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Pat Mills, the right-wing, and Frank Miller…..

Sunday, August 7, 2011

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Pat Mills has put up some thoughts over on a Facebook notes page about Frank Miller’s Holy Terror, and the current right-wing perspective on our world….. the whole thing is well worth reading. As he quite rightly says, with Charley’s War (“a blatant and full-on attack on establishment heroes and values with large doses of [...]

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Xerxes – Frank Miller’s 300 prequel

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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Slashfilm has a peek at Xerxes, the prequel to Frank Miller’s tale of Spartan glory in ancient Greece, 300, which he’s been working on for some time: “The time frame begins 10 years before ‘300′ and the story starts with the Battle of Marathon” … “The lead character is Themistocles, who became warlord of Greece [...]

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Steve Bissette’s forgotten comic wars

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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Over on his blog Steven Bissette, artist on Swamp Thing, Tyrant and publisher of Taboo is currently chronicling the trials and tribulations of the comic industry circa 1986. It’s fascinating stuff from an era when a lot of important things were just beginning to develop across the industry. Bissette’s subtitle to the series of posts [...]

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Sylvain White talks Ronin movie

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub talks to director Sylvain White about adapting Frank Miller’s Ronin over on Collider.com; it seems Sylvain wouldn’t want to slavishly copy the original graphic novel but adapt it to the film medium while drawing on the style and flavour of the comic, staying truer to the feel of the book rather than [...]

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It was 20 years ago today….

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Well 21. I was recently home clearing out a load of stuff my dad left when he died early in the year and amongst the things he had kept was a little insert magazine I had written with my business partner Jim Hamilton. It was called ‘Cut Comics 88′ and we produced it for the [...]

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