Archive | April, 2009

Solar activity reduced – recession blamed

21. April 2009

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Scientists have revealed that solar activity is at its lowest for almost a century; the sun normally goes through periods of increased and decreased activity (such as solar flares and sun spots) over a fairly regular cycle, but this reduction in activity is thought to be far more unusual. Astronomers have blamed the reduction of [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Another One Bites The Dust: Sammy

21. April 2009

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While French and Belgian comics publishers are continually trying to cash in on their heritage with a deluge of intégrales (hard cover collections of typically three or four albums each), these beautiful, large books quite often resemble the tombstones of a tradition.  One after the other the classic series from the Franco-Belgian tradition are killed [...]

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Will Smith does the Business

21. April 2009

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Will Smith is on board for Unfinished Business, a two hour crime/supernatural telemovie for the SciFi/Syfy Channel which, as with some other recently announced productions by them, will also serve as a form of pilot episode for a potential series. The concept sees a former cop who begins to see fragments of memories from the [...]

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Drawing The Everyday

21. April 2009

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Adam Cadwell shares a peek into how he creates a page of his Everyday strip; I think the animated GIF he’s added in showing the different stages one after the other is especially groovy, go and have a look. (thanks to Matt B for the link) (some lettered pencils for an Everyday strip, by and [...]

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The colour of anarchy – David Lloyd shares a peek at the revamped V pages

20. April 2009

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David Lloyd drops us a line to say that he has posted up a couple of examples of the re-coloured artwork which will appear in the Absolute V for Vendetta, which is due from DC this summer (and not before time). Interestingly David also talks about the original colouring, dispelling the rumour that V was [...]

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JG Ballard passes away

20. April 2009

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The author JG Ballard passed away over the weekend at the age of 78, following a long illness. Ballard was, without a doubt, one of the most unusual and compelling authors of the last few decades, carving out an important part of the science fiction literary landscape of the second half of the 20th century; [...]

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Cute But Sad Comics – what if …..?

20. April 2009

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Cute But Sad Comics # 5: Untitled by Howard Hardiman Cute But Sad Comics Howard Hardiman’s latest comic is a departure from the stories I’ve seen so far; the lovely yet desperately sad Badger, the funny and cruel tales of Jack the Nasty Squirrel or the strange Bronchiole tales in Anthropomorphism In Action. As Howard [...]

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Warren Ellis is Wired

19. April 2009

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But not the way we usually mean. This time, he’s a contributing writer to the UK edition of Wired, the first issue of which came out earlier in the month: (Wired UK edition issue 1. Image borrowed from here.) The column starts in typical Ellis fashion and just keeps going: It is a hair before [...]

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It was a dark and silly night – the movie?

19. April 2009

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It Was A Dark And Silly Night was part of the Raw Junior series of oversized hardbacks, featuring contributions from many famous writers and artists (review here). The role call included Neil Gaiman and Gahan Wilson and Wilson’s artwork features in this short animation of his and Gaiman’s story: (The animated version of Gahan Wilson’s [...]

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Eminem – Punishing your ears again….

19. April 2009

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Eminem is back it seems. And he’s decided that he’s going to pose as Marvel’s Punisher character on the cover of XXL magazine: But that’s not all. Get ready for the Eminem / Punisher comic. Eminem and a man who rids the world of criminals and other lowlifes………… hmmm. From XXL: In addition to the [...]

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My Neighbour Totoro – the cream puff!

18. April 2009

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These are incredibly cool and very, very yummy looking – Anna the Red has instructions on how to make your own cream puffs fashioned to look like Totoro from the wonderful Miyazaki film, with full instructions here and a Flickr set here; combining cakes and animation, that’s two of my favourite things coming together… (link [...]

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Zac Efron for Jonny Quest … swoon.

18. April 2009

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  In a move that is sure to please a nation of young ladies (my 9 year old daughter and an 18 year old niece for starters) the LA Times is reporting that the star of the High School Musical films, Zac Efron, has signed on for the live action Jonny Quest movie from Warner [...]

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A Jedi never use the force for attack, only defence – and arresting crims…

17. April 2009

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Figures obtained by Jane’s Police Review under the Freedom of Information Act showed that Scotland’s largest force, Strathclyde Police (which includes Glasgow and the surrounding area, so its responsible for a huge chunk of the country’s population), has among its ranks eight serving officers who put ‘Jedi’ down as their official religion when filling in [...]

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Propaganda’s Captain Britain fetish continues

17. April 2009

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Captain Britain and MI-13 : Secret Invasion by Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk. This is the collected edition of the first four issues of Paul Cornell’s Captain Britain comic. For some reason it’s also got two issues of an old Marvel Team Up with Spider-Man and the Captain Britain of the red suit, gold lion [...]

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American Flagg

17. April 2009

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ASIFA Hollywood has some large images of Nervy Natt comics work by James Montgomery Flagg (best known for the iconic Uncle Sam recruitment poster) created between 1906 and 1907, which I’d never even heard of before. (link via Boing Boing):

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