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Competition: Win The Darkest Hour on Blu-ray!
Earlier this week, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, the people behind the upcoming blu-ray and DVD release of The Darkest Hour, gave FPI blog readers the opportunity to destroy their friends on Facebook. And now they’ve teamed up with us for a special prize draw in which 5 lucky entrants will win a blu-ray copy of [...]
Continue reading...Brrrraiiinnnssss!!! Return of the Living Dead returns!
16. May 2012
Fellow lovers of a bit of fine, macabre, brain-munching comedy-horror rejoice, for Dan (Alien, Dark Star, Blue Thunder) O’Bannon’s 80s classic The Return of the Living Dead is shambling back into life, with a spanking new double edition DVD and its Blu Ray debut (with hours of special features) so you can enjoy the grey [...]
Continue reading...The (comics) Wild, Wild West – Lucky Luke
11. May 2012
Lucky Luke Directed by James Huth Starring Jean Dujardin, Michael Youn, Sylvie Testud, Daniel Prevost, Alexandra Lamy Lucky Luke, the lonesome cowboy who can drawn and shoot faster than his shadow has been around for a long time – 1946, in fact, since the great Morris first drew his Wild West hero. Over the decades [...]
Continue reading...Prometheus – win tickets to the London premiere!
9. May 2012
Okay, peeps and fellow geeks, listen up, because we have a remarkable “money can’t buy it” type of prize up for grabs thanks to our friends arranging the screenings of Sir Ridley Scott’s much-anticipated ‘Alien sort-of prequel’ (Sir Ridley notes it started that way but ‘evolved into another universe’) Prometheus, starring Girl With a Dragon [...]
Continue reading...Where Have All The Illustrators Gone – A Reminder….
6. May 2012
That’s Adrian Tomine’s cover to Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. Here’s the Independent article decrying modern illustration. And here’s what Dan Franklin of Cape had to say…. (emphasis mine) “I think a) it’s fashion”, he says trenchantly. “And b) there aren’t that many great illustrators. It’s rare you can come across someone who can draw. Even when [...]
Continue reading...Where have all the illustrators gone? A challenge
13. April 2012
Recently there has been a lot of controversy over the supposed paucity of illustration talent in British publishing for adult books; Melanie McDonagh’s article in the Independent back in January discussed how illustration in books used to be the norm, using the example of Dickens, and that illustration in books aimed at adults was still [...]
Continue reading...Bookseller dispute at the Strand goes into comics form
13. April 2012
Greg Farrell drops us a line with some disquieting news – New York’s world-famous The Strand bookstore, a much loved mecca for readers well known for events, friendly, knowledgeable expert staff recommending good books – is in the midst of a dispute with its staff. The union representing the booksellers there is protesting increasing use [...]
Continue reading...Win The Revenant DVDs
22. March 2012
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Award-winning horror-action flick with a sense of humour (okay, a sick sense of humour, but that’s how we like it!) writer-director Kerry Prior’s The Revenant is out on DVD and Blu Ray on April 2nd. When soldier Bart is killed in Iraq only to wake up and find himself a Revenant, returned from the dead [...]
Continue reading...BD Passion comic competition
9. March 2012
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The BD Passion festivalx returns this year from the 24th to the 27th of May (see here for James’ report on last year’s event) and as part of it there is a competition for up and coming comics talent. There is a competition for students to enter a two page comic, which will be judged [...]
Continue reading...New British Comics Competition….
4. February 2012
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News from the New British Comics camp (review of issue 3 here) and another of their competitions, all connected with that rather good cover by Lawrence Elwick. There are 2 free copies to win, and winners will get a special drawn dedication from Lawrence, who’ll either draw the winner or one of the characters from the [...]
Continue reading...Reminder – Chronicle competition, film opens this weekend
2. February 2012
Josh Trank’s upcoming new movie Chronicle takes on of the well-known clichés of the superhero genre – the sudden granting of superpowers through contact with a strange source – but treats it a little differently than the usual spandex-fest, taking a cooler, more lo-fi approach. When a group of high school friends find themselves developing [...]
Continue reading...Win a fab Macbook Air or Canon EOS with Chronicle!
25. January 2012
Josh Trank’s upcoming new movie Chronicle takes on of the well-known clichés of the superhero genre – the sudden granting of superpowers through contact with a strange source – but treats it a little differently than the usual spandex-fest, taking a cooler, more lo-fi approach. When a group of high school friends find themselves developing [...]
Continue reading...Call for entries: 13th International Festival of aphorism & caricature Strumica
29. November 2011
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Caricaturque has news of a call for entries from cartoonist for the 13th International Festival of aphorism & caricature in Strumica next year. There are two categories to enter, Aphorism and Caricature, and the them is Carnival-Erotica, with Gold, Silver and Bronze awards up for grabs; final date for any entries is January 16th 2012, [...]
Continue reading...Win a trip to the official Star Trek Convention!
15. November 2011
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Forbidden Planet International have teamed up with top UK sci-fi mag SFX and fine publisher Aurum Press – we’re celebrating the launch of the impressive Star Trek Vault book and to mark this one lucky reader could win the chance for a fab trip to Philadelphia for the official Star Trek Convention next year! Now [...]
Continue reading...Art Spiegelman lecture
10. November 2011
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SHU ComicsAnimation has uploaded a good, long video featuring Art Spiegelman giving a lecture – it features discussion about Maus, the Holocaust in the media and the craft of creating comics, although it is over two hours in running time, so you may want to bookmark for when you have enough time to sit through [...]
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