Archive | November, 2008

Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

20. November 2008

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Thursday afternoon and that means it is time for Alex Fitch to update us on some of the shows he’s involved with; as usual for more details and links to archived podcasts of previous shows check the Panel Borders site. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin… Strip! – Handmade and bound, tonight at 5pm [...]

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New Survivors begins this weekend

20. November 2008

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The BBC’s remake of the cult 70s disaster/Science Fiction series Survivors is due to begin on Sunday 23rd at 9pm on BBC 1. The Beeb has an official site up now with a trailer and elsewhere on the BBC site Emma Jones has a brief video report on the new version of the apocalyptic show, [...]

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Sarah’s birthday treat for Rian

20. November 2008

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Sarah McIntyre created a very groovy birthday card piece of art especially for Rian Hughes: “the thought of drawing Rian Hughes as a Dan Dare type character eating cake tickled my fancy and I had to turn it into a morning sketch.” We should all be lucky enough to get such a bday greeting. Go [...]

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Chester launches this Friday

20. November 2008

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Malcy Duff tells us that Chester, the new ‘zine he mentioned recently and which he is co-curating with Tim Le Breuilly, will launch on Friday 21st of November at 7pm in the Glasite Meeting Hall. The first issue includes contributions from Thomas Aitchison, Phil Ashcroft, G Lansard, Sandy Milroy, Laura Oldfield-Ford and Ash Reid, as [...]

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Sparky O’Hare

20. November 2008

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Continuing with our exclusive preview from the new Blank Slate Books translation of Mawil’s Sparky O’Hare: (Sparky O’Hare preview courtesy of and (c) Mawil, published by Blank Slate Books, click the image for the larger picture; you can visit Mawil’s site here)

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Jean-Jacques Sempé exhibition

20. November 2008

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Mike Lynch reports on the Caricature & Cartoon Museum in Basel, Switzerland, which has set up a quite nice exhibition of original works by French cartoonist and illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé. Sempé, born in 1934 in Bordeaux, is probably best known for his covers and strips for the New Yorker, and for his illustrations to René [...]

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Tim Skinner: Total Scumbag at the Dublin City Comic Con

20. November 2008

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Declan Shalvey drops a line to say that his latest work, which rejoices in the fabulous title of Tim Skinner: Total Scumbag, will be ready in time for this weekend’s upcoming Dublin City Comic Con. You might recall Declan mentioned Tim Skinner when he was talking to us a few weeks ago (see here) – [...]

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Genesis of a Time Lord

19. November 2008

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The BBC has a fascinating article up on an important part of early television SF history – the creation of the original Doctor Who series way back in the Swinging Sixties. Documents have just been revealed from the original planning and concept stages of the show, with the BBC very unsure about putting on a [...]

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A Lack of Illumination: the difference between the author/illustrator and the illustrator

19. November 2008

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I vaguely remember J.K Rowling talking about an on-screen version of a character from one of her books, and saying, in response to someone who said “that’s not how I imagined him” that he may not be how they had imagined him, but it was how she imagined him.  It is, I think, a good [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Ever Meulen’s Cuppa

19. November 2008

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Life is hard for dedicated Ever Meulen collectors.  Quite often his work is either rare or very expensive, and you’ll never even get close to attaining something resembling completeness. Ever’s latest creation, however, is quite readily available, and doesn’t cost anything in and of itself.  But it will cost you in other ways – and [...]

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Sparky O’Hare

19. November 2008

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Continuing with our exclusive preview from the new Blank Slate Books translation of Mawil’s Sparky O’Hare: (Sparky O’Hare preview courtesy of and (c) Mawil, published by Blank Slate Books, click the image for the larger picture; you can visit Mawil’s site here)

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Guy Peellaert dies

18. November 2008

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Belgian rock illustrator and cartoonist Guy Peellaert (previously profiled here) passed away on Monday, November 17th after a serious heart failure.  He was 74 and still hard at work, creating a series of ten portraits of Belgian rock musicians for the Belgian media weekly Focus Knack. As editor Karel De Graeve wrote on the Focus [...]

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Ergot

18. November 2008

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Over on Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder posts this great pic of Alvin Buenaventura holding up the massive Kramers Ergot Volume 7. No, I don’t think Alvin is small, its just that the book is absolutely huge; any larger and it might collapse into a cartoon black hole and suck in any passing cartoonist. Pricey? Sure, [...]

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Dayglo mutates

18. November 2008

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Regular 2000 AD and Tank Girl artist Rufus Dayglo has been invited to join the Mutoid Waste Company’s Mutate Britain exhibition, which runs in London from the 21st of this month: “I’ve been asked by the good people at Mutoid waste company to take part in an art show, painting a piece of old aeroplane [...]

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Ignoring the art is foolish

18. November 2008

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Several sites have recently been reporting that the Canada Council for the Arts made a boo-boo when announcing the nominees for the prestigious Governor General’s award for Children’s Literature – the graphic novel Skim was one of the books nominated, but in the release they only named the writer, Mariko Tamaki, as the creator, ignoring [...]

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