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Somersault – earwigging conversations
Oh we don’t mean to do it, do we? Listen in on other people’s conversations, I mean. At least, we wouldn’t admit to it, ’twas accidental, couldn’t help overhearing… Of course we all feel a little curious about them when we hear those conversational fragments and wonder what they were all about… (Somersault is (c) [...]
Continue reading...More Paper Science coming
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Delighted to hear that we can look forward to more Paper Science in the coming months. We Are Words and Pictures confirmed that the next issue, Paper Science 4, is expected in April and have announced some of the creators who will be contributing to the issue, including some names that will be familiar to [...]
Continue reading...The Future has Already Been Written
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
This is a pretty intriguing – not to mention cool – mashup video by Anthony Discenza which takes three Charlton Heston science fiction films (Planet of the Apes, Solylent Green and The Omega Man) and their portrayal of dystopian futures, and then blends them, flicking between each of the three every 1/10th of a second. [...]
Continue reading...Comics at SciFi London!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
This year is Sci-Fi London’s 10th anniversary and as the The London International Festival of Science-Fiction and Fantastic Film heads our way this spring, good chum of the blog Alex Fitch tells us that they are also expanding to take in a two-day comics festival as well, celebrating modern British comics creators from the last [...]
Continue reading...Jim Zubkavich signing
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
At the weekend we played host to a visit from Jim Zubkavich, who kindly agreed to come in for a signing in the Middlesbrough Forbidden Planet International while he was over in the UK. Mark at Middlesbrough tells me that the gig went very well, plenty of readers came long to meet Jim, who also [...]
Continue reading...Tintin in the Congo – in the raw!
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Benjamin at French comics site BoDoi points us to this fun take of the (somewhat controversial these days for its period portrayal of Africans and colonial attitudes) Tintin in the Congo. Except this Tumblr offering is Tintin au Congo a Poil (basically Tintin in the Congo in the nude, or in the raw). Yes, folks, [...]
Continue reading...Pushing Mubarak off the national stage
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The always interesting Cartoon Movement site has posted up this cartoon by Sherif Arafa, the first on the site he has posted since Mubarak stepped down from dictatorial president of Egypt. It is also the first time Sherif’s depicted Mubarak in such an openly recognisable manner and that speaks volumes for the freedom of speech [...]
Continue reading...A man with True Grit
Monday, February 14, 2011
Apologies, I meant to post a link to this last week and was reminded of it by going to see the (quite brilliant) Coen Brothers movie at the weekend – a free 24 page comic of True Grit by Christian Wildgoose and Jim Campbell that you can read online or download, to go alongside both [...]
Continue reading...Angoulême in video
Monday, February 14, 2011
Media Comics give us a short video taster of some of the comics creators who were at the recent Angoulême BD festival in France: Un aperçu du FIBD d’Angoulême 2011 from Media Comics on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Douglas Adams: Parrots, the Universe and Everything
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Okay, this is mostly the late, great Douglas Adams in his natural history mode rather than science fiction writer mode, but when I found this recording of Douglas from the University of California (via TED) from 2001, I thought some of you might enjoy seeing it again and, let’s be honest, any excuse to post [...]
Continue reading...Gag me With a Toon
Friday, February 11, 2011
LA Weekly’s Style Council reports from Meltdown Comics‘ Gag Me With a Toon 3 exhibition, which features a bunch of artists, including Jhonen Vasquez, Jessicka Adams, Roman Dirge, Jim Mahfood and more. The idea is to create modern art inspired by the classic cartoons the artists remember from childhood, which can lead to works like [...]
Continue reading...Live action Heavy Metal on the way?
Friday, February 11, 2011
Variety is reporting that long-running French comics Metal Hurlant, better known to English language readers as Heavy Metal, is returning to our screens with the Metal Hurlant Chronicles. Unlike HM’s previous screen outing, this will not be animated but live-action and it will be for the small screen rather than cinema. United Humanoids/We Prod have [...]
Continue reading...More Phil Jimenez
Friday, February 11, 2011
The Comic Archive has posted more from their series of videos with artist Phil Jimenez (see here for the earlier ones), with Phil talking his childhood love for the comics medium and how he set about trying to make it his chosen career: Talking about his first real job in comics, working on Wonder Woman: [...]
Continue reading...Alex’s Audio Roundup
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Another Thursday rolls around the the gray clouds and rain have parted for at least a while to allow a glimpse of a strange, yellow object distant in the sky. As bemused natives of our island struggle to comprehend this rare sight, here’s our own little beam of sunshine, Alex Fitch, with news of his [...]
Continue reading...Dr Sketchy goes all Kiki
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Dr Sketchy’s anti-art school in Glasgow has joined up with SelfMadeHero for a special themed night celebrating the great muse, model and artist Kiki de Montparnasse in Tron Theatre’s Victorian Bar from 4 to 7pm on February 27th, to tie in with SMH’s new graphic biography of Kiki (just saw some arriving in-store recently, it’s [...]
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