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James Bacon - who has written 64 posts on The Forbidden Planet International Blog.


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Review: The Earthbound God

Friday, May 24, 2013

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The Earthbound God Anthea West There is a level of sophistication about this comic, a graphic novel encompassing a whole story, that is indicative of what is happening in the Republic of Ireland. In the last ten years, writers and artists have come up through various routes, but quite a few from the small press, [...]

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Comics: Image Duplicator Redux

Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Following last week’s discussion of the major Lichtenstein exhibition at the Tate and the comics creator’s own response to his ‘borrowing’ from the genre (without permission, credit or payment) with Image Duplicator (see here), James visited the exhibition at Orbital Comics in London, and it seems that it may have a life of it’s own. [...]

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Comics and SF at the London Literature Festival

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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James reports that The London Literature Festival has a nice selection of items for comics and fantastic genre fans. For Comic Readers, ‘Drawing the Story’ will be taking place on Saturday the 26th of May at 2pm, as part of the London Lit Festival, in the Southbank Centre. Mary Talbot, Glyn Dillon and Stephen Collins will [...]

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Interviews: Celtic Warrior by Will Sliney

Thursday, May 16, 2013

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The legends and myth of Ireland are rich with fantastic tales, and every child in Ireland learns about them and indeed studies them as part of the regular curriculum. Therefore, presenting one of these stories that excites the reader, a reader like me who not only knows the story of The Cattle Raid of Cooley, [...]

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Comics and art – James talks to Rian Hughes about Image Duplicator

Monday, May 13, 2013

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Image Duplicator 16th to the 31st May Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London WC2H When I first saw ‘Whamm’ by Robert Lichtenstein as a child, and I suspect it was in London, somewhere like Athena, I wanted to know what comic it was from, and I could never get my head around the explanation [...]

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Books: The Clarke Award, a report by our wandering man of letters, James Bacon

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

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In the middle of last week the most prestigious awards ceremony celebrating one of our hugely rich strands of literary heritage, British science fiction, took place, mixing discussion of real science, speculation by scientists of The Shape of Things To Come and the crossover between fiction and real science, as well as the awards themselves. [...]

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Hugo Nominations for Best Comic…. James Bacon reports:

Saturday, March 30, 2013

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James Bacon, reporting for us from London…. The Hugo Nominations for Best Comic are…. a pretty damn good selection. This evening at four science fiction conventions on two continents, from Norwescon in Seatle, to EightSquared in Bradford, the Hugo Nominations for 2012 were announced. Joe had already spoken about his own favourites and had called [...]

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Science fiction: The City and the City on stage

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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Arthur C Clarke award-winning author China Miéville’s story is being performed by the Lifeline Theatre  in Chicago. The theatre company who has been entertaining for thirty years, have performed works such as Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by Tolkien, Cats Cradle and Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. I am [...]

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Reviews: Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos – the Fourth Faction (James’ take)

Thursday, February 14, 2013

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Judge Dredd: Day of Chaos – the Fourth Faction. Written by John Wagner, with Art by Ben Willsher, Staz Johnson, Colin MacNeil and Henry Flint Rebellion (Previewed back in January – a chance to read the whole Nadia strip.) The team, the editor in chief, Matt Smith, John Wagner, all at 2000AD have been particularly [...]

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Comics: the art of Alex Ross at the Norman Rockwell Museum

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

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Heroes & Villains: The Comic Book Art of Alex Ross Exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum. Stockbridge, Mass, USA. (Alex Ross, “JLA: The Original Seven”, 2000, courtesy of the artist, ™ & © DC Comics. Used with permission.) Two hours west of Boston, deep into the New England countryside where the land is known as [...]

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