Archive | October, 2008

Mark Millar video chat today

27. October 2008

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A reminder that the Mark Millar video chat to coincide with the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film version of his Wanted graphic novel will take place this afternoon between 1 and 2pm (UK time). (Angelina Jolie tries out for the post of new Top Gear presenter… Nah, obviously it’s Angie in Wanted, (c) [...]

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Paul Pope’s Battling Boy. At least 50 pages of fight scene….

26. October 2008

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Over at his Pulp Hope blog Paul Pope is talking a little about his new Battling Boy book that he’s working on for First Second: In Batman Year 100, I had room for a couple of long fight sequences, but I felt cramped even with 200 pages. This fight scene from BATTLING BOY alone is [...]

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Blotchmen – 24 hour comics ….

26. October 2008

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Heidi pointed me in the direction of this one; a 24 hour comic by Kevin Cannon: Blotchmen. Very impressive and much more polished than you’d expect from the whole 24 pages in 24 hours thing. Although as he did all the colouring post 24 hours, it is a little cheat, but we forgive him:

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Ellerbisms is online …..

25. October 2008

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At long last we have the Ellerbisms website from Marc Ellerby. He’s promising regularly updated strips Monday & Thursday and has moved all his previous Ellerbisms previously found on his Live Journal to this new site. Lots of reading to catch up on. I hope you agree that he’s a very talented young cartoonist. Review [...]

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Larry Marder at the Daily Crosshatch

25. October 2008

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Another week, another excellent series of interviews coming at us from the Daily Crosshatch. Last week it was Art Spiegelman, this time it’s Larry Marder, a man whose work I love. Tales Of The Beanworld is something you either get and love or don’t get and just think is plain dumb. I’m very much in [...]

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Grant Morrison at Newsarama

25. October 2008

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Missed this for some reason, but Newsarama currently has a long, ongoing 10 part interview with Grant Morrison his recently finished and quite brilliant All Star Superman. Grant Morrison interview: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8(I shall try to remember to update. No doubt I [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Smurf Auction

24. October 2008

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An auction in Brussels City Hall earlier this week was the end point of the European tour that brought the Smurfs to fifteen cities across the continent this year to celebrate their 50th anniversary.  In each city thousands of life-sized Smurf statues were placed along the streets to be picked up by kids (and adults), [...]

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The Angoulême nominees

24. October 2008

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Over on Comics Influx Stephen Betts has posted up an excellent primer on this year’s “pleasingly diverse” (as he describes them) Angoulême Awards nominees, with links to almost all of the titles featured; including some foreign language works Comics Influx has been making more accessible to the English language reader.

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“Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss, Old Fat Furry Catpuss…”

24. October 2008

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Cult favourite children’s animated character Bagpuss may be the latest old character to be revived, reports the BBC, as another company, Coolbai, has bought the rights and announced that they thought there was a demand for the character and that they were planning to introduce him to a new generation. Despite the fact they only [...]

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Wanted – your questions for a Mark Millar video chat

24. October 2008

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(Wanted Director’s Cut edition by Mark Millar and J G Jones, published Top Cow) Leah from Market ME has been in touch with us to tell us about a video chat with comics creator Mark Millar they have organised for next week to support the release of the film adaptation of his Wanted graphic novel [...]

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Propaganda looks back to Morrison’s JLA

24. October 2008

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JLA: New World Order & JLA: Earth 2 By Grant Morrison, Howard Porter, Frank Quitely DC Comics First, a word of warning, my obsession with all things Grant Morrison goes towards fetish. If it’s got his name on it, I’ll look at it. The Invisibles is one of my favourite titles & St Swithin’s Day, [...]

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If you go down to the woods today…

24. October 2008

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… You might find a Hammer horror movie being shot. The BBC talks to some of the locals in the picturesque village of Pettigo in County Donegal who seem to be delighted that the first new Hammer movie, the Wake Wood, in years is filming in and around their wee piece of Ireland.

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Alex’s audio round-up charts the realms of psychogeography

23. October 2008

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As the wintery winds blow another Thursday to us they also carry news from Alex Fitch of the latest crop of radio broadcasts, podcasts, print and stage musicals he’s involved with (okay, maybe not stage musicals, but, hey, you never know). And in a very special treat as part of the Eddie Campbell season Alex [...]

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4mations looking for animators

23. October 2008

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Channel 4′s 4mations in partnership with the UK Film Council  is launching 4mations Digital Shorts, looking for new work from fresh animation talent in the UK: “Applications are now open for 4mations Digital Shorts, a brand spanking new scheme set up to fund 13 animated shorts across the UK. The closing date is Monday 10th [...]

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Strictly Come Beano

23. October 2008

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The BBC reports that popular Saturday night show (god know why, but it is, oh well, each to their own taste) Strictly Come Dancing is featuring in a Minnie the Minx strip in the immortal British kid’s comic The Beano. (“Nice to see you, to see you, Minnie” – Bruce Forsyth and his wig meet [...]

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