Archive | December, 2008

Jim Medway’s Christmas message ….

23. December 2008

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Great Christmas sentiments from Jim Medway, creator of the great Crab Lane Crew in the DFC. This cool postcard is available from Leeds Postcards.

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Ben Powis says Happy Christmas ….

23. December 2008

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Over at Ben Powis’ blog he’s in the middle of posting new pictures every day this month. I like Ben’s stuff a lot (see reviews here & here) so thought it would be nice to share this seasonal offering with you….

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Kim Thompson talks to the Spurge

22. December 2008

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Over on the always excellent Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon interviews Kim Thompson, longtime champion of comics as an art form and co-publisher at one of the best independent comics publishers around (and a solid favourite with the FPI crew), Fantagraphics, well worth reading.

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Best Damned Comics…

22. December 2008

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Over on the Daily Cross Hatch Brian Heater has finished assembling a massive best of the year list from some fifty contributors, including Dan Goldman, Dean Haspiel, Austin English, Paul Gravett, Molly Crabapple, Bob Fingerman, Simon Fraser, Joe Keatinge, Jeff Lemire, Larry Marder, Joe Matt, Tony Millionaire, Josh Neufeld, Jeff Smith and yours truly among [...]

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Geek Syndicate gets into the Spirit of things

22. December 2008

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Barry Nugent tells us that the Geek Syndicate boys scored an invite to the press launch for Frank Miller’s film version of the late Will Eisner’s The Spirit and the resulting audio of the Q&A session is now online as part of their latest show: “Earlier this month Geek Syndicate was able to attend the [...]

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Lunching in the graveyard – Neil Gaiman talks with Pádraig Ó Méalóid

22. December 2008

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Here’s a very special early Christmas present for our readers: Pádraig Ó Méalóid (who is rapidly becoming our Roving Interviewer At Large, following his excellent chats with Todd Klein and Alan Moore) met one of my very favourite writers Neil Gaiman during Neil’s recent busy tour (does Neil do any other kind of tour?) for [...]

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The Modern Monstrosity Christmas Special….

22. December 2008

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Those Modern Monstrosity boys are back with a Tales From The Flat Christmas Special being posted a day at a time (it started on Friday 19th) over on ComicSpace. The first one is below: But remember, Oliver and Lawrence don’t mean it kids. Santa is real. (Tales from the Flat on the FPI webstore.)

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Best of the Year – Richmond Clements

22. December 2008

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Today’s Best of the Year choices come from Richmond Clements of British small press publishers FutureQuake press and co-organiser of the Hi-Ex comics convention in the capital of the Scottish Highlands, Inverness (the first one was in February of this year and you can read a report on it on the blog here; the second [...]

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Warren Ellis becomes Internet meme….

22. December 2008

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It’s true. This is doing the rounds from Dustin Harbin. Harbin’s website essentially rolled over and died the minute it got a mention on Ellis’ Twitter feed, but it’s back up and running now. Ellis has the power to kill your website any time he wants to!

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Best Of Year 2008: Marc Ellerby

21. December 2008

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Another Best Of 2008, this time from a fave small presser here at FPI, Marc Ellerby. I’ve reviewed his comics here and interviewed the man here, so figured he could spend a little time answering our questions. And he hasn’t let us down. Marc Ellerby is currently hard at work on his Ellerbisms webcomic, which [...]

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Laura Howell on the BBC website

21. December 2008

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The BBC magazine website has an interview with Laura Howell, multi-talented cartoonist, creator of The Mighty M & Sneaky (with Paedar O Guilin) in the DFC, Johnny Bean of Happy Bunny Green (Asbos come to Trumpton) in the Beano (with Craig Ferguson), writer of the Beano’s Ratz and much more besides (see her website for [...]

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Take a Chance

20. December 2008

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Bestselling fantasy writer C.E. Murphy has recently turned her hand to writing comics (a longheld dream, I believe) and the first issue of her Take a Chance is just coming out from Dabel Brothers. It marks not only the start of a new series and a new superheroine but also an attempt to raise awareness [...]

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Love in the comic books; Francoise Mouly & Art Spiegelman

20. December 2008

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Christmas is a time for many things, but one of the nice things is that wistful, rose-tinted look back at our lives. To whit; this piece from Book Reporter.com by Francoise Mouly. (Francoise Mouly & Art Spiegelman.) It’s the tale of how she met Spiegelman and how they fell in love over comic books: “There was a time, [...]

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The Tom Spurgeon-a-thon …..

20. December 2008

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Anyone who follows comics in any way should be familiar with Tom Spurgeon and his excellent Comics Reporter blog. In fact, it should be one of three US based comic blogs you read right after you finish reading the fruits of our UK labours here at the FPI blog. (If you’re wondering what the three [...]

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Moore & Reppion signing cancelled

19. December 2008

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Due to illness (nothing too serious I’m assured) tomorrow’s signing with Leah Moore and John Reppion at Al Davison’s Astral Gypsy studio and store has had to be cancelled.

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