Tag Archive | "Books"

A Sort of a Review – James & Pádraig Have a Chat about Alan Moore: Storyteller

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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Alan Moore: Storyteller By Gary Spencer Millidge, Published Ilex It’s a chilled October afternoon and Pádraig Ó Méalóid and I are sitting down to contemplate the biographical work that Gary Spencer Millidge has lovingly put together. Although we recognise the photo of Alan Moore on the cover from elsewhere, we are actually somewhat impressed with [...]

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Somnium

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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That man Pádraig tells us of a forthcoming book from Steve Moore, Somnium, which will be coming from the fine Indy publisher Strange Attractor Press (complete with the above rather fetching cover art by John Coulthart). Over on his Glycon site Pádraig explains why he is covering a debut novel by Steven Moore on a [...]

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Have you seen my sister Evelyn?

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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We do like a bit of Amanda Palmer around here and there is some lovely animation in her Evelyn Evelyn music video; the Evelyn Evelyn book by Amanda, Jason Wbley and Cynthia Von Buller was released just recently by Dark Horse.

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Eat your spinach, it’s good for you

Friday, October 14, 2011

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Popeye is one of those enduring children’s characters, who has gone through quite a few incarnations since his appearance in strip format in 1929, and soon IDW will be bringing the character back to the comic book shelves. I attended the launch of Josephine Bacon’s (no relation) Popeye Cookbook, published by SelfMadeHero, in Notting Hill [...]

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Director’s commentary: the Alchemist’s Easel

Thursday, October 13, 2011

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A real treat for you today as the very fine Al Davison graces us with a Director’s Commentary post. I’ve very much admired Al’s work since his autobiographical comics work The Spiral Cage, in which he used the medium to great effect to expand on his lifelong struggle against spina bifida and the related health [...]

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‘I can’t find my Girl Annuals’ – China Mieville and Paul Gravett at BD Passion

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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(China Mieville dans une conversation avec Paul Gravett sur la bande dessinée qui l’ont influencé á la Institut Français. Pics by James, click images to see the larger versions on Flickr) We sent James Bacon to the Bande Dessinée and Comics Passion festival and here is just a report on the first event…. I will [...]

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Cheryl talks the Encyclopedia of SF

Monday, October 10, 2011

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As many of you will be aware a team of top science fiction folks have been slaving away on a brand new edition of the Encyclopedia of SF – some of us recall the previous print editions from several years ago (and the accompanying Fantasy Encyclopedia), massive tome which also had electronic updates following it [...]

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What if Dr Seuss did the Cthulhu?

Monday, October 10, 2011

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Doctor Seuss, he of the beloved, semi nonsensical children’s books – imagine if that much loved series had dabbled in H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos?Dr FaustusAU on Deviant Art did. Well, younger readers need to learn about Those Who Cannot Be Named at some point… (via IO9)

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Empires by Robert Rankin

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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Modern day man of the lark about Robert Rankin, better known for over 30 years of book writing, this year turned his hand to comic illustration and creation. Rankin is perhaps one of the most all-rounded artists in the industry. He started doing covers for his own books in 1998 with Dance of the Voodoo [...]

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British Fantasy Award Winners

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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Locus Online has details of the winners of this year’s British Fantasy Awards from the British Fantasy Society, held at the weekend’s FantasyCon, and among those being honoured this year I am delighted to see that one of the books which scored highly with the blog team and many of our guests during our annual [...]

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London – a year in the life

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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(sundial at Tower Bridge, London, by and (c) Joel Meadows) Okay, this isn’t really anything to do with comics or SF, but I hope you’ll forgive me for posting a quick link to this Indie GoGo project for a photography book on London because it comes from a good friend of the blog and a [...]

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Josh Neufeld reads

Thursday, September 8, 2011

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Another one from the Comic Archive gang’s uploads of comics folk reading from their own short stories at the Bookcourt in Brooklyn, NYC, this time it is the very fine Josh Neufeld: Josh Neufeld reads “Post Traumatic Skyscraper Anxiety” at BookCourt from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.

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Nick Bertozzi reads

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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The excellent Nick Bertozzi reads from his short story Pecan Sandy at an event in Brooklyn in this video from the Comic Archive folks: Nick Bertozzi reads “Pecan Sandy” at BookCourt from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.

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Steampunk in London tomorrow night

Monday, September 5, 2011

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Tomorrow night Vik­tor Wynd’s Lit­tle Shop of Horrors/The Last Tues­day Soci­ety (11 Mare Street, E8) hosts SJ Chambers, co-author (with Jeff VanderMeer) of the very fine new Steampunk Bible (which I highly recommend, it has fascinating sections on the fiction, makers and crafters, comics, style and more) as part of a talk , with further [...]

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Sarah’s Book Festival

Thursday, September 1, 2011

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I’ve been meaning to post a link to one of our regular faves, Sarah McIntyre’s blog. Sarah was up to host some comics and arts classes for kids at the recent Edinburgh International Book Festival and I managed to catch up with her, the pair of us going along to the Free Fringe in this [...]

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