Archive | May, 2008

To boldy eat cake which no man has eaten before…

29. May 2008

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Cake, the final frontier… How fabulous is this classic Star Trek cake? It was created by Duff Goldman, who has a bakery in Baltimore which often features on the show Ace of Cakes on the Food Network. I like the way Duff has even got the little Kirk figure in a very Shatner-esque pose in [...]

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Katherine on the radio

28. May 2008

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Regular contributor to the blog Katherine Farmar appeared on RTE’s Ryan Tubridy show on Monday to discuss the venerable institution that is the Beano and British children’s comics in general. If, like me, you missed it, the show has an extensive archive online – check the section for this May and go to Monday 26th [...]

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No Barcodes – David Baillie chats to Tom Humberstone

28. May 2008

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With the No Barcodes mini-convention organised by London Underground Comics coming up this Saturday (31st), one of the cartoon activists involved in the Camden market comics scene (and also one of our favourite British small press creators) David Baillie took it upon himself to talk to some of his fellow small press creators who are [...]

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No Barcodes event at Camden…..

28. May 2008

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We put the promotion up for this event over a month ago now, but it’s happening this Saturday 31st May: London Underground Comics presents … No Barcodes. From their website: As part of London Underground Comic’s campaign of bringing comics back to the underground by making small press cheap, cheerful and accessible, we are proud [...]

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Propaganda does indeed think Trains Are … Mint

28. May 2008

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Trains Are…Mint By Oliver East. (Cover to the new hardback collection of Trains Are…Mint issues 1-3 published by Blank Slate Books) First a disclaimer……. Trains Are…Mint is published by Blank Slate Books, a new company co-owned by Kenny Penman and James Hamilton who are both directors at Forbidden Planet International. Kenny’s also the gent who [...]

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Oli East in the Big Issue

28. May 2008

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Matthew Badham has an interview with Oliver East in the new edition of The Big Issue, discussing his work and the new hardback collection of Trains Are Mint: “If even one person in here had heard of my comic then I’d be over the moon. That’s better than any number of good reviews because this [...]

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Malcy Duff at the CCA

28. May 2008

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In addition to exhibiting some of his art at the 3 Harbours Festival which kicks off this weekend (alongside Prestonpandemonium) Malcy Duff tells me that he will also have a table at the CCA Book Fair, a non-profit event which has a focus on alternative and independent publishers, from 12 noon to 6pm on Friday [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Monsieur Alan Moore sur le Radio

28. May 2008

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As the French comics magazine BoDoï mentions, France Culture will broadcast a two-part interview with Alan Moore over the next two weeks (the first time a French radio station has broadcast an interview with Alan, according to the BoDoï article – Joe). As a part of the show Mauvais Genre, the interview will be will [...]

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Tripping into the Studio – a chat with Joel Meadows

28. May 2008

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Joel Meadows is a name well-known to many in the UK comics scene (and much, much further afield too). With a new volume of the now-annual Tripwire due later this summer, the new Studio Space comic art book coming from Image and a bunch of appearances in stores and at comics conventions it seemed like [...]

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Erlangen – the comics awards

27. May 2008

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Graphic Novels has a list of the winners of the Max und Moritz prizes, pretty much the pre-eminent German comics awards, given out at last weekend’s Erlangen Comics Salon. The Best Comic Strip award went to Nicolas Mahler for “Flaschko – Der Mann in der Heizdecke” (“the man in the electric blanket”), Best German Language [...]

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Pantheon to publish A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

27. May 2008

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Josh Neufeld reports some great news – his comic A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge will be collected and published by Pantheon in hardback in August 2009. A.D. has appeared online in SmithMag, a very worthy successor to their previously hosted webcomic Shooting War, which also received great critical response and went on to enjoy [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Pilote celebrates 40 years of May ’68

27. May 2008

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We’re nearing the end of May, and with that, probably, the deluge of commemorations of the revolutionary month of May, 1968 that has swept across the media in France and a bit of Belgium (when it rains in Paris, it drizzles in Brussels). It was as if soixante-huitard all of a sudden was no longer [...]

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Prestonpandemonium update

27. May 2008

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As another bank holiday weekend retreats into the distance don’t despair – next weekend sees the third Prestonpandemonium comics event in East Lothian, just down the coast a little from Edinburgh. Jan Barker kindly sent us an update on what we can expect at this year’s Prestonpandemonium: there will be several traders: Red Hot Comics, [...]

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Comics reporting from the Chinese earthquake

27. May 2008

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Paul Gravett’s site is playing host to an ongoing series of comic strips by Coco Wang detailing events from the horrendous earthquake in China and its aftermath (thanks to Tim Webber for the link). From Coco’s description on Paul’s site: “I don’t know how much information the BBC or any UK media received from us, [...]

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Graffiti – vandalism? Urban art? Or portal to monsters?

27. May 2008

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Graffiti – for some the bane of urban life, mindless vandalism; for others urban art that brightens the environment (or maybe makes you a lot of money if Banksy does the side of your building!). But for others the problem of graffiti has much more serious consequences: (click the pic to visit full-size version and [...]

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