Archive | June, 2008

Doctor Who – The Ten Doctors

24. June 2008

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The Ten Doctors by Richard Morris. is a work of speculative fan fiction. Doctor Who and all characters featured are absolutely, definitely and completely (c) the BBC. This stole away an hour of my night last night so it’s time to share. Richard Morris has spent 15 months to give us 102 pages of Dr [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Belgium comes to New York

23. June 2008

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While I was going over my posts of the past few months, I noticed that I seem to have a knack for pointing you, my dear readers, to exhibitions and events that you probably won’t be able to attend, due to limitations of time and space (that’s why we all need our own TARDIS – [...]

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Eddie Campbell interview. Now, would anyone know a publisher?

23. June 2008

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Toward the end of this nice Publisher’s Weekly interview with Eddie Campbell, it’s revealed that he’s had the book he’s currently working on rejected by 6 publishers so far. Call me naive but the final paragraph had me sitting here open mouthed….. I’m working on a book titled The Playwright, which is about the sex [...]

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Locus awards 2008

22. June 2008

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Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing reports that this year’s prestigious Locus Awards have been announced, with Michael ‘The Escapist’ Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union winning the best science fiction novel category. I just finished reading it last month when it was the choice for the Edinburgh SF Book Group; its an alternate history, where the [...]

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Hulk vs Spidey. No contest…..

22. June 2008

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This one comes via our very own Wim, and he got it via, who got it via (you get the idea). But the original is here by Manarama. It’s your friendly neighbourhood web-slinger looking like he’s about to get ripped limb from limb by a very mean looking Hulk.

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SFX Magazine Top 100 Sci-Fi Authors

21. June 2008

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Via Neil Gaiman’s blog comes a link to a post about news of a recent SFX magazine top 100 thingy. (No, in answer to the obvious question, I can’t find anything on the SFX website to directly link to). This time it was Top 100 Sci-Fi Authors compiled from lists sent in by the public. [...]

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Crikey! It’s Saturday! – From Dundee, with love

21. June 2008

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It’s a sobering thought that DC Thomson has been producing comics of one sort or another for well over a hundred years. Think about that for a second. Think about all those words, pages, drawings and characters that one company has produced. Think of the writers, editors, artists and letterers that have worked on that [...]

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Nick Abadzis’ Trial Of The Sober Dog archive now online

21. June 2008

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A while back we posted about the new Nick Abadzis strip; The Trial Of The Sober Dog that is being published in the Times every Monday. Unfortunately the archive at the Times has yet to include the comics themselves so luckily Nick has taken it upon himself to put the archive online at his own [...]

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Charlie Stross on Second Life

20. June 2008

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Top British science fiction scribe – and one of my personal favourites – the incredibly inventive and well-bearded Charlie Stross will be making a virtual appearance via Second Life this weekend. Charlie will be appearing in Sophrosyne’s Special Salon, Saturday, June 21, from 1-2:30 pm SLT. From the site’s description: “Charlie will discuss the Singluarity [...]

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The dark age of comics?

20. June 2008

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Recently I’ve been reading The Dark Age: Grim, Great and Gimmicky Post-Modern Comics by Mark Voger, and it’s been making me think. Conventional wisdom has it that the 1990s were a bad time for American comics. This was the era of the speculation boom-and-bust, of Marvel’s acquisition of Heroes World distributors which led to the [...]

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AFI names top ten genre movies

20. June 2008

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The American Film Institute has named “America’s 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres“, among them Animation, Fantasy and Science Fiction. Unsurprisingly Walt Disney dominates the Animation top ten – Snow White and the Seven Dwarves took the number one spot and while there are more interesting animations (even if we only restrict ourselves to [...]

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Propaganda escapes into the Escapists

20. June 2008

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The Escapists Written by Brian K Vaughn Art by Steve Rolston, Jason Shawn Alexander, Phillip Bond and Eduardo Barreto. “We can break through the panel borders and free a fictional character from the printed page. We can convince the world that the Escapist is real.” These are the words of Maxwell Roth, writer and copyright [...]

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Harvey Award Nominations 2008

20. June 2008

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It’s award nomination time again, this time it’s The Harvey Awards 2008, named after that great of comics, Harvey Kurtzman: “the Harvey Awards recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. Nominations for the Harvey Awards are selected exclusively by creators – those who write, draw, ink, letter, color, design, edit or are otherwise involved [...]

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This week’s audio roundup

19. June 2008

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Another Thursday afternoon and that means its time for Alex Fitch’s roundup of his upcoming radio and podcast shows; as ever check the Panel Borders blog for more details and links to previous shows: Strip!: Alternative British heroes, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM Alex Fitch is talking to half a dozen British writers and [...]

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Katie Beaton could save the world

19. June 2008

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I’ve seen the odd link to Katie’s site over the past year or so, but hadn’t really looked at it since I read her first series of very funny cartoons for “History Project” – my how we’ve grown. If you are down in the dumps, bored at work (what! don’t you know there is a [...]

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