Tag Archive | "Crime"

“Bodies for gold!” – we talk bodysnatching to Martin Conaghan & Will Pickering

Friday, November 13, 2009

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FPI:  Today I’m joined by Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering, the team behind Insomnia’s recently published graphic novel Burke and Hare, which draws upon one of history’s most famous cases of the infamous ‘Resurrection Men’ (or bodysnatchers) in Enlightenment era Edinburgh. Hi, guys and thanks for joining us – could you begin by introducing yourselves [...]

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Have you seen this man?

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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I’m sure we’ve all indulged in little daydreams from time to time, little idle thoughts as we walk around town, wait at the grocery store or post office, of something exciting happening and ourselves stepping in heroically to bravely sort everything out. Artist Chris Weston has – except his musings actually came true! Waiting in [...]

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Ian Rankin and Neil Gaiman at the Edinburgh Book Fest

Friday, August 21, 2009

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Its summer in Scotland but last night you could almost mistake it for autumn – sunny, but cool and even evidence of chestnuts appearing on the trees. Still, a pleasant evening to walk towards Edinburgh’s elegant Georgian New Town (like the Old Town designated a UN World Heritage Site), bells pealing from the distinctive three-spired [...]

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Parker – we’ve got your noir right here. And by god, it’s wonderful.

Monday, July 13, 2009

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Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke IDW Publishing. Bloody hell, this is good. Darwyn Cooke has taken Richard Stark’s hard boiled criminal novel and perfectly distilled it’s elements into possibly the best crime graphic novel you’ll have read for a long time. The art’s exceptional, as you may have expected from Cooke. But [...]

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