Archive | June, 2009

Return to Bash Street

30. June 2009

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Leo Baxendale, one of the true treasures of Brit comics, kindly drops us a line today to let us know that he’s in The Times recalling the early 1950s and how as he created a variety of illustrations for different businesses he was approaching the mighty DC Thomson organisation in Dundee about making his own [...]

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Cumming joins Spider-Man musical

30. June 2009

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Scots actor Alan Cumming has joined the cast of the Spider-Man musical, Turn Off the Dark, where he will be playing Spidey’s nemesis Norman Osborn, better known as the Green Goblin. “He has such range and such charisma as a performer that I feel his Green Goblin will bring many surprises that will move and [...]

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The mean streets of San Diablo

30. June 2009

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Regular readers will know that the Act-i-vate webcomics collective is one of my favourites, home to some excellent creators and its worth reminding anyone who hasn’t had a look recently that there’s an added reason to go and check it out, our own former cartoonist in residence Darryl Cunnigham’s sequel to his Super-Sam and John [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Lucky Luke is alive!

30. June 2009

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Eurocomics heroes are seldom superheroes, and the lack of capes, powers and similar visual Sturm Und Drang have quite often deemed hem less suitable for a general audience film, much unlike X-Men, Spider-Man or Hellboy.  Sure, there’s Steven Spielberg’s much awaited Tintin adaptation, and there are lots of smaller-scale projects, aimed at a more local [...]

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Mutant Scum! Writer’s Bloc in Edinburgh this week

30. June 2009

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Top SF writer Ken MacLeod drops us a line to let us know Edinburgh’s Writer’s Bloc spoken word performance group, which includes a number of very fine SF writers among its numbers, will be meeting this week; from the description: “Writers’ Bloc is proud to present a night of literary mayhem featuring original fiction that gives [...]

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Edinburgh SF Book Group

29. June 2009

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The June meeting of the Edinburgh SF Book Group will be on Tuesday 30th June at 6pm in Henderson’s on Hanover Street; the book being discussed this month is the first volume of Brian K Vaughan’s fascinating Y: the Last Man graphic novel; the group usually meets on the last Tuesday of the month to [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent –

29. June 2009

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Dutch clear line cartoonist Erik De Graaf’s autobiographical comics (an interview with Erik can be found here on the blog) are finally finding their way beyond Holland. In 2010, Canadian publishing house La Pasteque will be publishing a collected version as Souvenirs Perdus. (the Oog & Blik Dutch version of Erik’s work, Verzamelde Herinneringen, which [...]

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Ninja Bunny Returns in Attack Of The Clone…

29. June 2009

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The Adventures Of Ninja Bunny Book 3: Attack Of The Clone by Philip Spence Self Published (The Adventures Of Ninja Bunny: Attack Of The Clone – Virtually life sized.) This is the third outing for Philip Spence’s Ninja Bunny (and the third time I’ve reviewed it – here’s the first, and the follow up). It’s still the same strip, [...]

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Animation at the Film Fest

29. June 2009

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Among the movies I was eager to see during my annual week off at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival were two animated features which we’ve mentioned on here before (regular readers will know of my fascination for all forms of animation) – the Australian stop-motion film Mary and Max (that rare thing, a feature [...]

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Kells and Moon win at Edinburgh Film Festival

29. June 2009

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The awards ceremony on the last night of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Sunday saw Indy low budget science fiction flick Moon win the coveted Michael Powell award for Best New British Feature Film, while the gorgeous Irish animated film The Secret of Kells won the Standard Life Audience (voted for by the actual [...]

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Marvel Strange Tales Max – strange tales indeed!

28. June 2009

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(Paul Pope and Jose Villarubia’s cover to Strange Tales Max 1. Big wow.) Yesterday I looked at DC’s major 12 weekly event superhero series Wednesday Comics. Today, it’s Marvel’s turn. I’ve always been a superhero fan, but find myself further and further away from the majority of output by the big two in the last few [...]

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N is for Neill, C is for Cameron, A is for awesomeness.

28. June 2009

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Neill Cameron is hard at work on his latest project: The A-Z of Awesomeness. Inspired by Garen Ewing’s A-Z of Comic Book Characters from last year, Neill’s taking a letter a day and welcomes suggestions from you for subjects – extra points for awesome alliteration as well. (The entry for D on Neill’s A-Z of awesomeness: [...]

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Wednesday Comics – coming every Thursday to a comic shop near you.

27. June 2009

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I’ve been meaning to mention this one ever since it was announced. DC comics are particularly fond of the summer event idea and are also rather fond of the idea of weekly comics. Now normally I have to say I find the whole idea rather horribly drowning in dense continuity, but the latest summer weekly [...]

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Exdrawminate, Exdrawminate ….

27. June 2009

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Daryl Cunningham, late of this parish with his Super Sam & John Of The Night strip and currently wowing them over at Act-i-vate with The Streets of San Diablo has a new fun collaboration blog: Exdrawminate. The plan; get as many comic and other folk as possible to draw Dalek pictures. Here’s Daryl’s first to [...]

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Bulldog – Empire; the return of Capt. Winston Bulldog.

26. June 2009

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Bulldog – Empire by Jason Cobley and Neill Cameron self published as two issues, also available in the first Mammoth Book Of Best New Manga. (Neill Cameron’s lovely wrapround cover to Bulldog issue 1.) A few weeks ago I reviewed Jason Cobley’s The Greatest Adventures Of Captain Winston Bulldog (review here & book available from Jason Cobley direct or [...]

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