www.guardian.co.uk:
No more lounging in Waterstone's or browsing in Borders – turn over an old leaf with the starchy, strait-laced booksellers of oldWhen the Borders Group first imported its corporate ambience to the UK in 1998, it seemed the bo (Read More)
The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log:
FPI: Today I’m joined by Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering, the team behind Insomnia’s recently published graphic novel Burke and Hare, which draws upon one of history’s most famous cases of the infamous ‘Resurrection Men’ (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Douglas Rushkoff is the author of Life Inc., Coercion, the graphic novel Testament, and many other books.I've written and even taught a whole lot about interactive narrative over the years, but rarely have the chance to play (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Fans of graphic novels and Gorillaz rejoice! The comics legend is writing the lyrics for Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's next operaFor the follow-up to Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's opera Monkey: Journey to the West, the (Read More)
The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log:
“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 counterpar (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Michael Moore v the Establishment, Jennifer Aniston's heartbreaks, teen vampires . . . Enough is enoughWe movie-lovers are facing a problem: too much of a good thing. A couple of films where morally flawed people are compell (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Anthology aims to make young people angry at the world's abuses of powerIt is a comic book collection without a cape, dodgy mask or death ray in sight. There are, though, plenty of baddies.This week sees the publication of a (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Anthology aims to make young people angry at the world's abuses of powerIt is a comic book collection without a cape, dodgy mask or death ray in sight. There are, though, plenty of baddies.This week sees the publication of a (Read More)
The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log:
Over on SF Site Rick Klaw has the second part of his feature on the emergence of comics and graphic novels to a more prominent cultural position in the Anglophone world on the regular Nexus Graphica column, with part two (pa (Read More)
LA Times:
It shows how the country has turned an American form into tales of its culture's mythology and values. If you want to understand the meani (Read More)
The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log:
what have I become?my sweetest friendeveryone I knowgoes away in the endand you could have it allmy empire of dirtI will let you downI will make you hurt(Hurt by Trent Reznor, but made perfect by Johnny Cash)I’ve just finishe (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Dark Horse just sent me a review copy of The Life And Times Of Martha Washington In The Twenty-First Century, a gigantic, slipcased hardcover containing the full run of the Give Me Liberty comics and associated titles.I have (Read More)
The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log:
Hitting the shelves today, the hardback edition of the excellent P Craig Russell’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: the Dream Hunters. I want.Related posts:The Dream Hunters When the tenth anniversary of Neil Gaiman’s gro (Read More)
Mixx: Beyond Legend:
From next month Edinburgh Napier University will become the first institution in Britain to teach writing for graphic novels — books in comic strip form — at Masters level. (Read More)
Comics Should Be Good!:
Rocketship was voted the "Best Comics Outpost" in New York City by the Village Voice!Best Comics OutpostRocketship208 Smith St.Brooklyn, NY718-797-1348http://rocketshipstore.blogspot.comGetting into comics—a/k/a graphic novel (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Novelist sinks teeth into graphic storytelling with American Vampire seriesStephen King is the latest mainstream author to turn to comics with a new series about a distinctly American vampire, powered by the sun, set to launc (Read More)
The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log:
Rod McKie put me on to this work in progress, a graphic novel Besty Streeter is developing; there’s quite a bit of material with some lovely art on Flickr to have a look at, either browsing picture by picture of by clicking t (Read More)
The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log:
Cash: I See a DarknessReinhard KleistSelf Made Hero“If you wanna save your soul from hell, cowboy, then change your ways today. Or you’ll ride with us through these endless skies, forever on the hunt for the Devil’s herd...” (Read More)
The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log:
Emma at Hertfordshire libraries tells me that they are following up successful comics and graphic novel events last year with more as part of their book events throughout the county this year, including two creators dear to t (Read More)
British Fantasy Society News:
Coming in September from Dark Horse, a new edition of Pictures That Tick (Short Narrative Volume 1), collecting short stories by Dave McKean, guest of honour at last year's FantasyCon.
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