Archive | September, 2008
Octobriana – more incredibly strange comics
Whilst reading through and subsequently reviewing Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury’s excellent new book (and ideal stocking filler) The Leather Nun and other Incredibly Strange Comics I had a sudden blast of nostalgia. My memory, always a vague, nebulous thing, suddenly kicked in as I turned to the page on Octobriana. I remember this I thought. [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Raymond Macherot passed away at 84
26. September 2008
On the night of September 25th, Belgian comic creator Raymond Macherot died at the age of 84. He was one of the last creators of the heydays of the Franco-Belgian comic, and was responsible for some of the best animal comics created in that era, as well as the quintessential secret agent pastiche, Clifton. (Raymond Macherot, [...]
Continue reading...The Vampire
26. September 2008
After seven decades in the hands of a private art collector Edvard Munch’s famous work Vampire, normally held to be a thematic cousin to his more famous The Scream, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in New York at the start of November. Its widely anticipated that Vampire is likely to go for around [...]
Continue reading...Modern Art and Moore
26. September 2008
“Moore makes artists like the Chapmans look like the middle-class entertainers they are. He’s a real force of imagination in a world that is full of fakes. If there was any justice this man would get the Turner Prize,” Jonathan Jones on the Guardian’s art blog. Along the way Jonathan (quite rightly in my not [...]
Continue reading...Gentleman Jim by Raymond Briggs – a classic back in print at long last
26. September 2008
Gentleman Jim by Raymond Briggs Jonathan Cape Raymond Briggs occupies a strange position in the lives of most people, whether they happen to be comic readers or not. Thanks to a series of monumentally successful titles he’s incredibly well known in this country and is one of the most popular authors in the country. But he’s primarily known [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Test your eurocomics knowledge
26. September 2008
A new, definitive edition of Yves Chaland’s Coeurs d’aciers was published last week by Belgian publisher Champaka. Coeurs d’aciers is the long lost Spirou Et Fantasio adventure that Atom Style virtuoso Chaland created in 1990, and which took Spirou back to the glory days of the Belgian comic strip in the 1950s. It was the [...]
Continue reading...Pigging out supersize style
26. September 2008
Steven Tillotson announces a he’s supersizing our ability to Pig Out with a new collected edition of the Banal Pig Comics; the new volume collects the first three issues in an A5 format, available now from Stevo’s site, where he’s also sending them out post free until the end of October. (cover to the Collected Banal [...]
Continue reading...“And so I reach the final curtain…”
26. September 2008
the MSN site has a brief look at twelve Best Ever Death Speeches; I can’t help but notice that no less than five of those final great lines for a character they picked were from science fiction and fantasy films: 2001, the Wizard of Oz, Star Wars: a New Hope, King Kong and one I [...]
Continue reading...Alan’s War
25. September 2008
Tom Spurgeon looks at Alan’s War, a forthcoming graphic novel from First Second in which Emmanuel Guibert captures some of the experiences of Alan Cope, an ordinary eighteen year old American called to duty in World War Two. My bookseller’s antennae twitched when I first heard this book was coming up – there are some [...]
Continue reading...Spielberg to do Chocky?
25. September 2008
DreamWorks has acquired the film rights to John Wyndham’s novel Chocky, with Steven Spielberg said to be keen to make it his next directorial gig. The novel deals with a youngster and mental abilities and the nature of difference, not uncommon themes for the very excellent Wyndham; while not as famous (outside science fiction circles [...]
Continue reading...Alex’s audio round-up
25. September 2008
As another Thursday rolls around its time for Alex Fitch to update us on his recent and forthcoming broadcasts and podcasts and quite possibly some other form of cast never encountered before; as usual for more details and links check the Panel Borders site: “Strip!: Charles Burns’ Fear(s) of the dark, tonight at 5pm on Resonance [...]
Continue reading...DC pulls the plug on Minx
25. September 2008
Some rather disappointing news appeared on a number of sites this morning, that DC Comics has pulled the plug on its Minx imprint. It seems rather surprising to me given that it wasn’t that long ago that DC was launching Minx in a blaze of publicity, so it doesn’t really feel to me like they [...]
Continue reading...Subprime explained in comics
25. September 2008
The subprime mortgage morass explained simply via stick figure comics in the Subprime Primer. It is just me or does ‘Subprime’ sound like a title for a dodgy 1990s Michael Crichton novel? Or maybe the title for a possible next Oliver Stone film? (link via Boing Boing)
Continue reading...Propaganda and the Leather Nun. All done for the sake of you dear reader….
25. September 2008
The Leather Nun & Other Incredibly Strange Comics by Paul Gravett & Peter Stanbury Aurum Press (Published in the USA by St Martin’s Press as Holy Shit! The World’s Weirdest Comic Books – but personally I think we got the better end of the deal as we get the great Charles Burns cover) Okay, to get it out of [...]
Continue reading...Hoff-less Knight Rider not impressing
25. September 2008
Oh dear, it doesn’t sound like the new version of Knight Rider has been impressing the critics Stateside if this Hollywood Reporter review is anything to go by: “everything that made the original fun and unique has effectively been scrubbed away from this new edition that’s all about high-tech gadgetry, speed and sex and only [...]
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