Archive | July, 2009

Grant Morrison interview at the Onion AV Club

25. July 2009

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Another perrenially good interviewee, Grant Morrison always seems to have something worth talking about. And this interview at the Onion is no exception. “My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul. It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a [...]

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John Ryan, creator of Captain Pugwash, RIP

24. July 2009

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(cover to the first Bodley Head edition of Captain Pugwash by John Ryan, pic borrowed from the Gregory & Company author’s agent site) The BBC reports the sad news that cartoonist John Ryan, creator of Captain Pugwash, has passed away at the age of 88. The cartoon pirate captain of the Black Pig was created by [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Tintin first on the moon after all

24. July 2009

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As a afterthought to the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11’s moon landing over the weekend, at last the Vatican’s daily newspaper Osservatore Romano has given credit where credit is due.  In an article in its weekend edition, it wrote that Neil Armstrong “was not the first human to tread on the [...]

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Razorjack – a taste for handmaidens in fetish gear and terrible dentistry

24. July 2009

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Razorjack by John Higgins ComX Comics On the back cover of Razorjack are lots of nice pull quotes by various luminaries of collected comicdom and I have to say that, sadly, I don’t really agree with a single one of them. I say sadly because ComX is company that has returned to us quite recently and I really [...]

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Kids, learn to draw with Uncle Malcy!

24. July 2009

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Malcy Duff tells me that he will be hosting a five-day comics workshop in Edinburgh’s lovely Filmhouse on Lothian Road:  “The workshop is aimed at children ages 7 – 10, and will cover basic comic book techniques, drawing exercises, character creating and will culminate in a printed comic book of their work at [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

23. July 2009

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As another week wooshes by bringing us to Thursday (already??) its time for Alex to update us with some of the shows he’s involved with, including a second look at Doctor Who in comics form, this time the classic Who strips. As usual for more details and links to archived podcasts of previous shows check [...]

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Eric Powell video interview at SDCC

23. July 2009

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Via the TFAW blog comes this brief video with Eric Powell, creator of the brilliant Goon series, at the San Diego Comic Con: TFAW seem to be setting up a number of video reports from SDCC, so its probably worth checking in on their YouTube channel over the coming weekend. Especially if those giant squid said [...]

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Harker 5 – the murderer revealed!

23. July 2009

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Harker issue 5 Roger Gibson & Vince Danks Ariel Press The latest issue of this top quality detective series, and the penultimate issue of the first storyline. I’ve looked at it twice already: “This is one of those books that I knew I was going to enjoy within the first ten pages. It had that feel of a great [...]

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Magritte meet Hergé

23. July 2009

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Via Wim’s Ephemerist comes this clever piece by Karl Meersman for Focus magazine, celebrating two very different but famous and celebrated artists who have both had museums dedicated to their work open in Belgium recently, René Magritte and Hergé.

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Den of Geek talks to Dave Gibbons

23. July 2009

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Over on Den of Geek Michael Leader talks to the Dave Gibbons about the Watchmen movie as it comes out on DVD and how the addition of the Black Freighter and the ability to stop and re-watch scenes on disc adds to the sense of the film (I must confess I’m not convinced on that [...]

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Doctor Who filming

22. July 2009

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Celeb site Mr Paparazzi has a whole bunch of pictures from the filming of the new Doctor Who, with some pics of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in front of a somewhat altered looking TARDIS, which looks, to me at least, more like the early 60s version of the famous police box. I wonder if [...]

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Geek Syndicate interviews Duncan Jones

22. July 2009

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The Geek Syndicate boys interview writer/director Duncan Jones (the artist formerly known as Zowie Bowie) about his debut feature, the British indy science fiction movie Moon, starring Sam Rockwell and the voice of Kevin Spacey. I was lucky enough to catch the film a few weeks back at the Edinburgh Film Festival (reviewed here) and [...]

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Propaganda gets caught in the Crazy Hair of Gaiman & McKean

22. July 2009

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Crazy Hair By Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. We love Gaiman and McKean’s picture books in our house; from the very earliest age my daughter Molly has been transfixed with the incredible tales of Dads getting swapped for a pair of goldfish and wolves living in the wall of houses. They’ve been bedtime stories since she was [...]

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From our continental correspondent – parasitical parodies!

22. July 2009

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When it comes to rights (and wrongs), the relationship between Moulinsart and the rest of the world has always been troublesome.  When somebody appropriates an aspect of the works of the late Hergé, however small and for whatever reason, the current owners of the rights to said works are quick to cry foul, throwing around [...]

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Peter Facinelli at FPI Dublin

21. July 2009

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As you can see, yesterday evening’s signing with Peter Facinelli, known to legions of fans as the good hearted Doctor Carlisle Cullen in the film adaptation of the Twilight novels, in the Dublin FPI store drew a good crowd of adoring fans… In fact the queue spilled out onto the street – I can’t help but [...]

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