Archive | April, 2008

Robert Downey Junior on Iron Man

30. April 2008

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The BBC site has a short video piece on the soon-to-be-released Iron Man movie (which is looking terrific), including a brief interview with star Robert Downey Junior, a man, as the reporter notes, who is not entirely unfamiliar with Tony Stark’s drinking and womanising aspects.

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More comics radio goodness

30. April 2008

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We’ve had an extra comics on the radio treat this week with yesterday’s Radio 4 Word of Mouth show but there’s more aural comics goodness to be had courtesy of Alex Fitch (as ever for more details and links to podcast versions check the Panel Borders blog): “Strip!: Remembering Jack Kirby, Thursday 1st May, 5pm on [...]

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LesbiaNation’s top ten women in science fiction

30. April 2008

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LesbiaNation asked its readers to pick out their top ten female science fiction stars – “Lesbians and strong sci-fi women go hand in hand and we wanted to know your favorite ladies of the genre!” You know sci-fi women and panting, lust-filled fanboys also go hand in hand (no, that’s not a naughty metaphor, get [...]

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Comics on the radio

29. April 2008

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A brief reminder that this afternoon (at 4pm) the august and intellectual realms of BBC Radio 4 will be taking a look at the comics genre (as Richard mentioned at the weekend), with contributions from Paul Gravett, Posy Simmonds and Martin Rowson as well as some of our small press stars like Oli Smith, David [...]

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Superhero Challenge

29. April 2008

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Mark Seddon spotted what sounds like a lot of comics-themed fun (and for a good cause) at the weekend – the Superhero Challenge. Click the pics to see the larger versions. (Wolverine, Buzz Lightyear and She-Ra, Princess of Power running for charity on the Brighton seafront; pic courtesy of Mark Seddon) The event on Saturday 26th saw [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Marcel Ruijters at Lambiek

29. April 2008

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If you happen to be in Amsterdam in the coming month, and you need another reason to visit Lambiek (other than “well, I just gotta”), go and have a look at the Marcel Ruijters exhibition that’s on show there until the end of May. (cover to Bestiarium, (c) Marcel Ruijters) The show contains all 119 pages from [...]

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Super-Sam and John of the Night – Countdown to Oblivion

29. April 2008

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“There’s that scene, isn’t there, in a couple of Bond movies and many other action movies, where the heroes have to diffuse a nuclear bomb. Well there’s never any real suspense in such scenes, because you know the bomb can never go off. Well… what if it did?” Darryl (well the Super-Sam universe will never [...]

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Spot the difference

29. April 2008

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One of these men is a famous English footballer, the other a Marvel Superhero / possible Skrull from Marvel’s new series Secret Invasion. But which is which?

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Propaganda is seeing little green men everywhere – Secret Invasion # 1

29. April 2008

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Secret Invasion issue 1 Written by Brian Michael Bendis Art by Leinil Yu (Steve McNiven’s variant cover to Secret Invasion issue 1. Published Marvel Comics 2008) Secret Invasion is the much hyped 8-issue Marvel event of the year. If you haven’t heard anything about it or don’t want to know any of the surprises, just skip the review. It’s [...]

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The Amazing Maurice

28. April 2008

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In honour of his birthday BBC Radio 7 broadcast Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents yesterday – through the magic of the online listen again feature for the next few days you can enjoy an hour and a half of entertaining mice and a talking moggy (with a cast which includes David [...]

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New Malcy Duff due in May

28. April 2008

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Malcy Duff tells me that he has not one but two new comics coming out in May: The Heroic Mosh of Mary’s Son and 2 Stories: Back to the Future 2 and the Entertainer and the Student and the Man With the Purple Face. As ever the comics will be available from Malcy’s Missing [...]

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Resurrection optioned

28. April 2008

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Marc Guggenheim and Dave Dumeer’s Resurrection, published by Oni, is the latest comic to be optioned by Hollywood, with Universal doing the deal, the third Oni series to be optioned for a possible movie (although it must be borne in mind optioning a title is not the same as actually getting it made). The alien [...]

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Doctor Who scores big at the BAFTA Cymru awards

28. April 2008

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The BBC reports that Doctor Who was the big winner at the BAFTA Cymru awards in Cardiff last night. The show, produced in Cardiff, picked up six gongs, including Best Drama Series, Best Drama Director and Best Screenwriter, while Torchwood (also BBC Wales production) picked up a single award for Best Costume. Another BBC Wales [...]

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Peter Kuper in Zozolala

28. April 2008

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Over on the Ephemerist Wim notes that the free Dutch comics review magazine Zozolala has a feature on Peter Kuper, not to mention this rather splendid bit of cover artwork from Kuper too. And while most of the Zozolala site is in Dutch they have also rather nicely added an international section which includes several articles [...]

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Art Space: Architecture and Landscape Digital Arts Challenge winners

28. April 2008

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Annie at Ballistic Media (no strangers to the blog with their extremely gorgeous books on digital art, which you can see on our webstore here) kindly drops me a line to say that the winners of the NVArt digital art challenge – this year with the theme Art Space: Architecture and Landscape Digital Arts, the [...]

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