PBS journalist, Charlie Rose, has created a fantastic archive of interviews with cartoonists over the years, including Charles Schulz. (via Forbidden Planet and BoingBoing). Well worth a visit.
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Rian Hughes Yesterday’s Tomorrows is an absolute treat which comes from the 1980s and 1990s with the writing of Grant Morrison, John Freeman, Tom deHaven, Chris Reynolds and Raymond Chandler. My friend, Dick Jude, introduced me to the name by letting me know that he designed the rocket logo for Forbidden Planet and this collection [...]
Ned Beauman over at the Guardian has run this piece on noir graphic novels. It is an intriguing, if really short, overview of the problems of creating noir fiction and he mentions some excellent writers, like Brian Bendis and Warren Ellism though he does miss David Lapham. I’m not sure he really gets his teeth [...]
I started reading the Eternals again last night, having read the comics as and when, and it sort of confirmed what I thought at the time.
This is a decent and fairly entertaining world but I always get the feeling that Gaiman is hampered by restrictions on the world building. The story as a whole [...]
The Forbidden Planet blog has an article on a Congolese political science student who is pressing charges against Moulinsart for the racism in Tintin in the Congo. This follow the Commission for Racial Equality wanting it pulled from the shelves.
The Belgian equivalent has taken the sensible step of not helping him as this is a [...]
Tokyopop have launched an online video service for upcoming titles on Myspace. At the moment its got Riding Shotgun (set in a world where assasination is legal) but it also looks like you can get Bizenghast and Midnight Opera there as well.
It seems like a neat idea (Dark Horse are doing something similar) and I [...]
Warren Ellis is launching a webcomic with the artist Paul Duffield called FreakAngels.
As he puts it, this is an curiosity driven by the question of what did happen to the children after the ending of Wyndham’s Midwich Cuckoos as a chance of playing with steampunk and something British. Its also his crack at writing a [...]
The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA) have announced the shortlist for this year’s awards:
This year’s nominees are:
Best Cover Illustration—Hardback Book:
Jon Foster for The Demon and the City by Liz Williams (published by Night Shade Books, August)
Donato Giancola for The Thirteenth House by Sharon Shinn (Ace, March)
Todd Lockwood for Temeraire: [...]
The fab Forbidden Planet blog has posted this link from a bit of the Guardian I haven’t got around to reading in full yet. Ned Beauman’s article on the sexism on comics is bang on the nail and its a crying shame that it carries on with such abandon. Joss Whedon, Warren Ellis (Beauman mention [...]
Dark Horse and MySpace have resurrected Dark Horse presents on the communal website. The first show has comics from:
Sugar Shock, the debut new comic from artist Fábio Moon and Joss Whedon, creator of the popular television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and author of [...]