The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

If you are an English speaking Hergé fan it’s pretty likely that you are missing copies of his other major comics work outside of The Adventures of Tintin. Quick & Flupke has, as far as I remember (and a look through Amazon seems to confirm it) only ever had a limited number of the [...]

Did You Miss Me? Kenny indulges his inner child with the DFC

Friday, May 30, 2008

The first issue of the DFC weekly comic arrived today, after the concentrated publicity burst of the last few weeks which saw David Fickling making good use of the connections a publisher specialising in children’s books has to try and drum up subscriptions and publicity through the media. So let’s have a look at what the [...]

P.S. – Bye, bye PS

Thursday, May 29, 2008

After what seems like forever, one of the last links in the chain of continuity through the years that runs from Titan distributors through Diamond Comics UK, Pat Sullivan, leaves the company today. I’ve personally dealt with Pat for over 20 years – and some times it has felt like it; you end up talking [...]

What Rian Did Next

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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You might have thought it unlikely that any of you would have been rushing out to buy a book authored by ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell (I dunno, Madonna’s children’s books have been a big success – Joe) but the first of her series of children’s books ‘Ugenia Lavender‘, published this week, might have you thinking [...]

Hellboy

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

The latest collection of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy is due in around 2 weeks time, collecting the ‘Darkness Calls‘ mini series and featuring new work by both Mignola and series artist Duncan Fegredo. If you were thinking about sticking your money down to buy a copy you might want to know that GOSH! in London have [...]

Dave Stevens

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Dave Stevens will be best remembered for his wonderful Rocketeer stories, which first appeared in the pages of various Pacific Comics, and will remain one of the greatest comics artists ever to grace a page with his art, despite an extremely limited output. Stevens’ emergence came as part of the first shoots of the new [...]

Kate Brown in the Guardian

Friday, February 15, 2008

UK cartoonist and illustrator Kate Brown has been featured all this week in the Half-Term special comic (practically the whole front page) the Guardian has been producing to occupy all those bored schoolkids. Kate’s work has appeared in the Mammoth Best New Manga volumes and she is drawing ‘A Midsummer’s Nights Dream‘ for the Manga [...]

Did You Miss Me? – Favourite comics of 2007

Thursday, January 24, 2008

I didn’t get round to writing any review pieces this year so this will be a longish, if rather late, wander through the things I enjoyed the most in what was another excellent year for the spread of comics. If it lacked a single achievement to rival last year’s ‘Fun Home” it seemed to me [...]

One of a Kind Doctor Who collectible auction for Harrison Heart Foundation

Monday, October 1, 2007

The Harrison Heart Foundation (HHF) is dedicated to raising money for research into pulmonary vein stenosis which regularly occurs in and threatens the health of infant children. In partnership with the Royal Brompton Hospital, HHF has funded a unique research initiative that has gathered clinical data on every case of pulmonary vein stenosis that has [...]

Comics have evolved again – tell us it’s not true

Monday, June 18, 2007

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One species’ evolution is another’s dead end. The comic as we know it may be evolving into graphic novels and webcomics but the thought of viewing your comic material frame by frame on a mobile phone sends a bit of a shiver through me – and this cover doesn’t do anything to dispel [...]

Munich 2007 comics festival – Peng! awards and pictures

Thursday, June 14, 2007

It’s been a busy weekend for the German comics industry, yesterday we gave you the ICOM award winners and now here are the prize winners from the Munich Comic Festival which was held this past weekend (June 7-10). (Reinhard Kleist poses with his award) The main 2007 Peng! prizewinners were Reinhard Kleist in the best [...]

ICOM awards – 2006 winners

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

The winners of this years ICOM awards have been announced, rewarding German comics creators whose work is being published through smaller publishers or self-published. There are five main categories with the overall winner receiving 500 Euros and the other category winners 300 Euros – not a king’s ransom, but nice to see an award actually [...]

“Mike McMahon has still got it”

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Of course we all knew it but Chris Weston puts it into words on his blog as well as sharing the following page from this weeks new 2000AD. Mike McMahon has long been one of the most influential of the 70’s school of 2000AD cartoonists – where he developed new ways of showing many of the [...]

If you’re going to San Diego

Monday, May 28, 2007