Thursday, December 28, 2000Posted by Pete From linkmachinego, an interview with Evan Dorkin! See also the House of Fun. 4:39 PM | Wednesday, December 27, 2000Posted by Pete Jordan Crane, editor of the rightly aclaimed anthology Non, has written, along with Brian Ralph and Ron Rege, an excellent Comic Artist's Guide to Reproduction covering Xerography, Silkscreening and Offset Printing. The PDF file (you'll need Acrobat) runs to 16 pages and forms a neat little booklet. I may well run some off for the Bristol convention at Easter. A valuable resource! 11:50 AM | Tuesday, December 26, 2000Posted by Pete From the vaults of Google... GALAXY2000 appears to be an abandoned bilingual (Japanese/English) online anthology taking comics from the old Top Shelf stable, Scenes from the Inside anthology and a few other bits and bobs. I was looking for online example of Luke Walsh's work to impress you with and hit gold here with The Asbestos Stiletto of Time! 2:56 PM | Saturday, December 23, 2000Posted by Pete Dylan Horrocks' Hicksville website is now up and running. Dylan was part of the UK small press scene in the early 90s before emigrating to New Zealand where he produced the excellent Hicksville comic which is one of the best "comics about comics" around and comes highly recommended. 7:42 AM | Thursday, December 21, 2000Posted by Pete From Anthony Carpendale, regarding his film adaptration of a Ralph Kidson comic strip... It's here! 10:46 AM | Monday, December 18, 2000Posted by Pete BugPowder on Holiday You've probably noticed a slowing down of BugPowder's respective weblogs (this and my personal blog). I had a feeling this would happen (foreseen circumstances being my career in retail and that Xmas thing) so I'm going to give up trying to keep this site hot 'n' fresh for a week or so. In the meanwhile, might I suggest scanning down the left and right columns and checking out the archives: December, November, October and September all link to fun stuff which should still be there. BugPowder's still here though. I'll be checking email and fulfilling orders. I expect posts to resume between Dec 27th - 30th and then onwards from Jan 2nd. Have a good one! 2:13 PM | Saturday, December 16, 2000Posted by Pete Paul Schroeder has done an amazing job putting the long running and seminal small press reviews zine online with this site. It's very much work in progress at the moment but of special note is the archive section with listings of all the titles ever reviewed by Zum!, stretching back to 1991. A real history! 5:08 PM | Wednesday, December 13, 2000Posted by Pete This'll give you an idea of where we're thinking of taking BugPowder.com... Lee Kennedy writes about Alan Moore on the Telly: I just can't believe I forgot to tape that programme...i had a big red ring around the listing in RT, and all. I'm a soul in torment, now- If you found someone to tape it, any chance of my borrowing it,if I pay for postage?and return it quickly?And Andy Luke (of TRS2) wrote about the Comics 2001 festival in Bristol next spring: Bristol Housecon 2001 (or Bath Housecon 2001, as it may come to be) is my chance to get a proper holiday and not have everything centering around a comics festival. I want to put the feet up, soak up some of the Bristol surroundings and have plenty of homespace to do it in.Then I thought, well I'd like to spend more than two days with these people who I spend most of my time writing to. No have-to-be-there appointments, there's enough of that at the festival. Just come and go as I please. Anybody else feel the same way, I wonder. So, I'll be renting out a self-catering holiday house in the Bristol or Bath area for a week, with Comics 2001 set firmly in the middle. The house will home 5-6 people, and rent will work out about £60-£70 for the week. First preference will be given to those paying the full whack, and I'm considering doing rates per night for the weekend. Not so keen on that although I have consented this to first co-occupants Shane Chebsey and his woman. I suppose £60 is still pretty good for three nights. Applicants need to contact me on this email address. The sooner I get the house filled, the better I'll feel. If I get a big demand I'll look into getting a bigger house. I even came across a row of large cottages, heh: Small Press Street! Anybody who fancies organising a similar event, I encourage you. Payment, for those concerned, I won't need until the end of March. Those cottages are looking more and more attractive a venture.This is a non-profit making venture to the max organised by a creative fan who wants to hang out with creative fans. 12:49 PM | Monday, December 11, 2000Posted by Pete Slightly tenuous but actually quite apt news. Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean director and sometime writer of the old comic books (The Incal with Moebius being his most famous work) is looking to make a sequel to his mysterious (because it's impossible to see it) 1970 movie El Topo which I first heard about in the seminal horror comics anthology Taboo issue 4. He wants Marylin Manson to star in it. The rest you can read for yourself in the Chilean newapaper La Tercera, although you might need Babelfish to understand it.. 12:32 PM | Saturday, December 09, 2000Posted by Pete New and Noted - small press comics received at BugPowder HQ.
