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Doctor Who anime complete!

Friday, June 3, 2011

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You might remember a good while back we were all talking about a very cool looking work in progress from Paul “OtaKing” Johnson – a Doctor Who fan anime, which looked ace. Well he’s finished that long labour of love and the 13 minute or so entire thing is now online, just the thing to [...]

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Dinopopolous – new from Blank Slate

Friday, June 3, 2011

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(cover art to Dinopopolous by and (c) Nick Edwards, to be published by Blank Slate Books’ Chalk Marks imprint) The excellent Blank Slate Books crew have announced their next Chalk Marks project, which will be Dinopopolous by Nick Edwards, which is new to my eyes and looks pretty unusual and interesting (as you’d expect from BSB). [...]

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Swear Down

Friday, June 3, 2011

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One of our favourite creators, Oli East, has been busy posting up a series of pages from his new work, Swear Down. This isn’t a reference to some Mancunian version of a western show down involving naughty words instead of sixguns, as I first thought.  Oli explained it thusly: “the basic premise is I’m walking [...]

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Dan Clowes on the Bat Segundo show

Friday, June 3, 2011

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(a scene from the recently publisher Mister Wonderful by and (c) Dan Clowes, published in UK by Jonathan Cape) Daniel Clowes is the guest on one of my favourite book-related podcasts, the always interesting Bat Segundo show, discussing his life, his work, the difference between the readers responses to Eightball and the New York Times, comparing [...]

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Rabbitkadabra!

Friday, June 3, 2011

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I really enjoyed this short animation from Dave Chen, Naomi Chen, Michelle Czajkowski and Krzysztof Fusin, in which young Emily is given a magical wind-up cuddly rabbit toy by a grumpy magician. Lovely style to it and just the right mix of magic, whimsy, humour and a touch of danger: Rabbitkadabra! from Rabbitkadabra! on Vimeo.

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Alex’s audio roundup

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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Another Thursday and that means it is time for Alex Fitch to titilate our aural senses with news of his latest comics and SF related shows. As ever for more details check the Panel Borders site for more information and links to podcasts of previous shows. Panel Borders: Mom’s Cancer, tonight at 5pm on Resonance [...]

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Alan Moore on the box

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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Well we thought it might have happened last week, but on this week’s episode of the excellent Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle on BBC3 he did indeed have a special guest, a good friend of his, a certain Mr Alan Moore… Aired last night and is available right now (sorry, UK only, I think) to watch [...]

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Somersault – sharing homespace

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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One of the nice things about sharing a home is that warm, communal feeling of fellowship and understanding that it generates. Well, maybe not in Somersault… (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 [...]

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Comic Cons – in pictures!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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Comics creator, snapper, gentleman and all round good chap Sean Azzopardi has taken a lot of photos at the many comics conventions and festivals he’s been to, from Bristol, Brimingham and Caption and Comica to Angouleme, Stripdagen, Malta and TCAF. Now he’s brought all his photo sets from the various conventions, covering several years and [...]

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Myriad announces graphic novel competition

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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Publisher Myriad Editions has announced details of a new graphic novel competition – from the official blurb: “Myriad Editions is pleased to announce the first ever competition for a first graphic novel in progress. The entry may be by a single author or may be a collaboration between a writer and artist. The winner will [...]

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Jm Ken Niimura talks

Thursday, June 2, 2011

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Comic Archive talked to I Kill Giants creator Jm Ken Niimura at the MoCCA festival recently and the resulting chat is up in two videos: Talking Shop with Jm Ken Niimura from The Comic Archive on Vimeo. Jm Ken Niimura Talks About His Artistic Tools from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.

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More Chip Kidd

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

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Further browsing of the interesting Comic Archive’s Vimeo channel shows they’ve posted further segments featuring Chip Kidd (see here for the previous one), including Chip discussing creating original artwork for All Star Superman and Japanese Batman comics, studying graphic design at college (and how comics kept creeping in) and how he first got into comics: [...]

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Cheddar Cheeseman, a superhero with a fatal weakness…

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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All superheroes have a crucial weakness or two, even the mightiest ones – after all if Superman had no vulnerabilities at all, for example, he’d be pretty impressive as a hero but bloody useless as a dramatic character in the comics. So he has magic and Kryptonite, Green Lantern has trouble with the colour yellow, [...]

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More Steve Rude

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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I see the folks at the Comic Archive have added a couple more Steve Rude video segments to the ones we mentioned a couple of weeks back, including one with Steve talking about his famous Nexus series and collaborating with Mike Baron – enjoy: Steve Rude Talks Tools of the Trade from The Comic Archive [...]

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it’s Dark in London…

Monday, May 30, 2011

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Looking through the dinky and newly arrived SelfMadeHero catalogue and as with the previous catalogue I find myself going ohhh, I want to read that… and that one… and that one… Again SMH have, as with 2010′s frankly brilliant crop of graphic novels, assembled another list of forthcoming attractions that makes my reading soul very, [...]

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