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Rian Hughes – Yesterday’s Tomorrows
If you were a follower of British comics in the 80′s – that period when it seemed for the first time that the medium was becoming something that would be thought of by urban hipsters the same way as rock music – when magazines like Deadline, Revolver, Crisis and even old 2000AD were rampaging across [...]
Continue reading...Matt Kindt works at Marvel Super Heroes: the Exhibition
Friday, May 11, 2007
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There is an exhibition based on the Marvel superheroes traveling the US (and no doubt a cert for somewhere like London’s Science Museum at some point) called “Marvel Super Heroes: the Exhibition”. Aimed in a sort of pseudo-science way at ostensibly teaching kids about the potential science behind super powers and getting them to grasp [...]
Continue reading...The Image Soaked Future
Friday, May 11, 2007
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News of an interesting conversation event coming up at London’s ICA on June 15th via Paul Gravett. The event will host UK comic artist Rian Hughes, about to release a compilation of his work Yesterday’s Tomorrows as well as Israeli artist Rutu Modan whose Exit Wounds book is due soon and Poland’s Andrzej Klimowski whose [...]
Continue reading...Hat’s off to Gerard Way
Thursday, May 10, 2007
I’ve just had a look at the influence of Free Comic Book Day on our weekend sales. As usual in real, on the day, monetray terms the sales didn’t really jump enough to cover the costs involved with giving away 40,000+ comics on the day – something I’ve written about before here. However there was [...]
Continue reading...Basel Book Festival: Comics day
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
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The Basel book and literature festival runs this coming weekend from the 11th to 13th May. This year there is a big presence from some of Germany and Switzerland’s top comics creators on Saturday the 12th with the centerpiece being focussed on the artists of Swiss publisher Edition Moderne (you may also want to check [...]
Continue reading...More FP NYC signings
Friday, May 4, 2007
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We mentioned the Topher Grace signing in support of the Spider-Man III movie release and here are details of another couple of signings taking place at our New York store. On May 7th at 7pm there will be a “A Graphic Affair” event with Kim Deitch and Chip Kidd hosted by our friends at ‘Strand’ [...]
Continue reading...MC Frontalot – Forbidden Planet
Monday, April 30, 2007
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A few weeks back we showed you the terrific bully ‘Moon River’ video of the New York Forbidden Planet that had us all smiling. Well, no better way to start a new week than with another bit of FPNYC recognition this time in song on MC Frontalot’s new album, ‘Secrets from the Future’ where he [...]
Continue reading...We all love a little Fistacuffs
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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Where I come from it usually occoured on a Friday/Saturday night after a few drinks over some girl/football team/car or other – but Sam Hiti does it a different way. His Fistacuffs blog has illustrators sending in their creations to duke it out on paper. The readers vote for the drawing they like the best, [...]
Continue reading...Suzanne Gerber covers Fumetto – pics, interviews and links, links, links
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Unlike Angouleme where there seemed nearly daily outpourings of info on the show there has been very little news from Switzerland’s Fumetto event (widely held to be the most experimental of the worldwide comics expos) – although a load of pictures from Alvin Buenaventura can be expected on his return. There is however one huge [...]
Continue reading...OK, it’s April 1st
Monday, April 2, 2007
It seems there is rather a dearth of the traditional inane behaviour which begats loads of stupid and barely believable April Fools amongst the comics blogging crowd this year. For what it’s worth here is our favourite from German comics news site “Comic Radio Show”. We could see people believing this up to Frank Miller [...]
Continue reading...Best Comics of 2006 – The Comics Reporter
Sunday, April 1, 2007
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Tom Spurgeon has posted his favourite 50 comics of 2006. As one might expect he reveals himself to be a man of Catholic tastes with material running the gamut from Superheroes to the smallest of self published comics. There have been a lot of ‘Best Of’ lists, so of course there are a number of [...]
Continue reading...Marshall Rogers
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Marshall Rogers, who has died at the age of 57, will be remembered as one of the more unique artists to emerge from mainstream comics in the 70′s and 80′s. Trained as an architect, this influence often shows in his work where buildings can be as much a part of the feel of a story [...]
Continue reading...Heroic Tim Sale art auction
Friday, March 23, 2007
In the Heroes series – surely one of the best things on TV right now (yes, finally the UK has it thanks to SciFi!) – we often see paintings in Isaac’s studio, the paintings he creates while high and which predict (often terrifying) future events. NBC are arranging an auction on March 26th to sell [...]
Continue reading...German Comics ARE Literature now.
Friday, March 23, 2007
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It seems the promotion of comics from the backwater of public scorn or, at least, indifference continues apace worldwide with German comics the latest to be touted as real Literature. German literature magazine ‘Schreibheft‘ will dedicate a large part of its April issue to comics under the title “Geteilte Beute – Comics & Literatur” (meaning [...]
Continue reading...Aah! Bristol
Monday, March 19, 2007
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The new Comics International finally hit the stores this week and it features just about the worst advertisement for a major comics convention we have ever seen. To say it looks like it was done on an original Apple II does insult to the memory of 1977′s first personal computer. Given that Comics is a [...]
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- If you only read one Royal wedding related comic.... The Official Kate Middleton Story
- Bastia as if you were there...
- Adele Blanc Sec brings her extraordinary adventures to the UK….
- Quick DFC News..... sell outs and new DFC Library books for 2011
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- An Elmer sequel?
- Wim: You're most welcome ! I'm looking forward to it....
- Benjamin: Thank you, Wim, for your nice words for our site. ...
- Roger: The Shawn of the Dead one is fantastic!...
- Richard: EJ; I wasn't speaking as someone who's read any Aq...
- A Cheverton: Hurrah! (Apologies for lack of a proper sarcasm...
- Largo Winch – a fabulous formula continues
- Somersault – those real men
- Chewie and Domo, together at last!
- “It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.”
- Using comics to teach history in the classroom
- XIII – The Jason Fly Case
- Bastia as if you were there…
- Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival
- Cross-stitch heroes!
- Digital comics panel from Planet Comicon
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