Archive | June, 2008
Rotten Tomatoes award
The first Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus Award was given out over the closing weekend of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, with the honours going to Swedish horror movie Let the Right One In. David Edwards, the film critic for the Daily Mirror, was on the panel and commented “The movie was so original. It started [...]
Continue reading...Teen killed by Batman rollercoaster
30. June 2008
Sky News is reporting a horrific incident at the Six Flags over Georgia theme park in which a seventeen year old boy was apparently struck by the Batman rollercoaster travelling at fifty miles per hour and decapitated after climbing some security fences and ignoring the warning signs. Its speculated he climbed into the restricted area [...]
Continue reading...Tom talks to Lynda Barry
30. June 2008
You should motor on over to Comics Reporter (actually you should be reading CR every day) for a very good interview Tom Spurgeon has with the excellent Lynda Barry. It’s quite alarming to read that someone with Lynda’s reputation struggled with getting a new publishing deal – if someone like Lynda has problems in that [...]
Continue reading...Classical Comics announces Japanese deal
30. June 2008
Classical Comics, the new UK publisher who are creating some very fine graphic novel adaptations of classic literature (complete with notes and more to help them work as study aides – very handy for teachers, especially when dealing with reluctant readers or difficult texts), has announced a deal with Japanese publisher Ittosha Incorporated. Ittosha will [...]
Continue reading...John Reppion brings you spooks, ghouls and the scent of blood in dark alleys
30. June 2008
Good chum of the blog John Reppion swaps his comics creator hat for his book writing cap this July – John will be launching 800 Years of Haunted Liverpool (published by the History Press) on Saturday 5th July from 6 to 8pm at the Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, Liverpool. The living, the dead and [...]
Continue reading...Michael Turner passes away
30. June 2008
CBR and many other sites have been reporting the sad news of artist Michael Turner losing his long battle with cancer at the tragically young age of only 37.As Lambiek notes Michael was ‘discovered’ by Marc Silvestri at a comics convention and given work at Top Cow, beginning with background illustrations before becoming involved in [...]
Continue reading...From Our Continental Correspondent – Translation, please: M Le Magicien
30. June 2008
I don’t want to sound posh or anything, but whenever I find a wonderful comic in French, or German, or any language besides English, I feel like I can hype it all I want, if it doesn’t get translated, most of you Brits and Usonians will probably never get a chance to read it. That’s [...]
Continue reading...Doctor Who: The Forgotten news and pics…
30. June 2008
Following on from the announcement of the series, IDW have released more images and information about the new Doctor Who: The Forgotten mini series which is due in August. (via CBR). I could write more here, but Tony’s words at the CBR piece are enough. And the images speak for themselves here anyway. It’s looking [...]
Continue reading...Propaganda – The Dark Knight Strikes Again.
29. June 2008
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley They said Miller couldn’t repeat the success of Dark Knight Returns. They were right. I thought this was really awful at the time it came out and never actually finished the series to find out how it ended. But on a whim, I picked it up [...]
Continue reading...Boxes update – pdf no longer!
29. June 2008
Back in April I reviewed the first couple of chapters of Ciaran Cross’ Bulkhead: Boxes: The only way you can see any of Ciaran’s work at the moment is online via a PDF download. And I hate reading bloody comics online. People keep telling me that webcomics are the future and I’m missing out because I [...]
Continue reading...Twelve most overlooked comics in the last dozen years from Tom, two from me, what about you?
29. June 2008
A fascinating post from Tom Spurgeon over at the Comics Reporter that I felt deserved a little exposure here as well. 12 comics from the last 12 years worthy of looking at again. There’s a few favourites on there (Paris, Jar of Fools, New Love) but a lot of very interesting books to hunt down and [...]
Continue reading...Birmingham’s Got Talent
28. June 2008
Press release from Shane Chebsey of the Birmingham International Comic Show: This year at the Birmingham International Comics Show budding writers will be given the chance to enter the BICS GOT TALENT writing contest. Entrants will be able to pitch an idea for a Tharg’s Future Shock to a star line up of professional Judges [...]
Continue reading...Welcome to the United States of America creep.
28. June 2008
News from Wizard World Chicago: Judge Dredd is heading back for America publication for the first time since the abortive DC Comics series of ‘94/’95. The new series is going to be coming out from Dynamite Comics in 2009. It’s going to be a completely new series with all new stories. Dynamite does have access to [...]
Continue reading...The Bostin’ Heroes of Matthew Craig ….
28. June 2008
Matthew Craig, author of the lovely Hondle and other comics (reviewed right here) wrote to tell us of a recent piece in the Birmingham Evening Mail: Bostin’ Comic Heroes Flying The Flag For Birmingham. Matthew’s writing a superhero comic based in the lovely West Midlands for the Bostin’ group. The brief is to write: “a Midlands-themed [...]
Continue reading...Terry Pratchett on finding the god in his own head
28. June 2008
Caught this via Neil Gaiman’s journal. Terry Pratchett has been talking to the Daily Mail (someone has to I suppose) about his ideas on faith, God and why he doesn’t believe. So of course this headline is: I create gods all the time – now I think one might exist, says fantasy author Terry Pratchett. Uh, no he [...]
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