Archive | April, 2008

Mark Millar in the Herald this Saturday

24. April 2008

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Teddy Jamieson kindly drops me a line to say that he has an interview with top Scottish comics scribe Mark Millar coming up in the magazine section of this Saturday’s Herald. Sadly it doesn’t look like the interview is going onto the Herald’s website so readers will need to pick up the print version of [...]

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Dead Signal

24. April 2008

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Matthew Badham talks to Al Ewing and PJ Holden, ostensibly about their new 2000 AD strip Dead Signal, but as Matthew comments the conversation, as they usually do, rambles on to all sorts of other areas, including the small press in the UK, the US market. Dredd, influences and aspirations in a massive, multi-part interview: [...]

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April in Paris with Propaganda

24. April 2008

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Paris by Andi Watson and Simon Gane There’s something unmistakably cool about Paris, that sense of romance and mystery, the impossibly attractive people, the beauty of the surroundings, the little cafe bars with beautiful people sipping on espressos and Gitane smoke blowing in the wind. And as it is in the city, so it is [...]

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Writing on a Blank Slate – Matthew Badham talks to FPI’s Kenny Penman

23. April 2008

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As many of our regular readers will know our own Kenny Penman has been heavily involved in not only selling and promoting good new comics material, he’s now involved in actually publishing them through the new Blank Slate imprint, starting with Oliver East’s Trains Are Mint and a translation of German cartoonist Mawil’s work We [...]

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Chinese pirates

23. April 2008

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Anyone working in the book trade is aware that the far east and China feature fairly often in trade news for unauthorised copying or pirating of copyrighted material for resale. Over on Down The Tubes John Freeman has a report (with a plethora of links for further reading) on how this has recently affected some [...]

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The Preventive Maintenance Monthly

23. April 2008

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BibliOdyssey has posted a feast of Will Eisner illustrations from The Preventive Maintenance Monthly, a US Army publication, with work from 1951 to 1972. Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries has posted full copies online – check BibliOdyssey for a whole pile of larger-scale Eisner images like this one above from 1969 and this ‘titter ye not’ [...]

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La Muse is not happy

23. April 2008

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Events are moving towards a climax in Adi Tantimedh and Hugo Petrus’ excellent La Muse. And she looks less than happy… I’ll confess I’m eager to see where they guys take this series for the ending since it has consistently proven to be a brilliant read with a story which plays with some superhero cliches [...]

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Man held for killing dragon

23. April 2008

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Various news services are reporting that a man has been arrested by police and charged with illegally killing an animal from an endangered species. The man who was wearing antique armour plate and would only give his name as ‘George’ was charged under the Protection of Wildlife Act after admitting killing a dragon. Far from [...]

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“I look like an anime character”

23. April 2008

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The delectable Christina Ricci talks to Sci Fi Wire about her role as Trixie in the Wachowski’s upcoming live-action movie adaptation of the classic manga and anime Speed Racer and finds that she is perfectly cast for the role: “I have big eyes and a small chin. People have told me that I looked like [...]

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Bond bound

23. April 2008

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No, not some slash BDSM variation on James Bond but an exhibition at the Fleming Collection in London entitled “Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design” which is one of a number of events to mark the centenary of Bond creator Ian Fleming’s birth (on May 28th). From the website’s description: “Bond [...]

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Propaganda – Jenika Ioffreda talks Vampire Free Style

23. April 2008

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Following on from yesterday’s review of Jenika Ioffeda‘s great comic Vampire Free Style I thought it would be nice to drop her an email and ask a couple of questions: Richard: First up, a little bit of your background. Where did you grow up and what brought you to comics in the first place? Jenika: [...]

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Shock news – Darth Vader is bad!

22. April 2008

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Best science fiction related story I’ve heard today – BBC radio is reporting two men have been assaulted in the street by a man dressed in a Darth Vader costume. And here we all thought he turned back to the good side at the end of Return of the Jedi. No, really, it was on [...]

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Constellation Awards nominations

22. April 2008

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Marketwire reports that the Constellation Awards, an annual Canadian awards which honours the best in science fiction and fantasy television and film, has posted up this year’s nominees, with our beloved Doctor Who (which is a British-Canadian co-production) scooping up no less than six nominations, including David Tennant in the Best Male Performance category (where [...]

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Propaganda – Jenika Ioffreda’s Vampire Free Style

22. April 2008

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Vampire Free Style by Jenika Ioffreda Vampire Free Style is an absolutely delightful book, with much to offer to a wide range of comic and non-comic readers. There’s a lightness and playfulness throughout the book but the cuteness coexists happily with a sense of loss and sadness that, if Jenika handles it right in forthcoming [...]

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Torchwood Magazine – featuring Simon Furman and Paul Grist

22. April 2008

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Completely passed me by (and unless I’m mistaken, everyone else as well) but Simon Furman’s blog has news of the new Torchwood magazine – released April 17th, with a new 10 part comic strip “Rift War” by Furman and drawn by the wonderful Paul Grist. “Rift War … sees the team face an alien race [...]

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