Fellow lovers of a bit of fine, macabre, brain-munching comedy-horror rejoice, for Dan (Alien, Dark Star, Blue Thunder) O’Bannon’s 80s classic The Return of the Living Dead is shambling back into life, with a spanking new double edition DVD and its Blu Ray debut (with hours of special features) so you can enjoy the grey [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 13, 2012
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The Sixth International Comedy Conference scheduled for the 31st of May and 1st of June at the University of Salford Manchester is going to be covering two different meanings of the term ‘comic’, both the comedian and the graphical forms. Tomorrow is the final call for submissions for the conference. From the description: “Comics can [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 2, 2011
Well we thought it might have happened last week, but on this week’s episode of the excellent Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle on BBC3 he did indeed have a special guest, a good friend of his, a certain Mr Alan Moore… Aired last night and is available right now (sorry, UK only, I think) to watch [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 23, 2010
TV isn’t doing comedy all that well at the moment (Tramadol Nights anyone? Oh dear). So maybe a quality comedy magazine might be the answer. And as luck would have it, Alex Musson has just released a new issue of his comedy mag Mustard. Personally I have no idea why Musson’s releasing a new issue in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 29, 2010
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Sad to hear of the passing of Leslie Nielsen passing away. Originally a serious actor in dramatic roles he underwent something of a mid-career change after the huge success of the comedy Airplane! and the Police Squad TV spoof series which birthed the Naked Gun movies, all still comedy gold even after endless repeat viewing. [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 28, 2010
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It’s the last weekend of the madness that is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this weekend and as part of the fun Norman Lovett, in town with his own show, lol, which runs until the 30th of August, is going to come in to do a signing in the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet on Southbridge, just a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 12, 2010
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Norman Lovett has appeared in many things but will always be loved by SF fans for playing Holly, the once all-knowing AI on Red Dwarf, now sadly subject to computer senility after several million years. Norman has also had a very long career as a stand-up and while he’s in an absolutely heaving Edinburgh for [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 3, 2010
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Alex Musson writes in from Mustard central to let us know a couple of things: “You can now buy a set of six Mustard movie postcards and also, if you’re an Alan Moore fan you might like the desktop wallpaper sized version of the poster I did for The IT Crowd). In other Mustard news, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 26, 2010
Today is the anniversary of the death of the late, great Bill Hicks, one of the best stand-ups/ranters to ever grace the stage and a major influence on one Jesse Custer in Ennis and Dillon’s brilliant Preacher. With a new documentary on Bill coming up a good its a good time to look back at [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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Comics creator and Beano regular Kevin F Sutherland’s Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre explain exactly why socks suck as Christmas presents, which is true. On the other hand, much as I love collectable action figures, they don’t keep your tootsies warm!
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
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Sparky O’Hare by Mawil Blank Slate This is the second book from Mawil to be released by Blank Slate (the first; his very impressive look at young life and relationships; We Can Still Be Friends was reviewed here). But Sparky O’Hare is a completely different book; a cute, charming and ever so funny series of [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 18, 2009
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Mustard # 4 Editor / Designer Alex Musson Self Published. (Kevin O’Neill’s great Alan Moore illstration against a backdrop of Moore comics) I Came to this one rather late after reading about the big Alan Moore interview in this issue somewhere online. I’m even later reviewing it. So late in fact that by now it’s [...]
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