Tag Archive | "Jeff VanderMeer"

Director’s Commentary: The Weird

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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Following yesterday’s cracking comics intro to The Weird by Leah Thomas (see here), today we have a slightly different Director’s Commentary for you – until now mostly we’ve featured comics creators discussing the making of their new work (although Oli East also treated us to a Commentary on how he created the animation for Elbow’s [...]

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The Weird Comic: The Adventures of Mary and Ed

Monday, October 31, 2011

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My friends, noted authors, editors, reviewers and cheese removers (long story), Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have been working on a stonkingly massive new anthology for Corvus Books, The Weird, a truly enormous collection which takes in an incredibly diverse array of writers, from HP Lovecraft to Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami to Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, [...]

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Alan Moore, Robin Ince, Jeff VanderMeer and more in Lint – the movie

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Noted author and all-round fine chap Steve Aylett tells us that there will be a screening of Lint – the movie, in London’s Idler Academy on September 16th. From the description: “Starring Alan Moore, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Steve Aylett, Robin Ince, Jeff Vandermeer, D Harlan Wilson, Andrew O’Neill, Vessel (David Devant), Bill Ectric and [...]

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Flick through the Steampunk Bible

Monday, May 23, 2011

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(cover to Steampunk Bible by Jeff VanderMeer and SJ Parker, published Abams Chronicle Books) Mattormeg has uploaded a flick through the brand new Steampunk Bible from a good chum of mine, top fantasy author Jeff VanderMeer and S.J. Parker: It has a potted history of the genre, chapters on comics (including entries featuring Bryan Talbot [...]

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The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart

Friday, November 20, 2009

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Orbit has this little teaser video for what I can only describe as one of the most unusual fantasy novels I’ve read in recent years, Jesse Bullington’s The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, which they’ve just released this month. I’d never come across anything by Bullington before but there are times when you pick [...]

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