Archive | July, 2008
Caption Comics Collective
Via Andy Luke comes news of a comics art exhibition ahead of this August’s Caption convention: “The Caption Comics Collective will be running an exhibition at the Oxford Jam Factory with a launch party this Thursday July 31st from around 6:30pm and another the evening before Caption (August 8th). In attendance this Thursday Matt Brooker, [...]
Continue reading...Ray Bradbury talks
29. July 2008
The great Ray Bradbury talks to Steve Wasserman, editor of the LA Times book review section, discussing not only Ray’s considerable work and influence across the decades but the perilous state of independent bookstores, literary reviews (the aforementioned LA Times is apparently dropping a separate book review section after many years), the poor health of [...]
Continue reading...Eisner awards time
29. July 2008
Via Tom Spurgeon’s Comics Reporter comes the full list of the weekend’s Eisner Award winners. James Jean continues to be unstoppable, winning yet another award for his cover art – any day now he will take over the world and rule us all… Y: the Last Man, which has just finished a powerhouse run (one [...]
Continue reading...Space tourism and happy birthday to NASA
29. July 2008
Science fiction edges a little closer to science fact as Richard Branson’s rather optimistically titled Virgin Galactic (Galactic? Has anyone explained the concept of astronomical distances to his marketing brand people? Oh well, we can forgive their enthusiasm, I think) space tourism jet and pod are exhibited to the public. The odd-looking ‘double jet’ design [...]
Continue reading...Super-Sam – Boss Millions is worried…
29. July 2008
As the ramifications of recent events continue even crime mastermind Boss Millions is becoming concerned in this week’s special two-part episode of Super-Sam: (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 permission to reproduce any part of it you [...]
Continue reading...O Men and gay superheroes in Brighton – Matt Badham dons his sparkliest spandex to talk to Martin Eden
29. July 2008
Martin Eden is the writer and artist behind the Eagle award-nominated comic, The O Men, an action-packed superhero soap opera. By day he’s a mild-mannered magazine editor, but at night he becomes a whirling dervish of creativity, whose comics are some of the most popular on the ever-burgeoning British independent comics scene. Matt Badham tracked [...]
Continue reading...Ralph Steadman on sea shanties
28. July 2008
Ralph Steadman, surely one of the best British illustrators of the last few decades, will be a guest on BBC 6 Music this afternoon on the Pete Mitchell show which runs from 1pm to 4pm (sorry, don’t know at what point during that Ralph will be on). Ralph is appearing just ahead of the opening [...]
Continue reading...Gary Erskine event added to the Edinburgh Book Festival
28. July 2008
The Edinburgh International Book Festival and Gary Erskine have both been in touch today to say that Gary will be taking part in a late addition to the EIBF programme, which, as reported here, includes a number of graphic novel events again this August. Gary will be appearing on Friday 15th of August from 4.30 [...]
Continue reading...Beano celebrations on DTT
28. July 2008
John Freeman has been busy soliciting and compiling art and memories to celebrate the 70th birthday of the Beano, including contributions from Kevin Sutherland, Stephen Baskerville and Garen Ewing among others. The first part of the birthday tribute can be found right now on Down The Tubes. (Garen Ewing’s interpretation of Leo Baxendale’s Minnie the Minx; [...]
Continue reading...The music of the Who-iniverse
28. July 2008
The weekend saw a special two-part performance at the Proms, the annual classical music festival at the Royal Albert Hall. This year the music from Doctor Who was added alongside the classical repetoire, with Freema Agyeman hosting the event and a special scene written by Russell T Davies with David Tennant was screened. As is [...]
Continue reading...No more Bat songs?
28. July 2008
“There was never any doubt that we were going to be songless, and, trust me, we were flooded with requests from every band in the world. I actually had to say no to some really interesting people,” Oscar winning composer Hans Zimmer explains to the BBC why there were no hit songs in the new [...]
Continue reading...Rod’s musings – Underground, overground, wombling free, indy comics reading wombles are we…
28. July 2008
I was relaxing on Sunday. I was sort of grazing, picking up the newspaper, looking through a magazine, reading a comic, and I found myself dipping in and out of Dez Skinn’s book Comix, The Underground Revolution (2004, Chrysalis Book Group), again. I do this a lot with this sort of book. I read it [...]
Continue reading...Propaganda goes Shazam!
28. July 2008
Billy Batson And The Magic Of Shazam #1 by Mike Kunkel This was picked up on a whim last time I was in Nostalgia & Comics. I’ve always loved Mike Kunkel since I first picked up a copy of Herobear (another one I really should get to reviewing soon actually) and wanted to give his take on [...]
Continue reading...Propaganda returns to Anna Mercury ….
27. July 2008
Anna Mercury # 2 Written by Warren Ellis Art by Facundo Percio (Cover to Anna Mercury #2. Art on this variant cover by Paul Duffield. I still prefer it to the painted cover, but hey, it’s up to you.) I reviewed the first issue of Anna Mercury just a few weeks ago (Right here in fact) and was [...]
Continue reading...Rest In Peace Charlie Brown
27. July 2008
No matter how much affection you hold for the Peanuts gang, this really is something you need to see: (via Journalista)
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