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From Our Continental Correspondent – Festivals across Europe

17. June 2010

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It’s probably totally coincidental, but I received tips about two upcoming festivals in my mailbox this week, in cities that are quite similar in name. This weekend, Lyon (France) will be the scene for the annual LyonBD festival.  A typical French festival, with exhibitions, interviews, and, of course, creators who will gladly adorn your freshly [...]

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Archie goes all Love & Rockets….

17. June 2010

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Missed this a while back, but isn’t this Cliff Chiang variant cover to Archie #600 through the Hero Initiative Archie series a brilliant and stunning image? Very, very reminiscent of Jaime Hernandez and Love & Rockets methinks. (via Newsarama)

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Is there some football on?

11. June 2010

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Now some of you might hate the prospect of a month of World Cup football, but me. I’m looking forward to a month of bliss; the agony of watching England, trying not to swear too badly in front of my daughter. The one thing a modern World Cup does bring out of the woodwork is [...]

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Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt signing in Dublin

10. June 2010

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Actors Yuri Lowenthal (who has lent his voice to numerous animated works, including Legion of Superheroes, Ben 10, Robotech, Afro Samurai and many more roles) and Tara Platt (whose voice has graced Mobile Suit Gundam, Bleach, Buso Renkin, Legion of Superheroes, Naruto and numerous others) were kind enough to appear in the Dubline Forbidden Planet [...]

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More Marvel Variants ….. lovely, but strange

6. June 2010

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The variant cover thing is something that haunts my nightmares. I automatically think hideous metallic, hologram, foil rubbish from the 90s. But then Marvel start putting out things like these as part of their Iron Man 2.0 by design variant series…… (A spectacular Alan Aldridge Avengers #2 variant cover on the left – Aldridge being [...]

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Gaiman vs McFarlane, the cabaret that just keeps on giving….

30. May 2010

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This tickled me. Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane are in court again over the long standing fight about who created various characters featured in McFarlane’s Spawn comics. It’s a long and winding tale, but essentially Gaiman created characters for McFarlane and was awarded a copyright interest in three of them; Medieval Spawn, Angela and Cogliostro. [...]

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Mork calling Orson…

25. May 2010

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Okay, nothing to do with Mork and Mindy other than the name Orson, but here’s a nice one for the cinephiles among us, a pair of pretty cool portraits of the great Orson Welles by Bryan Talbot (on the left) and Herb Trimpe (on the right). Chrissie Harper has the full versions up on her [...]

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Fans of Tintin cry foul

11. May 2010

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Wim points us to a long and interesting article on the FT by Stanley Pignal on what is often a touchy subject for readers and for the company involved – how Fanny Vlamynck, Hergé’s widow,  and her partner Nick Rodwell have managed Hergé’s legacy through Moulinsart. Wim has reported before on the controversy Moulinsart has [...]

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Steve Bell on those election results (or lack thereof)

7. May 2010

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Steve Bell from the Guardian today: Yep, that about covers it. Now we have days of political positioning before whoever takes some form of coalition power starts cutting everything in sight, raising taxes and breaking promises.

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Vote. Vote. Vote. Do it now.

6. May 2010

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Today is the General Election. I’m not going to pretend I don’t care who you vote for – I’m one of Thatcher’s children after all and I have a long memory. But I’m putting personal feelings aside here. Because we live in a democratic society, in a truly great country, with a great history and [...]

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Spleenal’s take on the election…..

5. May 2010

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Spleenal brings his own, unique sensibilities to the election (there’s more at Spleenal’s site, much more): And although Spleenal might be funny, he is of course, an idiot. Not voting is something that no-one should be considering. Voting is a great right and a great responsibility for us all. Failing to vote simply rules you [...]

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Steve Bell on the election

4. May 2010

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For many years, Steve Bell has documented the comings and goings of the world with style, wit and, most importantly, utter venom in the pages of The Guardian. And with the election, his work becomes even more important: (On the TV debates – April 30th 2010 © Steve Bell 2010)

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Hewlett, Albarn and Moore collaborating on opera

27. April 2010

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You might remember a few months back (see here) I mentioned that BBC radio announced Alan More was to collaborate with Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn on an opera, with Moore writing the libretto, but there were no more details at the time. Now some more information has come out, with Albarn telling the media [...]

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Space, the final frontier…

24. April 2010

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I know a lot of my fellow science ficiton geeks are as fascinated by real life space exploration as we are by the fictional; the BBC site has a wonderful five minute slideshow of some of the finest deep space images produced over the last twenty years by the Hubble Space Telescope (is it really [...]

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Virtual steampunk SL Jules Verne

12. April 2010

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Nemo is a gorgeous looking steampunk aquatic city created by French journalist Sextan, inspired by one of the great fathers of science fiction, Jules Verne and other contemporary influences such as Edison, Eiffel and, naturally, the astonishing Tesla. “I am fascinated by this period in time, end of 19th century and the begining of the [...]

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