The upcoming delight that is Leeds’ Thought Bubble comics fest is coming up very soon (next weekend, do let us know if you’re exhibiting your wares) and there’s now an official Thought Bubble YouTube channel (link via the Hi-Ex Twitter):
Continue reading...Monday, November 9, 2009
Doug Tennapel shows how he makes comics, talking about Power Up, via Tom at Comics Reporter, who got it from Brian Fies, who comments: “There’s some good practical cartooning advice, but also some creative and philosophical musing that I really appreciated. I especially liked his opening expression of passion for the sensuality of working with [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Just ahead of the next Twilight movie, New Moon, here’s a taster from Robert Pattinson’s photoshoot from Vanity Fair. Those thuds you hear are fans around the world swooning as we speak… (via Reel Empire, via SciFiTweetn)
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
Enjoy some video of the recent Activate Primer event at the Book Court with Dean Haspiel reading live (along with Joan Reilly and George O’Connor) from Billy Dogma with comics art being projected behind him (via Dean’s FaceBook):
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
Regular contributor Pádraig has been gathering together various Alan Moore videos and posting them all together in one handy YouTube channel called -- what else? -- Glycon. From Pádraig: “For those of you who are fans of Alan Moore but are not necessarily on the Alan Moore Yahoo! Group mailing list, there has recently been a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Seth talks on Q TV in a really nice quality video about his own cartooning and designing other books (via CBR’s Robot 6):
Continue reading...Monday, October 19, 2009
Video of the always interesting Eddie Campbell at a Bookslut reading from last year; link via Tom at Comics Reporter: Eddie Campbell Reading – July 2008 from Jessa Crispin on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The New Yorker’s Françoise Mouly is the subject of this video, discussing cover design and illustration, working with no less than three artists for the triple cover – including Daniel Clowes – of the new issue. (via Boing Boing)
Continue reading...Monday, September 28, 2009
Via Tom at Comics Reporter comes this video of Larry Gonick discussing his Cartoon History series, which I have to say I’ve loved for years and recommended to parents trying to get reluctant younger readers to get into history in an enjoyable way (like the Horrible Histories Larry’s works are funny but factual). The second [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 31, 2009
Via Boing Boing comes a link to this video of Albion’s Wizard-in-extraordinary Alan Moore paying tribute to cult figure and author Robert Anton Wilson at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2007:
Continue reading...Sunday, August 16, 2009
Here’s a lovely treat from the recent science fiction Worldcon, two top writers brought together as Neil Gaiman reads from Cory Doctorow’s short story The Right Book, created to mark the 150th anniversary of The Bookseller, the journal of the British booktrade, imagining a look forward at the next century and a half of bookselling [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 11, 2009
As mentioned the other day Kevin F Sutherland is in Edinburgh holding comics masterclasses (see here) and also taking part in the Fringe with the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre; here’s a wee clip of them in action, asking which super power they’d like to receive in the time honoured genre tradition of a dreadful [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 29, 2009
YouTube user Aronoel619 has posted up the first part of a video recording the Torchwood panel at the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con (link via TARDIS Newsroom):
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 28, 2009
I love this short video showing all the mini-comics included in the attractive Tempo Lushbear-shaped box set being folded and added to the collection (via Bugpowder):
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
Via the TARDIS Newsroom come a link to the first of 4 parts of a video of the Doctor Who panel at the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con, which is rather handy for those of us who couldn’t be there, with Russell T Davies and David Tennant. Very nice to see Who at such a [...]
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Monday, November 16, 2009
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