Tag Archive | "Ben Templesmith"

Contributors for second Lovecraft Anthology announced

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

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Editor Dan Lockwood, fresh from the success of the recently released and rather fine Lovecraft Anthology has been revealing the line up of writers and artists involved in the second volume, which is due next spring from SelfMadeHero. Yes, various many tentacled creatures have slithered forth through the jagged cracks in reality from their dark [...]

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Nice art – covers, galleries and auctions…

Sunday, November 14, 2010

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From hither and thon…. Darwyn Cooke’s variant Flash #7 cover – from DC’s Source blog. Beautifully evokes the spirit of Carmine Infantino. Art from a French gallery retrospective of Ben Templesmith’s work. More details on Templesmith’s blog. A hugely famous cover to Detective Comics #69 by Jerry Robinson – and now available for your wall [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, October 7, 2010

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Another Thursday rolls around and Alex Fitch is here to update us on some of the shows he’s involved with over the next few days. As usual check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: The Sound of Drowning and Gentlemen Corpses, tonight at 5pm on [...]

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Templesmith does Fury……

Saturday, October 2, 2010

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You know, if I was insanely rich, I’d have an entire room full of private commissions. But instead I have to merely look at work that others have commissioned and feel the green eyed monster rise up…… This here’s a Ben Templesmith piece available to you on E-Bay right now (auction ends 4th October). There’s part of me [...]

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Choker issue 1. Review #1- Michael’s take

Friday, March 26, 2010

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Choker issue 1 by Ben McCool and Ben Templesmith Image Comics Choker – a detective story in a very Blade Runner-esque setting with plenty of science fiction, horror and some very, very dark comedy thrown in for good measure.  This book comes to you from newcomer Ben McCool and the already well-established Ben Templesmith. What [...]

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Choker issue 1. Review #2 – Richard’s completely biased review….

Friday, March 26, 2010

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Choker Issue 1 (of 6) by Ben McCool and Ben Templesmith Image Comics Johnny Jackson, ex-cop turned private eye is having yet another bad day in what is turning out to be a truly horrible life. Things haven’t been the same since getting kicked off the force. Fair enough, even when he was a cop [...]

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Thought Bubble serves up comics video feast!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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Following on from yesterday’s post on the first part of a panel discussing horror comics at last year’s Thought Bubble festival in sunny Leeds the TB folks have been busy posting up more segments so now the whole panel discussion with Charlie Adlard, Sean Phillips, Antony Johnston and Ben Templesmith -- with Martin Grund chairing [...]

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Do zombies read comics?

Monday, March 22, 2010

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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:

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McCool. Templesmith. Choker. Looks like a hit. But I am biased

Saturday, February 27, 2010

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Full disclosure bit – Ben McCool is a friend of mine and has been for years – we worked together at Nostalgia & Comics Birmingham, him a mere baby, me not quite so young,  I watched him take his first steps to being a comics writer, and like so many people who have had any [...]

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Your weekend comic events (south) – Comica’s final weekend…..

Friday, November 20, 2009

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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 Johnny Cash, published recently [...]

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McCool & Templesmith on Choker

Friday, September 18, 2009

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I used to work with Ben McCool back at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham for several years before he left to travel to America and find fame and fortune as a big time writer of comics. I don’t know how he’s doing for money (he still owes me several drinks) but the fame thing seems [...]

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Unlike Morrissey, I don’t hate it when my friends become successful: Choker by Ben McCool & Ben Templesmith.

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Once upon a time back in the days when I used to work at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham, I worked with one young Ben McCool; manic, effervescent, incredibly personable, an amazing drinker and a spectacular character who could instantly control a room with the sheer force of his personality. When Ben flows into anecdote [...]

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