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One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…
One, two, Freddy’s coming for you, three four, better lock your door... Yes, folks, we have horror icon Robert Englund coming soon. Englund has been well known and beloved of SF and horror genre fans for many years, appearing in a large number of productions from playing the good alien in the original V mini-series [...]
Continue reading...The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
Friday, November 20, 2009
Orbit has this little teaser video for what I can only describe as one of the most unusual fantasy novels I’ve read in recent years, Jesse Bullington’s The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, which they’ve just released this month. I’d never come across anything by Bullington before but there are times when you pick [...]
Continue reading...Alex’s audio round-up
Thursday, November 19, 2009
As gales ravish the land and men with wigs daren’t step outdoors here’s Alex Fitch to give us an excuse to stay inside where its warm and listen to some show; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Strip! – Ctrl Alt Shift: Lightspeed Champion and [...]
Continue reading...Cartoon Art Trust Awards
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The 15th annual Cartoon Art Trust Awards were given out this week in London’s Mall Galleries, reports Bloghorn. The occasion also marked the 21st birthday of the Cartoon Art Trust, the body behind the Cartoon Museum. (Climate Talks by and (c) Morten Morland who won the Political Cartoon Award, cheekily pinched from Bloghorn’s article) The award winners [...]
Continue reading...Pictures that tick
Thursday, November 19, 2009
We may have to wait until next year for the promised new edition of Dave McKean’s brilliant Cages, but meantime there’s something rather lovely in this week’s new releases to keep McKean fans going: Pictures That Tick is a large-sized collection of Dave’s shorter comics work from the 90s and early 2000s. And as you’d [...]
Continue reading...Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramon Perez signing in FP Dublin
Thursday, November 19, 2009
As well as playing host to the Eclectic Micks crew the Dublin Forbidden Planet also had the trio of Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramón Pérez signing for fans and creating sketches in the store last weekend as part of their TX Comics European tour, which will also see them at Thought Bubble this weekend [...]
Continue reading...Bienvenue/welcome Lord Yoyo
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Earlier this year Wim posted on the growth of the French language comics blogosphere (see here), which has now reached a level where even the holies of holies in the Francophone comics calendar, the Angoulème Festival, added a special award recognising online comics work. In his introduction to some of the more interesting French language [...]
Continue reading...Björk singing for the Moomins
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
(Björk, image borrowed from her website gallery) Icelandic singer and all round engima Björk is working with Sjón to create a song especially for a new film being made by the Finnish Filmkompaniet studio and due next year, “Moomins and the Comet Chase”. Hard to think on someone more suitable to sing for a Moomin Troll! [...]
Continue reading...Fetish fun – when Craig Yoe met Dr Sketchy’s
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Via Jeff Newelt comes this link to a spread of rather racy photographs from a Dr Sketchy’s night with Craig Yoe and the recent Secret Identity: the Fetish Art of Superman’s Joe Shuster and scenes from and inspired by the book re-enacted by some very photogenic models resulting in some cool pics and some nice [...]
Continue reading...The Eclectic Micks
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Our colleagues in FP Dublin have kindly sent us over a batch of pictures from Saturday’s Irish launch of the Eclectic Micks Sketchbook with Nick Roche, Stephen Thompson, Bob Byrne, Will Sliney, Stephen Mooney and Declan Shalvey meeting readers, signing books and comics and creating sketches; looks like a good time was had by all! [...]
Continue reading...Somersault – live and love on the suburban line
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Ah, the great commute, that strange modern ritual which will no doubt be puzzled over by anthropologists and archaeologists in the far future (why did millions do it? Was it a ritual devotion?); sometimes lovely little moments of intimacy can happen on those commutes though. Although its fair to say Somersault’s version of Brief Encounter [...]
Continue reading...Inglorious Basterds comics
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Website Twitch posts five glorious Kirby-esque covers for an imagined Inglorious Basterds comics series spun off from Quentin Tarantino’s last movie. Absolutely pitch-perfect for the material, I think, wouldn’t it be cool to see a whole comic done this way? I think the cover for issue #5 (below) is my favourite. Someone show these to [...]
Continue reading...TCJ online?
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Following yesterday’s news from Dirk at Journalista that the contents of The Comics Journal’s 300th issues (and the final one in its present form as it moves to a larger bi-annual publication) would be free online, with more content to follow on the web, I notice this morning that Oli East has left a comment [...]
Continue reading...Hi-Ex secures funding, announces guests
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
The BBC website reports that the Hi-Ex comics convention held for the last two years in the heart of the incomparably beautiful Scottish Highlands has secured some funding from the Highland Council. I know organisers Rich and Vicky have been campaigning hard with the authorities, pointing out the event’s success in bringing in audiences and [...]
Continue reading...Tour the Griffith with Leonard Nimoy
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
If you’ve got several grand to spare the world-famous Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles is auctioning a guided tour of the iconic facility (seen in many films and shows) – the tour guide for the occasion being none other than Leonard Nimoy. Now that would be quite brilliant. Bidding is already in excess of $5, [...]
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