Archive | February, 2009

Another trip back to the 80s comics

25. February 2009

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Here’s an interesting follow up to Lew Stringer’s 1986 Neil Gaiman newspaper article on comics and the then-new Watchmen series I mentioned the other day; its inspired Neil to seek out another 1986 article from his journalistic career where he wrote an article for London’s Time Out magazine and post it up on his journal. [...]

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Producer in quandry over Watchmen movie

25. February 2009

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As regular readers will be aware the release of the Watchmen movie was threatened for some time due to a legal tussle between Warners and Fox, the latter claiming they still had some legal rights to the property after developing it for some time, with producer Larry Gordon accused of not securing the complete rights [...]

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Gerry’s Komikero video

25. February 2009

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Gerry Alanguilan blogs about the recent Komikero meeting in San Pablo City and, being Gerry, he’s got it covered in video too: [youtube mAlqlQgYcF8]

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Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark

25. February 2009

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The U2 stage musical of Spider-Man we mentioned some weeks back now has a confirmed title and opening date – Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark is down to open on Broadway on the 18th of February 2010 (with some preview shows in January). According to Spin with a budget of $40 million the show is [...]

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We are (fantastic) four

25. February 2009

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I’ve just realised that today marks the fourth anniversary since we started the FPI blog (back in February 2005), just a few days after I first started working here as it happened. Growing out of our increasing online presence we wanted a way that we could discuss and highlight good comics, graphic novels, SF&F, cool [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Translation please: Nage Libre

25. February 2009

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What are the odds against coming across two totally different graphic novels, produced completely independently of one another, about a subject as particular as the procreation activities of salmon?  In 2004, Alternative Comics published Salmon Doubts by Adam Sacks (not to be confused with the late Douglas Adams’ Salmon of Doubt – Joe), a very [...]

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Graphic novel of Barry Nugent’s Fallen Heroes coming

25. February 2009

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Geek Syndicate’s Barry Nugent is all excited at the news that his supernatural thriller Fallen Heroes is to be adapted into a graphic novel; as Barry is, as we all know, a huge comics buff, he’s pretty damned happy about this turn of events. Writer Martin Conaghan will be adapting Barry’s novel for the comics [...]

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Blockbuster Buzz talks to Dave Gibbons

24. February 2009

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On the Times’ Blockbuster Buzz Owen Vaughan talks to Dave Gibbons about the Watchmen comics and his involvement with the film version: “My involvement with Zach Snyder – I actually approached him. I’d been invited along to the London premiere of 300, which was based on the graphic novel by my friend Frank Miller. I [...]

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Geek Syndicate stalks Watchmen celebs

24. February 2009

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Barry tells me his erstwhile Geek  Syndicate podcast co-presenter (and would be hot legs obsessed movie celeb stalker) Dave was down by the (yellow) carpet in London’s Leicester Square to watch the stars and invited guests arrive for the premiere of the Watchmen movie, including the stars such as Malin Ackerman, Billy Crudup and Jeffrey [...]

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Iowa cartoonist fighting to regain his cartoons from paper that fired him

24. February 2009

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Cartoonist Brian Duffy was, like an alarming number of newspaper cartoonists in the US, laid off from his post recently. Brian worked for the Des Moines Register for over two decades but was let go a few months ago; he also had to leave without his original artwork, he says. Now he’s discovered the paper [...]

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Wells, Clarke, Banks – Science Fiction season on BBC Radio

24. February 2009

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You might remember late last year I mentioned that that the BBC was planning a science fiction season across three of its radio stations early in 2009. Well, it actually started a couple of days ago and annoyingly I didn’t notice until a rather cool and creepy ad on BBC digital caught my eye (below) [...]

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Xeni interviews Zack Snyder on the Watchmen

24. February 2009

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Xeni Jardin interviews Watchmen director Zack Snyder and effects wizard ‘DJ’ Des Jardin for Boing Boing TV: [youtube toi6HUTfzIc]

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Propaganda’s UK Manga adventure conludes: Emma Vieceli’s Dragon Heir

24. February 2009

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Dragon Heir Volume 1 by Emma Vieceli with Andrew Ruddick Sweatdrop Studios I knew Emma Vieceli first as the artist on Violet in the DFC but she’s been making Dragon Heir since 2001at Sweatdrop Studios as a pure labour of love. It was actually through meeting Emma Vieceli that this whole thing; of reviewing UK based Manga (even [...]

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Imperial Walker that lays down a beat

24. February 2009

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How cool is this? An Imperial AT-AT Walker (first glimpsed in the cracking ice world battle at the start of Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back) which is actually an old boom box modded (my god, this stereo even has a – gasp – tape deck! How quaint…). How fab would this look on my [...]

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Its 1986 and suddenly all the kids are talking about a new comic…

23. February 2009

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The irreplaceable Lew Stringer has posted up a real little historical gem – a scan of an article on comics from the long-gone Today newspaper from 1986 which features a young journalist named Neil Gaiman discussing comics and particularly a new and challenging work called Watchmen… (Neil Gaiman’s article on comics and Watchmen from 1986, shamelessly [...]

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