Archive | October, 2008

Straczynski journeying to the Forbidden Planet

31. October 2008

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Babylon 5 creator turned top comics scribe J. Michael Straczynski is set to script a new version of the 50s classic science fiction movie Forbidden Planet. As we’re all more than aware Hollywood seems to have an endless appetite for remaking older films and generally speaking I’m not enamoured with this at all, especially when [...]

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Between the Panels

31. October 2008

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Paul Gravett tells us that Sunday the 16th of November is a day to circle in your comics diary if you are in London. Between the Panels 3 will take place at 4pm with Hannah Berry, Paul Duffield, Oliver East and Marcia Williams discussing how  you actually make a graphic story. The event will conclude [...]

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Zombiethon

31. October 2008

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The Beeb reports that organisers of Nottingham’s annual GameCity festival are requesting volunteers of the undead variety to perform a mass zombie version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and also to beat the record for the largest gathering of zombies set last November in the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh (an appropriate location since Pittsburgh is where [...]

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From our continental correspondent – News from Philippe Berthet

31. October 2008

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In an interview in the latest issue of Zozolala, one of the most venerable Dutch comics news magazines, French comics superstar Philippe Berthet revealed that his hit series Pin Up is not buried after all.  Pin Up, created together with writer Yann Le Pelletier, was Berthet’s big breakthrough with a large audience in the 1990’s, [...]

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Designing Bond

31. October 2008

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The BBC has an audio-visual slideshow with Sir Ken Adam discussing his absolutely huge set designs for the James Bond movies – hollowed-out volcanoes for ninjas to climb into, rockets, monorails, flooded sets with submarines, pure fantasy fun executed on a scale few modern movies are ever likely to repeat because of cost and the [...]

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Sandman live

31. October 2008

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The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and Vertigo  are hosting a live reading of excerpts from Neil Gaiman’s ground-breaking Sandman series to raise funds for the CBLDF. The gig will take place in the Helen Mills Theater in New York on Saturday November 8th; space is limited and tickets can be had for a fifty [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

30. October 2008

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Another Thursday arrives and that means its time for Alex Fitch to update us on the latest shows he is involved with; as ever check his Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Strip!: Eddie Campbell – the life and many deaths of the artist, tonight at 5pm on Resonance [...]

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Paul Gravett dances

30. October 2008

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Oli Smith has uploaded his Weekend Friends video – roughly twenty minutes split across three video and recording the events going on around the London Underground Comics, shot more like a short film and more serious in tone than his previous all-singing, all-dancing video offerings which we all like to tease Oli about but nevertheless [...]

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Living in Dingburg

30. October 2008

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The fourth and final part of Phill Jupitus’ series talking to cartoonist went out earlier this week, with Phill talking to the legendary Bill Griffith who discusses the deceptively simple looking world of Zippy the Pinhead and the new upcoming volume from Fantagraphics, Welcome to Dingburg: a Zippy Collection. As with the other three in [...]

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Wee Jimmy for Doc!

30. October 2008

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“Well I’ve always been a big supporter of Wee Jimmy Krankie. So the campaign starts here to get Wee Jimmy Krankie in the Tardis and big Ian Krankie as the companion. I think that works,” David Tennant shares his thoughts on who should follow him in the lead role of Doctor Who. As Richard noted last [...]

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Shaken and stirred – FPI’s secret agent Mark Clark previews Quantum of Solace

30. October 2008

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I’m delighted to introduce you all to another member of the FPI family, my colleague Mark Clark. A dedicated lover of cinema and a lifelong James Bond fan, Mark has been on special undercover assignment, taking in a preview of the eagerly awaited new James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. Mark writes movie reviews for [...]

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The 19th International Biennial of Humour and Satire in the Arts

30. October 2008

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The 19th International Biennial of Humour and Satire in the Arts is putting out a call for entries: “We are pleased to inform you that on May 16th, 2009 the Museum House of Humour and Satire in Gabrovo, Bulgaria will inaugurate the 19th International Biennial of Humour and Satire in the Arts. The Biennial exhibition [...]

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Tennant leaving Doctor Who. Let the speculation begin…..

29. October 2008

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The news came through tonight that David Tennant will be leaving Doctor Who after completing the four special episodes to be broadcast in 2010. The BBC has footage of Tennant talking about his time as the 10th Doctor. From the BBC site: Tennant stepped into the Tardis in 2005, and will leave the role after four [...]

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“We’ll tear your soul apart…”

29. October 2008

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The endless Remake Monster which dwells in Hollywood is trying to create a reworking of one of modern horror’s classic films, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser. I can understand remaking a sixty year old film for a modern audience, but I have to question why a twenty year old film requires a remake. However, it may not [...]

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Froghat’s Superman

29. October 2008

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(Scene from the short animated Superman by Chris Appelhans’ Froghat Studios) I’m indebted to Kenny for pointing me towards this lovely little Superman animation from Chris Appelhans’ Froghat Studios. Its a charming short, using fairly simple animation set to music (including some nice visual-audio cues, such as speech bubbles appearing in time to the lyrics, a [...]

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