Archive | May, 2008

Hunt on Ruskin

27. May 2008

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The one and only Hunt Emerson has updated his recently revamped Large Cow website with a brand new gallery showing some of the work he has done on the famous Victorian writer John Ruskin. Along with collaborator Kevin Jackson, Hunt has previously produced two comics about Ruskin’s work (How to be Rich and How to [...]

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Starting with a Blank Slate – we talk to the people behind the UK’s newest graphic novel publisher

26. May 2008

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FPI: It isn’t too often we see a new graphic novel publisher emerging in Britain, but this month sees the debut of Blank Slate Books, which isn’t just a new UK publisher, it’s a publisher looking to bring us unusual new work – the first two books out of the starting gate are from British [...]

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Propaganda on the work of Matthew Craig and a very good dog indeed.

26. May 2008

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(Cover to Hondle: The Special Edition by Matthew Craig) Back in the good old days, when I used to work at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham I used to be the regular drop off point for Pete Ashton when he operated Bugpowder as a small press distributor service. He introduced me to some wonderful little [...]

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Lurid colour, heaving bosoms and scary monsters

25. May 2008

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Yes, folks, all of these fine British movie Gothic staples – plunging necklines on amply bosomed heroines as they scream, lurid use of colour film and a great array of cinematic monsters – are being celebrated as the Royal Mail issues stamps commemorating fifty years of the one and only Hammer Horror studios. This is [...]

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Batman: The Dark Knight website relaunch.

25. May 2008

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Warner Brothers have finally stopped with the teasers and given us the full website for the new Batman movie. Packed with trailers, downloads, gallery and more. It’s really looking like a great movie already and it’s pretty obvious that Ledger’s joker is going to steal the show. Although I still hear Nicholson in the laughter [...]

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Crikey! It’s Saturday! – Girls and Boys

24. May 2008

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“Girls who are boys Who like boys to be girls Who do boys like theyre girls Who do girls like theyre boys Always should be someone whose comics you really love” (with apologies to Blur) Here’s a paradox about Crikey!, the Great British Comics Magazine: our subscription list is easily 95% male (and I suspect [...]

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The worst 10 album covers by comic artists

24. May 2008

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Topless Robot selects the 10 worst album covers by comic book artists. I’m not sure I agree that they’re all truly awful, but it’s a fun little list. Including this one – can you guess who did this? Would you believe it was Dave Gibbons? From 1976, some ten years before Watchmen. (via)

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Hi-Ex 2009 announced

24. May 2008

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After Joe had such a lovely time at the 2008 Inverness Hi-Ex Comics Festival it’s great to be able to bring you news that it’s going ahead in 2009 (yay! Rich told me they were planning one, but terrific to see it officially confirmed. After this year’s success let’s hope more Brit publishers and artists [...]

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Katherine picks up her chopsticks to tuck into a generous portion of Rice Boy

23. May 2008

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What can I say about Evan Dahm’s Rice Boy? I could say that it’s the best webcomic I’ve ever read. I could say that it’s a surreal epic on a scale very few creators even attempt to cover. I could say that it’s captivating, charming, beautiful, moving, and utterly unique. I could say that if [...]

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New Flash Gordon movie?

23. May 2008

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The Hollywood Reporter has a brief article saying that Columbia are interested in acquiring the film rights to make a new Flash Gordon movie. The recent SciFi Channel ‘update’ of the Flash mythos proved to be, how can I put it, less than stellar (okay that’s code for stinking like a flatulent demon donkey, which [...]

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Creole Asterix

23. May 2008

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Doubeclix’s Asterix blog reports that the diminutive Gaulish hero has added another translation to the numerous languages the world-conquering series is already published in: Caraïbéditions have now published Asterix in Creole. According to Doubeclix different variations on Creole are used in the book by different character groups to differentiate them. (link via Neorama)

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Rubrique A Brac celebrated

23. May 2008

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Forty years ago, in the revolutionary year of 1968, as Parisian students ripped up the cobblestones, the quintessential French comics magazine Pilote (founded by Astérix creator René Goscinny and birthplace of many a good French comic) saw the début of a new, offbeat and soon to become incredibly popular series that, frankly, was nothing but [...]

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From graphical diaries to zombies – Alex’s audio

22. May 2008

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Yes, folks, it is Thursday afternoon already (yes, really, where did the week go?), which means it must be time for Alex Fitch to update us with details of what comics and SF&F-related audio delights he has coming up, including a chat with some of the Brit small press creators in the shape of Oli [...]

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“For he who wins this book award with me today shall be my brother…”

22. May 2008

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Okay, I’m sure old Bill Shakespeare will forgive me mangling one of his most famous lines (the speech before the battle at Agincourt) because it is in a good cause: Classical Comics has picked up a gong at the Independent Publisher’s Awards. Their first offering (which has been mentioned here a few times before), Henry [...]

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2D Comics Festival

22. May 2008

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2D, the Northern Ireland Comics Festival gets a good write up in the Londonderry Sentinel ahead of this year’s bash which takes place from June the 5th to 7th in Derry City, with a great mix of artists appearing (including Jock, David Hine, Laura Howell, Ilya and Charlie Adlard), panels, competitions and classes; for full [...]

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