Tag Archive | "Comics and cartoons"

Green Lantern cast talk

Friday, June 17, 2011

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E.Asylum has some of the Green Lantern movie’s cast discussing the movie (out this very weekend), superheroes and comics: E-Asylum.TV Green Lantern Cast Talk Comic Books and Superheroes from ruben rodriguez on Vimeo.

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More Rian Hughes….

Friday, June 17, 2011

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You know, I was going to just update the previous Rian Hughes post. But what the heck, this is too good to simply append to the end of an old post. Here’s the latest new “cover” from Rian Hughes from his Tales From Beyond Science collection, out later in the year. From Hughes’ Facebook: “He’s [...]

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World’s biggest book festival unveils this year’s programme

Thursday, June 16, 2011

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This morning marked one of the most important dates in the Edinburgh (and indeed Scottish and British and world-wide) literary calendars – the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the world’s largest celebration of the wonder of books, unveiled the programme for this year. In August, as the Scottish capital is bursting to the seams with the [...]

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Fancy a movie?

Thursday, June 16, 2011

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Multplex: Enjoy Your Show By Gordon McAlpin Ah, the joys of the crappy job, celebrated endlessly through film, television and literature. Whether it’s fast food, music, fashion, books, comics…. anywhere that there’s a minimum wage job you’ll find a story – and here, in Multiplex, we have another iteration of the idea. To cut to [...]

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Hunt Emerson at the Merston Gallery

Thursday, June 16, 2011

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The one and only Hunt Emerson has an exhibition of his excellent comics and cartooning artwork coming up in the Merston Gallery (a new gallery in the Chichester area), St Giles Church, Marsh Lane, Merston, next month, running from the 5th to the 17th of July. From the gallery’s description: “Merston Gallery is delighted to [...]

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More Lovecraft from Culbard

Thursday, June 16, 2011

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I missed the news about this one when it first came to light, but in addition to his excellent work for SelfMadeHero (including the excellent At The Mountains Of Madness and forthcoming Valley Of Fear, Princess Of Mars and Charles Dexter Ward – details on the two of those here) Ian Culbard also has a [...]

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The Valley Of Fear – completing a quartet of sublime Holmes graphic novels

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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The Valley Of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel Adapted from the original novel  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, illustrated by I.N.J. Culbard, text adapted by Ian Edginton SelfMadeHero Oh, this is a joy. An absolute joy. I’ve enjoyed every one of Edginton and Culbard’s Holmes adaptations so far - The Hound Of The Baskervilles, A Study [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Fantagraphics to publish classic Peelaert‏

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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Good news for fans of vintage 60s pop material:  Fantagraphics (one of our favourite publishers) recently announced (in their own, “you have to find it if you’re really interested” kind of way, burying it deep in their site) that they have acquired the publishing rights for the English language editions for two classic albums by [...]

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Diluting Orange – a new show from Malcy Duff

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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Malcy Duff tells us that he has a new exhibition of his artwork about to be unveiled in Edinburgh’s Total Kunst gallery (3 Bristo Place, near Edinburgh Uni and a few minutes stroll from the Edinburgh FPI as it happens). “The exhibition is called ‘Diluting Orange’ and is a mixture of drawings and other pieces, [...]

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Rian Hughes’ Tales From Beyond Science….

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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I completely missed any announcement on this – although a quick Google doesn’t turn anything up, so maybe this is new news? Anyway, the quite beautiful art above is part of the upcoming book from Rian Hughes collecting his Tales from Beyond Science series from 2000AD way, way back in ’92-’94. The series, illustrated by Hughes [...]

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Somersault – a return to Real Men

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

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After an interlude we return to the Real Men series from Somersault; if you had forgotten the series thus far it can be summarised as follows: our pipe smoking dandy, beset by atomically mutated and rather belligerent walruses, determines to escape using a piece of string, a farthing, a pipe and a low flying dirigible [...]

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Blood Magic

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

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Blood Magic By Karen Rubins Blood Magic is an interesting concept, an interesting idea. A 24 page comic all about the old magics, blood magics in medieval society and the matriarchal power structure that the power of blood magic necessitates. Rubins’ manga style art is very attractive, and the subtle, sparing use of red to [...]

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Luther returns

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

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The mighty Idris Elba returns to BBC 1 this evening (at 9pm) for a new series of Luther. And as an extra side treat Daniel Buchuk from the Beeb tells us that they are also having a comics version of Luther, penned by Neil Cross (who has also written episodes of the compelling Spooks series), [...]

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Pablo Apple Tree

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

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Blank Slate Books‘ Kenny Penman posted up a couple of pages from the upcoming and eagerly anticipated Pablo Apple Tree by Luke Astorigin on his Facebook page – it isn’t just a sneak preview though, interestingly he’s posted up the original sketched-out idea of the page: Then the finished page, fully coloured – have a [...]

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The Photographs

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

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The Photographs is a short comic work by Sandra and John of Glasgow’s Metaphrog (home of the gorgeous Louis graphic novels, which I adore). The guys explained to us that The Photographs is the result of a commission by Glasgow Life and is a response to a series of workshops they did with groups of [...]

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