Archive | November, 2008

“In the end I would wish for death…”

18. November 2008

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The world of Super-Sam continues to grow darker like nightfall on a winter’s eve… (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. And you should also check [...]

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Propaganda – Matthew Craig’s Trixie Biker

18. November 2008

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Trixie Biker: Attack Of The Sixty-Inch Pixie by Matthew Craig Last time I looked at Matthew Craig’s work I got to pick and choose what I reviewed from most of what he’d published so far and the absolute highlight was his lovely tale of a lovely dog called Hondle. (See the review here). But that [...]

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Sparky O’Hare

18. 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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Eckhart to star in Battle: Los Angelese

18. November 2008

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Aaron Eckhart, who probably achieved more audience recognition for playing Harvey Dent in this summer’s The Dark Knight than he has for a number of smaller scale flicks (including the brilliant Thank You For Smoking), is to headline an upcoming science fiction action movie Battle: Los Angelese, which, according to the Hollywood Reporter, involves a [...]

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“perverse and spooky… semi-necrophilia vibe” – Del Toro to collaborate on Pinocchio animation

17. November 2008

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Variety reports that Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro is to co-write a story for a new animated version of Pinocchio with Gris Grimly. Even better the collaboration involves the Jim Henson Company; the film will be a traditional stop-motion animation and should be a darker version of the story of the puppet [...]

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Thought Bubble 2008 – convention report

17. November 2008

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Leeds second annual Thought Bubble sequential arts festival took place last weekend. It included the one day Thought Bubble comics convention on Saturday 15th. Personally I thought it was an absolutely excellent convention. It had far fewer comic dealers and a much higher proportion of comic people there which helped to give it a fantastic [...]

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New Trek trailer goes online this evening

17. November 2008

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Cinema goers in the US were treated to a trailer for the new Star Trek movie along with the opening of Quantum of Solace Stateside at the weekend and, predictably enough, there are some shaky bootleg versions of it on the web that look to have been filmed in a cinema – you can see [...]

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Classical’s Macbeth wins design award, host of graphic novels nominated for the Cybils

17. November 2008

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Classical Comics graphic novel adaptation of Macbeth won at last week’s British Book Design and Production Awards 2008, winning the Secondary Education books category. The book has also picked up some good reviews, especially for Jon Haward‘s artwork and the way it brings the Shakespeare play (adapted by John McDonald) to life. Classical’s latest publications [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Translation Please: the Furox

17. November 2008

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Imagine a story about a Jewish cryptozoologist who has to flee Germany when the Nazi’s gain power, only to battle his successor at the university over the fate of the last Furox, the flying, fire-breathing but not-that-fearsome dragon of legend.  That is the story of The Furox, a graphic novel series by Belgian cartoonist Simon [...]

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Sparky O’Hare

17. November 2008

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Continuing our exclusive previews from Mawil’s upcoming Sparky O’Hare collection from Blank Slate Books: (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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Comica Comiket

16. November 2008

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This weekend see those London Underground boys venturing out from Camden Market to the glorified environs of the ICA as part of the ongoing Comica 2008 Festival. Comica Comiket – Saturday 22nd November View the LUC promo video on YouTube

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Anthony Lappé talks to Journalisme

16. November 2008

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French media site Journalisme.com has a video interview (in English) with Anthony Lappé; Anthony tells me that the French edition of my favourite graphic novel of last year, Shooting War, is doing well and he was over for a launch, appropriately enough at the war correspondent’s  festival Prix Bayeux. Strangely enough I don’t think either [...]

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Sara McIntyre’s challenge….

16. November 2008

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Sara McIntyre, author and illustrator of the great Vern & Lettuce in the DFC has a challenge for writers and artists out there in advance of the Turning Pages, the first British Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators conference for writers AND illustrators in London on the 22nd/23rd of November. The challenge is this; [...]

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“You’ve done a man’s job, sir, I guess you’re through now…”

15. November 2008

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I had no idea Stan Lee and Marvel did a comics adaptation of seminal 80′s science fiction movie classic Blade Runner until I saw it mentioned on Roberto Delgadillo’s books blog. I wonder if the comics version has the unicorn dream sequence? (page from the Marvel version of Blade Runner, artist unknown although the original [...]

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Jill Thompson’s Nightmare Before Christmas that never was….

15. November 2008

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Over at her blog Jill Thompson posts up some artwork to the graphic adaptation that never was: Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas. There’s been an adaptation of the movie in Manga but this looks absolutely wonderful. Why it was turned down we can only guess. If anyone could have made a great adaptation from Burton’s [...]

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