Archive | June, 2009

David Baillie’s Tongue Of The Dead now online

23. June 2009

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Comic artist David Baillie has just begun serialisation of his sword and sorcery epic The Tongue Of The Dead up onto the Sequential website, one page every day in the run-up to LUC176 and Monday/Thursday after that. Tongue of the Dead and other work by David Baillie was reviewed here. And I had this to say [...]

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“I’ll see you on the dark side of the Moon”

22. June 2009

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“And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I’ll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon” (Pink Floyd, Brain Damage) I’m currently enjoying my annual smorgasbord of movies at the Edinburgh International Film Festival where among the [...]

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Batman & Robin #1, Morrison and Quitely do their thing on the other great DC icon…

22. June 2009

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Batman And Robin #1 Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely DC Comics I’ve been a little down on Grant Morrison’s work lately. Not that I’ve really read that much. It’s just that his whole DC continuity heavy series just don’t appeal to me (and god knows I don’t have the time to get involved). In fact, all I’ve read [...]

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Tripwire magazine brings us some bad distribution news….

22. June 2009

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Joel Meadows of Tripwire magazine brings us the sad news that the forthcoming 2009 annual has not reached Diamond distributor’s minimum order threshold and wont be carried by them in the US. This is a huge blow for Tripwire, which I’ve written about previously as being a rather smart, literate and really well put together [...]

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Doctor Who doc on Target

22. June 2009

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Radio 4 have a new Doctor Who documentary airing on Tuesday looking at the classic Target Book Doctor Who novels. Like Joe said a couple of years ago on the blog, the Target books were a big part of every young sci-fi fan’s life. You young people nowadays don’t know you’re born with your [...]

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Alan Moore on the Beeb

21. June 2009

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Lord Alan of Moore will be on the Chain Reaction show on BBC Radio 7 tonight at 10.30pm; for those unfamiliar with Chain Reaction each week’s guest becomes next week’s interviewer (in other words they make a chain between the weeks), with comedian Stewart Lee interviewing Alan tonight, then next week’s edition its Alan’s turn [...]

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Nick Bertozzi video

21. June 2009

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You can watch a video profile of the excellent Nick Bertozzi (and I see a whole lot more comics related video on New Media Literacies YouTube channel); link from Mike Lynch via Dirk at Journalista: [youtube ucc7baLQRZs]

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Jason interview….

21. June 2009

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The ever readable Daily Crosshatch has an interview with the very talented Jason. It’s a two parter and only part one is up at the time of writing. Jason’s most recent book, Low Moon, feature five tales including the intriguing “chess western” story. The NYT site has some of the collection available as pdfs from it’s [...]

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Young, talented and Sweden bound ……

21. June 2009

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(Greenfield, Sherett, Lunney, Ellerby and Cadwell working hard and selling their fine comics. Or maybe just hanging around looking young.) Marc Ellerby, Anna, Lizz Lunney, Adam Cadwell, Matt Sherett and Liz Greenfield headed over to Sweden recently for the SSPX09 Comics Festival. They had comics to sell and a sampler to give away. Hi-jinks ensued… and [...]

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David Gemmell Legend Award

20. June 2009

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Last night saw the very first David Gemmell Legend Award for fantasy writing, created to celebrate and remember the work of the late and still much missed David Gemmell. The overall winner was Andrzej Sapkowski, the author of Blood of Elves. Over on the My Favourite Books blog Liz de Jager has more on the [...]

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Badger webcomic launches ….

20. June 2009

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Howard Hardiman’s Badger was one of my favourite things from last year. Absolutely gorgeous, desperately sad, completely lovely. Here’s some of what I said: “It’s an incredibly simple little tale. Yet it’s one of my favourite comics all year. It’s certainly the saddest … This tale of a lonely little badger living all alone in his [...]

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The alternative Simpsons

20. June 2009

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This year’s Treehouse Of Horror Simpsons issue is one of those lovely issues where the leading lights of the alt-comics crowd get their hands on Bart et al. Looks like it should be good: “Guest edited by Sammy Harkham, the award-winning creator of the popular Kramers Ergot anthology, this year’s issue is a jam-packed with some [...]

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TCAF goes annual

20. June 2009

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Chris Butcher of Tornto’s famous The Beguiling comics store and organiser of the Toronto Comics Arts Festival looks back at this year’s TCAF earlier in May which I’m pleased to read went extremely well, with attendance double the previous show’s in 2007, a damned impressive result and a pretty darned good vindication of the work [...]

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Father’s Day Trouble Bruin’

19. June 2009

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A little late for this perhaps, but well worth a mention. It’s Father’s Day on Sunday and perhaps, instead of socks, barbeque forks or something boring for the car, how about some comics goodness for Dad? Maybe American Elf with it’s tales of James Kolchalka and his son? Or Andi Watson’s wonderful Little Star? Or [...]

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Michael Moorcock interviewed

19. June 2009

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Remember recently I mentioned that Boing Boing was inviting questions from readers to put to one of the true giants of the science fiction and fantasy field, Michael Moorcock to mark the publication of very tasty The Best of Michael Moorcock by indy SF&F publisher Tachyon? Well the interview is now up on the Tachyon [...]

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