Pulp Kitchen #3 (A4, 60 pages) anthology comic featuring work by Loura, Halquin, Joe Alderslade, Arthur Goodman, Angela Vale, David Goodman, Jim McGee, Laura Watton, Xyzandra, Bear, Ugonna Nwosu, D Willacy, Stuart McCarthy, Ash.
Samples and cover scans here 3:55 PM | Posted by Pete The Big Hairy One is on the television tonight, so those of you with a set make sure you stay up late. And if anyone could video it for me I'd be very happy.
4LATER: COMIC TALES WITH ALAN MOORE 8:29 AM | Friday, December 08, 2000Posted by Pete Dave Shelton replies to a previous post Re Grauniad's piece on the Rwanda book: Front Row on Radio 4 had a piece on it tonight too with exactly the same tone. "A comic book, with serious subject matter? But why? Oh those crazy French!" It's like Maus and Barefoot Gen and Palestine (and I won't start on Bovery again) etc, etc never happened.As does Stephen Prestage... And the fact that when there was coverage of comics week four or five years ago it centred on BD, Angleoum (sic) and the cartoon arts trust was the only British entry. The photo was also of an 8 year old reading an old Superman. The whole article rather than implied virtually explicitly stated that the only Brit comics were a historical fact. 3:06 PM | Posted by Pete Andy writes on Comix@ about Zone 5300... The Dutch alternative-comics-zine is finally online and the site sports a comic by yours truly, with a cute sliding mechanism where each new panel arrives with an over the target bounciness. Another strip by Erik Kriek alternates new panels with stuff happening within the existing panel. (Both strips without words). 3:02 PM | Thursday, December 07, 2000Posted by Pete
Other highlights from a very long list include a new 500 page book from Craig "Chunky Rice" Thompson called Blankets (Sping 2002), James Kochalka's daily diary strips in March, the collected Box Office Poison (April), Cicada by Josué Menjivar who we rate rather highly (May), the complete Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie in November and loads more. Full details here and they'll all be stocked in the BugPowder shop. 3:51 PM | Posted by Pete "French acclaim cartoon vision of Rwandan horror" And interesting article in the Grauniad with the following quote: "Such comic books, known in France as bandes dessinées , or BDs, are regularly used to explore serious themes." implying that outside France this doesn't happen. I might be reading too much into it, but it gives the impression that the French are a little odd for taking a comic book so seriously and comparing it to Shakespeare, which would be understandable if the Guardian hadn't serialised Posy Simmonds' Gemma Bovery last year. But that wasn't a comic, was it. That was an illustrated story using a unique style. Not a comic. 3:31 PM | Sunday, December 03, 2000Posted by Pete Guido Weisshahn runs the Eddie Campbell Comicography a site covering all aspects of Eddie's career including an up to date Alec chronology and "lost works". He's missing some cover scans of the early stuff, specifically small press works, so any completists out there with a scanner... 3:23 PM | Saturday, December 02, 2000Posted by Pete On Suck.com, an amusing if only slightly insightful piece asking "why comics, and why now?", in relation to Michael Chabon's novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which I'm currently reading and enjoying immensely. (from linkmachinego) 5:23 PM | |
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