Tag Archive | "Television"

The ghost of events past…

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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Here’s a little blast from the past – the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet International crew were looking at some old photographs from events and signings with comics and sci-fi folks from previous years, mostly older events and on actual print photographs and some even on old Polaroids (younger readers, that was a form of instant print [...]

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Music: the sound of Cylons

Friday, March 15, 2013

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Now this made me smile – been around a little while on the interwebs, but I hadn’t seen it until my colleague Lee pointed me to it – “The Sounds of Cylons”. More than just a pun on the song name, the lyrics are a clever play on the original words crossed with events in [...]

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Farewells

Monday, February 25, 2013

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It seems to have been a bad few days in terms of losing some of the people who brought many of us enjoyment over the years. We lost Bob Godfrey, a British animator who had worked on all sorts of animated projects across the decades, but will forever be beloved by many of us for [...]

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Art: exhibition of William Simpson’s work at Belfast’s W5

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

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(above, creators David Benioff and DB Weiss depicted by William Simpson in Game of Thrones battle gear) Artist William Simpson, well known to comics readers for his work on a number of major strips for various publishers, including Hellblazer, Vamps (I loved Vamps! I’m reliably informed a couple of his Vamps designs were inspired by [...]

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Comics: TV Today

Friday, February 8, 2013

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Ed Syder, creator of My Skateboard Life (Blank Slate), lets fly in righteous fury at the banality of televised pop culture in a short three pager, TV Today (personally I’d have welcomed a fourth page entirely dedicated to gruesome punishments for crimes against humanity by Ant and Dec…): I do like Ed’s style though, there [...]

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Fantasy: Jamie’s handy pictorial guide to Game of Thrones

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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That Jamie Smart has kindly decided to help us all out with his handy pictorial guide to A Game of Thrones:

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Best of the Year 2012: Joe’s picks

Friday, January 11, 2013

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And so, belatedly, after my fellow blog crew members and our traditional series of daily guest Best of the Year posts (I’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who was kind enough to take the time to contribute, it’s a lot to do each year but I love running it [...]

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Celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who at the BFI

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

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As most of you are already aware this new year of 2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of something very dear to us here (and to me, personally): Doctor Who. Our favourite time traveller has been vworping around time and space for a whole five decades; incredible to think that a flickering black and white image [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Sunday, November 25, 2012

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Here’s Alex Fitch with his regular round-up of the upcoming and recent shows he’s involved in; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more information and links to podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: Writing Misfits, Sunday 25th November at 8pm on Resonance FM, podcast aftewards on Panel Borders Concluding a month of shows [...]

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Art for Art’s Sake special: happy birthday, Doctor Who!

Friday, November 23, 2012

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(above: Lee Sullivan re-imagines The Usual Suspects for the Who universe. But which one is Keyser Soze?) It’s November 23rd, a very important day for many of us for the simple reason that on this winter day in 1963 Britain, a new show made its way quietly onto our then black and white screens with [...]

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