Archive | May, 2009

Highland Open Studios Event

28. May 2009

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Vicky Stonebridge, one of the guiding lights of the excellent Hi-Ex Highlands comics convention, is again exhibiting some of her art this summer. From May 30th to the 7th of June the Highland Open Studios Event will be open for visitors and this year, instead of the usual venues like the studio, Vicky will be [...]

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Classic Sherlock Holmes in a classy adaptation: The Hound Of The Baskervilles

28. May 2009

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The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adapted by Ian Edginton and I.N.J.Culbard Self Made Hero When the story is so well known, (and who to be truthful does not know of this most famous tale of the great detective?) any successful comic adaptation has to work very hard to be anything [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – opening of the Hergé Museum less than spectacular

28. May 2009

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The opening of the new Hergé museum in the Belgian city of Louvain-La-Neuve, which took place on Monday, probably was a little less glorious than its organizers would have hoped for.  The event was considered important enough by quite a lot of international media to send reporters over (see the earlier link to the BBC [...]

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Free hugs

28. May 2009

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Sean Azzopardi has a whole Flickr set up of pics from the previous weekend’s MCM London bash, including some of the charming cosplayers who were offering up free hugs, as well as a set of pics from the Manwha 100 Korean comics art exhibition in London.

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Meerkat Trek!

27. May 2009

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Dawn, via Boing Boing, points out these delightful knitted meerkats in original Star Trek uniforms – I love the fact the wee Kirk meerkat has his communicator, Bones has a medical scanner and of course its the guy in the red shirt who is on the deck! And yes, I know that’s the Next Generation [...]

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“Then We Bought Some Chairs”: Matt Badham in conversation with Oli Smith

27. May 2009

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In the coming weeks and months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes, Bugpowder and Fictions (your British Comics Network!) are going to be cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions, large and small. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, [...]

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Warren Ellis’ not so Mighty World Of Marvel

27. May 2009

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Ruins by Warren Ellis, art by Cliff Nielsen, Terese Nielsen, Chris Moeller Marvel Comics This edition of Ruins is a collection of the 1995 two-issue series where Marvel Comics basically let Warren Ellis have his wicked way with the Marvel Universe. It was all done in the wake of the success of Marvels, that series [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Toonder Prize

27. May 2009

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From next year onwards, the Dutch government will award a Dutch cartoonist with the Marten Toonder Prize for an exceptional contribution to Dutch comic culture.  The price is an initiative of the Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst (BKVB, Fund for the Visual Arts, Design and Architecture), and Gert Jan Pos, who has been [...]

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“Kirk to Enterprise…”

27. May 2009

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[youtube Vm1--JW5v6g] A classic Star Trek communicator, with USB connection so you can actually use it practically for Skype and other internet ‘phone’ calls. And yes, you can buy it… Yes, I will admit whenever I flip open my mobile phone I want it to make that classic Trek communicator sound, so you can imagine [...]

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Boys and violent imagery

27. May 2009

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Award-winning children’s author Ted Dewan is tackling the delicate subject of representations of violence in children’s tales head on. Dewan, backed by bestselling author Mark Haddon (whose wee boy has contributed illustrations to the book) explains that young boys, when drawing, often depict scenes of violence but that this isn’t an indicator of some barely [...]

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Lying in the Gutters ends, Bleeding Cool begins….

26. May 2009

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Joe posted earlier that tonight’s Lying In The Gutters; Rich Johnston’s gossip and news column over at CBR, was finishing it’s near 7 year run. The last column is here. But Twitter is currently buzzing with the news that even though LITG may be dead, it’s not the end of Rich’s gossip-mongering ways. And here’s [...]

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Tennant in the Sarah Jane Adventures

26. May 2009

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Den of Geek notes that the latest Doctor Who Magazine announces that David Tennant will be appearing in the popular younger viewer’s Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. Russell T Davies commented that Tennant’s appearance was “more than just a cameo from the Tenth Doctor! He’s a proper part of the story.” Given that [...]

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Possible Buffy movie – but don’t get too excited…

26. May 2009

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The Hollywood Reporter announces that there may be another Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie – normally that’s something that would have most of us at FPI jumping up and down with pleasure and running around with our Mr Pointy stakes. But further reading gives much cause for trepidation. Why? Because its got nothing to do [...]

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Last Lying in the Gutters?

26. May 2009

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Rich Johnston’s very long running and much read Lying In the Gutters column, which appears weekly on Comic Book Resources, looks like it is coming to an unexpectedly sudden end – on FaceBook Rich announced that the latest column, which should go up this evening on CBR, will be the final LITG. I’ve been in [...]

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Beeb has a look at the new Hergé museum

26. May 2009

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The BBC’s Dominic Kane has a short video report from the new Hergé museum, which opens officially next month.

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