Archive | January, 2009

Giraffes in my hair

22. January 2009

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Carol Swain is one of our best cartoonists and one who seems a little under-appreciated to me. Her art has ploughed it’s own distinctive furrow whilst elements of her artistry and design at times recall greats such as Jose Munoz and Lorenzo Mattotti. She isn’t the most productive of cartoonists but what appears almost always [...]

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Watching Out For Those Dykes – The Essential Bechdel

22. January 2009

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The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel published by Random House. When Fun Home was released to near universal acclaim a few years ago it was easy to overlook that Alison Bechdel had been diligently working away on Dykes To Watch Out For since 1983. Not quite the overnight sensation many had [...]

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Josceline Fenton in BD Zine

22. January 2009

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Regular readers might recall that just under a year ago one of our prominent Brit small press comics creators, David Baillie, was the featured artist in a European publication, BD Zine. BD Zine “is distributed freely in selected comic book shops in France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Netherlands. Each issue is solely dedicated to one artist [...]

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Join Uncle Joss at his nice countryside Cabin in the Woods

22. January 2009

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Joss Whedon is collaborating with Drew Goddard, screenwriter of Cloverfield (huge hit and I know a lot of folks said it was amazing but personally I thought it was a dreadful disappointment) on The Cabin in the Woods. No, this isn’t Joss taking up a bit of DIY to make his own log cabin as [...]

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Art of the Heart

21. January 2009

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The BBC site has a slideshow of works from a new art gallery, Art of the Heart. Not an unusual thing to see on the Beeb site, of course, but this one is actually pretty special – its the first art gallery to open in the troubled state of Liberia in Western Africa since the [...]

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Propaganda gets Massacred ….

21. January 2009

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Massacre For Boys Presents: Walking Wounded By Chris Denton & Steven Denton. (Walking Wounded issue 1. Does exactly what it says on the cover. Art by Steven Denton) Time for a little old fashioned boys own adventure here. It’s nothing cerebral, nothing challenging. It’s a comic equivalent of a good war movie. Think of the [...]

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Absolute Promethea first look courtesy JH Williams III

21. January 2009

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Over on his blog, JH Williams reveals what we’d all been suspecting: there shall be an Absolute Promethea from DC Wildstorm in October 2009, as confirmed tonight by the DC solicits that have just been released. (Image from front cover of the Absolute Promethea slipcase, art by JH Williams III from his Flickr stream.) Like [...]

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Mary and Max

21. January 2009

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For the first time the prestigious Sundance film festival has opened with an animated feature – a claymation work from Australian creator Adam Elliot (who was behind the Oscar winning Harvie Krumpet; as I’ve said before, the animated shorts in the film awards lists are often the place to look for innovative, interesting new work). [...]

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“Danger, Will Robinson…”

20. January 2009

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The BBC and other news sources are reporting that actor and stuntman Bob May has passed away at the age of 69 from heart failure. You may be thinking, where do I know that name from? Chances are you won’t recognise his face because his most famous – and apparently one of his favourite – [...]

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Talking Sam and John – a chat with Darryl Cunningham

20. January 2009

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FPI: Well here we are, more than a year since we posted the very first Super-Sam and John-of-the-Night on the FPI blog and who would have thought this is how it would have ended (see last week’s shocking finale)? Darryl, when it first started Super- Sam was, for the most part, stand-alone weekly pages and [...]

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Meta Chronicles – anachronistic science fiction

20. January 2009

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Artist Eric Orchard, currently working with Jeff VanderMeer on a graphical adaptation of Jeff’s The Situation, has launched a new blog, Meta Chronicles. Eric will be using the site to explore a topic close to the heart of many a science fiction reader, retrofuturism – that intriguing mix of science fiction ideas with history, taking [...]

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Yes We Will

19. January 2009

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Ahead of a major launch for 08: a Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail and the inuaguration of President Obama tomorrow Dan Goldman has a little present for us all, created especially for Tor.com, a little tale of 2012 and the White House, where, as Dan commented, he got to take some of his stylings [...]

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LUC 2009 – coming soon

19. January 2009

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As we proceed into the new year we’re overdue one of the video which the London Underground Comics crew have become so well known for. This is really just a brief teaser (sorry, no dancing Paul Gravett this time), but Oli assures me its to whet our appetites for news of upcoming LUC plans for [...]

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Visual Intifada: exhibition of Palestine cartoonist Naji Al Ali

19. January 2009

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Gianluca Costantini tells us that there is an exhibition of the cartoon art of Naji Al Ali, probably the most respected cartoonist of the Arabic world (and rightly so), which will run at the Galleria Mirada Libreria Interno 4, Via Mazzini 83, Ravenna, Italy until the 14th of February. The works exhibited include cartoons translated [...]

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Todd marks your place

19. January 2009

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Ace letterer and designer Todd Klein is now offering signed and rather groovy looking bookmarks from his site. They are the bookmarks which some of you may have been lucky enough to be given at various comics conventions by Todd in the past. He’s decided to start offering them, signed personally, from his site so [...]

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