Archive | June, 2008

Shome mishtake shurely, Misshhh Moneypenny?

19. June 2008

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Okay, not strictly comics or science fiction, but since he’s played the most famous (and best – no arguments!) incarnation of James Bond and made more than a few genre movies in his time I thought this pic might make a nice follow-up to yesterday’s post about the start of the Edinburgh International Film Festival [...]

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Methuselah’s Children

19. June 2008

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BBC 7 is broadcasting a reading (by Paul Birchard) of Bob Heinlein’s classic tale of longevity and the fear of the Other, Methuselah’s Children (which first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction, 1941) – its a six-part adaptation and only started Monday, so you can still use the listen again feature to catch the first three [...]

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Eddie Campbell at Page 45

19. June 2008

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The brilliant Eddie Campbell will be making an appearance at Page 45 – understandably they are pretty damned happy at this. In fact Eddie is globetrotting from Australia to America, thence to Blighty and Page 45, which is going to have a launch party for his new graphic novel from First Second (which has rapidly [...]

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You want Moore? You got it!

19. June 2008

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Last week we posted the first part of a fascinating interview of Alan Moore by Irish comics and SF expert Pádraig Ó Méalóid, in which they discussed Alan’s earlier body of comics work and his contemporary titles such as The Lost Girls and the next installments in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, as well as [...]

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Edinburgh International Film Festival opens tonight

18. June 2008

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The Edinburgh International Film Festival opens this evening and runs to the 29th of June, its first time in its controversial new slot (for the rest of its history it has been part of the massive Edinburgh Festival period in August, the world’s biggest cultural event). As usual the EIFF team have assembled a pretty [...]

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Punisher War Zone trailer

18. June 2008

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Marvel’s site has a brief first teaser trailer for the upcoming Punisher: War Zone movie (well what sort of title did you expect for a Punisher movie? Frank and the Teddy Bears?). The film, directed by Lexi Alexander, stars Ray Stevenson and a name familiar to fans of Buffy and Angel, Julie Benz (who played [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Bo Doï goes digital

18. June 2008

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Bo Doï (possibly the best French mainstream comics magazine), has joined many other publications and gone digital. Starting with issue #119, people who don’t live in Francophone Europe can also enjoy this great magazine, thanks to French online press agent ZePresse. Digital as well as paper versions will cost € 6.50 (seems a bit steep [...]

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Todd Klein offering new signed Gaiman print

18. June 2008

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You might remember a few months back master letterer and designer Todd Klein created a cracking limited edition signed print with Alan Moore, Alphabets of Desire. He’s just announced a new print, this time collaborating with Neil Gaiman. From Todd’s description: “Todd Klein is proud to announce the sale of his second signed print, this [...]

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Midnight Fiction does small press round up

18. June 2008

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Richard Krauss at Midnight Fiction has posted a feast of small press reviews, including a couple of different comics by British comickers Martin Buxton and Tony Wicks, with their Crowman and Jack in the Box, as well as reviews of Comics Fan #3, comics anthology Slam Bang #3, Andrew Farago’s Red Menace, Steve Steiner’s Everyone [...]

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Propaganda is Spent

18. June 2008

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Spent by Joe Matt A while ago I reviewed Evan Dorkin’s work in Dork and watched as he seemed to be putting his possible nervous breakdown onto paper with a power and intensity that was both disturbing and fascinating. Joe Matt’s been teetering on the edge of complete personality breakdown for as long as I’ve [...]

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Ask the Shat

17. June 2008

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The BBC site will be interviewing the mighty William Shatner soon and is taking questions from the public to put to the Star Trek legend, swing by the Beeb site to try your luck and put in a question.

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We’ve lost Stan Winston

17. June 2008

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Very sad news emerging on Wired and many other websites – special effects wizard Stan Winston has died at the far too young age of 62. Stan and the Stan Winston Studio have been involved in some of the most spectacular (and successful) movies of the last few years, including Aliens, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park [...]

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Who sent the monsters? Super-Sam investigates…

17. June 2008

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Following on from recent turbulent events – a nuclear blast, strange graffiti symbols and the emergence of some sort of bizarre monster its time for Super-Sam and John-of-the-Night to investigate… (click the pic to visit full-size version and the complete archive of Darryl’s previous Super-Sam and John-of-the-night strips. Art ©2008 Darryl Cunningham; if you want [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Comme d’Habitude

17. June 2008

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Today we have another excerpt from the recent special edition of the famous Pilote, which celebrated the events of May ’68 in France (see here for Wim’s original post and here for the excerpt of Christophe Blain’s contribution – Joe). In this story, Jean-Paul Krassinsky brings back Claude François, one of the biggest stars in [...]

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Pitkämies store opens

17. June 2008

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Some great news from the land of the Midnight Sun (wasn’t she a villain in Modesty Blaise?? Maybe not…) as Jelle Hugaerts, no stranger to the blog, drops us a line to let us know about his new venture. As regular readers will already know Jelle has been a keen supporter of comics in Finland, [...]

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