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Lord of the Rings meets Calvin and Hobbes

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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Cool Johnny‘s mashup of Calvin and Hobbes with Lord of the Rings made me smile. (via Live for Films)

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Family diaries

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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Mike Smith’s Blogshank features some cracking short comic strips, usually drawn across a couple of pages of a diary, detailing the delights of family life and parenthood – well worth a look (thanks to Dave Shelton for the tip).

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Bad Machinery goes to Oni

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

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Great news from John Allison – his excellent Bad Machinery webcomic on his Scary Go Round site has been picked up by great Indy comics publisher Oni Press, home of, among many others, Scott Pilgrim. The series sees two groups of schoolkids in Scooby Doo hijinks (okay, not that Scooby Doo…) investigating odd goings on [...]

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Grendel Teaser

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

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I know nothing about this fan-film teaser for Matt Wagner’s superb Grendel series – is it just a trailer, a wish for a the film they’d like to see or is it a teaser for a fan-film they are actually planning to make? It doesn’t really say, but it is still a nice teaser and [...]

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Hope Beyond Hype – Ken MacLeod & Edward Ross’s stem cell comic

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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I’ve known for a while that one of my favourite science fiction writers, Ken MacLeod, was working alongside the excellent Edward Ross (who created the fascinating Filmish comics on film theory I reviewed previously) on a science education project using comics. Ken drops us a line to let us know that the fruits of their [...]

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Chip Kidd on book design

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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Missed this until I had a wee back-browse through some videos, but the always fascinating TED lectures series has a fairly recent (March, I think) talk up by Chip Kidd – it isn’t specifically about his comics work, rather about his approaches to book design in general, but it is a funny, fascinating and well-presented [...]

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Gaiman addresses the graduating class

Monday, May 21, 2012

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Neil Gaiman, suitably gowned, robed and hatted and looking very happy, gives the address to this year’s graduating class in this video uploaded by the University of the Arts: Neil Gaiman Addresses the Class of 2012 from The University of the Arts on Vimeo.

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Director’s Commentary – Laurie J Proud

Friday, May 18, 2012

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One of the books I have really been looking forward to this spring has been Laurie J Proud‘s Peepholes, just being released this month from Blank Slate Books. The work of several years while he laboured as an animator and storyboard artist, Peepholes is a collection of ten tales showcasing Laurie’s quite unique artistic style [...]

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Arsecancer comic

Friday, May 18, 2012

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Gordon Robertson and Cuttlefish have been documenting a health topic that affects a great many (especially men) and yet it’s one quite often we’re all dreadfully embarrassed to discuss, not just the dreaded C word of cancer, but the variety which strikes at our nether regions combining potentially fatal condition with social embarrassment. The guys [...]

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Debuting at Kapow this weekend: Overload

Friday, May 18, 2012

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Launching this weekend at London’s Kapow comic-con is new 36-page Brit comic Overload, boasting this absolutely splendid piece of zombie Thatcher cover art by Graeme Neil Reid. The brainchild of writer/editor Martin Conaghan (who brought us the fine Burke and Hare), it is, in classic Brit comics fashion, an anthology (using creator owned tales), with [...]

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Somersault – slide!

Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Oh dear, looks like that bad dream – if dream it was – is back to haunt our poor dandy as the Real Men story continues… Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first )

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Welcome to wonderful Australia!

Thursday, May 17, 2012

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This simple but hugely enjoyable comic about the (dangerous) delights of the natural wildlife of Australia cracked me up. (from The Fantasy Muffler tumblr via that man Jamie Smart, who has a nose and indeed several other body parts for this kind of thing)

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12 Dessins par jour/12 Drawings a day

Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Denis Chapon created twelve drawings per day between the years of 2008 and 2012; each batch of twelve drawings equated to one whole second of screen time in terms of animation. After three years of this labour he edited them together into this rather cool short animation which, as well as being an enjoyable short [...]

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Brrrraiiinnnssss!!! Return of the Living Dead returns!

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Fellow lovers of a bit of fine, macabre, brain-munching comedy-horror rejoice, for Dan (Alien, Dark Star, Blue Thunder) O’Bannon’s 80s classic The Return of the Living Dead is shambling back into life, with a spanking new double edition DVD and its Blu Ray debut (with hours of special features) so you can enjoy the grey [...]

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What you see… a wee Wizzywig preview from Ed Piskor

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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I’m really looking forward to Ed Piskor‘s upcoming Wizzywig, a fascinating looking comic work based on the experiences – and underground legends – of some of the early hackers and phreaks. Hacking has now parlayed its way into common useage for everyone – in a world where most have web-connected computers at home, huge amounts [...]

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