Archive | February, 2009

From Our Continental Correspondent – Blexbolex named “most beautiful book of 2008″

23. February 2009

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At the Leipziger Buchmesse (12th to 15th March) the award for the most beautiful book of the year will be given to L’imagier des gens by French cartoonist BlexBolex (published by Albin Michel Jeunesse).  Every year the Buchmesse selects the world’s best book design, and this year BlexBolex’s book was chosen from 704 titles from [...]

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This Will Explain Everything

23. February 2009

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Forest Publishing, an offshoot of the not-for-profit Edinburgh arts collective Forest, is calling for submissions for a new graphic novel anthology and from the sound of it they are open to all sorts of combinations of words and images, not just straightforward comics: “This anthology is an imaginary encyclopedia: a compendium of knowledge that is true, [...]

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Oscars

23. February 2009

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The annual Academy Awards were held last night and in a night dominated by Slumdog Millionaire it was fairly slim pickings for comics and SF based films in the major categories (best actors, director, film) with only the pretty much expected posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar win for the late Heath Ledger for his portrayal [...]

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Sweatdrop – Drop Dead Monstrous

23. February 2009

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Drop Dead Monstrous by Chloe Citrine, Faye Yong, Marubelle S, Selina Dean, Morag Lewis, Laura Watton and Sonia Leong. Sweatdrop Studios Drop Dead Monstrous is an anthology put out by Sweatdrop Studios and suffers from all the same problems as every other anthology does. It’s patchy, all the strips are punchy, truncated things and it has the feel [...]

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Whedon to receive Bradbury

23. February 2009

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I missed seeing this last week, but luckily SF Awards Watch caught it – the mighty Joss Whedon is to receive the honour of a Bradbury, which will be presented at the Nebulas banquet in April. “Like everyone who picks up a pen, I was a rabid Bradbury fan and as greatly influenced by him as [...]

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The love that dare not speak its name; my girlfriend is two dimensional…

23. February 2009

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Boing Boing guest blogger Danny Choo has been posting a lot on life in Japan including, perhaps inevitably given the sheer scale of it in the Japanese culture, comics. Over the weekend he mentioned a petition currently doing the rounds in Japan which hopes to garner a million signatures to persuade the government to bring [...]

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The Razzies

22. February 2009

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Ahead of tonight’s Tinsel Town red carpet fest that is the Oscars the annual lampooning of the film industry that is the Golden Raspberries has taken place. Both the comics-based and SF&F genres have scored fairly often in the Razzies over the years (most notably Catwoman, although to her credit Halle Berry is one of [...]

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Jackman “drunk and nude”

22. February 2009

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Hugh Jackman, start of the X-Men movies and the recent Australia (among others) told CNN he would be presenting this evening’s Oscars “drunk and nude”. That loud thunk you heard reverberating around the globe was the sound of thousands of swooning female fans and a not inconsiderable number of male ones too fainting in pleasure [...]

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Robotnik

22. February 2009

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If you’re missing your regular dose of webcomic goodness that was Darryl Cunningham’s Super-Sam and John Of The Night and have been hunting around for a substitute, I may have at least a temporary replacement: David Baillie twittered about Robotnik by Douglas Noble this week. Robotnik has several things going for it: Classy, simplistic artwork; huge [...]

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Alan Moore: Football reporter?

22. February 2009

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Maybe not. But over at his Glycon live journal Pádraig Ó Méalóid (provider of many great interviews for the FPI blog) has posted up a 3 page Alan Moore written strip from Not the World Cup: The Official Souvenir Brochure (Marvel Comics UK, 1982, with art by Barrie Mitchell). Possibly not up there with Watchmen [...]

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Covered blog

22. February 2009

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Here’s one of those interesting projects that seem to be springing up all over the place recently. A blog called Covered that aims to have cartoonists recreating famous comic covers. So far the results have gone from mere copying to absolute wonder, but it’s worth a quick look:    Green Arrow 2 by Trevor Von Eden [...]

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Crikey! #9 coming soon

21. February 2009

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March brings Crikey! #9 and it is quite simply the best issue yet (if I do say so myself). Despite moving back to a quarterly output, the content of this issue beats all previous hands down! But then I’m biased. Crikey! has really moved on these past couple of issues and the colour issue was [...]

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Observer/Cape Short Graphic Story prize winner 2008 in the DFC

21. February 2009

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The latest issue of the DFC (#38) features some great work as it does every week, but this week sees the start of two new strips: Spectrum Black and Chicken Caesar Jnr. Spectrum Black looks rather like a Ben 10 cartoon but does so in a good way – not appealing to me, but Molly thought [...]

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Sarah McIntyre’s Vern & Lettuce in the Guardian today!

21. February 2009

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Sarah McIntyre’s Vern & Lettuce is one of my favourite strips in the great weekly children’s comics The DFC. More importantly it’s my daughter’s favourite. We said so here when we reviewed it for the FPI blog. But just in case you don’t subscribe to the DFC, Vern & Lettuce is being republished each Saturday [...]

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Heroes of UK comics in Bizarre Magazine

21. February 2009

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Joe linked to the Paul Gravett piece on heroes of UK comics earlier this week, but did you know that it’s included as part of the March issue of Bizarre magazine, available from an FPI store near you: From the website: “We salute the heroes of British comics – from Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman to Grant [...]

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