Archive | August, 2008

Spider-Man in Edinburgh

15. August 2008

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Walking through the Old Town to work this morning I see a man with one of those large cases-on-wheels trundling along, like any of several thousands of tourists in Edinburgh. Except he had a 2/3 life size Spider-Man on his back as he walked through the rush-hour traffic. Its Edinburgh, its the Festival, hardly anyone [...]

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Vote VanderMeer

15. August 2008

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Author, reviewer, writing lecturer and occasional distributor of micro-brewed ale Jeff VanderMeer has added another string to his bow, with his first column on political fiction for the Huffington Post: “Man-eating sharks, James Bond-style villains with snow-white lap cats, superheroes in capes and tights saving the world. Mmmm, yes. Summer reading. The potent fantasy of [...]

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V for Vendetta, W for Watterson?

15. August 2008

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Via B3TA’s regular image reworking sessions comes some cracking contributions on the theme of ‘cartoon identity crisis‘. Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes re-enact a key scene from V for Vendetta: Being Charlie Brown, good grief: A more realistic Viking outing for Hagar the Horrible (although to be honest with binge drinking and knife culture yobs [...]

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Heroes season 3 trailer online

15. August 2008

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Empire reports that the trailer for season 3 of Heroes is now online and apparently there will be a bit more drama this time around with more nasty villains included. Which is good because to be honest, although I enjoyed bits of season 2, a lot of the time I found it slow and frankly [...]

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Propaganda – Casanova: Luxuria, not just your average sci-fi superspy epic

15. August 2008

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Casanova: Luxuria by Matt Fraction & Gabriel Ba With Casanova, as with The Umbrella Academy, I’m seeing an awful lot of Grant Morrison in here and a fair touch of Warren Ellis as well. But this is no bad thing when Fraction mixes it up so well and, after all,  it’s my own fault for [...]

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IndieReview talks to Declan Shalvey

14. August 2008

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The revamped IndieReview’s Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou talks to Declan Shalvey, artist on the Eagle award-winning Hero Killers, ahead of his work appearing in Classical Comics next literary adaptation, Frankenstein: “the main thing I like about the UK indie scene is the people. Everyone who I’ve met had been absolutely lovely and supportive. Folk like Andy Winter, [...]

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Cannoball!

14. August 2008

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“As in the comics, Matt Murdock is a blind lawyer who is secretly Daredevil. (Unlike the comics, he has dark black hair, at least if the presentation drawing is anything to go by.) By day, he pals around with his teenaged niece and his seeing-eye-dog. But when evil strikes, he becomes Daredevil, his dog becomes [...]

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Book Festival comics gigs

14. August 2008

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With Festival season now well under way in Edinburgh its worth a quick reminder of some of the graphic novel events which the Edinburgh International Book Festival is hosting this month. This evening sees Paul Gravett talking to Robert Deas and Emma Hayley about the Manga Shakespeare from 8.30 to 9.30pm this evening, while on [...]

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Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie and Doctor Who signing at Orbital

14. August 2008

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London’s Orbital Comics has the Grand Comics Wizard of Albion, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie appearing in the store at 148 Charing Cross Road on September 13th from  2pm to 4pm. Alan will be entertaining small children with his hand puppet theatre re-enactments of famous historical executions while Melinda sings appropriate period folk songs. Okay, [...]

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Nite Owl Comics

14. August 2008

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(From the Comic Covers blog via that man Pádraig Ó Méalóid)

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Did You Miss Me? The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8

14. August 2008

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The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 Written and illustrated by Thomas Ott If you have followed Thomas Ott through previous books there won’t be anything here that really surprises – apart from the fact that this is one long story rather than a number of short ones as in most (all?) of his previous books. It’s always a [...]

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Embracing the Gothic in Batman

14. August 2008

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I think it’s only right and proper that there should be an animated debate around the 12A Certificate awarded to the latest Batman movie, Batman: The Dark Knight.  It is, after all, a dark and Gothic tale, and the title and Heath Ledger’s terrifying turn as the Joker, alludes to that.  Will the 12 year-olds [...]

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The Sultan’s Nose

13. August 2008

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The Museum der Weltkulturen (Museum of World Cultures) in Frankfurt is hosting an exhibition of Turkish cartoons in co-operation with the famous Frankfurt Book Fair. Die Nase des Sultans – the Sultan’s Nose- opened on the 9th and runs until November 15th, with work from Tan Oral and Turhan Selçuk, as well as works from [...]

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Ian Edginton and D’Israeli at Gosh! this weekend

13. August 2008

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London’s Gosh! Comics has a cracking two-hour event lined up for this Saturday (16th) from 4 to 6pm, with the dynamic duo of Ian Edginton and Matt “D’Israeli” Brooker appearing to celebrate the new 2000 AD graphic novel from Rebellion collecting their weirdly wonderful steampunk series Stickleback; full details on the Gosh! blog. We’re big [...]

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Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair…

13. August 2008

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Rather cool new stencil grafitti on the side of a Bristol pub, created by Nick Walker, depicting Rapunzel letting down her famously long locks for a hooded artist to climb up, spray can in hand. The pub landlord is apparently quite happy with the work. (via the BBC)

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