Archive | February, 2009

Crikey! It’s Saturday!

28. February 2009

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As Crikey! heads for double figures (this June) I thought it worthwhile taking a retrospective look at how the The Great British Comics Magazine has moved on over the (almost) two years of publication. It seems so long ago now that myself, Brian Clarke and Tom Sweetman sat down and discussed what we wanted to [...]

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Shatner talks

28. February 2009

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The mighty Sir William of Shatner talks to IGN ahead of a DVD release of his 2002 film Groom Lake (which also starred the gorgeous Amy Acker from Angel) and discusses his love of science fiction: “I was always a sci-fi fanatic. I was reading all those guys who came to write for us on [...]

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Secret Lives of Comic Store Employees

27. February 2009

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Wired has started a new photo-series looking at “individuals you encounter everyday” and trying to show another side to them as well as their public place persona by photographing them at home too. And to kick off with they decided to begin by looking at folks who work in comics stores: “From the sassy princess [...]

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Action Comics #1 up for auction today

27. February 2009

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A rare ‘un-restored’ copy of the classic Action Comics #1 with that incredibly iconic image of Siegel and Shuster’s Superman making his debut to the world is going up for auction later today at Comics Connect. The owner bought it as a boy some twelve years after it was published (way back in 1938) when [...]

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Propaganda discovers Graphic Classics – Ambrose Bierce

27. February 2009

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Graphic Classics: Ambrose Bierce Eureka Productions How much do you know about Ambrose Bierce? I found out that he was: “an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical dictionary, The Devil’s Dictionary. The sardonic view of human [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Stento draws portraits

27. February 2009

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A couple of months ago on the blog we featured the portraits that Belgian cartoonist Frank Pé painted of the stars of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition.  Currently the supreme French comics information site BoDoi is running a series of similar paintings by Frank’s compatriote Samuel Stento, author of the book Pourquoi Pas. (Samuel Stento’s quite [...]

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Moore and Reppion taking part in Dublin’s One City, One Book

27. February 2009

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Leah Moore and John Reppion will be taking part in this spring’s One City, One Book reading campaign in Dublin (which, from what I can gather, is similar to the Edinburgh City of Literature campaign who did the recent Lost World campaign and the Stevenson graphic novels in previous years and other such highly laudable [...]

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Comic Art Indigène going to Washington

26. February 2009

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You may recall that last spring I blogged about the Comic Art Indigène exhibition that was coming up in New Mexico and showcasing a different aspect to comics than most of us usually see, work drawn from Native American Indians. Well curator Antonio Chavarria has been in touch to say the exhibition was a great [...]

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Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

26. February 2009

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As spring continues to tease us with the elusive nature of a shy fairy Alex Fitch offers us up his own rays of radio sunshine instead; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcast versions of previous shows: Strip!: The work of Philip Spence, tonight at 5pm on Resonance [...]

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Philip Jose Farmer passes away

26. February 2009

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Damn, but it seems the last few months I’ve had to post far too many times about us losing some good people from the world of SF&F. I’ve just seen via CNN that highly respected science fiction and fantasy author Philip Jose Farmer has passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 91. [...]

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Star Trek Next Gen Family Guy special!

26. February 2009

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Patrick Stewart, Levar Burton, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Wil Wheaton, Denise Crosby, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes will all be lending their voices to an upcoming episode of the brilliant animated series Family Guy  (a solid fave around here) , Not All Dogs Go To Heaven, which sees the Star Trek: the Next [...]

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Fry, Dee and Brydon to stand in for Humph

26. February 2009

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When we lost jazz musician, presenter and cartoonist Humphrey Lyttelton last spring a question mark hung over the the long-running and well-loved radio show I’m Sorry, I Haven’t Got a Clue which he presented for decades. There was some discussion as to whether the show should finally be retired or continue with a new presenter; [...]

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Samuel L Jackson in multi-movie deal to play Nick Fury

26. February 2009

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According to The Hollywood Reporter Samuel L Jackson, already no stranger to the worlds of comics and SF movies, has signed an unprecedented nine movie deal to play Nick Fury in a slew of Marvel movies, including Thor, Iron Man 2, Captain America and The Avengers (the latter two, as we blogged a few weeks [...]

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Propaganda takes a trip into The Twilight Zone

26. February 2009

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“You’re travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of the imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, the Twilight Zone!” Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Written by Rod Serling, Adaptations by Mark Kneece Bloomsbury [...]

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D-Con in Dundee

26. February 2009

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The east of Scotland sees its own anime convention this Saturday (28th) in the Dundee Student Union, with creators, dealers, art on show, gaming, cosplay (of course!) and Yishan Li giving a talk on how to be a professional manga artist; full details can be found on the D-Con site.

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