SF Signal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Issue #50 of the awesome fantasy and digital art magazine ImagineFX contains a list of the 50 Best Living Artists, citing them as "the most innovative, influential and altogether mega fantasy and sci-fi artists alive today." They offer brief writeups of each artist named above as well as showcasing some of their awesome artwork. It's worth checking out. Here's their list: Frank Frazetta...
tales from the zodiac lung (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
I don't get excited by much but the latest Alice Cooper tour has gotten me interested in going "outside". It promises to be something special but to be honest, even if it's just the same as a normal Alice Cooper tour, it will still be better than 90% of the other tat paraded before my eyes. If you've never been to see The Master, waste not much more time. I'm sure he would be the first to...
highfashiongirl loves you (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
but the costumes in Lady Gaga's music video "Bad Romance" are so awesome. I'm thinking Guillermo del Toro meets John Galliano meets Jean Paul Gaultier meets Dave McKean. I don't even care about the song. Put it on mute. Watch the clothes: Also, I am in love with Emily Haines, her outfits and this song:
io9 (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Wasteland: The Apocalyptic Edition, which collects the first year of issues from Oni Press' futuristic comic, is a great big chunk of what comics - and sci-fi in general - does best: Creating all-new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Thirteen artists take on Bob Dylan’s most famous tunes, re-imagining them in graphic-novel style in the beautifully illustrated Bob Dylan Revisited. Grouping together luminaries such as Neil Gaiman co-conspirator Dave McKean and Italian illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti, the book visually interprets essential Dylan, from the giddy “I Want You” to the somber “Knockin’ on Heaven’s...
Bear Alley (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I was thinking about writing some posts relating to mysteries my research into old paperbacks has yet to resolve. Most are niggling bibliographical problems, some relate to authors that I simply can't find any information on, yet others concern authors relatively well known—and by relatively I mean authors known within certain circles, usually SF collectors...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
You could argue that the sewer-trolling, wall-shimmying, supernaturally powered protagonist of China Mieville’s King Rat is not really a superhero. He doesn’t wear a crazy costume, he doesn’t really fight crime, and since he counts garbage-eating as one of his powers, maybe there’s good reason to distance him from the likes of Superman and Spider-Man. [...]
Super Punch (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Tori Amos mermaid concert poster, Santa on a Segway, and H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival poster - - all by Lee Moyer . *Previously: Dave McKean's poster for the Napoli Film Festival . * Buy Segways at Amazon.
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
It may be a bit surprising, but Neil Gaiman's A Game of You is my favorite Sandman story arc thus far. The author's hybrid of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant , and C. S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia was quite a treat! I have become accustomed to the fact that the plotlines had almost nothing to do with The Sandman: Preludes &...
Art reviw Alex Stalenbertg (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
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Bear Alley (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Something a little more literary for a change. Ben-Hur is based on the novel by Lew Wallace, first published in 1880. I'm going to point you to Wikipedia for more information on the background of the book and its author to save myself some effort (I'm writing this on Sunday evening and I've a bunch of shows recorded off the TV crying out to be watched). Even if you've not read the book, most
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Well, this fourth installment came with the highest possible recommendation from Gaiman fans, and it didn't disappoint. The Sandman: Season of Mists is the very best omnibus thus far. While The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes ( Canada , USA , Europe ), The Sandman: The Doll's House ( Canada , USA , Europe ), and The Sandman: Dream Country ( Canada , USA , Europe ) were a bit all over the place and...
GayGamer.net (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
"A serious house on serious earth." The sub title of this symbolic tome speaks of what is to be found inside this version of the Asylum. You will find no camp here. While based on Batman's recent visit to the Asylum on the console front, this source material takes the Dark Knight further into a selective kind of dementia. H.P Lovecraft once said of fear: We are afraid of what is unseen and...
downthetubes.net news blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Continuing our series of interviews with British comic convention organisers, for this eigth instalment Matthew Badham talks to Paul Gravett of London's ComICA festival , which takes place next month (5th - 26th November). These convention features are being cross-posted on downthetubes, the Forbidden Planet International blog and Fictions . Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved...
The Reader Online (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Last few days to see images by Dave McKean from The Savage at the Bluecoat (School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX) until 1st November 2009. This exhibition features a selection of original artwork from this year’s Liverpool Reads book The Savage including the original front cover from the hard back edition which is both intriguing and chilling. Dave [...]
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