Archive | March, 2008

From Our Continental Correspondent – the Castellón comics festival

12. March 2008

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On March the 14th and 15th the fourth Comics Festival of the Spanish city of Castellón will take place, an organisation of the Universitat Jaume I and the collectives Fanzone and Freaks in Black, with the support of the City council of Castellón and the Rural Caixa Castelló Foundation San Isidro. This year, the focus [...]

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“Everyone knows its made of cheese…”

12. March 2008

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Continuing a look at some of BoDoï’s Angoulême winners special issue, today enjoy Le Noir, La Colouer et Lavis by Fred, who won the Grand Prix in 1980 according to the accompanying article in the mag. One of those nice ‘silent’ cartoons which works in just about any language, I nearly snorted my win out [...]

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Sean Azzopardi talks to Matthew Badham

12. March 2008

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Sean Azzopardi, creator of the very fine British small press titles 12 Hour Shift (now collected into a one volume edition, highly recommended) and Ed talks to Matthew Badham, taking in, among other things, how he started self-publishing, the Camden comics stall and his likes and dislikes in the UK small press scene: “The good [...]

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Jonas Moore makes GQ’s photos of the week spread

12. March 2008

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Howard Webster is chuffed that one of his behind-the-scenes pics from some blue-screen shooting for the mixed-media online graphic novel The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore made GQ magazine’s photos of the week spread. Pictured here and looking very cool on their Triumph motorbikes are Worlds Apart singer Steve Hart (who also wrote the score) [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Lucky Luke preventing fraud in Belgium

12. March 2008

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The Belgian Ministry of Economics is launching a campaign against consumer fraud this month. This campaign is Belgian’s contribution to Fraud Prevention Month, an international action organized by ICPEN, the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network. It’s the fourth time that government bodies from thirty countries across five continents launch similar initiatives in February and [...]

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Dave Stevens

12. March 2008

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Dave Stevens will be best remembered for his wonderful Rocketeer stories, which first appeared in the pages of various Pacific Comics, and will remain one of the greatest comics artists ever to grace a page with his art, despite an extremely limited output. Stevens’ emergence came as part of the first shoots of the new [...]

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Diesel Sweeties goes Creative Commons

11. March 2008

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Boing Boing reports that webcomic Diesel Sweeties will be released as a collection of PDFs under the Creative Commons licensing to celebrate the approach of the 2000th comic. From R Stevens on the Diesel Sweeties blog: “By my calculations, DS is going to hit 2000 comics in a little under two months. April is Clango’s [...]

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Arthur C Clarke shortlist

11. March 2008

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Tom Hunter kindly drops us a line to say that the final shortlist for the prestigious Arthur C Clarke awards is now up and on the publisher front I have to say it is something of a surprise. Along with the British Science Fiction Association awards the Clarkes are the major awards celebrating UK science [...]

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The Walking Dead in Cardiff

11. March 2008

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Brit artist Charlie Adlard has worked on a fairly broad sweep of comics, from Judge Dredd and Nikolia Dante to the X-Files and Batman. Right now though he is probably best known for his excellent work with Robert Kirkman on Image’s The Walking Dead series, which is one of my personal favourite series (so many [...]

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Superdupont

11. March 2008

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Presenting another extract from BoDoï‘s Angoulême special issue, this time a couple of pages from Superdupont #4, written by Jacques Lob and illustrated by the legendary Neal Adams, showing a historic meeting of two great superheroes from America and France, complete with plenty of national stereotyping (what? no string of onions?) and a mish-mash of [...]

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Super-Sam – a hole in one

11. March 2008

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Some of you may have noticed now we have a number of Super-Sam strips under our belt that it is developing somewhat (and I know a number of you have been enjoying this aspect of it as well as the regular chuckles, myself included). Here’s Darryl himself on just what’s going through his mind as [...]

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Meet Noel Clarke

10. March 2008

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Award-winning actor Noel Clarke has appeared in a variety of films and shows, from Waking the Dead to Casualty, as well as penning the script for Kidulthood (and the upcoming sequel Adulthood) but most science fiction fans will know him best for his recurring role of Mickey Smith, Rose Tyler’s long-suffering boyfriend who eventually graduates [...]

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From our (Scottish) continental correspondent

10. March 2008

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Apologies to Wim for appropriating his usual title for this post (normal continental correspondent service from Belgium will be resumed shortly), but I’m just back from a terrific break in Paris where, as well as the usual tourist pastimes of marvelling at the motoring madness that is the Circus Maximus around the Arc de Triomphe [...]

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Doctor Who season four trailer online

9. March 2008

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I may be late with this because I’ve been off, but the official BBC Doctor Who site has a trailer up for season four which, I can’t help but notice, is different from the trailer they have been showing in cinemas in the UK to promote the show (and that trailer was better than most [...]

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Gary Gygax RIP

6. March 2008

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In the wake of the sad news that E. Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, has died, I wanted to say a few words. Every Friday evening, I go to a friend’s house for a session of Dungeons & Dragons. I’ve been doing this, off and on, since 2000, which means I started gaming [...]

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