Archive | August, 2008

Propaganda – Laika.

19. August 2008

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Laika by Nick Abadzis First Second Nick Abadzis has been working away for many years as a cartoonist yet has never really had that high a profile. I first met his work in Deadline magazine with the excellent Hugo Tate, which quickly evolved from a crude, almost stick like illustration style single page strip into [...]

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Him & Her’s Smuggling Vacation – here comes the predictable outrage….

18. August 2008

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Birmingham’s Sunday Mercury newspaper has picked up on the recently published Him & Her’s Smuggling Vacation, the comedy tale of two hopeless accidental drug smugglers and the nefarious gang of criminals hot on their tails: You may recall that I reviewed it a while back and  thought it was a really good book indeed, funny, [...]

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Paul Gravett on the Edinburgh Book Festival

18. August 2008

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Paul Gravett reports from the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he was making an appearance himself last week and like me he seems to be fairly happy with the world’s biggest literary festival getting into comics and graphic novels, finds some time to take a brief look around the rest of Festival-time Edinburgh and also [...]

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The name’s Blake, Roj Blake…

18. August 2008

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BBC Radio 7 is airing Ben Aaronovitch’s adaptation of Terry Nation’s cult science fiction favourite Blake’s 7, with the first episode, in which Blake is en route to prison planet Cygnus Alpha after a trumped-up court case, airing yesterday with an hour-long episode, the first of three parts. The story has been updated a little [...]

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Propaganda loves Paul Pope & really, really loves THB

18. August 2008

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    (The artist flanked by self portraits. Not just incredibly talented, but also a bit of a hottie. It’s really not fair.) I have loved paul Pope’s work from the moment I saw it and everything he does, as far as I’m concerned, is certainly worth buying. He was responsible for one of the [...]

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24 hour comics and Irish free comics day

18. August 2008

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I don’t normally just paste in details of events but Cliodhna Lyons has summed up the information for the next Dublin 24-hours Comic Day and also Irish Free Comics Day perfectly so I’m not going to bother paraphrasing it: “On the weekend of October 18th/19th We’re going a bit comic mad in Ireland.  We’ll be [...]

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The naughty bits

17. August 2008

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I missed spotting this earlier, but D’Israeli blogged about a recent personal artistic milestone for him – drawing a pair of naked breasts and someone peeing, the first time he’s done so in a mainstream comic (for part 2 of Vort in 2000 AD). Which leads him on to think about the appearance of giant [...]

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Smuggling Vacation on tour

17. August 2008

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The creators behind Him & Her’s Smuggling Vacation, as reviewed and enjoyed greatly in these parts a little while ago are signing in Birmingham next weekend. The signing is being held at Borders in the Bull Ring between 1 & 4pm on Saturday 23rd August. Jas Wilson will be there and is telling us that [...]

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Warren Ellis’ Teleportation idea – move over Hawking, here comes Warren

17. August 2008

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Recently Mr Ellis has been on fine form on his website. But this was just genius: Teleportation should be a matter of simply proving you’re somewhere else. A teleportation device would be a little computer set up to run a single equation. And this equation would prove that you’re somewhere else entirely. You’d plug in [...]

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MeCon 2008

16. August 2008

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This year’s MeCon convention will be held in the Student’s Union of Queen’s University, Belfast from the 29th to 31st of August. The guest of honour this year is Charlie Stross, one of the most innovative, clever and often pretty damned funny writers in science fiction at the moment (Charlie’s latest from Orbit is Saturn’s [...]

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Garen Ewing’s Rainbow Orchid

16. August 2008

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Missed the news released earlier this year that Garen Ewing’s magnificent Rainbow Orchid is finally getting the publication it’s always deserved. Early days yet, but it’s scheduled to be published by Egmont in 3 volumes commencing sometime in 2009. For those of you not reading it, I’ll hand you over to Garen for a description: [...]

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The Dan Lester Mysteries

16. August 2008

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.hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } Oliver Lambden of Modern Monstrosity and the great Tales From The Flat has been in touch to tell of his latest comic release: The Dan Lester Mysteries A new collaboration between Dan Lester (Monkeys Might Puke) and Oliver Lambden (Tales From The Flat). In [...]

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Plugging

15. August 2008

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Rainbow Orchid creator and one of our favourite artists Garen Ewing picks out some talent from the UK small press scene for praise, including our own Darryl Cunningham for his Super-Sam and John of the Night series which features here on the blog every Tuesday. Go and have a look, Garen’s links and plugs reveal [...]

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Next Harry Potter movie delayed

15. August 2008

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The next Harry Potter movie, the Half-Blood Prince, is joining the new Star Trek movie in the ranks of delayed flicks as Warner Bros announced that the film, scheduled for November (in fact it was due a Royal premiere then), will now be put back until July 2009. Despite problems from the writer’s strike the [...]

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The Wrong Door

15. August 2008

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(down, boy, down! Now you see why most pubs don’t allow T-Rexs inside) Ben Wheatley drops me a line about the new comedy coming up on BBC 3 later this month which he has directed and co-written, Wrong Door, which has “super heroes, giant robots, ninjas, clowns, pirates, spaceships and lots and lots of special [...]

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