Archive | March, 2009

SciFi co-founder hates ‘Syfy’

24. March 2009

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Remember a few days ago when the Sci-Fi Channel announced it was re-branding itself as SyFy so as not to scare off girls in pink pony print pyjamas and others with the dreaded ‘Sci-Fi’ term (surely fit only for unsocialised boys who like robots more than girls)? ICV2 reports that the channel’s co-founder Mitch Rubinstein [...]

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Jose Casanovas, RIP

24. March 2009

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Spanish artist Jose Casanovas passed away earlier this month, reports Steve Holland on Bear Alley. Casanovas worked on a number of European titles but English language readers will know him principally for his UK work for 2000 AD and Starlord. I won’t even attempt to sum up Jose’s career as Steve, in his usual knowledgeable [...]

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Bram Stoker nominees announced

24. March 2009

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The nominations for this year’s Bram Stoker awards for horror have been announced, with Coffin Country by Gary Braunbeck (Leisure Books), The Reach by Nate Kenyon (Leisure Books), Duma Key by Stephen King (Scribner) and Johnny Gruesome by Gregory Lamberson (Bad Moon Books/Medallion Press)contending for the Superior Achievement in a Novel gong. SciFi Wire (or [...]

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Poetic license

24. March 2009

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The BBC has a short slideshow of artwork from an upcoming exhibition at the British Library which showcases artworks from some 400 years of illustrated children’s poems. There’s some lovely art from different centuries in there and I’d imagine that for a great many of us illustrated fairy tale, nursery rhymes and poetry books, along [...]

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Petition to protect comics

24. March 2009

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Smallzone’s Shane Chebsey has taken out a petition on the 10 Downing Street website calling on the British government to ensure that recent legislation will not be twisted to justify prosecuting comics readers, creators or sellers: “The Criminal Justice & Immigration Act 2008 came in to effect in January 2009, and Section 49 of the Coroners [...]

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Propaganda: The Rule Of Death

24. March 2009

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The Rule Of Death # 1-4 Words by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Pictures by Douglas Noble, online colours by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey. Self published.     Originally published online in colour at Serializer.net, The Rule Of Death is an extremely quirky black and white comic indeed. If you want the quick summary, it’s essentially Western Zombie Tales of a [...]

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Komikero virus

24. March 2009

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As regular readers will know comics creator Gerry Alanguilan is a dab hand at promoting awareness of comics through numerous videos; now it appears Gerry’s efforts have infected other comics creators with the ‘Komikero virus’, which is creating more video responses, including this bonkers one: [youtube _29TulKan4k]

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From our Continental Correspondent – BD at ArtParis

23. March 2009

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As this year’s ArtParis comes to an end today the famous French newspaper Le Figaro has a short video report discussing the inclusion for the first time in the event’s history of comics artwork (see Wim’s earlier post on ArtParis here – Joe), including a chat with former Angoulème festival director Jean-Marc Thévenet; there is [...]

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Juliet Landau talks Druisilla’s comics return

23. March 2009

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The Comic Book Guide to Buffy talks to the lovely Juliet Landau who has co-scripted the return of her regularly recurring character from Buffy and Angel, Drusilla, in a two-part special for IDW’s Angel series: “Question: It’s been eight years, not counting the two flashbacks at the end of Angel Season Five, since we’ve seen Drusilla [...]

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Boogicise with Monsters

23. March 2009

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With the Dreamworks animated movie Monsters Vs Aliens due for release this spring (Empire recently had a good feature on it, I rather like the 50s-style B movie-like the concept of it) sites and other media have begun to appear for it. As with the online campaign for the Watchmen this includes ‘real’ sites such [...]

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Paul calls for Stan-style suggestions

23. March 2009

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Paul Cornell has decided that contemporary comics readers (and indeed creators) are being deprived of something their predecessors took for granted: the nick-name, as exemplified by Stan ‘the Man’ Lee: “He decreed that the professionals who worked for him would be known as Merry Gerry Conway, Gentleman Gene Colan (or Gene ‘the Dean’ Colan), Sturdy [...]

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Douglas Noble – Stripping, Robots, Choirs and Complexes…

23. March 2009

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Strip For Me by Douglas Noble Self Published. Douglas Noble’s been making his Strip For Me comics for a long time. Although maintaining an ongoing number scheme, the tales within each of the four issues I read (18, 23, 25 and 26 – coincidentally three of the lottery numbers I so vainly play each week) are self contained [...]

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Crazy Comics!

23. March 2009

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With the closure of the DFC and the general economic gloom and empty pockets (unless you are a disgraced senior banker, of course) here’s some good news for a change. Luke Paton at Brit kid’s comic Toxic tells me they are flying the flag to show that there is still some vibrant life in the [...]

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Wallace and Gromit bare all!

23. March 2009

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Let’s start the week with some full-on nudity featuring that sex god of all things animated, Wallace: The image is from an advert created by Aardman for Npower as part of an energy efficiency message. (via the BBC)

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Sir Ridley Scott gets BFI Fellowship

22. March 2009

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Director Sir Ridley Scott has received his Fellowship from the BFI (the British Film Institute), their highest accolade; the 71-year old director, who moved from creating memorable TV adverts to iconic films like Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator has been honoured for outstanding contributions to the world of film. (via the BBC) (Ridley Scott on the [...]

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