Tag Archive | "Graphic Novels"

Burke & Hare talk in Edinburgh

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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Martin Conaghan, the writer behind Insomnia’s Burke and Hare graphic novel, will be paying a return visit to Edinburgh in June for a talk on the city’s most infamous mass murderers (whose exploits will also be seen later this year in the new Simon Pegg and Andy Serkiss starring film; the comic’s artist Will Pickering [...]

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Psychiatric Tales – Darryl Cunningham on the couch with Matthew Badham

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Matthew Badham talked to Darryl Cunningham just before the publication of Psychiatric Tales in the UK (from Blank Slate; a US edition is due next year by Bloomsbury) for CBR. He’s just re-posted it on his own blog and with Psychiatric Tales now on our shelves (come in and have a look, it’s highly recommended [...]

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Emotional tales. Human tales. Psychiatric Tales

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Psychiatric Tales By Darryl Cunningham Published Blank Slate Books The brain. It’s the single, most complicated creation we know of in the entire universe. And that’s before we even consider the mind (because they’re not always the same thing). Somewhere in that gray mass that looks like it was sculpted from leftover, used chewing gum, [...]

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The Nobody fan short film

Monday, May 17, 2010

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Robot 6 points us to the pretty cool short film by Josh McCaw and Ali Borghi, based on events in Jeff Lemire’s The Nobody (which just came out a few days ago in paperback from DC’s Vertigo imprint). Just like Jeff’s bandage-wrapped stranger in a small town it has satisfying echoes of the early film [...]

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Moving Pictures previewed

Friday, May 14, 2010

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Techland has a preview up of Kathryn and Stuart Immonen’s forthcoming graphic novel Moving Pictures, which is about to be released from Top Shelf.  As Techland notes the Immonens first serialised Moving Pictures online a few years ago, a tale of art theft, World War Two, Nazis and conspiracy, with some wonderfully moody, shadow-filled black [...]

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Madéleine Flores day out at TCAF

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Madéleine Flores is a young artist making her first steps into the world of comics; she’s previously appeared in ‘Short Stack’ from Angry Gnome and had her own webstrips including The City online. This August she will have her first full length book coming from Blank Slate Books – Kenny informs me it will be [...]

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Tardi: J’Accuse – It Was the War of the Trenches

Monday, May 10, 2010

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It Was the War of the Trenches By Jacques Tardi Published by Fantagraphics I’ve been pretty delighted to see the crew at Fantagraphics translating and publishing some of the excellent work of acclaimed French BD artist Jaques Tardi over the last year or so (with more to come), but I’ve been especially keen to read [...]

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Oli East and friends exhibiting in Manchester this week

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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As Richard noted at the weekend Oli East has the third of his Trains Are Mint series from Blank Slate, Berlin and That, coming out this week, and to go along with it there’s an exhibition of artwork from Oli and his friends who contributed to the work, opening this week in Manchester. For this [...]

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The Eisner nominations for 2010

Sunday, April 11, 2010

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The shortlist of nominees competing for glory in this year’s prestigious Eisner Awards has been announced, with David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp topping the list with no less than four noms to its name, which isn’t surprising, as anyone who followed our weeks long Best of the Year posts will know it featured on the list [...]

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Comics happenings in the UK

Friday, April 9, 2010

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As spring breaks out – albeit somewhat erratically – across the UK there also seems to be a sudden blooming of comics events. We’ve just had The Thing and Hi-Ex, now there’s a slew of upcoming events. Manchester Metropolitan University hosts a conference on comics and graphic novels from the 12th to 14th of April, [...]

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Walking through Spider Moon

Friday, March 12, 2010

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It’s no secret that the DFC comic made a lot of fans among the FPI crew and a lot of our readers, including our (obviously) most important contributor, young Molly, who was kind enough to share her thoughts on the comic with her dad Richard. We were all upset when the comic ceased publication amid [...]

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Women in graphic novels

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

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tihkalcat has an interesting short piece on graphic novels, produced as a video essay for a media theory class, concentrating on women in the comics medium and especially on the autobiographical approach. I’m not sure I agree with it all and the fact that graphic novels can create enlightenment and knowledge on a subject as [...]

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Now we are Five…

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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It’s hard for me to believe but today marks the fifth birthday of the Forbidden Planet blog. It’s a peculiar feeling because in one way it doesn’t really feel like it’s been five years since I posted that first blog item but on the other hand it also feels like we’ve been a part of [...]

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Almost Silent

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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New in this week from Fantagraphics is Almost Silent, a collection of four earlier original graphic novels by the brilliant Jason. Regulars will know we love Jason’s work and if you’ve been meaning to read some and somehow never quite got round to grabbing the earlier works then this lovely little hardback is the perfect [...]

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Berlin and that launch in Manchester

Thursday, February 18, 2010

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Matthew Badham notes that Oli East has posted up news that the next Trains Are Mint book, Berlin and That, will launch along with the opening of an exhibition at the International 3 in Manchester on April 30th from 6 to 9pm. Berlin and That features contributions from several collaborators, including Gareth Brookes, Guy Garvey, [...]

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