Pratchett

18. March 2008

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We’ve mentioned before on this blog that Terry Pratchett, creator of the Discworld, has donated nearly £500,000 to fund research into Alzheimer’s disease after being diagnosed last December. Well, his fans, inspired by his example, have started a campaign to double his donation. Via the website, you can donate or buy a T-shirt, and one [...]

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Super-Sam – dreams and portents

18. March 2008

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(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)

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2-D Northern Ireland Comics Festival

18. March 2008

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David Campbell announces that 2-D, the Northern Ireland comics festival, will be returning this summer to follow up on the previous success. From Dave’s description: “2D, The Northern Ireland Comics festival, will return this year and will take place from the 5th – 7th June in the Verbal Arts Centre and other locations here in Derry, [...]

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“Spud gun to ‘chips’…”

17. March 2008

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Since it is Saint Patrick’s Day: (Steve Dillons ‘Emerald Isle’ cover for 2000 AD Prog 727 where Mega City One’s iron lawman meets the rather more laid back Judge Joyce; one thing the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic has been brilliant at over the decades is taking the mickey out of home islands national stereotypes, with Emerald Isle, [...]

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Religion and cartoons – do not mix

17. March 2008

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I think any of us who read the papers and the comics news sites are probably aware that cartoons and religion don’t seem to get along terribly well. However this disturbing report from CBC shows that it isn’t only Islamic groups who are offended by cartoons – both Christian and Muslim groups in Russia are [...]

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Gestalt: Art of the Graphic Novel

17. March 2008

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Wolfgang at Australia’s Gestalt Publishing drops me a line to say that the Heathcote Cultural Centre in Applecross, Western Australia will be the host to an upcoming exhibition entitled Gestalt: The Art of the Graphic Novel from Thursday 10th of April to Sunday 18th of May. From the official description: “Gestalt: art of the graphic [...]

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Propaganda taps that vein

17. March 2008

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Crooked Little Vein, Warren Ellis Crooked Little Vein is the debut prose novel by Warren Ellis, the highly successful Graphic Novelist responsible for Transmetropolitan, Lazarus Churchyard, Global Frequency and many, many, many more. He’s a writer of near and far future fiction, seemingly obsessed with bizarre sexuality, deviant art and technology in equal measure (and presumably so [...]

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Drawing for a good cause

15. March 2008

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Via Tom at Comics Reporter is this call from the Superman blog Say it Backwards is for artists who are interested in donating artwork for a charity auction for an extremely worthy cause, helping kids (and their families) who are dealing with cancer.

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Lucas shows off Clone Wars

14. March 2008

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George Lucas, escorted by Stormtroopers, was banging the drum for the upcoming CGI animated Clone Wars which, as previously mentioned, will also get a theatrical release (at least in the US) ahead of the TV broadcast. “I think it can live up to the live-action movies,” commented Lucas at the ShoWest event. I enjoyed the [...]

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