David Fickling, the excellent publisher of children’s books, is launching a new comic according to the Independent. Philip Pullman will be writing a strip called “The Adventures of John Blake”. Not sure who else is joining in yet.
You can sign up for the email news letter for the launch on the site but the contents […]
Steve Augarde’s latest piece in his running series of “Things once common, now extinct” covers comics and his reading of every comic that came into the house including his sister’s. Its a good reminder of all those times spent reading the Eagle (I’m pretty much with him on the Mekon but I did like Doomlord).
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Mike Carey is a comics and book writer who has also dabbled in screenplays. I caught up with him at Fantasycon and we talked about his Felix Castor novels (Felix Castor volumes) and his comics, Lucifer(Lucifer volumes) and Crossing Midnight (Issue One pdf available here,Volume 1, Volume 2).
How have you found writing the Felix Castor […]
Chris Riddell, the illustrator half of Paul Stewart/Chris Riddell, has an exhibition of his political cartoons for the Observer newspaper. The cartoons are always pointed and humorous whilst getting the themes of the year across to the reader.
The exhibition is at the Guardian Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA.
Opening Times:
Monday to Friday 10am […]
Oni Press are releasing a preview comic of Jumper, a soon to be released cool film of Steven Gould’s novel. Titled Jumpscars, it promises to reveal an ancient war that has been happening around us. Jumpers are individuals who can “jump” or teleport anywhere around the world whilst the Paladins have protected humanity from them. […]
Those excellent folk over at Dark Horse has posted the first few pages of the new Abe Sapien (from the must-read Hellboy) on MySpace. Here is the trailer for Hellboy II: The Golden Army as well.
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Dom Joly has this appreciation of Tintin in the Independent which captures that essential quality of the reporter - it makes you want to discover the world. (Sans dog in my case as I prefer cats.) In the main, Tintin is pure escapism and his world is rarely truly dark and dangerous (apart from the […]
Wired magazine have a piece on American Manga (which is a 1.9mb download) which is set up like a Manga and explains its appeal and some of the key titles. Great reading but remember to read it the correct way…
They’ve also got a great article on Japanese Manga and its appeal, some of the uses […]
Shaenon Garrity over on LiveJournal found an article regarding Edward Gorey’s love of Star Trek , though he claims to have never watched the Trouble with Tribbles episode. Well she’s put this right with a great cartoon.
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Playstationseason have adapted one of Steve Aylett’s short stories, The Man Who’s Head Expanded, into a great animation. This so needs further entries but I can highly recommend his novel, Lint, which is great fun and quite possibly his most accessible yet.
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