Yep, it’s that time of the week for Richard and Joe to post up some of the links and news spotted over the last few days: How about some nice news to start us off? One of our favourite creative teams, Glasgow-based Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers – aka Metaphrog – have secured a very...

Liesbeth Ton is a Dutch illustrator working in Los Angeles. Using the monicker Betje she has created a series of web cartoons called, Parenting Is, highlighting the joys and “joys” of having children. On her Tapas site and on Instagram, she provides satirical tips for parents, chronicles typical situations in a mom’s life or gives...

Moneypenny, Jody Houser, Jacob Edgar, Dearbhla Kelly, Simon Bowland Dynamite Entertainment (cover artwork by Tula Lotay) Regular readers of the blog and our Twitter will no doubt have noticed that I have really been enjoying Dynamite’s resurgent James Bond comics. Bond, of course, has a long history in comics form, as well as in prose...

The Vault, Directed by Dan Bush, Starring Francesca Eastwood, Taryn Manning, Scott Haze, Q’Orianka Kilcher, Clifton Collins Jr., James Franco The classic bank heist going wrong film meets horror flick. Two sisters join their deadbeat brother on a bank robbery. He’s deep in with a gang and owes them a lot of cash. In order to...

Over the last week and a bit I’ve been enjoying some time off and my annual sojourn at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the largest public literary event on the planet – this year boasting an incredible thousand events. Of course I wasn’t at even a fraction of that number, but I did manage to...

Earlier this year, Portuguese illustrator and designer Paulo Patrício completed his first animated short, Surpresa (Surprise). This is an experimental animation based on the (unscripted) dialogue between a young girl recovering from cancer, and her mother. Judging from the artwork, it is a lovely and inspiring piece of work. It’s also caught the eye of animation...

And somehow it’s the end of the week again and that means time for our usual weekly round up of news and links Richard and Joe have spotted over the last few days: The Word Balloon podcast talks with Brit comics godfather Pat Mills about his new book Be Pure Be Vigilant Behave-2000AD and Judge...

When you hear, Smurf Village, you probably think of strangly chunky mushroom-like structures that are the home of our favorite blue gnomes (and which, incidentally, must be quite sizable themselves, as they provide two-story accommodation for these gnomes, who themselves are typically “three apples in height”). You are right, in a way. I’m referring to...

Sea Of Rust C. Robert Cargill, Gollancz Mankind was dead, to begin with there is no doubt whatever about that. I paraphrase Charles Dickens there in his opening to that other great science fiction & Fantasy novel A Christmas Carol and there are few better ways to begin a review of such a very modern...

Eat Locals, Directed by Jason Flemyng, Starring Charlie Cox, Freema Agyeman, Mackenzie Crook, Tony Curran, Dexter Fletcher, Eve Myles, Vincent Reagan, Annette Crosbie, Bill Crook Every five decades or so the vampires of the UK gather together for a face-to-face meeting, to catch up, discuss problems, opportunities, changes, territories, and, naturally, food availability (that would...