Tag Archive | "zombies"

Walking Dead panel

Monday, July 26, 2010

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TFAW has been busy posting up video from the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con (check their YouTube channel here), including, I couldn’t help but notice, a panel with Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and Frank Darabont and others discussing the eagerly anticipated television adaptation of Kirkman and Adlard’s brilliant The Walking Dead zombie comics series, [...]

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Zombies at Tiffany’s

Monday, July 12, 2010

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How awesome is this? A zombie Adurey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s – it’s a cake based on a t-shirt design for Threadless. (via BoingBoing)

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Do zombies read comics?

Monday, March 22, 2010

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Thought Bubble Comics channel on YouTube has posted up a nearly ten minute video, part one of a panel discussion from last year’s Thought Bubble recorded in Saville Hall in Leeds with Charlie Adlard, Sean Phillips, Anthony Johnston and Ben Templesmith all discussing horror comics:

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Best new cover for a loooong time

Saturday, February 13, 2010

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The new Vertigo series I, Zombie by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred has not one but two great covers. Although no matter how good Allred’s cover is, the Darwyn Cooke variant just blows it away: Described as “a smart, witty detective series with a mix of urban fantasy and romantic dramedy … told from female [...]

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Animated zombies

Monday, February 8, 2010

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We’ve had plenty of zombie comics, movies and prose recently but here’s a short teaser trailer for A.D., a CG-animated zombie flick, directed by Ben Hibon (Codehunters) and produced by Bernie Goldmann (300), Tarik Heitmann and Renee Tab.Its currently looking for a home at a studio -- I know a lot of studios will just [...]

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Walking Dead gets TV pilot

Friday, January 22, 2010

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Slashfilm is reporting that the proposed television adaptation of Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s brilliant Walking Dead comic series that we blogged about several weeks back has moved a step closer – Frank ‘Shawshank Redemption’ Darabont pitched the idea to AMC who have now commissioned a pilot. “This is not about zombies popping out of [...]

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Go stake yourself

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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“Dude. You just staked the zombie version of yourself. You are going to be in therapy for the rest of your life.” That has to be one of my favourite lines of the week as Morbius the Living Vampire stakes his zombie counterpart in Marvel Zombies 3, paperback edition hitting shelves this very day. Written [...]

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Drop Dead Gorgeous in Belfast this Halloween

Thursday, September 24, 2009

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My colleagues at the Belfast FP (52 -54 Ann Street, phone 028 9043 8744) tell me they are planning a highly appropriate event for Halloween with local writer Wayne Simmons. On the 31st of October Wayne will be in the Belfast FP from 2 to 4pm to sign from his recent novel Drop Dead Gorgeous, [...]

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Night of the Living Dead remake

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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The seemingly endless cycle of remaking classic films rolls on; this time the film being pillaged by modern film-makers is George Romero’s landmark Night of the Living Dead, originally shot in black and white on a shoestring budget in the late 60s and mixing solid, contemporary horror (right in modern society, not in some remote [...]

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Walking Dead set for the TV?

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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It looks like Image’s The Walking Dead may be heading to small screens, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Oscar nominated writer and director Frank Darabont ( Shawshank Redemption) has apparently been developing the idea of a TV series based on Robert Kirkman’s tales for some time and will be involved in writing, directing and [...]

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How to Love Your ‘Inner Zombie’

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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Quite early on in the blog’s existence I chatted with author Jaspre Bark when Rebellion, owners of 2000 AD, launched their then-new Abaddon Books range of novels. Jaspre had obviously put some thought into his answers and it made for an interesting read (if I say so myself). Recently he mentioned to me that he [...]

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