Tag Archive | "history"

Women in Comics – Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz in Edinburgh

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Last week I was lucky enough to catch a busy talk in Edinburgh’s Central Library, Hysterical Women and Graphic Grrrlz. Heather Middleton from the Glasgow Women’s Library and also a member of Glasgow-based all-female collective Team Girl Comic. Heather was giving a talk on the history of women in comics and while there is no [...]

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Let your fingers do the walking

Monday, April 16, 2012

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This isn’t comics but I suspect anyone involved in book design and publishing will find it interesting, not to mention the many artists who these days work with a tablet and digital pen to draw directly onto their computer – it’s a video AT&T Tech has posted up about a digital system developed by Bell [...]

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Alan Moore guest posts on the BBC site

Friday, February 10, 2012

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Our great, bearded magus Alan Moore, Albion’s Wizard in Extraordinary, is given a guest slot on the BBC site to discuss this global adoption of the V For Vendetta mask he and Dave Lloyd had the titular character wear in the comic, now sported worldwide by a variety of anti-corporate and anti-authority (or more precisely [...]

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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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Hogarth’s house

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

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The BBC has a short audio-visual slideshow by narrated by Lars Tharp, taking us around the newly restored interior of the West London home of the great illustrator, satirist and household god for many who love the comics and cartooning medium, William Hogarth. (details from the first plate in the Harlot’s Progress series by Hogarth)

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Win Maus 25th anniversary editions & MetaMaus

Monday, October 31, 2011

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It’s hard to believe that it is 25 years since Art Spiegelman’s Maus first appeared in its collected edition. On the other hand perhaps it is easy to believe, in some ways it feels like it has always been here. Cleverly mixing the personal (a son and father with a distant relationship) and one of [...]

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The Longest Day

Monday, June 6, 2011

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Today is June the 6th. To those of us who grew up on a diet of comics like the immortal Commando Book (still going strong from DC Thomson), Warlord, Battle, Victor, Hotspur and many more we’ve known and respected this day since we were kids, as the ‘longest day’, when Operation Overlord saw the enormous [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Germany in comics format

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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Dumont Buchverlag is not a publishing house that you would see represented on your average comic convention.  They publish high-quality literature, art books, history books, and the like, but since April of this year, they also have one graphic novel in their catalogue – but don’t expect any funny animals or superheroes.  In Deutschland, Ein [...]

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The cartoon guide to nuclear testing

Friday, May 27, 2011

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The Atlantic reports on a blast from the past – an atomic blast from the past, in fact. Between the 50s and 90s the USA tested hundreds of nuclear devices in the deserts of Nevada. Understandably residents of Nevada and neighbouring Utah and California weren’t entirely comfortable with the idea of their government detonating hundreds [...]

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History of British Comics

Friday, April 29, 2011

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We covered this quite a good while back, when the excellent Bryan Talbot created a potted history of British comics in three pages for the Guardian (in a similar style to his huge work Alice in Sunderland), but seeing as James at the Bryan Talbot site has just posted up some good-sized versions of the [...]

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Remembering Gagarin

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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(cover to Yuri’s Day by and (c) Peter Hodkinson, Piers Bizony and Andrew King) Fifty years ago this very day, the early days of the Space Race, and the thunder of the great genius Korolev’s rockets carry Yuri Gagarin on a journey that no human being in all the ages of the world had every [...]

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Using comics to teach history in the classroom

Thursday, April 7, 2011

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OITQ has a short but interesting video of teachers using the comics medium in the classroom to get the kids much more involved in learning their history, not so much through using comics as a way to get kids reading about events (as we know comics can be terrific for getting kids to read for [...]

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A very brief look at DC’s history

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Vincent Molina fairly flies us at a superpowered pace through a very brief visual look at the history of DC Comics in about a minute:

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A retrospective of computer graphics

Monday, March 14, 2011

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1989: BoingBoing points us towards this interesting compilation by Metafilter which picks out a different example of computer graphics (from cartoons, animation tests and video games) from 1988 to today – the resulting contrasts are quite something to look at it. Seeing them back to back like this across some 22 years is a very [...]

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History of Science Fiction mindmap

Thursday, March 10, 2011

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This amazing image isn’t some weird Elder God or hitherto unknown to science creature of the deepest marine abyss – it is a mindmap history of science fiction and it is an astonishing thing to dive into, ranging across myth and philosophy, from ancient written works like Gilgamesh (humanity’s oldest surviving written tale) to more [...]

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