Archive | May, 2009

Paul Cornell says goodbye to Captain Britain

19. May 2009

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Over on the House of Awkwardness Paul Cornell confirms the end of the Captain Britain and MI-13 run with issue #15 and posts up his thoughts on the series and the ending of it, while also assuring the readers who have supported him and his co-creators that they will still get a proper ending and [...]

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Eagle Awards nominations – get those nominations in

19. May 2009

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Its been very easy to miss this year, but the nominations for the Eagle Awards are running right now and end on Friday 22nd of May, so you need to get your skates on and get your choice of nominations in there for consideration – and, of course, should you wish to register a vote [...]

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FP NYC present Miss Lasko-Gross and Gabrielle Bell tonight

19. May 2009

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Our colleagues in the New York Forbidden Planet are tonight presenting Miss Lasko-Gross and Gabrielle Bell at The Strand tonight from 7 to 8.30pm, talking about and with a slideshow of their new works A Mess of Everything (published by Fantagraphics) and Cecil and Jordan in New York (published by Drawn & Quarterly).

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The Dream Hunters

19. May 2009

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When the tenth anniversary of Neil Gaiman’s groundbreaking Sandman series rolled around we were treated to a luscious prose tale by Neil, drawing on elements of Asian folklore and boasting some truly stunning illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano that you could lose yourself in. Now, unbelievably, it’s the twentieth anniversary year – how did that happen? [...]

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Doctor Who wins at BAFTA Craft Awards

19. May 2009

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Doctor Who picked up the gong for Visual Effects at the Craft BAFTA awards (which honour the people behind the scenes such as the effects wizards like Who’s The Mill, make-up, costume, design, photography, writing etc, who actually make the programmes we watch happen). The award was for the Fires of Pompeii episode; Philip Kloss [...]

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Adventures In Cartooning – Understanding Comics for Children perhaps?

19. May 2009

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Adventures In Cartooning by James Sturm, Andrew Arnold and Alexis Frederick-Frost First Second “Cartooning is what happens when you send your drawings on an adventure. In Adventures In cartooning, simple lessons in cartooning are woven into a rip-roaring story. The only thing more fun than reading this comic will be making your own!!” That’s some [...]

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Cancertown signing at the Belfast FPI

19. May 2009

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Stephen Downey will be in the Belfast FPI store (52-54 Ann Street) on Saturday the 30th of May from 2 to 4pm for the Irish launch of Cancertown, the new graphic novel from Insomnia Publications that he worked on along with writer Cy Dethan and which has had a glowing recommendation from Bryan Talbot, so [...]

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London MCM this weekend

19. May 2009

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The London Movie Comics Media Expo hits the city this coming bank holiday weekend (23rd to 24th May), Sean Azzopardi reminds us, and as well as a pile of guests from the worlds of TV and movie science fiction and fantasy (including some of the cast from the BBC’s Merlin, Eureka and Terminator’s Linda Hamilton) [...]

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Fetish work – Tom talks to Craig

19. May 2009

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Continuing his very welcome return to his Sunday Interviews on Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon this week is talking to Craig Yoe, primarily talking about his recently published book Secret Identity: the Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster as well as taking in comics history and the infamous Wertham crusade against ‘corrupting’ comics.

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“Don’t make me angry…”

18. May 2009

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This toddler flexing his biceps and yelling is Seb Gyngell; according to his father “he’s got it by copying the Hulk. He has two DVDs of the Hulk cartoons and watches them every day”. If young Seb grows up to rip many shirts and show a predilection for purple trousers his father will only have [...]

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Classical Comics Macbeth gets a gong at the IPPY awards

18. May 2009

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Jon Haward is rather pleased to announce that Classical Comics graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth picked up a gong at the Independent Publisher’s Book Awards, tying with Michael Pearl’s Good and Evil for the Bronze award in the Graphic Novel/Drawn Book – Drama/Documentary category. Frank Beddor and Liz Cavalier took the Silver for Hatter [...]

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Magical and musical – Phonogram The Singles Club #2

18. May 2009

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Phonogram – The Singles Club – issue 2 (of 7) by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie b-sides artwork by Emma Vieceli and Daniel Heard So, when last we spoke about Phonogram, back in the review of the first issue, I decided that it was practically the perfect distillation of the magical act of listening to [...]

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R Crumb and his Cheap Serenaders

18. May 2009

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Two of the Cheap Suit Serenaders, Al Dodge and Robert Armstrong, are on Fretboard Journal‘s Blog Talk Radio talking about old-time music and playing with Robert Crumb. (via Boing Boing)

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Timeframes: Narrative and Sequence in Comics

18. May 2009

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Via Emma Vieceli comes a heads-up on some interesting comics events coming up next month in bonnie Dundee (home of the mighty DC Thomson empire), as part of the Dundee Literary Festival: “Timeframes, the third annual Dundee comics conference will be held in associationwith the Dundee Literary Festival on Sunday 28th June 2009. It will [...]

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Tales From the Crust

18. May 2009

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Laura Howell‘s marathon cartooning sessions with her Strip-a-Day Spectaculars have consistently cracked me up for the last couple of years she’s run them on her site. Different styles, themes, subjects and approaches all the time; not only do they make you laugh like a hippo having its tummy tickled by a giant feather duster they [...]

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