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Neil Gaiman at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

18. August 2011

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(Neil Gaiman and Audrey Niffenegger just before their event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday afternoon, all pics from my Flickr) On Wednesday I had the pleasure of seeing two excellent authors of both prose and comics works in conversation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as Neil Gaiman chatted to Audrey Niffenegger. It [...]

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Thought Bubble – The Comic…. well this is new…

18. August 2011

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The Thought Bubble convention & festival is bigger than ever this year, taking place across a week in November with a bigger 2-day, 2-venue convention on 19th & 20th November. They’ve already completely sold out all of their exhibitor slots (300 of them) and have a very, very impressive guest list. No word on the [...]

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DC’s New 52 – the trailer…. a musical suggestion or two

18. August 2011

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DC have a few new titles coming out in September…. 52 of them. This week we saw the debut of the 30-second DC The New 52 trailer that they’ll be running in cinemas and on TV. Here it is…. Okay… good points: It’s a smart move to focus on the big characters – Batman, Superman, Wonder [...]

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Orbital Volume 4 – so nearly brilliant…. UPDATED

18. August 2011

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Orbital Volume 4: Ravages By Sylvain Runberg and Serge Pellé Cinebook I’m rather in a muddle over Orbital; first I sort of liked it, although recognised the flaws of a first volume that spent so long dawdling along on the setup that an eventual Aliens-esque firefight at the end seemed overly rushed. The second volume [...]

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Pravda and snowy

18. August 2011

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Holy cow, there’s just too much comics intertextuality going on here ! Channeling the modus operandi perfected by Andy Warhol, in 2008 French cartoonist Jean-C. Denis created a portrait of Guy Peelaert‘s equally pop art heroin Pravda, holding that other famous Belgian female, Snowy. And all the while a quartet of angry or merely bewildered [...]

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Phil Noto’s Marvel Madmen style artwork….

18. August 2011

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These are absolutely lovely – a series of retro 60s / Madmen style pieces by Phil Noto over at his Tumblr. I was going to put this in the regular Sunday Art For Art’s Sake post, but then I had to decide which one to include. But they’re all so very, very good, so figured [...]

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Upcoming – Comics And Conflicts

18. August 2011

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Comics & Conflicts is a two day event, organised by Alex Fitch, Paul Gravett and Ariel Khan, held at London’s Imperial War Museum. Full details of various events during the two days at the website, but highlights include the academic conference on Friday 19th and an activities day on Saturday 20th. The academic conference looks [...]

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New from Paul Grist (always a pleasure to type those words)…..

18. August 2011

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Mudman – coming from Image Comics in November…. Well, on the downside, this pushes back any possibility of more of his brilliant Kane series. And what it means for the continuing Weird World Of Jack Staff we’ve yet to find out. But any new work from Grist is a thing to be trumpeted. From the [...]

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Built Of Blood And Bricks

17. August 2011

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Built Of Blood And Bricks By Douglas Noble and Sean Azzopardi “Bricks are built from history And history is built in blood. That’s all that families are – blood that endures for a little while.” Dark. Very dark. And very, very good. Like Kieron Gillen says: “A nasty cackle of a book I recommend you [...]

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Stool Pigeon Exhibition – starts Friday

17. August 2011

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The Stool Pigeon is a regular, completely free music paper with a great comic section. We’ve looked at it several times here at the FPI blog and it’s very pleasing to hear that there will be an exhibition of Stool Pigeon artwork in the gallery space at Orbital London. The exhibition will feature artwork from [...]

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Alan Moore – Cheltenham Science Festival interview…..

17. August 2011

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(Alan Moore at Cheltenham Science Festival – Photo by Andy Miah) The Big Issue Scotland are the latest to run an Alan Moore interview, and in common with many Alan Moore interview it’s half standard Moore stuff we’ve all probably heard before (Expelled for dealing LSD, work in the local tannery etc etc). But the [...]

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Visions of Blacksad….

16. August 2011

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Over at the new collaborative art blog Ashcan All-Stars, they’re having a blast drawing Blacksad. Too much to choose from really, but here’s a couple of faves: (Moritat) (Nathan Fox) Oh, and if you haven’t already, you shoudld really, really, really get the beautiful Blacksad Dark Horse hardcover: What’s it all about, this absolute classic [...]

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XIII – Thirteen To One….

16. August 2011

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XIII Volume 8: Thirteen To One By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook XIII is one of my favourite Cinebook releases, in fact, over the course of the 7 previous volumes, it’s one of my favourite books full stop. And with Volume 8 we do appear to have hit something of a natural conclusion, [...]

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Here’s some smurfy goodness…

16. August 2011

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So you read the damning reviews of the Smurfs movie, and you at least felt some slight unease at the first glimpses of the blue dwarves in the trailer, and this has really brought you down.  Were these the cool cartoon characters you knew from when you were a kid ?   Could it be we [...]

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Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind….

16. August 2011

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Good Lord, nearly 20 years since Nevermind was released. I feel old. But I’m not alone, SPIN have a huge number of articles including this commission from cartoonist Jonathan Bennett to talk about the record and what it means to him: (More at and via Comics Alliance)

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