Archive | July, 2009

Sean Bean in A Game of Thrones

21. July 2009

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Sean Bean has landed the role of Lord Eddard in HBO’s upcoming adaptation of bestselling fantasy author George RR Martin‘s A Game of Thrones, part of his incredibly popular (and often critically successful too) A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels.  Sean is obviously no stranger to epic fantasy – as Hollywood Reporter [...]

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Turning Somersaults

21. July 2009

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Starting today I’m delighted to announce we have a brand-new series of comic strips starting here on the blog. Somersault is the brainchild of Richard Cowdry and Daniel Locke and will be coming to us every Tuesday (as with Darryl’s Super-Sam we’ll post up strips into an online archive as it builds up,  so if [...]

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How to Love Your ‘Inner Zombie’

21. July 2009

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Quite early on in the blog’s existence I chatted with author Jaspre Bark when Rebellion, owners of 2000 AD, launched their then-new Abaddon Books range of novels. Jaspre had obviously put some thought into his answers and it made for an interesting read (if I say so myself). Recently he mentioned to me that he [...]

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Francesca Cassavetti’s Striptacular spectacular……

21. July 2009

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Striptacular Comics Revue by Francesca Cassavetti Fabtoons Striptacular is Francesca Cassavetti’s latest comic, 36 A5 pages with 9 stories of delightful comic work. I’ve looked at Francesca’s mini comics here and her excellent book about being a new parent; The Most Natural Thing In The World here and it’s no surprise that her latest is [...]

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Meet the new Who

21. July 2009

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Neill Cameron is fast off the starting blocks with this artwork of Matt Smith as the Doctor just hours after the BBC allowed us the first public glimpse of the costume Matt will be wearing in next year’s new Doctor Who. I think in this one he looks almost Patrick Troughton-esque.

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New Observer/Cape/Comics graphic short fiction competition announced

20. July 2009

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Paul Gravett kindly drops us a line to let us know that this year’s Observer/Jonathan Cape/Comica competition for short graphical fiction was announced in Sunday’s Observer. This is rapidly becoming a major event in the UK comics calendar, offering not just a chance for comics creators to try their luck but to also perhaps catch [...]

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New Doctor Who costume revealed

20. July 2009

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(Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Matt Smith as the new Doctor, (c) BBC) The BBC has given the world the first glimpse of Matt Smith in costume as the new Doctor, a fairly low key outfit of a tweed jacket and bow tie, black trouser and boots. It all looks very 1950s university professor, [...]

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Largo Winch: Dutch Connection

20. July 2009

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Largo Winch Volume 3: Dutch Connection Written by Jean Van Hamme, Art by Philippe Francq. Cinebook (Comprises the original Volume 5: H and Volume 6: Dutch Connection) Largo Winch is an absolutely cracking thriller. Incredibly cinematic in it’s plot and pacing and essentially it’s a great James Bond movie but without the ridiculously overblown set [...]

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Publishing your own comics

20. July 2009

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You might remember a few weeks back Eagle award winning creator Tom Humberstone posted up some advice on how to go about selling your small press comics (see here). Now Tom’s followed it up with an article on printing your own comics: “You know that famous illustration that appeared in a punk fanzine (Sideburns I [...]

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Scarlett is the Black Widow!

20. July 2009

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A glimpse of Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow in Iron Man 2; Scarlett in that costume, I simply don’t trust myself to comment… (from the cover of Entertainment Weekly, via Slashfilm)

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Going Rogue

20. July 2009

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Perusing some recent additions to the Eclectic Micks sketch blog collective of Irish comics creators we’ve mentioned before and I see PJ Holden has posted up some of his earlier Rogue Trooper work, some originally done for the great wee 2000 AD tribute ‘zine Zarjaz with Si Spurrier, with PJ also talking about how long [...]

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Meet Doctor Bryan Talbot

19. July 2009

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Ladies, gentlemen and other refined peoples of letters, we present, in all his finery, Doctor Bryan Talbot. As Pádraig told us a couple of weeks ago Bryan was to be given an honorary doctorate for “outstanding contribution to the Arts as writer and graphic artist” by Sunderland University (see here), the first time a comics [...]

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The return of Andi Watson’s Glister …

19. July 2009

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A long time ago, I wrote a review of Andi Watson’s new series; Glister. And I had this to say about it: “past the gorgeousness and over the slightness. Next comes the reading. And the reading is fun. Lots of fun. Watson has switched back to his early style of cartooning to present a lighter, [...]

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Jaime Hernandez Love & Rockets print

19. July 2009

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Jordan Crane has re-created Jaime Hernandez’s brilliant rock’n'roll cover to Love & Rockets issue 24 as a large silk-screen print. You can practically smell the spilt beer and sweat of the mosh pit, the sort of atmosphere you only get in smaller, intimate venues (or dives really), not in the big auditorium. Imagine how goddam [...]

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Alternative Press Festival – Starts July 29th

19. July 2009

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Next up on a packed summer of comic events: Alternative Press Festival 2009; Wednesday 29th July – Sunday 2nd August 2009 A festival of events over five days celebrating the small press, self publishing and being creative in the print media. Sounds like there’s a lot involved across the 5 days. It all kicks off [...]

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