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The (comics) Wild, Wild West – Lucky Luke

Friday, May 11, 2012

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Lucky Luke Directed by James Huth Starring Jean Dujardin, Michael Youn, Sylvie Testud, Daniel Prevost, Alexandra Lamy Lucky Luke, the lonesome cowboy who can drawn and shoot faster than his shadow has been around for a long time – 1946, in fact, since the great Morris first drew his Wild West hero. Over the decades [...]

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The collected Keegan Jack

Friday, May 11, 2012

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Paul von Scott drops us a line to say that his and Leigh Shepherd’s Keegan Jack strip from the science fiction annual Omnivistascope (multiple time winner of SFX’s Fanzine of the Month) has been collected into a single 134 page edition, with every strip from the Omnivistascope run, plus a brand-new strip and plenty of [...]

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Hugo Tate launch in Gosh tomorrow

Friday, May 11, 2012

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A reminder to London peeps, the excellent Nick Abdzis has been sent back to these shores for a short while and will be in Gosh in London tomorrow, Saturday May 12th from 7 to 9pm for the launch of the much anticipated new collected edition of his Hugo Tate series by Blank Slate Books.

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Women in Comics – Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz in Edinburgh

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Last week I was lucky enough to catch a busy talk in Edinburgh’s Central Library, Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz. Heather Middleton from the Glasgow Women’s Library and also a member of Glasgow-based all-female collective Team Girl Comic. Heather was giving a talk on the history of women in comics and while there is no [...]

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Goodnight, Max

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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I know I posted on the sad passing of the great Maurice Sendak yesterday, but Charles Santoso’s tribute art is simply too lovely not to share on here. And on a related note Neil Gaiman asked the New Yorker very nicely if they could unlock a couple of pages of comics by Sendak and Art [...]

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Malta Comic Con 2012 dates announced

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Now here is some news that I know will brighten the day of Sean Azzopardi, who has been quite a supporter of the event: the Malta Comic-con organisers have announced dates for the 2012 gig. Again it will take place during the winter, which as Sean observed in his special guest report on the 2011 [...]

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2D is coming!

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Irish peeps, prepare yourselves and mark your diaries, because the annual 2D Northern Ireland Comics Festival returns to Derry at the end of this month. It’s been a well-regarded comics bash right since it started and this year again looks to offer four colour fun to the readers of Northern Ireland (and I’m sure cross-border [...]

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Prometheus – win tickets to the London premiere!

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Okay, peeps and fellow geeks, listen up, because we have a remarkable “money can’t buy it” type of prize up for grabs thanks to our friends arranging the screenings of Sir Ridley Scott’s much-anticipated ‘Alien sort-of prequel’ (Sir Ridley notes it started that way but ‘evolved into another universe’)  Prometheus, starring Girl With a Dragon [...]

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Extraordinary Gentlemen at Gosh

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Yes, those extraordinary gentlemen, Messrs Kevin O’Neill (well known ittinerant artist) and Alan Moore (five times winner of the All-Northampton Mighty Beard Champion), will be returning to London’s fine Gosh Comics emporium of four-colour delights to mark the publication of the third and final part of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy, with the [...]

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Badger animated documentary

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Regular readers will already be familiar with a self-published series of comics featuring Howard Hardiman‘s Badger, the poor little depressed creature that we’ve come to love for the emotional content of the tales and for the beauty of the artwork. Filmmakers Annie Kwan and Helen Omand have been working on a short animated documentary about [...]

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Too many ‘likes’

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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We’ve probably all been there, social media overload, tweets out the ears and on FaceAche just far, far too many times clicking ‘like’, as Asaf Hanuka shows:

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Maurice Sendak, RIP

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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Terrible news for all lovers of books – the great Maurice Sendak has passed away at the age of 83, from complications arising from a recent stroke according to the NY Times article. It’s impossible to overstate the towering influence Sendak has had – quite probably the pre-eminent illustrator of children’s books in the last [...]

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ELCAF is coming

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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Coming on June 17th the first East London Comics and Arts Festival, ELCAF! Splendid Brit Indy comics publisher Nobrow asks “With a poster like this how can you not all want to come?” And you know what, they’re right! And if the art isn’t enough to get you going, how about this – from the [...]

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Elephantine

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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You should add Charles Santoso to your Twitter follows – I’m rather enjoying seeing his regular artistic responses to suggested words. This one, as you can probably tell, was suggested by the word ‘elephantine’, which is a splendid word which doesn’t get used often enough in regular conversations.

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Kinky and Cosy at Angoulême

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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Okay, I admit this very short video is in French, with Dutch subtitles, but it’s a live-action version of Nix’s Kinky and Cosy making an appearance on stage at Angoulême and frankly, language barriers aside, it’s too funny not to bung it up here to to share (plus it is very short!): And, as Wim blogged [...]

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