Archive | March, 2009

DFC – Goodbye from two sad fans……

27. March 2009

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Today is the final day that we, and many other households (although sadly, not enough) will see the last DFC from Random House dropping through the letter box. Molly and I have been subscribers from the start and we’ve written about it here on the FPI blog previously. (Here, Molly’s interview here, here, here, here, [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Tintin wanna cookie !

27. March 2009

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As we are gearing up for the Tintin Festival in Namur (May 8th to the 10th) and the subsequent grand opening of the Tintin Museum in Louvain-La-Neuve (on June 2nd), Belgian cookie bakery par excellence Delacre will be presenting a new, special edition box with a selection of its sweet wares.  The box will feature [...]

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Gail Simone at FPI Dublin this evening

27. March 2009

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A reminder to our chums in the fair city of Dublin that the excellent Gail Simone will be making an appearance and signing books at the Dublin Forbidden Planet (5-6 Crampton Quay) this evening from 6 to 7pm, so if you are in town please take advantage of the opportunity to meet one of the [...]

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‘Lost’ Alan Moore treasure unearthed

26. March 2009

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Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Visiting Professor of Mooraeology and Extremely Rare Comickal Reading Stuffs at the University of Woolamaloo, has announced the unearthing of an extremely rare lost Alan Moore work, the third issue of Big Numbers. How rare? Well as Pádraig explains, Alan doesn’t have a copy! Alan, Bill Sienkiewicz and Al Columbia were working [...]

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Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

26. March 2009

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Another Thursday and as the false dawn of spring gives way to a sudden return to wintry conditions here’s Alex giving us a reason to stay in where its warm and tune in (dropping out optional); as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Strip!: Daredevil [...]

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The DFC – The End Comes Tomorrow

26. March 2009

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We got the bad news a couple of weeks ago: “The DFC, a weekly comic (launched May 2008) for boys and girls is up for sale, following a decision by The Random House Group to cease publication.Philippa Dickinson, MD RHCB, said: “We are very proud of the DFC and the reaction it received from families, [...]

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Basil Wolverton’s Culture Corner

26. March 2009

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Dinosaur Gardens offers up a whole delightful bunch of mid 1940s comics treats in the shape of Culture Corner by the great Basil Wolverton, which ran in Whiz Comics. There’s a whole ton of them, featuring Croucher K Conk, Q.O.C. (Queer Old Coot) explaining the correct, ‘cultured’ way to get around everyday problems and tasks, [...]

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Dwarf Day is coming!

26. March 2009

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We know that (finally!) the Boys from the Dwarf are coming back, thanks to digital channel Dave, which is also offering eager fans a chance to get their mitts on some Red Dwarf memorabilia – check the Dave site for details (you need to register, but its free). And there’s this little microsite, Lister’s Coming [...]

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Prometheus award shortlist

25. March 2009

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The nominations for this year’s Prometheus award, given by the Libertarian Futurist Society for pro-freedom science fiction novels, have been announced: * Matter, by Iain Banks (Orbit Books) – Part of Banks’ series of far-future space operas about the Culture, a utopia which reflects Banks’ interest in anarchism through its avoidance of the use of [...]

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Spidey saves pupil

25. March 2009

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Sky News reports that a young, special needs pupil was saved by none other than Spider-Man. Well, actually a Thai fire-fighter called Somchai Yoosabai in a Spidey costume which handily he had in the fire station. When called to try and get an eleven year old autistic boy back in from a dangerous spot on [...]

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Zot 1987-1991 The Complete Black & White Collection – revisiting a teenage favourite with predictable results….

25. March 2009

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Zot 1987 – 1991 The Complete Black And White Collection by Scott McCloud Harper Collins Back in 1987 I was just venturing into the world outside my insular world of Marvel and DC superheroes with titles like Grendel, Mage and Cerebus. Zot had been on my radar before in it’s earlier colour incarnation, but it [...]

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Schmurgen Con

25. March 2009

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Schmurgen Jonerhaff, having missed out on UK Web & Mini Comics Thing this coming weekend (see Richard’s post), has decided to have his own mini-con, Schmurgen Con, with guests such as Oli Smith, Sean Azzopardi and others. Well, I assume its them – you see Schmurgen is a Norwegian artist creating ‘uncompromising comics’ and his [...]

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Dark Entries

25. March 2009

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Among a stack of new DC pre-order titles I added to the site this week I noticed the long-awaited comics writing debut of internationally best-selling Scottish author Ian Rankin, with Dark Entries, a tale set in the Hellblazer universe, which sees Constantine, who has dealt with demons, monsters and lung cancer, face true horror: reality [...]

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Three mini-series from Sci-Fi

24. March 2009

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The Sci-Fi Channel has announced three mini-series for this year and next which will function as pilots for potential series should they draw a favourable audience. Two are based on books, one on comics: a reworking of Alice in Wonderland (yes, another one, but then Lewis Carroll is an irresistible lure to many creators), a [...]

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Cat Sh*t One

24. March 2009

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Via The Beat comes this wonderfully insane animation for something with the brilliant title of Cat Shit One, apparently based on a manga known in the English language world as Apocalypse Meow, but known elsewhere around the world as Cat Shit One (I’ll need to take their word for it!). Its nuts. But its fun: [...]

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