Tag Archive | "Graphic Novels"

Twilight: the graphic novel

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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Yen Press has finally released details on the graphic novel adaptation of the first Twilight novel by Stephenie Meyer. To stay as true as possible to the prose original the story will be split over two hardback volumes, with Korean artist Young Kim adapting the enormously popular, best-seller, with oversight from Stephenie. The 224 page [...]

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Barry Windsor-Smith’s Conan

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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Barry Windsor-Smith has to be one of our most respected comics artists and his run in the early 70s depicting Robert E Howard’s great barbarian hero Conan (teamed with the equally legendary Roy Thomas) still stands as a real high point of fantasy art; actually his art on Conan is still pretty much the benchmark [...]

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Kate Brown wins Arts Foundation graphic novel prize

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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The SelfMadeHero Twitter is reporting that Kate Brown, whose work has appeared in their Manga Shakespeare range and to a wider, non comics audience in the Guardian, has won the Arts Foundation graphic novel prize; the judges were Paul Gravett, Pat Mills and Posey Simmonds. The Foundation has been giving out awards worth a great [...]

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Best of the Year – Joe’s faves

Friday, January 15, 2010

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Well we come to our last Best of the Year for the 2009 releases and before we embark on my own selection of graphic novels, books and movies from the previous year I’d like to thank all of the many guest bloggers who took part in our annual tradition; I hope you enjoyed them as [...]

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Burke and Hare signing in Edinburgh

Friday, January 15, 2010

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A reminder that we have Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering coming to our Edinburgh store on Southbridge on Thursday January 28th to sign copies of their recently published Burke and Hare graphic novel (reviewed here by Richard); for those with a literary bent and a fascination for history the boys will also be taking part [...]

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Joe Sacco talks to Roger Sabin

Monday, January 11, 2010

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In case you missed it the Comica site flags up a transcript of the interview Roger Sabin conducted with the brilliant Joe Sacco during 2009′s Comica events, just before Sacco’s new Footnotes In Gaza was due to come out from Cape (a highly recommended read); if, like me, you didn’t read it when it was [...]

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Best of the year – Chris’ top ten graphic novels

Friday, January 8, 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest spot comes from my friend Chris Marshall – comics lover, reviewer and gentleman podcaster (when he can keep away from the golf course), who runs the excellent Collected Comics Library podcast and collaborates on various other projects to discuss and promote good comics. Chris is giving us his favourite [...]

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Best of the Year – Molly Crabapple’s faves

Sunday, January 3, 2010

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We’re into our home stretch with out guest bloggers and their Best of the Year selections and I hope you’ve been enjoying the diverse works they’ve been highlighting for us. Today please welcome comics creator, illustrator and guiding light (or perhaps guiding spinning disco glitter ball) of Dr Sketchy’s, Molly Crabapple: FPI: Can you pick [...]

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Best of the Year 2009: Wim’s faves

Thursday, December 17, 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year for 2009 comes from one of our own regular contributors, our very own Continental Correspondent, Wim Lockefeer; over to Our Man in Belgium: Ah, it’s that time again. You know the drill, so no frills. In no particular order : Tales From Outer Suburbia (Shaun Tan, Arthur A. Levine Books) [...]

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Sardinian Connection talks to JH Williams III

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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The Sardinian Connection blog has a nice early Christmas treat for us all in the form of an interview with artist JH Williams III: (some fabulous Promthea art by JH Williams III, borrowed from his Flickr gallery) “Sardinian Connection: Could you talk about your collaboration with Alan Moore on Promethea? How did it start?” “JH [...]

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More Ian Rankin pics

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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Photographer Kenny Mathieson took some great shots of Amanda Palmer when she was delighting fans in our Edinburgh store during the Festival and was kind enough to share some with us; Kenny also swung by to take some more photos last week when Ian Rankin paid us a visit and again he’s been generous enough [...]

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Best of the Year 2009 – Gerry Alanguilan

Monday, December 14, 2009

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Yes, once again December has not only crept up on us but is now busy hurtling past us (really, where does the time go?) leading inevitably to Christmas and the end of the year and of course that means its time to commence our traditional Best of the Year features, where we ask a variety [...]

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Black Hole Mouth

Friday, December 11, 2009

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Dash ‘Bottomless Belly Button‘ Shaw has a new animation to go along with his brand new Fantagraphics graphic novel The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century and you can check out the various segments on IFC.com – very cool! (via Heidi at The Beat)

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Tomb of Dracula

Thursday, December 10, 2009

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Among today’s brand new arrivals is the second volume of Tomb of Dracula, written by Marv Wolfman, Steve Englehart and David Kraft, pencilled by Gene Colan, Tom Palmer and Virgilio Redondo and which, appropriately enough, comes in an enormous tome big enough to use as a tombstone. And yes, I do still take an almost  [...]

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Reminder – Ian Rankin signing in Edinburgh tomorrow

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

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For readers in and around Edinburgh, remember tomorrow evening we have bestselling author Ian Rankin coming in to sign copies of his comics debut Dark Entries from 5 to 7pm on our branch in Southbridge, just a haggis-toss from the Royal Mile, so please do come along (the event is free but ticketed, check with [...]

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