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Hellboy

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 that. Leaving [...]

Munich 2007 comics festival – Peng! awards and pictures

Thursday, June 14, 2007

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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

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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

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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 [...]

If you’re going to San Diego

Monday, May 28, 2007

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Be sure to wear some ……. well, actually no. However you should check out Tom Spurgeon’s incredibly detailed gude of how to get the most out of or even just survive the world’s largest mainstream comics convention. If you have been before there will be many things you can relate to in Tom’s comments, recommendations [...]

Read Yourself Raw returns

Monday, May 28, 2007

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Read Yourself Raw is one of those sites that I know bubbles just under the radar of most people which I’ve have always thought a shame as it is simply the best designed comics site on the web in terms of its presentation. Essentially the front page looks like a magazine cover and then takes [...]

Fido – Forbidden Planet NYC sponsors Billy Connolly appearance

Friday, May 25, 2007

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Fido is one of those weird, indy films that has ‘CULT’ written all over it. Basically a boy and his dog story – where boy fights to keep dog against all odds. Only difference is that the ‘dog’ Fido just happens to be Billy Connolly playing a 6ft tall collared zombie not adverse to snacking [...]

First Women – now babies?

Friday, May 25, 2007

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The machine that merchandises every corner of Marvel’s past and present output will now give us 2 statues based on the concept of X-Babies. If you’ve read the comic you will know this is the whimsical creation of Chris Claremont and Art Adams in X-Men annual 12. I can’t speak for whether the statues are [...]

100 Great Comics Pages

Thursday, May 24, 2007

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Whenever I see a survey of the 100 best comics or 100 best graphic novels I always spend time, like everyone else, wondering how that, that and THAT made the list. Truth is, so many factors influence the decision – and almost all of them are subjective – are you mainstream or indy, include comic [...]

Gerry Alanguilan restores and recolours

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

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Many of you will know Gerry as the artist and writer of the excellent Elmer or maybe even from his past mainstream work on titles such as Superman: Birthright or the 2001 FF annual. He is also a formidable blogger, writing a very passionate blog which whilst dealing with many topics has a particular reverance [...]

The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

Author Archives | Kenny

Hellboy

Dave Stevens

Kate Brown in the Guardian

Did You Miss Me? – Favourite comics of 2007

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

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

Munich 2007 comics festival – Peng! awards and pictures

ICOM awards – 2006 winners

“Mike McMahon has still got it”

If you’re going to San Diego

Read Yourself Raw returns

Fido – Forbidden Planet NYC sponsors Billy Connolly appearance

First Women – now babies?

100 Great Comics Pages

Gerry Alanguilan restores and recolours

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