Archive | April, 2009

Moore and O’Neill at Gosh

24. April 2009

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London based Gosh! comics will be hosting a real humdinger of an event on May 2nd – Messrs Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill will be present from 2 to 5pm to sign copies of the upcoming first volume of the new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen book, Century: 1910. I don’t think I have to tell [...]

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Alex’s Thursday audio round-up

23. April 2009

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Dragnet had Joe Friday, we have Alex every Thursday, here to update us once more on the shows he is involved in over the next week (just the facts, ma’am). As usual check the Panel Borders site for full details and links to podcast versions of earlier shows: Strip!: Ed Pinsent and Fast Fiction, tonight [...]

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Deathlok Vs The Goon!

23. April 2009

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The excellent Eric Powell tantalises us with this short teaser trailer for this summer’s upcoming crossover between Adult Swim and Powell’s brilliant Goon, Deathlok Vs the Goon: [youtube saHqw8MWV2E]

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Obama and the cartoonists

23. April 2009

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Has President Obama been given too easy a ride by political cartoonists, the BBC asks ahead of an exhibition of original cartoons of Obama going on show at the Political Cartoon Gallery in London. “It’s as if Bush was the Antichrist and the world’s in such a mess that Obama is seen as an angel… [...]

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Jack Cardiff passes away

23. April 2009

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I’m saddened today to hear of the death of legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff, one of the most acclaimed film-makers in British cinematic history. While Jack worked across a diverse range of films in his long, long career (which started way back in the 1930s), collaborating with fresh new talent and the biggest stars alike (Fred [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Waste Not, Want Not: Le Sketch

23. April 2009

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Le Sketch is the idea of the moment: why waste the paper trims that are cut off from normal print jobs (after the pages of a book are cut to size), when you can use them to promote good comic art?  That’s what American cartoonist Matt Madden and Portuguese designer Paulo Patricio thought when they [...]

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McDaid does Dredd

23. April 2009

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(art by Dan McDaid, Dredd (c) Rebellion) Dan McDaid shares some Dredd sketches over on his blog; I quite like ‘em speaking as an old school Dredd head, its a little rough (well it is a sketch, not full production stuff) but I like that, reminds me a bit of Cam Kennedy or Ian Gibson’s [...]

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The Girly Comic Book Volume 1 – not your usual anthology…

22. April 2009

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The Girly Comic Book Volume 1 Edited by Selina Lock Published by Factor Fiction The Girly Comic is an irregular anthology with no other guiding principle than having every strip feature a female lead. Like Selina Locke says in the introduction, despite initially thinking about making it a comic by women, the overwhelming majority of [...]

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Jon Haward gets animated

22. April 2009

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Top UK artist Jon Haward has been having a lot of fun with a recent commission – creating artwork for an animated TV commercial for Coca-Cola, which has as its theme a variety of characters all drawn (no pun intended) from different comics styles: “basically I drew enviroment stuff buildings, trees, bridge, giant snowman ,coke [...]

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Bob Silverberg in the LA Times

22. April 2009

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The LA Times has a good, long profile of Robert Silverberg, who, with his acclaimed but probably little known to many fans Dying Inside being republished, discusses his writing career from slogging through the age of pulps to achieving a marriage of science fiction and ‘proper’ literature and the difficulties in actually marketing that kind [...]

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Heliotrope’s free Moorcock tribute

21. April 2009

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Free speculative fiction ‘zine Heliotrope‘s fifth issue is a tribute to the mighty Michael Moorcock and boasts articles and short fiction from Bryan Talbot, Lou Anders, Hal Duncan, Catherynne M Valente, Chris Roberson, Paul S Kemp, Rhys Hughes and Neil Gaiman, available online now as as PDF or to read in HTML format, all totally [...]

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Sheri S Tepper talks to the ‘Nest

21. April 2009

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The SF Crowsnest talks to the frankly brilliant author Sheri S Tepper about her latest work, The Margarets (a contender for this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award), and her long and distinguished career. I love Tepper’s work – Grass is a superb piece that should be on the shelf of any serious SF reader – [...]

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New Trek movie picking up good reviews

21. April 2009

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“Putting a much-loved but over-the-hill vehicle back in shape takes more than a new battery and a lick of paint. It demands a full-bore refit, and that’s exactly what J.J. Abrams has given “Star Trek.” – Ray Bennett in The Hollywood Reporter. Seems like quite a few of the reviews of the new Trek film [...]

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Harry Potter sketches to go on sale in Glasgow

21. April 2009

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The BBC reports that preparatory sketches by the artist Cliff Wright for the cover of the Harry Potter novels will be up for sale at the Glasgow Art Fair later on this week. One pencil and pen sketch is for the cover of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, depicting Harry and Hermione on [...]

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Doctor Who theme top for science fiction fans

21. April 2009

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An online vote on Total SciFi for the best television science fiction theme has been won by the incredibly distinctive (not to mention now iconic) Doctor Who theme, originally composed by Ron Grainer and arranged by Delia Derbyshire and the old BBC Radiophonic Workshop (who also provided incidental music and a plethora of sound effects [...]

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