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Walking through Spider Moon

12. March 2010

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It’s no secret that the DFC comic made a lot of fans among the FPI crew and a lot of our readers, including our (obviously) most important contributor, young Molly, who was kind enough to share her thoughts on the comic with her dad Richard. We were all upset when the comic ceased publication amid [...]

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alex’s audio round-up

11. March 2010

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Another Thursday rolls around and as daffodils warily peek out from below the still chilly soil and wonder if it’s worth coming out yet, here’s our own herald of spring tidings, Alex Fitch, with details of the shows he’s involved with for the next week; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details [...]

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The Rule Of Death Revisited – We Always Die At Noon

11. March 2010

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The Rule Of Death issues 5 & 6 By Daniel Merlin Goodbrey and Douglas Noble Self-Published I looked at Rule of Death last time with issues 1-4 and thought: “For a book with a man refusing death Goodbrey is never short of a comedy one liner or two. And it’s this refusal to let neither the macabre events [...]

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Fallout – Peter Bagge’s Apocalypse Nerd heading for the telly

11. March 2010

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The Fantagraphics Flog has a trailer up for Fallout, a trailer for a pilot science fiction show based on Peter Bagge’s Apocalypse Nerd being pitched by producer/director Tupaq Felber to the BBC, following Gordon and Douglas, two friends coming back from a weekend camping out in the woods to find that civilisation seems to have [...]

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Darryl Cunningham talks to Matt Badham

11. March 2010

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Matthew Badham talks to Darryl Cunningham about the upcoming Psychiatric Tales on CBR: “Matt: In terms of “Psychiatric Tales,” when and why did you decide to start making strips about mental illness? Darryl: I worked for many years as a health care assistant on an acute psychiatric ward. Throughout this time I kept a diary, in which [...]

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Bellen

11. March 2010

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I hadn’t seen Brian M Brown’s Bellen strips until Adam Cadwell mentioned it on his twitter; it’s quite simple but rather nice work, go and have a wee browse. (“Sigh”, a recent Bellen strip by and (c) Brian M. Brown)

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Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival

11. March 2010

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Bloghorn draws our attention to the upcoming Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival, which this year has a theme of Magic, Myth and Mystery. As well as a number of events there’s also the chance to see some top professional cartoonists and caricaturists at work on giant boards in The Square, plus as part of the exhibitions [...]

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Somersault – the joys of public transport

10. March 2010

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Apologies, Somersault is a little later than usual this week; Mr Cowdry was abducted by a group of vicious sea turtles and dragged off to their tropical island lair where he was forced to gather coconuts for them for some unknown but doubtless devious purpose. Actually given this week’s Somersault takes place on a British [...]

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The Unwritten – it’s all about the story, all about the fictions

10. March 2010

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The Unwritten Volume 1: Tommy Taylor And The Bogus Identity by Mike Carey and Peter Gross Vertigo / Titan Books This reads very much like Vertigo books of old, with all the high fantasy elements you used to get with Gaiman’s Sandman. And so it should, since it reunites Carey and Gross, who previously shared 70 odd issues [...]

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Neil Gaiman video

10. March 2010

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Neil Gaiman posted up a link via his Twitter to a video of him talking to CBS’ Serena Altschul: Watch CBS News Videos Online

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Fantagraphics to publish manga

10. March 2010

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Dirk at Journalista confirms that Fantagraphics, one of the homes of quality comics publishing in our book, is to publish a manga line (although I suppose since Fanta used to publish Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo you could say they’ve published a manga series before). From Dirk’s post on Journalista: “For the past four years or [...]

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Seven arrested in Ireland over plot to murder Swedish cartoonist

10. March 2010

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Reuters are reporting that police in Ireland arrested seven people on Tuesday, thought to be immigrants from Yemen and Morocco, in connection with an alleged conspiracy to murder the Swedish cartoonist and fine artist Lars Vilks because of his drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. According to the article a [...]

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Ghost World burlesque tribute

10. March 2010

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This is fab, a tribute to Dan Clowes’ Ghost World graphic novel and Terry Zwigoff’s excellent movie adapation of the comic, burlesque style, by the Divine Jewels for the Geekgasm Show (via Comics Reporter via Fantagraphics)

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Birdsong/Songbird – yet another fantastic anthology!

9. March 2010

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Birdsong Track One: Winter 2009 by Will Kirkby, Naniiebim, Nikki Stuart, David O’Connell, Sarah McIntyre, Warwick Johnson Cadwell. Failboat Press Birdsong is another entry in what is becoming an increasingly crowded category of beautifully designed and executed anthology titles. With just 6 strips in it’s 80 pages, some self-contained stories, some opening entries in serials, this is [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Wasco cuts in Amsterdam

9. March 2010

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Dutch illustrator and cartoonist Henk Spoel (better known as Wasco) has traded his pencils for a pair of scissors and created a series of paper cuttings that remind us of similar shadow portraits from the 19th century, but also seem to refer to the illustrations that Blexbolex is doing these days in his Imagier Des [...]

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