Archive | March, 2009

Andy Hallet passes away

31. March 2009

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E! Online reports the shocking news that Andy Hallet has passed away of heart failure at the dreadfully young age of only 33. Andy, who played Lorn in Joss Whedon’s successful Buffy spin-off Angel for years, delighting fans, had been battling with heart disease for five years, but sadly lost the battle a couple of [...]

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UK Web & Mini Comix Thing – Sarah McIntyre’s fun day out…

31. March 2009

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(David O’Connell, Sarah McIntyre and Woodrow Phoenix at the Web & Mini Comix Thing 2009. Photo from Sarah.) Sarah McIntyre dropped us a line to flag up a live journal post all about the fun she had at the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing that took place on the 28th March 2009. So far [...]

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Twitter comic

31. March 2009

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Well I’ve seen the web used by writers to create an ongoing online tale as the blogosphere watches, now it seems Twitter is next for a virtual, interactive bout of creation, this time in the form of comics – Monkey on my Back has the details.

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Cartoonists at Turner Classic Movies

31. March 2009

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Over on Turner Classic Movies a handful of cartoonists are getting the chance to produce strips based on some classic Psychotronic movies that TCM puts out in the US on weekends as part of the TCM Underground website. (Virtual cover from Peter Bagge’s Reefer Madness strip). So far there are strips from Peter Bagge, Nathan [...]

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New Smuggling Vacation online now.

30. March 2009

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Jas Wilson’s Smuggling Vacation came out last year to much praise and some minor controversy, with various newspapers running all too predictable “ban this evil drug peddling filth” stories. Of course, if they’d actually have read the book they’d have found out it was no such thing and instead was just a bloody funny, well [...]

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Spleenal’s Watchmen

30. March 2009

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I know I said no more Watchmen for a while. But I just found this on Spleenal’s website: And remember, Spleenal’s first book is coming out very soon from Blank Slate. (More Spleenal Stuff, Spleenal’s website.)

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More DFC Goodbyes

30. March 2009

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The final issue of the DFC seems to have everyone talking over the weekend, with Facebook, Twitter and blogs all lamenting the sad loss of what had become, to it’s subscribers and creators, a much loved Friday moment. Sarah McIntyre has a lovely, bittersweet blog post over at her live journal where she’s sharing the [...]

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Toxic Presents … Crazy Comics

29. March 2009

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Toxic Presents …. Crazy Comics. The Toxic Crazy Comics supplement is a free comics insert included with issue 137 of Toxic magazine that should be on the racks from April 1st for three weeks. Toxic is described as a “lifestyle / entertainment magazine for 8-12 year old boys”. Now, aside from the old bloke in [...]

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Goodbye to the DFC

29. March 2009

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Friday saw the last DFC comic published. Today I thought I’d just showcase some of the lovely images and messages we’ve gathered up from various creator’s sites with them saying goodbye… Emma Vieceli: What’s important is to remember that the DFC did not fail. It achieved so much and, if economy hadn’t stuck its smelly [...]

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The other Thompson Twins

29. March 2009

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There’s a Tintin movie in the works. Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg are involved. Cue the obvious publicity shot. Image from the Angouleme website. (via Heidi)

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More on Big Numbers # 3 – The Eddie Campbell connection.

28. March 2009

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A little follow up from Joe’s post on Friday about Pádraig’s amazing find of a complete Big Numbers 3, long thought lost forever. Eddie Campbell has joined in with his recollections of the matter and his strange connection with the project. This was 1990 something and Eddie was working away on Alan Moore’s other magnum [...]

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The Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival 24-26th April

28. March 2009

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Sarah McIntyre sent word on this one a while ago, and it’s rather sneaked up on us. It looks like being a very nice festival, fun of great authors. But of particular interest to us is the DFC panel taking place in the Bookseller Crow and two masterclass workshops on the 25th. Given that the [...]

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The final DFC … for now? And what about those collections?

28. March 2009

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  Cover to the last DFC, issue 43, out today. Will we see more at some point? I’d love to think so. But before we see the return of the comic maybe it’s time to start wondering about which of the series featured in the comic we’d like to see collections from? After me writing [...]

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Doctor Who exhibition opens in Glasgow

27. March 2009

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This weekend sees the opening of the touring Doctor Who exhibition in Glasgow’s superb Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (which Denise Mina used as a location during her run on Hellblazer), with costumes, props and more from the revived series going on show from this Saturday through to January 2010, with the Scottish media reporting [...]

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The DFC Is Dead – Long Live the DFC!

27. March 2009

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A little good DFC news in amongst all the gloom with the final issue coming out later today. A group of the writers and artists who worked on the comic have put together a blog: This from Garen Ewing, one of a number of creators who’ve got work done that was meant to appear, but [...]

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