http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog The Best In Sci-Fi & Fantasy, News, Reviews, Graphic Novels, comics and more! Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:50:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lucy Kinsey, on this simple one page strip, presents a viewpoint all too rare in modern comics. It's often the case that older lags in the game (and I have to include me in this) bemoan about comics as a digital medium rather than a printed one. So to see ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/digital-comics-an-optimists-view/ Kenny of Blank Slate showed me the submission from Madeleine Flores a while ago. She's a young cartoonist with a delightfully light style and a wonderful story - The Girl And The Gorilla. Well, the deal is done and Blank Slate Books is due to publish this in 2010. Madeleine's ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/girl-and-the-gorilla-psychiatric-tales-and-more-more-more/ Seeing as I loved Nick Abadzis' Laika (review) and adored Howard Hardiman's Badger (review and new review of Badger: Then & Now coming soon), this just had to be mentioned: ("Badger & Friend" by Nick Abadzis. © Nick Abadzis and Howard Hardiman) Seems Nick Abadzis is a big fan of Howard's work, ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/cute-badger-meets-sad-lonely-space-dog/ One, two, Freddy's coming for you, three four, better lock your door... Yes, folks, we have horror icon Robert Englund coming soon. Englund has been well known and beloved of SF and horror genre fans for many years, appearing in a large number of productions from playing the good alien ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/one-two-freddys-coming-for-you/ Thought Bubble, The Leeds Sequential Art Festival has been going on for a couple of days now, featuring some wonderful events across the city of Leeds. And tomorrow sees the centrepiece of the festival; the Thought Bubble comic convention. It features a host of comic creators with the complete list ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/your-weekend-comic-events-north-thought-bubble/ This weekend sees not one, but two great comic events. First up it's the Comica 2009 final week - which looks rather good with a trio of conversations happening at the ICA: First up on Sunday 22 November; Reinhard Kleist, author of the great I see A Darkness, the biography of ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/your-weekend-comic-events-south-comicas-final-weekend/ Just because it's a lovely, happy image on a rather miserably grey day with rain sheeting down here - Sarah McIntyre's next children's book, written by Gillian Rogerson: When King Cupcake is kidnapped by hungry aliens, it's up to his feisty daughter, Princess Spaghetti, to save him from becoming their dinner. ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/its-a-grey-miserable-day-have-a-picture-of-sarah-mcintyres-new-book/ Thomas Wogan Is Dead by David Hughes Tabella Publishing Back in March 2009 I reviewed Thomas Wogan Is Dead as a self published comic (right here in fact). This Tabella version is effectively just a very nice re-packaging of the small press self published comic with a few extra pages and a general ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/thomas-wogan-is-dead-again/ httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWf2oCMWREI Orbit has this little teaser video for what I can only describe as one of the most unusual fantasy novels I've read in recent years, Jesse Bullington's The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, which they've just released this month. I'd never come across anything by Bullington before but there ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/the-sad-tale-of-the-brothers-grossbart/ As gales ravish the land and men with wigs daren't step outdoors here's Alex Fitch to give us an excuse to stay inside where its warm and listen to some show;  as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Strip! - Ctrl ... http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2009/alexs-audio-round-up-24/