Archive | June, 2009

Alex’s audio roundup

19. June 2009

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A little later than usual this week due to Resonance FM being on a repeats schedule while their studios are upgraded, but here’s Alex Fitch with details of the shows he’s involved with over the next seven days or so; as usual check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of [...]

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Swallow Me Whole – tales of extraordinary madness

19. June 2009

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Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell Top Shelf In Swallow Me Whole Nate Powell tells us a story of mental illness and family life through the eyes and experiences of two step-sibling teenagers in the American south. But this isn’t anything like the usual tales of madness and dysfunctional families. This is a gentle, almost [...]

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Christopher Lee’s Dracula cape sells

19. June 2009

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Sir Christopher Lee’s cape, as worn in the iconic Hammer Horror versions of Dracula, went under the hammer this week (as mentioned earlier in the week) and the BBC reports that it sold for a whopping £26, 400 at the auction of costumes from the famous Angels Costumiers. That’s a lot of money for an [...]

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“We belong dead…”

18. June 2009

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Universal are apparently keen to cash in on the great Hollywood trend of remaking older films, although at least this time the films they are most interested in reworking aren’t new versions of fairly recent flicks but venerable classics from the studio’s own history, their iconic 30s horror movies. According to The Hollywood Reporter Universal [...]

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rock a bye baby – Klingon style

18. June 2009

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I love this Klingon weapons inspired baby cradle by artist Shi Jinsong – made for Ne Zha who is “a supernatural youthful hero who always recovers and refuses to grow up. He has three heads, nine eyes and eight arms, with blue clouds coming from his mouth, flamed wheels under his feet, and all kinds [...]

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Blue Rider – Where skate art meets Manga

18. June 2009

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The Blue Rider by Andrew David Murphy Self Published Sometimes I’ll read something and not have any reaction at all to it and sometimes I’ll love or hate a comic with a passion. Rarely do I finish a comic and have to ask myself what I’ve just read. That’s what happened with Blue Rider, the [...]

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Second Thoughts – a heartbreaking tale of love and loss.

17. June 2009

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Second Thoughts by Niklas Asker Top Shelf Sometimes the book makes itself incredibly difficult to review. The very brilliance of a plot point or the story is such that I could give it a full review and blow the very thing that makes it so good for future readers or I can keep quiet and [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Everybody must get stoned (extra)

17. June 2009

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Comics fans and music lovers have one thing in common: they are completists.  They may not actually end up buying everything that even slightly smells of their favourite artist, they all at least would like to.  It only makes good sense in that respect to publish comic versions of famous songs, if only to combine [...]

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Fissure

17. June 2009

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Fissure is a new independent detective/science fiction film by Russ Pond which is making the most of digital tech to create and show an independent film. Each Monday (starting yesterday) a new webisode will be released as Detective Grunning (played by James MacDonald) attempts to put together the events of a fractured reality. I’ve only [...]

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Drawing the Sword

17. June 2009

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Todd Klein tells me that he has a new signed print coming up on his site very soon, Drawing the Sword. I’ve loved Todd’s previous signed prints (with Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Alex Ross) and had to treat myself to them; they’re lovely meetings of art, storytelling and Todd’s wonderful sense of design and [...]

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Frankenstein wins award

16. June 2009

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 Jon Haward tells me that Classical Comics adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (on which Jon was art director) has won its first award, a Distinguished Achievement from the Educational Publishers in America. I can understand that – as well as doing some very nice adaptations Classical include material at the end of each book with [...]

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Misunderstanding Comics

16. June 2009

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Over on the Super Comics Adventure Squad (a blog from a number of the contributors to the late DFC comic) James Turner uses his Beaver and Steve to cleverly pastiche Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics: (panels from Misunderstanding Comics by and (c) James Turner, check the SCAS blog for the full strip)

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Dangerous Ink’s fundraiser

16. June 2009

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Tom at independent publication Dangerous Ink (a very cool alternative arts mag with much to commend it to the SF&F and comics readers) tells me that they’re holding a bit of a fundraiser (times being tight) with an auction on Ebay with limited prints and original work from artists whose work has appeared in Dangerous [...]

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David Gemmell charity auction closes tomorrow

16. June 2009

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A reminder that the charity auction which the good folks at the David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy organised will close the online bids tomorrow (Wednesday 17th) at 12pm, so you have until then to get your bids in. The monies raised will go to support the fine work of Medecins Sans Frontiers, David’s favourite [...]

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Talking Burke and Hare

16. June 2009

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If you recall last week I was really impressed with Rian Hughes’ delightfully ghoulish cover for Insomnia’s upcoming Burke and Hare graphic novel which was on Insomnia’s Red Eye blog. Also on the blog the guys were promising a Q&A with the writer Martin Conaghan and this week they’ve followed up on that promise with [...]

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