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Derailments

Monday, September 5, 2011

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I hadn’t heard of this until very recently, a new documentary by Fabrica called Derailments, which charts a collaboration I’d not known of before, between film genius Fellini and European comics genius Milo Manara. Fellini abandoned the film “Il Viaggio di Mastorna Detto Fernet” before production but in his seventies he collaborated with Manara on [...]

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Reminder – Barcamp this weekend!

Friday, September 2, 2011

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Tomorrow, Saturday 3rd, sees the first Nothern Irish Barcamp at Blick Studios, Malone Road, in the fine city of Belfast, from 9 to 6 – organiser and no mean comics creator himself Andy Luke explained what it’s all about here on the blog earlier this week. Look forward to hearing from those of you going [...]

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Reminder – Paul Cornell in FP Glasgow and Edinburgh this month!

Friday, September 2, 2011

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A reminder for your diaries this month – screenwriter, novelist and comics scribe, the excellent Paul Cornell, will be in our Glasgow store on Buchanan Street on Wednesday 21st of September from 6 to 8pm and in the Edinburgh FPI on Thursday 22nd from 5 to 6pm. Mark it in your diaries now, peeps! Keep [...]

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Sarah’s Book Festival

Thursday, September 1, 2011

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I’ve been meaning to post a link to one of our regular faves, Sarah McIntyre’s blog. Sarah was up to host some comics and arts classes for kids at the recent Edinburgh International Book Festival and I managed to catch up with her, the pair of us going along to the Free Fringe in this [...]

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Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb…

Thursday, September 1, 2011

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Somedays even the most resourceful caped crusader just can’t find a safe place to dispose of a bomb. Thank goodness for very long fuses and a determined Adam West (personally the second time I passed them I think I’d have stuffed it down the horn of the musician’s tuba, which is perhaps why I am [...]

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The Alchemist’s Easel

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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The very fine artist Al Davison is trying to produce a fascinating-sounding new art book, The Alchemist’s Easel, and he has set up an IndieGoGo page to try and raise the funds to publish it. From the description: “One morning in 1988 I woke up to find I’d gone blind. At the time I had [...]

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Edinburgh Book Festival: Pat Mills, Rodge Glass, William Goldsmith & Nick Hayes

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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(Pat Mills on the left and Rodge Glass on the right signing after their talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival at the weekend; all pics from my Flickr, click for the larger versions) The Edinburgh International Book Festival for 2011 came to an end last night and over the final weekend I was lucky [...]

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Somersault – Real Men are dapper dan men

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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Even after a stressful, disturbing dream a real man still takes the time to be a dapper man – grooming is important, chaps! (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; you can see the larger version and all of the previous episodes  archived [...]

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Gilliam on his classic Python animation

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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I somehow missed a link to this video which combines a couple of my very favourite things: animation and Monty Python, as the great Terry Gilliam from the mid 70s discussing his method of cut-out animation (from Cartoon Brew via Bloghorn):

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115 greatest comics of all time?

Monday, August 29, 2011

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Back in the spring we blogged about how the Hooded Utilitarian site was asking readers for their lists of the best comics of all time. The acceptable range was very broad, pretty much covering the entire spectrum of comics and cartooning from newspaper strips to the floppy issue comics, graphic novels and more. Somehow I [...]

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M.I.C.

Monday, August 29, 2011

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M.I.C. is an interesting looking short science fiction film from Casey Pyke, “set in a future where robots are used as weapons of defense and attack, the two soldiers have to come to come to accept each other in the face of bodily disfigurement, revenge and corruption.” Filmed against a green screen the movie has [...]

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Alan Moore, Robin Ince, Jeff VanderMeer and more in Lint – the movie

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Noted author and all-round fine chap Steve Aylett tells us that there will be a screening of Lint – the movie, in London’s Idler Academy on September 16th. From the description: “Starring Alan Moore, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Steve Aylett, Robin Ince, Jeff Vandermeer, D Harlan Wilson, Andrew O’Neill, Vessel (David Devant), Bill Ectric and [...]

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Max Brooks in FP Glasgow today!

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Glasgow peeps and assorted zombies, don’t forget this evening we have World War Z author Max Brooks coming into our Glasgow store on Buchanan Street, right round the corner from where some of the filming for the movie vesion of his book has been going on, from 5.30 to 6.30pm!

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Fave comics from the Fabulous Fifties

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Paul Gravett, one of our finest ambassadors for the comics medium in Blighty, tells us that he is giving a free illustrated talk on Wokingham Library on Thursday 8th September from 7pm. The theme will be favourite comics from the 1950s and will take in comics as different as Asterix, Green Lantern, Dennis the Menace, [...]

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The Legend of the Scarecrow

Friday, August 26, 2011

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This short animation comes, like the lovely one yesterday, from Carlos Lascano. However this one has a voice over, but it isn’t in English (not certain, but sounds like Spanish perhaps?) and sadly there are no subtitles either, but I’m sharing it on here with you because to be honest the language really doesn’t matter. [...]

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