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Your weekend comic events (north) – Thought Bubble…..

Friday, November 20, 2009

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 here and a lot of [...]

Thomas Wogan Is Dead … Again.

Friday, November 20, 2009

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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 neatening up. So everything I [...]

Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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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 Alt Shift: Lightspeed Champion and [...]

Cartoon Art Trust Awards

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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The 15th annual Cartoon Art Trust Awards were given out this week in London’s Mall Galleries, reports Bloghorn. The occasion also marked the 21st birthday of the Cartoon Art Trust, the body behind the Cartoon Museum. (Climate Talks by and (c) Morten Morland who won the Political Cartoon Award, cheekily pinched from Bloghorn’s article) The award winners [...]

Boilerplate – a mechanical marvel that never really existed….

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett Abrams Image Boilerplate is a fascinating concept – a mockumentary coffee table book dealing with the heroic exploits of Boilerplate – a Victorian Era mechanical man. He crops up everywhere from his creation in 1893 until his disappearance in 1918; possibly making it to the South Pole way [...]

Pictures that tick

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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We may have to wait until next year for the promised new edition of Dave McKean’s brilliant Cages, but meantime there’s something rather lovely in this week’s new releases to keep McKean fans going: Pictures That Tick is a large-sized collection of Dave’s shorter comics work from the 90s and early 2000s. And as you’d [...]

Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramon Perez signing in FP Dublin

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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As well as playing host to the Eclectic Micks crew the Dublin Forbidden Planet also had the trio of Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramón Pérez signing for fans and creating sketches in the store last weekend as part of their TX Comics European tour, which will also see them at Thought Bubble this weekend [...]

Bienvenue/welcome Lord Yoyo

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Earlier this year Wim posted on the growth of the French language comics blogosphere (see here), which has now reached a level where even the holies of holies in the Francophone comics calendar, the Angoulème Festival, added a special award recognising online comics work. In his introduction to some of the more interesting French language [...]

S.W.O.R.D. issue 1 – breathless outer space Marvel action.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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S.W.O.R.D. issue 1 by Kieron Gillen, art by Steven Sanders (backup strip by Jamie McKelvie) Marvel Comics It’s not that I dislike superheroes, more the fact that I really haven’t got the time to decipher the vast, inter-connected-ness of the modern Marvel or DC Universes. So these days I tend to only dip into the Marvel Universe when [...]

Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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Over the last few months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions have been cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s good and bad about [...]

Björk singing for the Moomins

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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(Björk, image borrowed from her website gallery) Icelandic singer and all round engima Björk is working with Sjón to create a song especially for a new film being made by the Finnish Filmkompaniet studio and due next year, “Moomins and the Comet Chase”. Hard to think on someone more suitable to sing for a Moomin Troll! [...]

Fetish fun – when Craig Yoe met Dr Sketchy’s

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Via Jeff Newelt comes this link to a spread of rather racy photographs from a Dr Sketchy’s night with Craig Yoe and the recent Secret Identity: the Fetish Art of Superman’s Joe Shuster and scenes from and inspired by the book re-enacted by some very photogenic models resulting in some cool pics and some nice [...]

The Eclectic Micks

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Our colleagues in FP Dublin have kindly sent us over a batch of pictures from Saturday’s Irish launch of the Eclectic Micks Sketchbook with Nick Roche, Stephen Thompson, Bob Byrne, Will Sliney, Stephen Mooney and Declan Shalvey meeting readers, signing books and comics and creating sketches; looks like a good time was had by all! [...]

Somersault – live and love on the suburban line

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Ah, the great commute, that strange modern ritual which will no doubt be puzzled over by anthropologists and archaeologists in the far future (why did millions do it? Was it a ritual devotion?); sometimes lovely little moments of intimacy can happen on those commutes though. Although its fair to say Somersault’s version of Brief Encounter [...]

Inglorious Basterds comics

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Website Twitch posts five glorious Kirby-esque covers for an imagined Inglorious Basterds comics series spun off from Quentin Tarantino’s last movie. Absolutely pitch-perfect for the material, I think, wouldn’t it be cool to see a whole comic done this way? I think the cover for issue #5 (below) is my favourite. Someone show these to [...]

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Your weekend comic events (north) – Thought Bubble…..

Thomas Wogan Is Dead … Again.

Alex’s audio round-up

Cartoon Art Trust Awards

Boilerplate – a mechanical marvel that never really existed….

Pictures that tick

Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramon Perez signing in FP Dublin

Bienvenue/welcome Lord Yoyo

S.W.O.R.D. issue 1 – breathless outer space Marvel action.

Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble

Björk singing for the Moomins

Fetish fun – when Craig Yoe met Dr Sketchy’s

The Eclectic Micks

Somersault – live and love on the suburban line

Inglorious Basterds comics

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