http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:02:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The BBC's Scottish site looks back to the 1950s and Glasgow's vast Southern Necropolis, where a policeman has been called to investigate a group of children. PC Deeprose expected to find petty, childish vandalism and given the era no doubt was thinking he'd be doing nothing more than providing a ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/the-fearless-vampire-killers-or-wont-somebody-please-think-of-the-children/ Bone by Jeff Smith Cartoon Books / Scholastic Jeff Smith's Tolkien-esque fantasy comic book saga evokes the best of Lord Of The Rings; the epic, heroic quest, the fantastical characters, and the threat of a great darkness threatening them all. It also contains every element of a classic fairytale; the imperiled magical ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/graphic-novel-classic-library-bone/ Here's something I've been wanting to bring to your attention before. Everybody knows the Lonely Planet series of travel books - the alternative, low-cost guides to the wonders the world has to offer. I had seen a Lonely Planet guide to Brussels in a few shops before, with ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/from-our-continental-correspondent-comics-will-guide-you/ I'm delighted at news from Selina Locke that the Girly Comic website is back in business. Why has the site been away? Selina explains that the demands of publishing and publicising the print version and dealing with convention appearances they simply could not keep up the amount of work involved ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/the-girly-comic-site-returns/ Thought Bubble Comics channel on YouTube has posted up a nearly ten minute video, part one of a panel discussion from last year's Thought Bubble recorded in Saville Hall in Leeds with Charlie Adlard, Sean Phillips, Anthony Johnston and Ben Templesmith all discussing horror comics: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt6rwwptIK0 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/do-zombies-read-comics/ (the Addams Family by Charles Addams, (c) TEE/Charles Addams Foundation) Well, there's good news and there's bad news about this. The good news is that there's news that Tim Burton's next project may be a stop motion Addams Family movie that takes it's inspiration from Charles Addams' original New Yorker cartoons. ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/addams-family-movie-again-but-with-added-burton/ News this week that another Comic Con is scheduled for 2010. Shane Chebsey and James Hodgkins are bringing another weekend of comics to Birmingham with the British International Comic Show (BICS) 2010. The event takes place over the weekend of16th-17th October at the Think Tank, Millenium Point, Birmingham. Very little going on ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/advance-notice-bics-is-back/ Lightweight and easy on the eye? Perfect reimaginings of classic characters done in an all-ages style? That would be Project Rooftop's All-Ages All-Stars. Two done so far: (Mike Maihack's Scarlet Witch - Disney? Are You Paying Attention? Give this man a Saturday morning cartoon.) (John McNally's Martian Manhunter) And if you want a ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/two-for-sunday-project-rooftop-and-march-madness/ Over on his blog Steven Bissette, artist on Swamp Thing, Tyrant and publisher of Taboo is currently chronicling the trials and tribulations of the comic industry circa 1986. It's fascinating stuff from an era when a lot of important things were just beginning to develop across the industry. Bissette's subtitle ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/steve-bissettes-forgotten-comic-wars/ From Al Davison's dreamblog: "This is a dream I had on hearing that my good friend Neil Gaiman was getting engaged to the amazing Amanda Palmer. It's full title is: 'Neil Gaiman reading from American Gods, for a tribe of shape changing Arapaho cats, accompanied by Amanda Palmer playing ukulele and ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2010/al-davisons-gaimanda/