Archive | April, 2008
From Our Continental Correspondent – seven decades of Spirou
The House of Comics (La Maison de La Bande Dessinée) in Brussels has whipped together a nice little exhibition on seventy years of the fabled Spirou Magazine, one of the three journals (together with Tintin and the later Pilote) that were instrumental in the birth and growth of the Franco-Belgian comic tradition. Spirou was launched by [...]
Continue reading...Frédéric Boilet in Vogue Hommes
28. April 2008
Fanfare’s Stephen Robson tells me that Frédéric Boilet has a whole six-page spread in Vogue Hommes International Special – Erotic, focusing on their first ever publication Yukiko’s Spinach, which as he notes has gone on to be translated into no less than nine different languages, which is damned impressive. “Faut le faire!” as Stephen says. [...]
Continue reading...John Welding Draws The City
28. April 2008
John Welding, as mentioned in this previous post, has an exhibition of his work documenting the city of Wakefield at Wakefield Art Gallery currently. He’s been working for months, out on the streets of Wakefield in all weathers to sketch the city around him. Once back in the studio the work is transferred to [...]
Continue reading...Hot jazz, comedy and cartoons – Humph passes on
28. April 2008
A number of news sources reported over the weekend on the passing of Humphrey Lyttleton at the age of 86, known almost universally as Humph. A lifelong jazz player, respected and influential on the British scene, Humph dabbled in many other areas, including cartooning. He met his friend and fellow jazz musician Wally Fawkes in [...]
Continue reading...Dan Dare at the Science Museum
27. April 2008
Steve Holland reports that the Science Museum in London will be hosting an exhibition entitled Dan Dare and the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain from Wednesday 30th April to Sunday October 25th. From the official description: “Dan Dare’s rocket fleet roars high over Venus to trounce his arch foe – the power-mad Mekon. Meanwhile, back on Earth, [...]
Continue reading...London Underground Comics on Radio 4
27. April 2008
That shy and retiring Oli Smith and the band at London Underground Comics have an interview on Radio 4′ Word of Mouth series coming up this Tuesday As Oli writes: At 4pm on Tuesday 29th of April, the popular radio 4 show about language ‘Word of Mouth’ broadcasts an interview with Oli Smith, Alex Fitch (of Resonance [...]
Continue reading...Propaganda opens the Boxes
26. April 2008
Bukhead: Boxes by Ciaran Cross (Introductory panel to Bulkhead: Boxes by Ciaran Cross) The biggest problem with our modern hyper-connected world is that no-one ever gets the chance to slowly build it seems. Everything is there, available immediately, whereas in the past things developed, they matured, aged and hopefully, over time, got better and better until, by the [...]
Continue reading...Simpsons receives a Prism award
26. April 2008
The Simpsons was one of several shows to be honoured at the Prism awards in Beverly Hills, which are given to mark films and television programmes which offer realistic portrayals of mental health or substance abuse problems. The award was for the episode “Crook and Ladder” which saw a sleep-deprived Homer turning to sleeping pills [...]
Continue reading...The wonderful world of weird noises
25. April 2008
The BBC website has a look back at the aural pioneers of electronic music and bizarre and often wonderful sound effects produced by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which would have been 50 this month but sadly was disbanded some time ago as no longer cost effective. Today creating special sound effects is a lot simpler [...]
Continue reading...The Pilot of the Future in Singapore
25. April 2008
Gary Erskine is getting excited about going to the Singapore Toy and Comic Convention in June and even more excited when he saw some of the large banners for the event, including this impressive Dan Dare one: As Gary puts it “Bloody hell, definitely a step up from a six foot pasting table with a cover [...]
Continue reading...Blade star gets jail term
25. April 2008
Wesley Snipes, star of Marvel’s Blade movie adaptations, has been sentenced to three years in prison over tax offences by a judge in the US. The star had been accused of deliberately not filing tax returns for several years. Before sentencing Snipes apologised to the court and asked for leniency, stating that he was “an [...]
Continue reading...Del Toro to direct The Hobbit
25. April 2008
After years of speculation and with a long-running legal tussle over royalties interfering with it New Line has finally announced that the much-anticipated film version of The Hobbit will now be greenlit. That’s the good news. The bad news is Kiwi director Peter Jackson who so successfully brought Tolkien’s later Lord of the Rings books [...]
Continue reading...Propaganda: Welcome to Strangehaven.
25. April 2008
Strangehaven by Gary Spencer Millidge Gary Spencer Millidge’s Strangehaven has been around for a very long time. And in it’s 13 year publishing history there have been a grand total of 18 issues of his quite wonderful comic. I have to admit I stopped reading it in comic form a while back, since the insufferable wait for [...]
Continue reading...This week’s comics and SF listening
24. April 2008
Alex Fitch has updated us on a raft of comics and science fiction related radio and podcast shows to tune into over the new few days; as ever check Alex’s Panel Borders blog for more details and podcasts of previous shows: “Strip!: Breaking Conventions, 5pm today on Resonance FM Today’s show is all about breaking conventions. Not [...]
Continue reading...Blake’s 7 returning to TV
24. April 2008
News is just hitting the wires that Sky One has greenlit the development of two 60 minute scripts for a revived Blake’s 7, with an eye to a possible new series. “The time is ripe for a revival of a show that represents the best traditions of the genre, not to mention one of the [...]
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