Archive | April, 2008

Three Days In Europe movie news.

19. April 2008

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The graphic novel Three Days In Europe by Antony Johnston and Mike Hawhorne has just been announced as a movie project for Jennifer Garner and Hugh Jackman according to and Variety: “3 Days in Europe,” a romantic adventure following a couple as they face danger and excitement on what was supposed to be the perfect [...]

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Nick Abadzis in the Guardian this weekend

18. April 2008

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Nick Abadzis will have some of his excellent work in the Guardian newspaper starting tomorrow, Saturday 19th April. The Comic is part of the Family section and this weekend sees the first of a strip, Cora’s Breakfast, which will run for the next six weekends. Nick also says that he’s been told the strip should [...]

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This Septic Isle

18. April 2008

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“This royal throne of kings, this Sceptred Isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the [...]

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Bill Plympton on the Bat Segundo show

18. April 2008

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The always very excellent Bat Segundo podcast has a whole raft of recent interviews up online with a variety of writers, artists and other creative folk, including, I can’t help but notice, the veteran animator Bill Plympton. The interview takes in Laurel and Hardy (never a bad thing in my book), sawing people in half [...]

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John Welding exhibition at Wakefield Art Gallery

18. April 2008

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John Welding: Drawing The City Wakefield Art Gallery April 26nd – June 22nd Wakefield Art Gallery premiers a major new work in an exhibition by John Welding that opens next weekend; April 26th and runs to June 22nd. (John Welding, April 2008, at work on the last of the five huge 10m rolls of paper [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – The new Blake is the old Mortimer

18. April 2008

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We reported previously about the new Blake And Mortimer album being accompanied by a real media frenzy, especially in francophone Europe. Newspapers and other news outlets were tripping over one another in order to attach their name to this event. But in the end, it all cooled down pretty quickly. I should have known when [...]

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Radical

17. April 2008

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The Geek Syndicate guys have posted up a new podcast which features an interview with Barry Levine, president of Radical Publishing. From Barry’s description of this episode: “Barry explains how we went from being one the top rock photographers in the world,to being a music supervisor then a producer with a first look deal in [...]

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Iron tomes

17. April 2008

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This afternoon I am making myself a little fort using the massive Iron Man omnibus volumes. (the huge Iron Man Omnibus, just arrived fresh from Marvel, from left to right the Jack Kirby, Adi Granov and Movie cover versions. Warning, you may need power armour to actually lift these things...)

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St Trinian’s – the proper version

17. April 2008

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I was reminded by Boing Boing that the St Trinian’s film came out earlier this week. And to celebrate this dubious event I’ve decided to never ever watch it. Instead I’d like to celebrate the St Trinian’s I grew up with. Because, on my fathers bookcase, amongst the classics and the tell tale signs of [...]

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Collected Comics Library talks to Larry Young

17. April 2008

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Chris Marshall, host of the fine Collected Comics Library podcast, has just posted this week’s episode which, in addition to the regular look at new releases and recently announced solicitations, includes a chat with Larry Young, founder and publisher of Ait/PlanetLar, which takes in how to run an independent comics publisher and some of their [...]

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Comics love

17. April 2008

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Via Boing Boing comes a link to illustrator and writer Jeremy Eaton’s blog and an unusual tale of how the Hulk helped his early romantic life; after a letter he wrote to The Incredible Hulk (praising issue #208) was published, complete with his address, he received a letter from Wendy Wilson who had seen it [...]

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Nazi zombies in Glasgow

17. April 2008

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Glasgow is a pretty diverse and vibrant city, full of all sorts of characters, but zombie Nazis? That’s a new one to me. These undead friends of Adolf are not actually roaming Sauchiehall Street however but are actually from an independently produced horror movie, Outpost. Glasgow-based Black Camel Pictures has not only shot the film, [...]

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New Act-I-Vate site

16. April 2008

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One of my favourite webcomic collectives has a very fine, new website – ladies and gentlemen, please check out the shiny new Act-I-Vate site and enjoy some delightful comics goodness such as Dean Haspiel’s Fear My Dear, Josh Neufeld’s Vagabonds, Pedro Camargo’s Glam, Dan Goldman’s Kelly and Tim Hamilton’s brilliantly-monikered Adventures of the Floating Elephant. [...]

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100 comics to read before you die

16. April 2008

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My mate Pádraig Ó Méalóid points me in the direction of a friend of his, Jody McGregor, who is currently writing a series of articles for the Australian magazine Rave entitled 100 Comics to Read Before You Die (or grow out of it), which can also be read on his Live Journal here. Thus far, [...]

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To read or not to read, that is the question

16. April 2008

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When it comes to encouraging people to read the classics it can be something of an uphill struggle. While there are some of us who will cheerfully read anything there are many more who may pick up a Dickens or an Austen with the best of intentions only to struggle with them and finally give [...]

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