Archive | June, 2009

Captain America – Reborn

16. June 2009

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In a move that I doubt will surprise anyone Marvel has announced that the late Steve Rogers will be returning to life in Captain America: Reborn this summer. “Reborn is the next chapter in the larger story that I’ve been building in [Captain America] since issue #1. This is a chance to really explore how [...]

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Propaganda takes a second look at Rob Jackson’s Bog Wizards

16. June 2009

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Bog Wizards 2: Rise Of The Elder Gods. by Rob Jackson To be honest with you, I wasn’t all that enamoured with Bog Wizards 1 when Rob sent it to me as part of a package that I reviewed a while back, in fact I skipped over it rather in favour of some of his [...]

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Fancy a vampire cape?

16. June 2009

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The Beeb reports that the famous Angels Costumiers are putting up a selection of their costumes for auction at Bonhams in London today, to clear some more space in their busy warehouse. “The downside to creating costumes that become so famous and strongly associated with particular characters, actors or films is that they can never [...]

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Fourth Estate buys UK rights to Scott Pilgrim

16. June 2009

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The Bookseller (the main UK book trade journal) reports that Fourth Estate has picked up the rights to publish UK editions of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim graphic novels. Its a bit of an unusual departure for the respected publisher in one way, as they don’t have a long history of publishing graphic novels. But [...]

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Primeval cancelled

15. June 2009

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The Guardian reports that ITV has decided not to proceed with a fourth season of SF show Primeval, ending several weeks of speculation that the show might face the chop. Its thought that the costs of the CGI-heavy show, which sees a group of scientists coping with temporal anomalies bringing strange creatures from other times [...]

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Sulk by Jeffrey Brown – superhero parody and balletic cage fighting.

15. June 2009

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Sulk Issue 1: Bighead And Friends & Sulk Issue 2: Deadly Awesome by Jeffrey Brown Top Shelf   Sulk, the new series of self contained mini graphic novels from Jeffrey Brown, is something of a one man anthology title with Brown finding time to stretch his wings a little and write about various subjects close [...]

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Bear Alley Books

15. June 2009

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“Bear Alley Books has been born out of a desire to put some classic British comic strips back into print. There has been no tradition here for reprinting strips as albums as there is across Europe and, increasingly, in America. Almost none of the strips I remember with great affection from my youth are in [...]

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Harlan Ellison, Frank Miller. Bill Sienkiewicz: Wolverine

15. June 2009

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Gerry Alanguilan looks at a seriously heavyweight collaboration between Harlan Ellison writing, Frank Miller drawing and Bill Sienkiewicz inking a Wolverine tale for the 1985 Marvel published Heroes For Hope, which was created to raise funds for famine relief in Africa (ah, those heady post Band-Aid and Live-Aid days and huge efforts by so many [...]

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Stephen R. Bissette’s Taboo Origin stories…..

14. June 2009

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  (Covers to Taboo 1 & 2. Art by Bissette.) Over at Steve Bissette’s website/blog he’s started an occasional series of posts detailing the fascinating journey into publishing in the 80s of Taboo. Those of us who were around in comics at the time remember Taboo with the same nostalgia that we do A1. Although [...]

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Comics Reporter interviews Seth.

14. June 2009

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A little behind with reading, hence this link to a week old Seth interview by Tom Spurgeon over at The Comics Reporter. But some folks may have missed it and since it’s a great interview with one of my favourite comic creators, I figured it was worth linking to. Seth’s latest book is out now; [...]

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British International Comics Show – new website, more details announced

14. June 2009

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The British International Comics Shows (formerly the Birmingham International Comics Show), hereafter referred to as BICS, has just launched it’s new website and started delivering details of the guests and other important information – like the location of the traditional pre comics-show party (and the reason so many of the attendees are rather sluggish and [...]

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Christopher Lee knighted

13. June 2009

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Veteran actor and possessor of one of the most wonderfully silky voices in acting Christopher Lee has received a knighthood in the Queen’s birthday honours list. Sir Christopher, now in his mid 80s, has appeared in a massive number of international films across the decades, playing a diverse number of roles, although it is some [...]

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LUC 176 – a fortnight to go….

13. June 2009

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Following the interview with Oli Smith here on the FPI blog a couple of weeks ago, I thought it might be timely to remind you that LUC 176 is taking place in a fortnight. Oli and the boys and girls of London Underground Comics have been very busy making sure this event will be bigger [...]

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Gary Northfield’s Derek The Sheep gets inclusion to the Booked Up program.

13. June 2009

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This is great news. Gary Northfield’s rather lovely Derek The Sheep is getting paperback treatment and has been selected for the annual Booked Up scheme for secondary schools. Big kid and little kid (me and Molly) enjoyed the book greatly (review here)and it’s nice to see that it’s being included on something as important as [...]

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Gaiman & Palmer news…. aaaahhhh.

13. June 2009

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I’m still catching up so you’ve probably all seen this on the Spin website: (Via Heidi) “Later, Gaiman, 48, reads his disturbing comic piece about a man who works as a living statue in a city square, and stalks a young woman he admires from afar, eventually waiting for her in total stillness in the [...]

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