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Best of the Year – Maura McHugh

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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This final guest Best of the Year selection comes from commentator, reviewer and writer Maura McHugh, who has been impressing us with some of her own comics series this year: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Maura: [...]

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Electroshock therapy!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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Darren at the Genre Files points us to this fabulous short animation in French (with English subtitles) from the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques‘ Hugo Jackson, Pascal Chandelier, Valentin Michel, Bastien Morteleque and Elliot Maren. In time honoured tradition a hapless dweeb has a serious accident that gifts him with superpowers – he determines to [...]

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Best of the Year – Joel Meadows

Friday, January 6, 2012

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Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from writer, comics champion and photographer, Tripwire supremo Joel Meadows: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? JM: First of my choices is Joe The Barbarian by Grant Morrison and [...]

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Alex’s Audio Round Up

Friday, January 6, 2012

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Windsurfing in on the recent gales comes Alex Fitch with news of the comics, film and sci-fi aural goodness with this new shows for the New Year; as ever check the (newly redesigned) Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Clear Spot: Cult animation, Tuesday 10th at 8pm on [...]

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Pingu’s The Thing

Friday, January 6, 2012

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This fab wee claymation animation not only condenses John Carpenter’s The Thing – a true modern classic of horror cinema – into just 60 seconds, it does it with the cast of Pingu! It even has the iconic scenes like the alien chest snapping closed on the doctor’s arms and that extending head into scuttling [...]

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Tatsumi

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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Tatsumi Directed by Eric Khoo Zhao Wei Films/The Match Factory Singaporean director and former comic creator Eric Khoo debuted his homage to legendary Japanese comics creator Yoshihiro Tatsumi at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival last spring, an animated feature which draws largely on Tatsumi’s much-acclaimed A Drifting Life (published in English by the good folks [...]

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Best of the Year – Gary Northfield

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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Today’s guest Best of the Year selection comes from one of those fine, if barking mad, Fleece Station studio people, it’s Gary Northfield: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Gary: 1) Tank Tankuro by Gajo Sakamoto from [...]

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Best of the Year – Tom Humberstone

Friday, December 30, 2011

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Today’s guest for the Best of the Year is powerhouse Brit Indy comics creator turned publisher (with the standard-setting anthology Solipsistic Pop)  Tom Humberstone: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Tom: 1. Everything We Miss, Luke Pearson, [...]

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Best of the Year – Andrew Cheverton

Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year comes hotter than a rattler on roller skates from that towering lawman of the old West, a man who always Walks Tall, Andrew Cheverton: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especiallyenjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Andrew: Meta4 [...]

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It’s all relative

Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Okay this is science rather than science fiction, and it isn’t quite animation either, although it was produced by the famous Fleischer Studios (who brought us Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman in animated cartoon form), but it’s an interesting (and educational) little quirky piece of film-science history, a 1923 short explaining Einstein’s theory of relativity [...]

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Vader Christmas carol flash mob

Sunday, December 25, 2011

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A lovely bit of Star Wars themed flash mob seasonal fun as a festive Darth Vader leads a flash mob in Christmas carols! Brilliant! (via BoingBoing)

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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas…

Saturday, December 24, 2011

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… and all through the house, not a creature was stirring. I have adored Tom’n'Jerry (and Daffy, Bugs, Droopy et al) since I was a wee boy watching them with my dear dad (we both still love them, some things you never grow out of) – not just so funny, but so full of character [...]

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The Artists

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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Sean Mullen’s The Artists is a cool little short animation, a pair of artists (as you might infer from the title) painting outdoors, their easels side by side, lose sight of their art as they grow increasingly competitive:

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Best of the Year – Sean Michael Wilson

Monday, December 19, 2011

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Today’s Best of the Year guest is that round-eyed devil, the Scottish Comics Samurai in Japan and a man who knows how to wield a mean Ax, Sean Michael Wilson (you can read a recent Director’s Commentary by Sean here on the blog). Let’s see what our roaming in the Japanese gloaming comics ronin has [...]

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Best of the Year 2011 – Dan Lockwood

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes via editor extraordinaire and a man who is a close, personal friend of the Elder Gods, invoking their hellish powers to assist SelfMadeHero’s Lovecraftian desires, it’s Dan Lockwood: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us [...]

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