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A Whovian’s jolly Christmas

13. December 2011

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Loving this Doctor Who Magazine jolly Christmas cover they posted on their Facebook page. As one commenter said on FB it’s very reminiscent of an old Radio Times Christmas issue cover (with all the warm nostalgia that brings to mind, appropriate for the season). It’s especially nice to see the Milky Bar Kid included on [...]

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Vigour

13. December 2011

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This short, worldess animation by Chang Dai is just delightful (thanks to Jamie Smart for the heads-up):

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Best of the Year 2011: Nick Abadzis

12. December 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year comes via the good offices of the excellent Nick Abadzis, who has brought us some fabulous comics work over the years, not least the magnificent, touching and inspiring Laika, a tale of a dog and the heroic dawn days of what would become the Space Age. The new edition [...]

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Chico & Rita – Euro Winner

11. December 2011

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Not Eurovision, but something much better (and less cheesier). Chico & Rita, the sumptuous Jazz infused animated film by Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal & Fernando Trueba, recently scooped the European Film Academy Animated Feature Film award for 2011. (Via eitb) I STILL haven’t seen it (Santa? Santa?) but it looks so good, and the graphic [...]

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Steranko’s Indiana Jones….

11. December 2011

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Did you know Steranko did the concept art for Indiana Jones? I sure as hell didn’t. And if you did know, why the hell didn’t you let me know? Not Pulp Covers shares this wonderful news…. but it was Tom that told me….

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Best of the Year 2011: Edward Ross

9. December 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year comes from someone who manages to merge two of my very favourite things – comics and cinema. Edward Ross, among other works, has created a fascinting series called Filmish which uses the comics medium to explore film theory and I’ve very much enjoyed them (reviews of issue one, issue [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

9. December 2011

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Forget those howling storm-force gales and wind and rain out there, settle yourself in by the fire and tune in to some of Alex Fitch’s audio goodness on Resonance FM and the Panel Borders podcast – this week he has a very welcome return for our great bearded magus of Albion, Mister Alan Moore, just [...]

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Best of the Year 2011: Mary Talbot

7. December 2011

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Today’s guest is new to the blog, although I am sure quite a few of you will know her already. Academic, writer and now, with her soon-to-be published debut Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, a comics scribe too (collaborating with her husband Bryan), Doctor Mary Talbot. Mary has also been kind enough to agree to [...]

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Best of the Year 2011: Robin Etherington

6. December 2011

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For our second in 2011′s Best of the Year series our guest is one half of the gestalt comics entity known as the Etherington Brothers, a man who has literally worked for Monkey Nuts, Robin Etherington: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us [...]

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Best of the Year 2011: Terry Wiley’s picks

5. December 2011

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Yes, it is indeed, unbelievably, that time of year once more, when we kick off our daily series of guest posts from writers, artists, editors and publishers in the comics biz, and ask them to pick out their favourite comics reading from the last twelve months. It’s become something of an annual tradition here on [...]

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Ralph Bakshi talks

5. December 2011

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This is quite a neat bilingual video of the great Ralph Bakshi recorded at San Diego Comic Con – it comes from the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation archives folk but has been adapted with their permission to take subtitles in Portuguese while the audio remains in English. Well actually subtitles is the wrong term, I suppose – [...]

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Muppets, meet your ancestors….

4. December 2011

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Courtesy of Graham Annable.. oh so bittersweet moments of Muppet goodness. All part of a Jim Henson exhibition at the Gallery Nucleus (California). (Via Superpunch)

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Raiding the Lost Ark

29. November 2011

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Johnneyred points me to this fab video, the first seventeen minutes of Jamie Benning’s documentary – or filmumentary – one of the great cinematic adventure tales of all times, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Jamie previously brought us the Star Wars Begins docu-fan-film and is about to release a new one, Raiding the Lost Ark. [...]

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Dreams of flying: Wing it

28. November 2011

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“Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back A flight of fancy on a windswept field Standing alone my senses reeled A fatal attraction is holding me fast, How can I escape this irresistible grasp? Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies Tongue-tied and twisted, just an [...]

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Vworp Vworp Volume 2 out…ish. Plus a little McMahon Who….

27. November 2011

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Issue 2 of the Doctor Who fanzine Vworp Vworp is out now. Well, it was out. Then lots of people ordered it and now Gareth and Colin have had to suspend sales for the time being, just to clear the backlog and make sure they can get the orders out  - which is a shame, [...]

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