Kudos to Mondo Comico. The Nottingham gaming and comic shop made the news today with a feature in This Is Nottingham. Rather than endure the standard press poking fun at roleplaying and the Simpson’s fed ‘Comic Guy’ stereotype Mondo Comico walked away from the encounter smelling of roses. The hero of our story is David […]
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Wow. The PSP gets a comic store
At first I thought I was going to be annoyed – that the US was getting a comic store for the PSP and that here the UK we’d get nothing. In fact, the comic store launches in the US today but should be in the UK very soon. Tomorrow at 5pm, I hear. The only […]
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Bruce Wayne’s coming back. Did anyone really expect anything else?
Justice League – Crisis on Two Earths
The heroes of the Justice League go against their mirror-universe counterparts, the Crime Syndicate on a world where evil always wins.
Gossip Girl goes all Manga
Yen Press has announced that it has secured the rights to do a mange re-imagination of the hugely popular Gossip Girl series. Cecily von Ziegesar’s series follows the lives of girls at an posh private school in New York City and the HyeKyung Baek adaption will focus on Blair and Vanessa from the senior year. […]
Caroline Dunford reads from A Death In The Family
In this clip author Caroline Dunford reads from the first in the Euphemia Martins Mystery series and picks up where young Euphemia is trying to explain to the police how she happened to find a body… and throws the light of suspicion on herself. I’ve read A Death in the Family myself and recommend it!
Claude Lalumière reads from Objects of Worship
Author Claude Lalumière reads the start and finish of a number of the stories in his book Objects of Worship. Claude’s interested in teasing us; how did the beginning morph into the ending? Certainly the differences between the start and the end seem to be pretty huge! Just… if you don’t like spoilers then don’t […]
William Gibson reads from Spook Country
Famous for his 1984 debut novel “Neuromancer” William Gibson is an established thought leader in the Sci-Fi community. This video harks back to 2007 and features him reading an excerpt from the book Spook Country.
Neil Gaiman reads Instructions
In the latest post to the “Author Videos” secton we skip back in time a few years to visit the ever-popular Neil Gaiman as he reads his poem Instructions. It’s a helpful set of instructions – should you every find yourself trapped in a fairytail then this will help.
Jacqueline Mychaels reads from Nameless
In this video section we visit Jacqueline Mychaels as she reads from her young adult book – Nameless. We pick up as a key character waits his death…
