Archive | July, 2009

Somersault – the evolution of modern media

28. July 2009

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It’s Tuesday and that means its time for another visit to the wonderful world of Richard Cowdry and Dan Locke’s Somersault, this week helpfully explaining how the complex arena of modern mass media has evolved: (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry and Dan Locke, if you want to reproduce any part of it you should contact [...]

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Lush!

28. July 2009

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I love this short video showing all the mini-comics included in the attractive Tempo Lushbear-shaped  box set being folded and added to the collection (via Bugpowder):

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Eisner Award winners

27. July 2009

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Over the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con this year’s Eisner Awards were announced and as well as winners from the bigger publishers like DC, Marvel and Dark Horse its good to see some of the quality Indy presses like Top Shelf, Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics all scoring too: Best Short Story: “Murder He Wrote,” [...]

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Doctor Who at ComicCon

27. July 2009

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Via the TARDIS Newsroom come a link to the first of 4 parts of a video of the Doctor Who panel at the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con, which is rather handy for those of us who couldn’t be there, with Russell T Davies and David Tennant. Very nice to see Who at such a [...]

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The Rainbow Orchid Volume 1: Julius Chancer’s beautiful adventures…

27. July 2009

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Rainbow Orchid, The Adventures Of Julius Chancer Volume 1 by Garen Ewing Egmont. It’s taken a long time for Garen Ewing’s Rainbow Orchid to get a release that will finally do it some justice, but this first volume in Egmont’s three volume series is pretty much a perfect way to experience a series that has [...]

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From our continental correspondent – festival news

27. July 2009

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With summer only half-way, it might be the right time to start thinking of how to spend the second half of the year. What better way to do that than by checking what the festival calendar has to offer for the next few months ? A few highlights : On the 28th, 29th and 30th [...]

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Unlike Morrissey, I don’t hate it when my friends become successful: Choker by Ben McCool & Ben Templesmith.

27. July 2009

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Once upon a time back in the days when I used to work at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham, I worked with one young Ben McCool; manic, effervescent, incredibly personable, an amazing drinker and a spectacular character who could instantly control a room with the sheer force of his personality. When Ben flows into anecdote [...]

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UFO movie?

27. July 2009

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Blockbuster Buzz picks up on news of yet another old show being rebooted, this time one of the wonderful Gerry Anderson’s early live action series, UFO, which is heading fora possible big screen outing, with legendary Hollywood figure Robert Evans producing and effects wiz Matthew Gratzner down for directing duties. I’ve always found UFO interesting [...]

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Ellie Frazetta, RIP

27. July 2009

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Golden Age Comic Book Stories has the sad news of the death of Ellie Frazetta, not only wife to comics, painter and illustration legend Frank Frazetta, but also his frequent model, muse and an important part not only of his personal life but his career as one of the great illustrators of comics and fantasy. [...]

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Marvelman’s back …… (updated)

26. July 2009

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Originally posted 25th July, Updated 26th July… Rich Johnston, over at the Bleeding Cool site has news from San Diego that Marvel has sorted out a deal with Emotiv, the company representing Mick Anglo’s interests in the Marvelman character and will begin republication of Marvelman stories from the 1950s and 1960s. No news yet over [...]

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Alternative Press Festival: happening this week

26. July 2009

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The Alternative Press Festival is a festival of events over five days celebrating the small press, self publishing and being creative in the print media. It all kicks off with the anthology book launch on 29th July, followed by a Zine event of Thursday 30th where you’re invited to come along and sample some of [...]

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Google goes Comics

26. July 2009

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Google search pages earlier this week were showing this Jim Lee designed DC heroes icon piece. It’s partly because of their teamup with the San Diego Comic Con (happening right now) and partly because of a recent expansion of the iGoogle themes to include various comic artists and characters. Should you wish you can have [...]

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Birmingham/British International Comics Show – now with added arts council backing….

26. July 2009

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Shane Chebsey emailed us earlier this week with the great news that the annual BICS comic convention in Birmingham has secured a grant from The Arts Council of England to help further their work in bringing the medium of comics to a wider audience. “We are very honoured to receive this funding from the Arts [...]

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Chocolat de Paul!

25. July 2009

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Peggy at the D&Q blog posts this scrumptious image up of not one, not two, but three different chocolate bars themed around Michel Rabagliatti’s Paul. Chocolate and cool comics art, two of the finest products of human civilisation… Oh, I’d be more than happy to ‘review’ some… On a strictly professional basis, you understand, in [...]

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Jonah Hex movie poster

25. July 2009

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Seems there’s a new Jonah Hex movie coming out in 2010. Nice poster though. Megan Fox always brightens up a movie poster. Even the god awful Transformers ones.

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