Archive | January, 2009

New Tomb Raider flick and other movie bits’n'pieces

31. January 2009

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The Hollywood Reporter notes that a third Tomb Raider movie may be in the offing, although fans of the mighty-chested Lara Croft shouldn’t get too excited just yet as it is at the earliest stage of possible development – the film rights which had been with Paramount for the first two films have now gone [...]

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Morph’s photoshoot

31. January 2009

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Morph gets a special makeover for his 30th anniversary photoshoot for Esquire magazine; I especially like the inclusion of the classic old Rolle camera in the mise-en-scene, a nod to tradition and the old, hand-crafted method of animation originally used to bring Moprh to life. According to the article model makers spent three weeks crafting [...]

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Young Adults and Early Readers lists and awards time ….

31. January 2009

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A bumper week for lists of the best this and the greatest that. We had Neil Gaiman’s Graveyard Book winning the coveted Newbery Prize earlier this week. And now we have more mentions for some great books: The American Young Adult Library Services Association has announced a list of 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens. [...]

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Crow remake? No, no, no, leave it alone…

30. January 2009

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I’m surprised and dismayed to find out that Stephen Norrington (the lamentable League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie) wants to remake Alex Proyas cult Goth film The Crow. The obvious question is why? Comics to film adaptations have a chequered history as regards quality, but as someone who loved James O’Barr’s original comics I thought Proyas’ [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Angoulême, day 1

30. January 2009

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And now it’s over to La Belle France for the first of some very special Foreign Correspondent posts from Wim Lockefeer, who has braved French transport strikes and is currently mixing with the cream of European and World comics creators at the famous Angoulême BD festival – over to Wim: La France Profonde, (no) Belgians [...]

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Exclusive new Doctor Who classic figures

30. January 2009

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Geekgasm alert!!! How utterly cool are these new classic Doctor Who figures which have only just been announced by Character Options (and which are exclusive to Forbidden Planet outside of the USA and Canada): As you can see these are entries in the growing classic Doctor Who range, which is something many fans have been [...]

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Propaganda with even more Francesca Cassavetti

30. January 2009

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Francesca Cassavetti – A Very Nasty Solitary Habit. This was Cassavetti’s 24 hour comic produced in the ICA Comica 2007 24 hour comic challenge. Normally, as I’ve said before, 24 hour comics are no more than a rushed exercise in forced storytelling that should be kept inside the artist’s sketchpad where they belong. But occasionally, [...]

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New FutureQuake titles and artists at Hi-Ex

30. January 2009

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Dave Evans at British indy stable FutureQuake Press tells me that they have new issues of both FutureQuake and MangaQuake hitting the shelves. FutureQuake, now at its twelfth issue, will have the usual mix of science fiction comics tales and boasts a cover by Eagle award-winning artist Declan Shalvey (see above, image by Declan, (c) [...]

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Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

29. January 2009

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It’s Thursday afternoon once more and that means its time for Alex Fitch to update us on the radio and podcast shows he’s involved with over the next week. Actually Alex said they decided to abandon talking about comics and just devote themselves entirely to talking about how wonderful Obama is. No, I’m joshing, they [...]

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Brum to Britain – name change for BICS

29. January 2009

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The Birmingham International Comics Show has undergone a name change, now being re-branded as the British International Comics Show (swell of patriotic fever, dons Britannia costume, waves flag and plays God Save the Queen on a kazoo). Why the change from Brum to Brit then? “This is simply to reflect how the show has become [...]

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Angoulême – Fnac’s video channel

29. January 2009

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[youtube Kx72DXbDJ6U] (Lucie Durbiano interviewed by Fnac) This is probably old news to our readers in Europe but it was new to us (when Kenny spotted it) – Fnac have their own YouTube channel and in the run up to Angoulême festival this weekend (French train strike permitting!) they’ve been busy posting away a number [...]

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Next Door Neighbour – Dorm Stalker

29. January 2009

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The latest strip to join the impressive roster of short comics stories on SmithMag’s damned fine Next Door Neighbor series (edited by Dean Haspiel) is Dorm Stalker, illustrated by Tom Forget and penned by Anthony Lappé who wrote my favourite graphic novel of 2007, Shooting War (working with artist Dan Goldman). Its a nice, tight [...]

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Special effects

29. January 2009

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The BBC site has an article and video report with advice for artists who would like to go on to work in the area of special effects for film and television, with the video following a student in the final phases of her degree, looking at her work and also at what she needs to [...]

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Francesca Cassavetti’s The Most Natural Thing In The World – collected edition

29. January 2009

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The Most Natural Thing In The World by Francesca Cassavetti Those with a good memory may remember me reviewing this one a while back when Francesca kindly sent me the individual comics. And after enough positive feedback she’s now decided to collect all four issues plus a 2007 mini-comic into this delightful little package, wrapped [...]

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Who photographs the Watchmen?

29. January 2009

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I’ll admit when I first heard of the Watchmen Film Portraits book I thought, cynically, that it was a bit of a marketing exercise, a chance to produce another film tie-in book. Its just arrived in our stores and I’ve had a look and it certainly isn’t some quickly made cash-in – actually it appears [...]

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