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Alternative Press Fair – The blue biro free for all!

24. January 2010

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The first anniversary of the Alternative Press Fair is coming up in February and Gareth Brookes writes to let us know about a cool little idea they’ve come up with to get more participation. They want artists to sketch out an idea for a flyer for the event and then these images will all be [...]

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Holy drokk – Wagner talks Dredd

20. January 2010

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Over on the 2000 AD Review site the mighty John Wagner discusses writing for Judge Dredd across three decades. For a lot of Brit comics readers its impossible to overstate John’s importance and influence – a whole pile of us have grown up reading his work (which maintains a consistently high quality); some of those [...]

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Kim Thompson interviewed on CCL

14. January 2010

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Chris Marshall’s rather fine weekly Collected Comics Library podcast this week boasts an interview with Kim Thompson from the lovely and sparkly publisher Fantagraphics, taking in subjects such as their very successful reprints of classic work (such as the gorgeous Complete Peanuts series), which seems to have inspired a number of other publishers into similar, [...]

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Happy New Year

31. December 2009

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(From The Batman Adventures Holiday Special 1995 – story by Paul Dini & Bruce Timm, art by Kevin Altieri & Butch Lukic) You know something? It’s ridiculously easy to find Christmas comics. But New Years Eve comics? Very thin on the ground. But staying on the wonderful topic of Batman Adventures which is still, for my money, [...]

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Liyi Brunner: My Story

27. December 2009

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Cheryl Morgan points us towards a current project running on the BBC site called My Story, where people around the UK are being encouraged to submit short, autobiographical pieces. It turns out one of those is from Liyi Brunner, widow of the late John Brunner, one of the most respected authors in our science fiction [...]

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Tracking Santa

24. December 2009

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If your little ones (or indeed you) are too excited to sleep as they anticipate the arrival of Santa you can go to NORAD, the US facility more usually associated with tracking aircraft, missile and satellite threats, who are continuing their festive tradition of tracking the aforementioned Mr S Claus’ progress across the globe on [...]

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Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes

24. December 2009

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Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes by Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi Marvel I enjoyed, and wrote about the first issue of this storyline when it came out here and this collection basically gives us more of the same, which is to say more of Ellis’ voice through the medium of Marvel’s mutant team. Everything you’d expect to find in [...]

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Socks for Christmas

23. December 2009

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Comics creator and Beano regular Kevin F Sutherland’s Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre explain exactly why socks suck as Christmas presents, which is true. On the other hand, much as I love collectable action figures, they don’t keep your tootsies warm!

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Tank Girl, Gorrilaz, Demon Lighting?

19. December 2009

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Yep, according to Drawn, this Demonlamp is the design of one Jamie Hewlett, artist/co-creator of Tank Girl and Gorrilaz. Maybe too late for Christmas, but time for the New Year gift perhaps? Or maybe early Halloween? The 40cm tall lamp costs £79.

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Star Trek the Motion Picture anniversary

10. December 2009

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As Star Trek the Motion Picture marks the 30th anniversary of its release here’s a classic behind the scenes featurette from 1979 -- the quality isn’t great and the soundtrack is distinctly wobbly, but its still great fun to watch, with behind the scenes footage of the actors, the special effects (oh, that huge, 8 [...]

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Buck Rogers trailer

2. December 2009

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Now doesn’t this look fun? A teaser trailer for an online version of pulp science fiction/comics classic Buck Rogers which is due to appear on the web sometime in 2010. I’ve no other information on it yet (although the Buck Rogers Wiki page states that a company called Phase II were planning an online fan [...]

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Star Wars – Force the feet!

26. November 2009

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Yes, looks like you will soon be able to feel the Force with your feet as Adidas unveil a range of Star Wars themed trainers; perhaps just the thing if you didn’t care for the Robert Crumb Vans we mentioned last week. Looks like there is a Darth Vader design, an Imperial Stormtrooper pair and [...]

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Streets of San Diablo returns to Activate

25. November 2009

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Darryl Cunningham announces on his Twitter that The Streets of San Diablo will be returning to my favourite webcomix collective, Activate, re-starting with a four-page special in which we can “expect much violence”. Good news indeed and another reason why you should have bookmarked the Activate site if you haven’t already, because it is choc-full [...]

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Largo Winch – jungle thriller time

23. November 2009

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Largo Winch Volume 4: The Hour Of The Tiger (Includes Fort Makiling) By Van Hamme and Franq Cinebook “No family, no connections, anti-establishment, womanizer, wanderer, iconoclast and fighter, he inherits at age 26 the W group, which is worth $10 billion. Largo Winch” That back cover blurb is really all you need to know when reading [...]

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Tour the Griffith with Leonard Nimoy

17. November 2009

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If you’ve got several grand to spare the world-famous Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles is auctioning a guided tour of the iconic facility (seen in many films and shows) – the tour guide for the occasion being none other than Leonard Nimoy. Now that would be quite brilliant. Bidding is already in excess of $5, [...]

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