Archive | October, 2008
Propaganda on the Global Frequency
Global Frequency by Warren Ellis and many, many artists There are 1001 people on the Global Frequency. Anyone you know might be with them. It’s the world’s little open secret. A fast response emergency team composed of anyone: mother, brother, friend, boss, policeman, spy, teacher, athlete, anyone at all. You’ll never know they’re part of it [...]
Continue reading...The Girly Comic launching at Thought Bubble
29. October 2008
(Cover to The Girly Book 1, art by Des Taylor, published by Factor Fiction) Selina Locke tells us that Factor Fiction has a new hardback collection of the Girly Book coming out soon, with a launch planned at the upcoming Thought Bubble event in Leeds on the Saturday the 15th of November. The 280-page collection of [...]
Continue reading...Super-Sam – the unmasking
28. October 2008
As one character returns and dons a new suit another takes off the mask… (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)
Continue reading...“Space, the final frontier… these are the voyages…”
28. October 2008
NASA 50th anniversary year continues to be celebrated, this time by the Smithsonian’s Air & Space Magazine, who posted their pick of their top fifty photographs from NASA history. As they say in the introduction they know only fifty pics means they will inevitably miss some important moments, they know some people will be annoyed [...]
Continue reading...Radio 5 on Graphic Novels today.
28. October 2008
On Simon Mayo’s Radio 5 show today there was a feature on Graphic Novels. Guests were Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons, Paul Gravett. Talking about what a graphic novel is, the relationship to Hollywood etc etc… The option to listen again should work later on if you fancy it.
Continue reading...Podcast awards
28. October 2008
Barry Nugent reminds me that the voting is now open for the Podcast Awards and, as mentioned here recently, the very fine Geek Syndicate podcast has a nomination (in the Entertainment category), so please consider lending the guys your support as thanks for some great comics and SF shows.
Continue reading...Oli East’s Elbow album artwork shortlisted
28. October 2008
The shortlist for the Best Vinyl Cover Art of 2008 have been announced and in among the various album covers from artists and groups like Cat Power, Goldfrapp, Bjork, Metallica and others (including a band with the fabulous name of the Fuck Buttons) there’s also The Seldom Seen Kid, the Mercury award-winning album from Elbow, [...]
Continue reading...The Ballad of Jack Palance
28. October 2008
As the Halloween season beckons and ghosts and ghouls walk our streets, here’s a little seasonal present for you from our regular contributor and top cartoonist Rod McKie and FPI, a little spooky tale of tall tales, movie stars, ghosts, an ancient churchyard and, this being set in Edinburgh, a good pub. For those who [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Translation please: Seuls
28. October 2008
If you are completely lost in Heroes, or think that Jack Bauer’s antics are a bit too graphic for your kids, here’s a tip for you: Seuls, by Bruno Gazzotti and Fabien Vehlmann, combines all the exciting action, recognisable characters and bite-sized delivery of traditional Franco-Belgian comics, with the penchant for a broader subtext that [...]
Continue reading...Free science fiction novels online
28. October 2008
Dominic Green, an author some may remember from his appearances in the august pages of that pillar of the literary SF community, Interzone, is giving up on trying to get novels published. Despite his Interzone credentials and a Hugo nomination in 2006 he’s had no luck with most publishers (a plight I’m sure many writers [...]
Continue reading...Watchmen scribe on Ninja Scroll
27. October 2008
Alex Tse, the co-screenwriter on Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the Watchmen, has been signed to script Ninja Scroll, an adaptation of the incredibly successful Japanese anime movie (which also spawned a series, as is often the case) for Warner Brothers. According to the Hollywood Reporter Tse is also adapting Ray Bradbury’s Illustrated Man, although since [...]
Continue reading...Sparks fly with Mawil
27. October 2008
Over on the Blank Slate Books blog our own Kenny Penman has posted up a look at a very cool design for a counter box for the next BS release from Mawil, Sparky o’Hare (published as Meister Lampe in Germany), the electrician rabbit who seems to cause more problems than he solves. Kenny tells us [...]
Continue reading...Ken Hunter passes away
27. October 2008
Lew Stringer posts some sad news as another old school comics creator leaves us for the great drawing board in the sky. Ken Hunter died on the 20th aged 91; as Lew notes his work graced many a British comics page, including two now long-gone kid’s comics that I used to love when I was [...]
Continue reading...Comic Book Dreams
27. October 2008
Pádraig Ó Méalóid spotted news from Todd Klein recently – you may remember that during his recent (and very fine, if I do say so myself) interview with Todd Pádraig raised the subject of the limited edition prints that Todd had created in collaboration first with Alan Moore then Neil Gaiman, respectively the Alphabets of Desire [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – Swarte wins Award Of Excellence
27. October 2008
The American magazine Communication Arts has awarded its Award Of Excellence 2008 to Dutch illustrator and cartoonist Joost Swarte. Swarte was given the award for the cover he drew for the August 20th, 2007 issue of the New Yorker Magazine. The subject of this illustration (which was featured earlier on my own The Ephemerist blog) [...]
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