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Fallout – Peter Bagge’s Apocalypse Nerd heading for the telly

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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The Fantagraphics Flog has a trailer up for Fallout, a trailer for a pilot science fiction show based on Peter Bagge’s Apocalypse Nerd being pitched by producer/director Tupaq Felber to the BBC, following Gordon and Douglas, two friends coming back from a weekend camping out in the woods to find that civilisation seems to have [...]

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Darryl Cunningham talks to Matt Badham

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Matthew Badham talks to Darryl Cunningham about the upcoming Psychiatric Tales on CBR: “Matt: In terms of “Psychiatric Tales,” when and why did you decide to start making strips about mental illness? Darryl: I worked for many years as a health care assistant on an acute psychiatric ward. Throughout this time I kept a diary, in which [...]

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Bellen

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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I hadn’t seen Brian M Brown’s Bellen strips until Adam Cadwell mentioned it on his twitter; it’s quite simple but rather nice work, go and have a wee browse. (“Sigh”, a recent Bellen strip by and (c) Brian M. Brown)

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Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Bloghorn draws our attention to the upcoming Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival, which this year has a theme of Magic, Myth and Mystery. As well as a number of events there’s also the chance to see some top professional cartoonists and caricaturists at work on giant boards in The Square, plus as part of the exhibitions [...]

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Time lapse of designing an SF&F book cover

Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Lauren, working on designing a cover for major SF&F imprint Orbit, has created a time lapse video of her work on a cover for Gail Carriger’s steampunk novel Blameless. I always think time lapse of a work of artistic creation is fascinating, seeing hours (or sometimes more) of work compressed into a couple of virtual [...]

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Somersault – the joys of public transport

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Apologies, Somersault is a little later than usual this week; Mr Cowdry was abducted by a group of vicious sea turtles and dragged off to their tropical island lair where he was forced to gather coconuts for them for some unknown but doubtless devious purpose. Actually given this week’s Somersault takes place on a British [...]

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Neil Gaiman video

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Neil Gaiman posted up a link via his Twitter to a video of him talking to CBS’ Serena Altschul: Watch CBS News Videos Online

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Fantagraphics to publish manga

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Dirk at Journalista confirms that Fantagraphics, one of the homes of quality comics publishing in our book, is to publish a manga line (although I suppose since Fanta used to publish Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo you could say they’ve published a manga series before). From Dirk’s post on Journalista: “For the past four years or [...]

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Seven arrested in Ireland over plot to murder Swedish cartoonist

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Reuters are reporting that police in Ireland arrested seven people on Tuesday, thought to be immigrants from Yemen and Morocco, in connection with an alleged conspiracy to murder the Swedish cartoonist and fine artist Lars Vilks because of his drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. According to the article a [...]

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Ghost World burlesque tribute

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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This is fab, a tribute to Dan Clowes’ Ghost World graphic novel and Terry Zwigoff’s excellent movie adapation of the comic, burlesque style, by the Divine Jewels for the Geekgasm Show (via Comics Reporter via Fantagraphics)

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Doctor Who on tour

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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The BBC is reporting that new Doctor Matt Smith and his companion Karen Gillan will be embarking on a short UK tour this month, part of the BBC’s Outreach programmes which “will target hard-to-reach communities relatively underserved by the BBC.” Although when it names some of the destinations I have to say I’m puzzled at [...]

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Female illustrators

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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BoingBoing points us towards a new art blog by Leif Peng, called Female Illustrators of the mid-20th Century. It isn’t specifically comics art, but it is, as the title implies, shining a light on women artists, most of whom I’ve not come across before and as is the way with this kind of thing it [...]

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Women in graphic novels

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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tihkalcat has an interesting short piece on graphic novels, produced as a video essay for a media theory class, concentrating on women in the comics medium and especially on the autobiographical approach. I’m not sure I agree with it all and the fact that graphic novels can create enlightenment and knowledge on a subject as [...]

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Tom Times Two: Tom de Haven talks to Tom Spurgeon

Monday, March 8, 2010

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Over on the always excellent Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon talks to writer and comics commentator Tom De Haven as his long essay Our Hero: Superman on Earth: “TOM SPURGEON: At the beginning of Our Hero, you discuss various reasons for your doing the essay. One thing you mention but don’t tie into the reasons this book [...]

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Matt Maden and Jessica Abel

Monday, March 8, 2010

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As part of their Walter Gropius Master Artist Series the Huntington Museum has a five minute video up featuring Matt Madden and Jessica Abel (link via Dirk at Journalista):

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