UPDATE 25th Feb 4:00am: Ignore the speculation here. Gillen has announced that Phonogram Volume 3: The Immaterial Girl is happening in 2012. See here for more. This may be some of the best news we’ve received for 2012 so far. Three creators and a Daft Punk music reference on a flyer up at iFanboy. Those [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 14, 2012
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X-Men: Season One is part of Marvel’s “lets get our books into the hands of non-comics buyers by selling new hardcover origin graphic novels of some of our iconic characters. Matbe it will work, and having the Disney connection provide them with shelf space in every Disney store across the globe can’t hurt too much, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 12, 2011
Secret Avengers #16 By Warren Ellis and Jamie McKelvie Marvel Comics Why? Because I’m feeling slightly guilty over the amount of DC coverage we’ve been putting up recently. Because it’s Warren Ellis writing and Jamie McKelvie drawing. Because it’s got the Beast and Black Widow in. Because I’ve always been a Marvel boy at heart [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 31, 2011
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Kieron Gillen writes on his blog that the full script to the first issue of Phonogram: The Singles Club Issue 1 is available online. He also writes a few interesting words about the complex and often harsh economics behind even something as critically successful as Phonogram: “In short, The Single Club’s trade has long since [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 6, 2011
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Great image by Jamie McKelvie on the cover of the new Art Brut album Brilliant! Tragic! (out May 23rd). According to McKelvie – “It ties in with two other pieces on the CD case, but I won’t spoil that surprise just yet“.
Continue reading...Sunday, July 11, 2010
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Following on from last week’s fuss over Wonder Woman getting a new costume, here’s a couple of gorgeous images….. Left: John Allison’s wonderful trad Wonder Woman. One of these days I really must get around to ordering everything he’s got available. It’s a huge crime that I’ve not read that much by one of the most [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 29, 2010
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Seems every time I turn on the Internet there’s a host of new events I would dearly love to be able to get to…. The latest, next Saturday – June 5th sees the Phonogram boys Jamie McKelvie & Kieron Gillen together with Becky Cloonan (she of Demo, American Virgin and PIXU) will be signing for [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 25, 2010
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(Penny welcomes us to Phonogram Volume 2, the Singles Club, (c) the pop duet of Gillen and McKelvie, published Image) On the racks today from the Messrs Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie is the second collection of Phonogram: the Singles Club. Regular readers will know Phonogram is a series we’ve had a whole lot of [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 14, 2010
(The first and last issues of S.W.O.R.D. by Gillen and Saunders) This week saw the final issue of Kieron Gillen’s Marvel series S.W.O.R.D. ship to comic stores. I’ve only read issue one since every time I popped into a comic shop I couldn’t find any issues available. But issue 1 was a blast. That it’s [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Jamie McKelvie created a how-to on making your own comics for Imagine FX: “In this workshop I’m going to walk you through my process for creating a page of my comic, Suburban Glamour. We’ll start with the script and end on the finished digital file, ready for printing. There are key differences between creating artwork [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 23, 2010
Stuck for something to do on Valentines Day? Or maybe you and significant other fancy something a little more unusual than a candle lit dinner? We Are Words + Pictures have the answer: Head down to Notting Hill Arts Club for two comics and music events Part 1: 3-7pm – Drop In + Draw. A [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 16, 2010
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Hype Machine is music website that links to a huge assortment of music blogs. They’ve recently posted up their top 50 artists of 2009, depending on how often they were listed on the site. But what makes it of interest here is the decision to commission 50 artists to accompany each entry. And there are [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 20, 2009
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More gorgeous artwork. This time from Jamie McKelvie, on a limited edition print featuring Astrid from his Suburban Glamour series. The good news is it was just £20. The bad news: WAS just £20, Jamie sold out in 2 days. Still, it does look pretty doesn’t it? (Via Newsarama)
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
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