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Art For Art’s Sake: Ray Harryhausen special

Friday, May 10, 2013

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I’m shamelessly borrowing Richard’s regular Art For Art’s Sake column (which appears each weekend) for a special one-off themed around artwork pertaining to the great effects wizard Ray Harryhausen, who we lost this week. Ray’s magical effects, bringing inanimate objects into glorious moving life, from dinosaurs to wondrous creatures from ancient mythology, delighted so many [...]

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Illustration: Tove Jansson’s Hobbit

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

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I had no idea that Tove Jansson, loved around the world for decades for her gorgeous, enchanting Moomins comics, had illustrated Scandinavian editions of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit (in the early 60s for a Swedish edition) – why am I only finding out about this now?!!? One of the world’s most beloved illustrators working on one [...]

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Fantasy: Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere comes to BBC radio this week!

Monday, March 11, 2013

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Good news for all of us who love reading the works of Neil Gaiman – not only do we have his second Doctor Who script to look forward to, the BBC also has a new six-part radio dramatisation of Neil’s intriguing fantasy novel Neverwhere coming to Radio 4, starting this coming Saturday. It’s been adapted [...]

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Film: Caterpillar

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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Caterpillar is an intriguing, wordless short dark fantasy film (with hints of fairytale elements) from director David Field and friends; an elderly lady is housebound and lonely in an empty home, ill and wondering how it is her once vivacious, youthful self could have grown into this sick old woman, alone and forgotten, tucked away [...]

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Fantasy: Jamie’s handy pictorial guide to Game of Thrones

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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That Jamie Smart has kindly decided to help us all out with his handy pictorial guide to A Game of Thrones:

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World Fantasy Awards announced

Monday, November 5, 2012

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Over the weekend the World Fantasy Awards were announced, with Lavie Tidhar‘s Osama (from very fine Indy science fiction press PS Publishing) scooping the Novel category. The Novella category went to KJ Parker for A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong, best Short Story winner was Ken Liu’s The Paper Menagerie, Tim Powers scored the [...]

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Masks

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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Sarah McIntyre writes of her love for Philip Reeve‘s Goblins tales (published by Scholastic) and with Halloween fast approaching she has posted up links to PDFs of Goblins masks which you can print out in a large A3 or smaller A4 size to cut-out designs (just like some of the old cut-out we used to [...]

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Books: JK Rowling webcast today!

Thursday, October 11, 2012

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Bloomsbury has a webcast scheduled this afternoon with one of the world’s most popular authors, creator of the Harry Potter novels, JK Rowling – the webcast should be coming live from Edinburgh at 5pm GMT today, the countdown to it is currently ticking away on the Bloomsbury site right now. Somehow I suspect this is [...]

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Art: John Picacio prints

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

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The multi-award winning artist John Picacio, much loved for his superb science fiction and fantasy work, is selling high quality prints of some of his work, with works including Moorcock’s eternal Elric and George R R Martin’s hugely successful A Song of Ice and Fire. Fancy a nice Eddard Stark print? (link via SF Signal)

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Review: Koma by Wazem and Peeters

Thursday, September 20, 2012

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Koma Pierre Wazem, Frederik Peeters Humanoids I really want to do justice to Pierre Wazem’s and Frederik Peeters’ Koma YET I don’t think I can quite articulate how special this book is. I’m acutely aware that I have a lot to learn about comics, writing and reviewing: it’s a constant process of learning and hopefully improving. Mostly I [...]

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