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Cassie Hack – Suicide Girl

22. April 2008

Cassie Hack, the sexy teenage killer of serial killers from Tim Seeley’s Hack/Slash has crossed over from being a comics hottie to being a Suicide Girls model: “People are always describing Cassie as the Suicide Girl type, and now I can definitely answer yes. I have had an account for five years now, and Hack/Slash [...]

P Craig Russell is Lurid

22. April 2008

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Via the fine offices of the Little Chimp Society comes a link to an intriguing video with one of our favourite artists, P Craig Russell where he talks us through some of the pages he is creating for a new adaptation of Sandman: the Dream Hunters. As most of you will remember the original version [...]

Talking Heroes

22. April 2008

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“I definitely see the fun that we get to play with in blurring the line of reality. The mix of the human struggle with the world of the fantastic, coupled and combined and meshed together, lends itself to a greater ride than some very standard, straightforward types of shows – not to take away from [...]

Super-Sam and John-of-the-Night investigate

22. April 2008

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(click the pic to visit full-size version and the complete archive of Darryl’s previous Super-Sam and John-of-the-night strips. Art ©2008 Darryl Cunningham; if you want permission to reproduce any part of it you should ask him) Darryl has been getting some emails from readers about creating his weekly Super-Sam episodes for the blog, so this [...]

3-D Hulk

22. April 2008

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This month’s Empire boasts an incredibly cool 3-D Hulk cover. And no, not one of those lenticular types where you move it to get the effect – this is actually a ‘knobbly’ plastic relief image. It did make me wonder what the smeg was in the package when my subscription copy arrived in the mail, [...]

Doomsday competition

21. April 2008

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Neil Marshall, who was introduced to cinema goers with his werewolves versus squaddies in the Highlands flick Dog Soldiers has his new horror movie about to hit the cinemas. Largely set and shot in Scotland Doomsday tells of a plague which wipes out much of civilisation and the sealing of the Scotland-England border to contain [...]

Heroes scores at the BAFTAs

21. April 2008

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It was slim pickings for the fantastic genres at the annual BAFTA Television awards last night – since its triumphant return to British screens Doctor Who has been picking up awards right, left and centre, but alas not so this year. In fact a look down the list of winners reveals only one SF&F entry [...]

Katherine takes her principles for a look round Clarence’s weird little world

21. April 2008

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The Clarence Principle Written by Fehed Said, with art by Shari Chankhamma Every so often, I review graphic novels for The Irish Times. This is a pretty good gig: I get to talk about comics in a national newspaper, introducing some of the best works available to an audience that might otherwise never even hear [...]

Metaphrog in Edinburgh this week

21. April 2008

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A wee reminder than Sandra and John from Glasgow-based Metaphrog, home to the brilliant Louis graphic novels, will be giving a talk this week at the National Library of Scotland on Edinburgh’s George IV Bridge as part of the ongoing Local Heroes: the Art of the Graphic Novel exhibition. The event is on Wednesday 23rd [...]

Farscape comics

21. April 2008

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The Muppet Newsflash, a blog dedicated to all things Henson, reports that Boom! Studios have signed a deal to produce all-new tales which will expand on the characters and situations from Henson’s Farscape science fiction series. I’m a huge Farscape fan – despite the often wonderfully weird aliens and settings it had more realism than [...]

James Bond’s new submarine car

21. April 2008

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The BBC reports that a stunt driver on the new Bond flick Quantum of Solace (which I still think sounds more like the name of an Emo band consisting entirely of physicists) has crashed the British superspy’s Aston Martin DBS into Lake Garda in Italy. The unfortunate chap was obviously confused and mistook it for [...]

Templesmith is a Who fan

21. April 2008

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“The biggest influence on me sci-fi wise has to be the BBC prop and art departments on old classic Doctor Who episodes,” Ben Templesmith . Ben Templesmith, creator of some brilliantly atmospheric comics art, is the subject for a new column about science fiction art by a couple of my favourite literary types, Ann and [...]

London Underground Comics – No Barcodes

20. April 2008

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The small press marketing phenomenon of London Underground Comics continues with their latest event: No Barcodes. According to the London Underground site: We are proud to announce our first mini-con: No Barcodes, the first of two events planned over the summer. An indoor area of Camden Lock Market has been set aside for us and [...]

Paul Gravett and Nick Abadzis in the Guardian.

20. April 2008

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This Saturday’s Guardian saw a couple of items of interest for readers of the blog: First, as Joe’s already mentioned, we had Nick Abadzis unveiling his new comic strip; Cora’s Breakfast. It’s an all-ages strip of Alien breakfast cereal that runs for the next six weeks. Interestingly, according to Abadzis on his website, the six [...]

Radio 4: The Reunion – bringing together DC Thompson’s finest.

19. April 2008

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Down The Tubes and Lew Stringer bring news of a special comics related Reunion, a Radio 4 programme this Sunday 20th April, from 11:15 to 12:00 noon. It’s spotlighting a host of creators from the heyday of the Beano and the Dandy. “The main interviewees are artists Bill Ritchie (of Baby Crockett fame, more about [...]

Archive | April, 2008

Cassie Hack – Suicide Girl

P Craig Russell is Lurid

Talking Heroes

Super-Sam and John-of-the-Night investigate

3-D Hulk

Doomsday competition

Heroes scores at the BAFTAs

Katherine takes her principles for a look round Clarence’s weird little world

Metaphrog in Edinburgh this week

Farscape comics

James Bond’s new submarine car

Templesmith is a Who fan

London Underground Comics – No Barcodes

Paul Gravett and Nick Abadzis in the Guardian.

Radio 4: The Reunion – bringing together DC Thompson’s finest.

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