Archive | March, 2008

British Animation Awards winners

14. March 2008

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The British Animation Awards were held last night and although the official site doesn’t seem to have been updated yet (probably still celebrating and dealing with hangovers, which is fair enough) luckily the Guardian has the details of the winners – while the BAA covers a broad spectrum of animation, from independent to commercial work, [...]

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Animator Gerald Potterton to be honoured in Salerno

14. March 2008

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Three-time Academy Award nominee Gerald Potterton is to be honoured at the 12th Annual Cartoons on the Bay International Festival of Television Animation in Salerno, Italy next month, where the British-born Canadian animator will received the Pulcinella Lifetime Achievement Award; previous recipients include Hanna-Barbara, so he is in good company. Potterton has had a long [...]

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The critics

14. March 2008

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Continuing some little BD treats from the BoDoï Angoulême issue, for the end of the week enjoy Les Critiques by Claire Brétecher, from Les Frustrés. There is a little French dialogue at the end, but I think most folks can get the gist of this from the preceding wordless panels:

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Jonas in action

14. March 2008

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Filming for the live action components of the multi-media ‘second generation’ web graphic novel The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore is continuing and I have to say I am really looking forward to seeing this tale which sports influences from The Matrix to Luther Arkwright. Here are a couple of exclusive shots of lead actor [...]

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Charlie Stross short story free audiobook

13. March 2008

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British SF author Charlie Stross’s comic novella Trunk and Disorderly, which originally appeared in Asimov’s, has been made available by Subterranean Press as a free online audiobook. From the site: “Charles Stross is damned funny, both in person and on the page. You’ll have to take my word on the first count. As to the [...]

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Back in Metropolis

13. March 2008

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“Back in Metropolis, circuses and elephants Where the oranges grew Back in Metropolis nothing can ever topple us When I’m standing with you.” (the Church, Metropolis) A number of guests have been confirmed for the 30th annual Superman celebration in – where else? – Metropolis. Although I should add that this is not the fictional [...]

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My Chemical Wedding

13. March 2008

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No, nothing do do with Gerard Way but another musician – in this case Bruce Dickinson, BBC radio presenter and front man for rock band Iron Maiden. Bruce is the co-writer of a new horror movie which will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May and be released in the UK this summer. Chemical [...]

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Tonight on Strip!

13. March 2008

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And your weekly aural fix of comics and SF related goodness courtesy of Alex Fitch: “Strip! – Mahua! Chinese comics now, 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast at Panel Borders Alex Fitch interviews a trio of artists exhibiting at the Manhua! China Comics Now exhibition at the London College of Communications – Yishan Li, Mr. Clement [...]

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The Geek Syndicate talk to Rich Johnston and Paul Cornell

13. March 2008

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Barry Nugent tells me that the two latest editions of the excellent Geek Syndicate podcast feature interviews with Rich Johnston (although he doesn’t say if the interview was recorded on location lying in a gutter) and with top Brit scriptwriter, novelist and comics scribe, Paul Cornell. If you want to know who can’t stand to [...]

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Dave Stevens tributes

13. March 2008

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Here’s a follow-up to Kenny’s post on the late Dave Stevens – Tom at the Comics Reporter has been compiling a list of links to sites posting articles remembering him, a list which already runs to well over a hundred entries and still growing. Its horrible when someone passes away too young but it is [...]

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Coheed & Cambria video

13. March 2008

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This is more music than comics but since it features Coheed and Cambria and Claudio and the boys have been gracing a number of our stores around the country to meet fans and sign copies of the Amory Wars comics as they performed their UK tour I thought it was worth sticking up a link [...]

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“Its hip to be square” – Katherine checks out trans-continental manga

13. March 2008

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YSquare Written and illustrated by Judith Park, Published by Yen Press If Japanese comics are called “manga”, and Korean comics are called “manwha”, and comics drawn in a manga-like style but written in English are called “OEL (original English language) manga”, then YSquare must be the first example I’ve come across of “OGL manwha” – [...]

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Pratchett to make large donation to Alzheimer’s research

13. March 2008

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Bestselling fantasy author Terry Pratchett has pledged £494, 000 pounds to fund research into Alzheimer’s disease, reports the BBC. As most of you will be aware the creator of the wildly popular and hugely loved Discworld series announced in December that he had been diagnosed with an early-onset version of the disease, but was facing [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – the Libris Prize for Literature

13. March 2008

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The Libris Prize for Literature is one of the most prestigious literary awards for works in the Dutch language, not in the least since it involves a total amount of 50,000 Euros. Modelled after the Booker Prize (for those outside the UK that’s one of the major British literary awards, unlikely we will see SF [...]

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Hommage à Winsor McCay

13. March 2008

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And another little continental treat for you from BoDoï’s Angoulême issue, François Schuiten (who won the Grand Prix in 2002) and Benoît Peeters with a couple of pages from Hommage à Winsor McCay (published Casterman, I think). How gorgeous are these pages? I keep turning back to these just to sit and enjoy looking at [...]

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