Tag Archive | "magazine"

Dodgem Logic Night

Monday, May 9, 2011

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Please give a warm welcome to James Bacon, who I’m happy to see back here for another guest post. James was fortunate enough to be at the recent celebration of Dodgem Logic event which featured, among others, Kevin O’Neill, Melinda Gebbie, Steve Aylett and, naturally, our great, bearded magus of Albion, Mister Alan Moore, esquire, [...]

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Planet of the MingMongs: essential mag browsing for the Time Lady around town

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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Earth ladies and gents have mags like Hello, Cosmo, FHM and so on, but what glossy journal does the well-heeled Time Lady (or perhaps even fashion conscious Time Lord) leaf through to make sure she is up to date with the latest trends, showbiz gossip and style? Why Planet of the MingMongs, of course! Check [...]

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“Money, it’s a gas…”

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

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Chris Ware provides more cover art for the New Yorker, this time for their money issue, Robot 6 tells us,  with a jolly, happy family obviously deliriously happy at the announcement over cuts to child benefit payments this week: (art by and (c) Chris Ware, published the New Yorker)

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Dodgem Logic 6

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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Dodgem Logic number 6, from the mind of Alan Moore and friends, should be heading our way next month and comes packed with all sorts of goodness from Alan, Ian Sinclair, Melinda Gebbie, Stewart Lee, the boys from Viz, Kevin O’Neill, Robin Ince and more, plus this very retro 80s style cover art by Hoax.

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Dodgem Logic online

Monday, February 22, 2010

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Roll up, roll up, now its not just in print, the fine Dodgem Logic travelling carnival from Mr Alan Moore, esquire and friends now has its own virtual presence upon this new-fangled electronica type digital Gutenberg press medium we call the interwebbing, as the second of the more traditional printed-type playbill is upon the shelves [...]

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Dodgem Logic #2, complete with Alan Moore mini comic

Monday, January 25, 2010

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Knockabout Comics’ Tony Bennet kindly updates us on the second issue of the new journal from Alan Moore and friends, Dodgem Logic. From the description: “We’ve got beautiful girls and strange old men ranting from soapboxes. We’ve got a freak show of Northampton curiosities. We’ve got FeeJee mermaids and the end of civilisation. Right behind [...]

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Interzone’s linked covers

Monday, January 25, 2010

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The first Interzone of the new year (issue #226) boasts short fiction from Jason Sanford, Tyler Keevil, Rachel Swirsky and more and also comes with this eye-catching cover by Warwick Fraser-Coombe. Jumped right out at me as soon as I picked up the new issue, fab sci-fi image with an art style somewhere between early [...]

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Electric Sheep – another loss for print…

Monday, January 11, 2010

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Electric Sheep Magazine – Winter 09 Edited by Virginie Sélavy with assistance by Alex Fitch, Sarah Cronin and Toby Weidmann. The latest print edition of Electric Sheep magazine was released in December 2009. But it’s not just the latest , it’s also the last. Financial realities have forced Electric Sheep out of the print game. [...]

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Dangerous Ink to cease publication

Thursday, December 17, 2009

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News of paper and magazine cutbacks and closures have, alas, been too common recently and I’m sad to hear that Dangerous Ink is now among the casualties.  Tom, the Editor, is, he tells me, ‘gutted’, but unfortunately he felt there were simply too many pressures on the art, illustration and comics journal to maintain it [...]

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Sofanauts discuss Asimovs

Monday, October 26, 2009

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The Starship Sofa crew are joined by guests including one of my favourite writers, Jeff ‘who put the talking squid in my coffee?’ VanderMeer, for a special discussing the famed science fiction mag Asimov’s, discussing problems and possibilities – notably in the digital realm, something all forms of publication have to consider seriously now – [...]

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National Lampoon covers archive

Monday, October 19, 2009

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Via Boing Boing comes a link to this online archive of every cover for the famed National Lampoon humour magazine from 1970 (such as the one above, from December 1970) right through to 1998, so its not just a collection showing cover art and design changing over the years, its also reflecting the different period’s [...]

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Charles N Brown, RIP

Monday, July 13, 2009

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Charles N. Brown, founder, editor and publisher of one of the cornerstones of the contemporary science fiction community, the multiple Hugo winning Locus magazine, has passed away at the age of 72. According to Locus Charles passed away in his sleep on the way home from Readercon yesterday.  In addition to the famed Locus, which [...]

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