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Animation: My Face is in Space

23. May 2013

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I first saw Tom Jobbins‘ My Face is in Space in one of the short animation strands at the Edinburgh International Film Festival the other year, and I’m delighted to see it is now up for everyone to enjoy online. The film uses some suitably 70s styles in its retelling of one of my favourite [...]

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Animation: Obsolete

22. May 2013

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Obsolete is a great short animation by Lewis Gray and Esra Guldal, students at Sheffield Hallam University, following a rather forlorn old robot who has spent all of his working life in a dark toy factory, lit mostly by the hellish orange glare of fires (creating some quite atmospheric visuals), dreaming of the world outside… [...]

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Interview: Iron Man: Rise of Technovore’s Brandon Auman and Harrison Wilcox.

20. May 2013

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Check out this excellent Iron Man: Rise of Technovore featurette on our new Youtube channel. With Iron Man: Rise of Technovore blasting its path into pop culture on blu-ray and DVD currently, we jumped on the chance to talk to a couple of the members of the team behind the movie. The latest in Marvel’s [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

19. May 2013

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Arty stuff for a Sunday. Put the coffee on, feast your eyes…. James Harvey’s Bartkira project – a complete remake of Akira with Simpsons characters (original idea from Ryan Humphrey) progresses apace, with odd bits cropping up online here and there. No doubt we’ll have a full book worth very soon. Here’s Chris Doherty’s page, from [...]

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John Welding illustrates Wakefield

19. May 2013

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Okay, not comics per se, but John Welding is a favourite here, and whatever he does is always worth a look. This time he’s documenting his work on a piece for Unique Wakefield, an organisation promoting independent retail in Wakefield. “I am working with Unique Wakefield, drawing some of the independent shops in Wakefield. The line work [...]

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Comics: Megan Rosalarian and the online idiots….

18. May 2013

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Well, I’m obviously doing the Internet and media right this week, because all I heard and saw was an outpouring of praise for a difficult decision by Angelina Jolie that raise awareness and save lives in future. But it’s no surprise to find out that some idiots decided that they had a right to complain [...]

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Comics: John Cei Douglas – Bottling It…

17. May 2013

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John Cei Douglas delivers a great, great six-pager on the subject of depression and the perils of not dealing with the black cloud that hangs over us all sometimes. Originally presented in ink + Paper #3. First two pages below, the rest at the link:

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Games: gender equality on the walls

17. May 2013

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The Hawkeye Initiative, which regularly posts on the frequently unrealistic ways female characters are depicted in superhero comics, has a cracking post up from a woman who works in the games industry. It’s a job she likes and also the company, which unlike many others in that industry has a good ratio of female to [...]

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Exhibitions: the Vice Illustration Show

15. May 2013

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Coming up this month, the Vice magazine gang have the Vice Illustration Show kicking off in the Pure Evil Gallery in London’s Shoreditch (108 Leonard St) from 17th of May to the 2nd of June, and includes prints and original art from the likes of Johnny Ryan, Cei Willis, Jonny Negron and Krent Able. (Above: [...]

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Animation: Wolfsong

15. May 2013

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Tonika Pantoja’s short animated film Wolfsong is very sad but also rather beautiful: a mother wolf tries to regain her dead cub, now a hunter’s trophy, to sing it to its final sleep, but the hunter follows her… Wolfsong from Toniko Pantoja on Vimeo.

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