Tag Archive | "death"

P. Craig Russell’s vision of Death in Action Comics

Sunday, October 3, 2010

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Paul Cornell blogs about the forthcoming issue 894 of Action Comics which not only features Neil Gaiman’s character Death making a rare appearance in the DC Universe but this lovely P. Craig Russell variant cover as well. (Yes, I hate variant covers as a concept, but it doesn’t mean I can’t occasionally enjoy looking at [...]

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Death takes a holiday?

Friday, July 9, 2010

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The Cover to Action Comics #894 – not exactly what you were expecting? Writer Paul Cornell has pulled off a bit of a coup. whilst Supes stretches his legs walking across America later this year and leaves Action behind him, Cornell’s having to get creative and explore the Superman universe and particularly Lex Luthor on [...]

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That delightful lady Death

Friday, December 4, 2009

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Having one of my regular browses through the Scotch Corner blog, a Scottish comics artists collective where several creators post different artwork every day,  inspired by the Eclectic Micks format; like the Micks blog its well worth bookmarking so you can pause from the everyday and enjoy a wee browse through the most recent postings. [...]

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World AIDS Day

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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December 1st is Worlds AIDS Day; it seems to have slipped down the media’s radar in the last few years, as indeed has the progress of the disease. Years of often terrifying awareness raising campaigns hammered the safe sex message into one generation (even the comics did their part, who remembers DC’s use of John [...]

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Death – Micks style

Friday, October 9, 2009

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Liking this recent entry on the always worth checking Eclectic Micks comics artist blog pool – this one’s a rather fetching version of our favourite Gothic pin-up gal, Neil Gaiman’s Death, by Declan Shalvey: Declan has also started posting up some sketches from his BICS trip on his own blog.

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Ellie Frazetta, RIP

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Golden Age Comic Book Stories has the sad news of the death of Ellie Frazetta, not only wife to comics, painter and illustration legend Frank Frazetta, but also his frequent model, muse and an important part not only of his personal life but his career as one of the great illustrators of comics and fantasy. [...]

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John Ryan, creator of Captain Pugwash, RIP

Friday, July 24, 2009

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(cover to the first Bodley Head edition of Captain Pugwash by John Ryan, pic borrowed from the Gregory & Company author’s agent site) The BBC reports the sad news that cartoonist John Ryan, creator of Captain Pugwash, has passed away at the age of 88. The cartoon pirate captain of the Black Pig was created [...]

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Neil Gaiman talks Batman on NPR

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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“A new graphic novel from DC Comics is “part coda, love letter and summation of Batman’s raison d’etre,” says writer Neil Gaiman. Gaiman’s take on the Batman mystique — Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? — was published in two parts as the final editions of the long-running Batman and Detective Comics series.” “Now it’s [...]

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Charles N Brown, RIP

Monday, July 13, 2009

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Charles N. Brown, founder, editor and publisher of one of the cornerstones of the contemporary science fiction community, the multiple Hugo winning Locus magazine, has passed away at the age of 72. According to Locus Charles passed away in his sleep on the way home from Readercon yesterday.  In addition to the famed Locus, which [...]

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Death by chocolate

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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The BBC site has news of a horrible and very unusual industrial accident where a man fell into a vat of hot chocolate at work and sadly lost his life. And I know it is rather ghoulish, but it suddenly reminded me of David Yurkovich’s very interesting Death by Chocolate, in which our central character, [...]

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