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 [...]
The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning is a prequel graphic novel to the Wes Craven film and has a certain schlocky charm. Whilst the main coverage of the film is for its gross out horror, there is a neat little story about the effects of radiation and the b-movie mutant fear. These are truly modenr [...]
Another Dark Horse announcement - from next year they will be creating archive versions of the classic Creepy and Eerie comics (classic sf and horror funny books which flourished from the 1960s to the 1980s) and new issues. It lookslike Bernie Wrightson and Steve Niles will be joining the writing party so this looks like [...]
Dark Horse have just announced that they are running an Indiana Jones comic next year. The film is currently due for May 2008 and a new comic series will run after this but in February they will be bringing out two omnibuses (should that be omnibi?) of the previous collections. They will also ring out [...]
Lea Hernandez has posted her graphic novel, originally published in 1998, online under the creative commons licence. Steampunk really ought to come back, it was always a fun sub-genre. I suspect though that Gibson/Sterling’s Difference Engine was its zenith though.
A quick flick through the site suggests that there are other goodies online but I’ve not [...]
The always interesting Book Slut has a really good article about reading comic strips in newspapers, something that too many people do not have the pleasure of doing. On my paperround, I used to read the Hagar strips one of the red tops and when I was in Israel with my dad, I read the [...]
I’ve just read Anne Sudworth’s new book, Gothic Fantasies
Having seen a few of these works on jacket covers - particularly Storm Constantine - or hanging on walls, it is a pleasure to see how the works are so finely reproduced. There is a scattering of text but the bulk of the book is her art and [...]
Joe Gordon over on the Forbidden Planet blog has a link to Henry Jenkins’s piece on comics and cities. Cities and literature have a symbiotic relationship which we often overlook - Batman and Gotham, Superman and Metropolis and so on. Manga as well often uses cityscapes where the city is the unspoken character. This is [...]