Archive | August, 2008
Springfield Punx
Very nice entry in the burgeoning comic mashup game that seems to be everywhere at the moment (see Evan Shaner’s work and the recent Disney Sin City), Dean Fraser has a blog called Springfield Punx where he’s busy Simpsonising all of the characters we all know and love. My favourite so far is this Watchmen [...]
Continue reading...Spleenal at Blank Slate – it’s official
22. August 2008
You’ll hopefully forgive the almost repeat posting, but like I said before, we like Spleenal here on the FPI blog. He’s funny, draws some great stuff, but would be considered a really risky prospect to many publishers as his outlook is slightly, shall we say, un-PC. However, our own Kenny Penman, one of the directors of [...]
Continue reading...Apocalipstix
22. August 2008
The Apocalipstix Written by Ray Fawkes, art by Cameron Stewart Published by Oni Press Here’s an object lesson in marketing: 90% of my reason for buying The Apocalipstix was the title, because even if it isn’t an Invisibles reference, it’s a bloody cool title. Unfortunately, the content of the book doesn’t quite measure up. The premise is one [...]
Continue reading...Filmhouse tribute to Stan Winston
21. August 2008
The gem of a cinema that is the Edinburgh Filmhouse will be screening a 70MM print of Aliens this Saturday (23rd) as a tribute to the great special effects legend Stan Winston, who died far too young earlier this year.
Continue reading...Propaganda in the world of the Little Vampire
21. August 2008
Little Vampire volume 1 by Joann Sfar First Second Little Vampire is a delightful all-ages comic that reminded me greatly of Jill Thompson’s Scary Godmother since all of the monsters and ghosts are the nice kind and I very much doubt that any child capable of reading and understanding the topics addressed would find much to be scared [...]
Continue reading...Dave McKean wows Edinburgh Book Festival
20. August 2008
“‘T’was a dark and stormy night, The rain the heaviest I’d seen, And yet in their dozens they came, To see Mister Dave McKean. He gave us all visuals to delight And soon we forgot the wet, chilly night.” Apologies, I’ve been looking over some old William McGonagle poetry again, I should know better at my age… But it was indeed [...]
Continue reading...The pen is mightier than the sword – especially when writing a Death Note
20. August 2008
“The human whose name is written in this note shall die…” No manga series has truly hit the big time until it’s got at least a TV adaptation, whether live-action or anime (or sometimes both), and preferably also drama CDs, character song CDs, light novels, visual novels, video games, and miscellaneous “character goods”. But it’s relatively [...]
Continue reading...Many Worlds of Jonas Moore webcomic optioned by MGM
19. August 2008
I’ve posted on here a number of times about enjoying the mixed-media graphic novel The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore, an online comic which uses the multimedia abilities of the web to incorporate archive footage, live action, music and photography along with comics panels as it depicts Jonas Moore (Bond actor Colin Salmon and his [...]
Continue reading...Cruising Sleeper
19. August 2008
Tom Cruise and Sam Raimi are currently developing Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ DC series Sleeper for a movie and potentially even a film franchise. Cruise is involved in developing the film with Raimi but he may also star in it as well. Sleeper saw Criminal creators Brubaker and Phillips abandon their hard-edged drama for [...]
Continue reading...Danish cartoon controversy rumbles on – into sictom land
19. August 2008
The continuing fall-out from the Danish Muhammad cartoons has rumbled on and on around the world in a variety of ways, from the predictable (outraged flag burners, threats to cartoonists) to the unexpected (a fair old ding dong in Canada over human rights laws and freedom of expression). But now its had a more unusual [...]
Continue reading...Sexing up Tintin
19. August 2008
Antonio Altarriba’s Pink Lotus, an unauthorised Tintin story which sees the boy detective now in his 30s, undergoing a midlife crisis and including scenes of graphic sex, has, unsurprisingly, been withdrawn by the Spanish publisher Edicions de Ponent after the Hergé estate brought its legal muscle to bear. Its understandable that a publisher would protect [...]
Continue reading...“Very sexy, very violent” – Dave Gibbons Q&A at the BFI
19. August 2008
The Times’ Michael Moran reports in his regular Blockbuster Buzz column on a recent Q&A with Dave Gibbons he attended at the BFI. Dave was there principally to talk about his forthcoming book Watching the Watchmen, which is due this autumn in both a regular hardcover and a Previews exclusive edition, but of course the [...]
Continue reading...Who watches the lawyers – Watchmen legal tussle threatens Warner’s
19. August 2008
CBR reports on an ongoing legal tussle between Fox and Warner Brothers over the film adaptation of the Watchmen, with Fox citing various production deals going back to the 90s and old contracts with producers who had obtained certain rights such as distribution which have, so the argument goes, reverted to Fox. A judge has [...]
Continue reading...the Pratchgan – a Terry Pratchett Afghan quilt
19. August 2008
Boing Boing has a link to this lovely bit of quilt making (there’s something I never thought I’d be mentioned on here!) by a group of Terry Pratchett fans. The Ankh Morpork Knitter’s Guild have been working on the Pratchett Afghan quilt, or Pratchgan as it has been dubbed, for some time – the finished [...]
Continue reading...Super-Sam – down but not out
19. August 2008
Our hero may have crashed to Earth – metaphorically and literally – but although he’s down, Sam isn’t out: (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 should ask him)
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