Tag Archive | "Neil Gaiman"

3 men and a Doctor Who script

Saturday, May 22, 2010

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Posted on Neil Gaiman’s twitpic account on Thursday: Mr Curtis, Mr Moffat and Mr Gaiman and a completed Doctor Who script. Now to play guess the name of the episode……..

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Advance Notice – Best American Comics 2010

Sunday, May 9, 2010

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Yes, we know it’s not out until 5th October, but here’s Michael Cho’s cover to the Gaiman edited 2010 edition of Best American Comics. (Via Wim)

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BICS news – Charles Vess and ……..

Saturday, April 17, 2010

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(Charles Vess at San Diego Comic-Con 2004, via Geek Speek) Yes, I realise it’s a little late. I meant to put something up last month when it was announced. Bad me. But anyway, news from the British International Comics Show, happening in Birmingham October 16th and 17th. The wonderful Charles Vess is making a very rare [...]

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Marvel’s first shot at Marvelman….

Sunday, March 28, 2010

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(Mick Anglo’s variant cover to the Marvelman Classic Primer #1) Press releases this week from Marvel announced their plans to begin reprinting the Mick Anglo Marvelman comics they aquired the rights to in 2009. They’re starting rather unimpressively in June with a prose comic primer; Marvelman Classic Primer #1; “…a commemorative one-shot featuring interviews with [...]

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Being Invisible at the Oscars

Friday, March 26, 2010

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Over in the Guardian Neil Gaiman writes about what it is like to be all but invisible at the Oscars – a strange concept for those of us who have had the pleasure of hosting signing events for Neil where people have been packed in like literary sardines and the lines of people waiting to [...]

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Al Davison’s Gaimanda

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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From Al Davison’s dreamblog: “This is a dream I had on hearing that my good friend Neil Gaiman was getting engaged to the amazing Amanda Palmer. It’s full title is: ‘Neil Gaiman reading from American Gods, for a tribe of shape changing Arapaho cats, accompanied by Amanda Palmer playing ukulele and singing a duet with [...]

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Neil Gaiman video

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Neil Gaiman posted up a link via his Twitter to a video of him talking to CBS’ Serena Altschul: Watch CBS News Videos Online

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More Moore teenage girl Manga – now with teen Gaiman

Friday, March 5, 2010

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Okay, we showed you the Alan Moore as Manga schoolgirl strip by Ryusuke Hamamoto at the end of last year. But it seems there’s more to come, with a special teenage manga girl appearance by ….. unruly hair, black leather jacket ….. yep, that’s Neil Gaiman: (via Comic Alliance and Neil Gaiman’s Twitter)

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Now we are Five…

Thursday, February 25, 2010

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It’s hard for me to believe but today marks the fifth birthday of the Forbidden Planet blog. It’s a peculiar feeling because in one way it doesn’t really feel like it’s been five years since I posted that first blog item but on the other hand it also feels like we’ve been a part of [...]

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Gaiman to edit Best American Comics 2010

Sunday, February 21, 2010

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(photo credit: Allan Amato/Coilhouse) Publisher Houghton Mifflin has announced the new names to be editing their “Best American …….. 2010″ anthologies.Of special interest to many of you (and me) will be Neil Gaiman editing “The Best American Comics 2010″. Start saving right now. And you did pick up the 2009 edition, edited by Charles Burns, [...]

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SFX Weekender – awards and news of Gaiman writing for Who (at last!)

Monday, February 8, 2010

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The SFX Weekender was held over the weekend (well, duh!) and among the panels and cosplay and discussions and drinking there were, of course, the annual SFX awards. The Geek Syndicate boys were live-Tweeting them as they happened (thanks, Nuge) and SF Awards Watch has handily compiled them all. Neil Gaiman won the Best Novel [...]

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Neil Gaiman’s New Yorker Profile….

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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(Gaiman Photograph by Eric Ogden from the New Yorker) Neil Gaiman has a write up/profile in the New Yorker this week by Dana Goodyear. Described as “a lengthy, if also gently sniffy, profile” by the Guardian, it’s essentially a bit of a Gaiman primer although interesting for these little snippets, which delve into a little [...]

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Congratulations to the (very) happy couple

Saturday, January 16, 2010

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It’s been brewing for a long time, especially after seeing this on Amanda Palmer’s Twitter on New Year’s Day: Then there was a Gaiman Twitpic the other night with Ms Palmer wearing a very obvious rock: But last night we had the formal announcements, via twitter and their respective blogs of course: Dear The World, [...]

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That delightful lady Death

Friday, December 4, 2009

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Having one of my regular browses through the Scotch Corner blog, a Scottish comics artists collective where several creators post different artwork every day,  inspired by the Eclectic Micks format; like the Micks blog its well worth bookmarking so you can pause from the everyday and enjoy a wee browse through the most recent postings. [...]

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World AIDS Day

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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December 1st is Worlds AIDS Day; it seems to have slipped down the media’s radar in the last few years, as indeed has the progress of the disease. Years of often terrifying awareness raising campaigns hammered the safe sex message into one generation (even the comics did their part, who remembers DC’s use of John [...]

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