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illustrated stories
I may be doomed. For the first time I’m collecting a series of Superman comics. This 12-part non-continuity series, published bi-monthly, is titled All-star Superman, and is written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Frank Quitely. The Morrison/Quitely tag team have produced the goods in the past, most notably in the final volume of the The Invisibles, as well as for my favourite mini-series of last year: WE3 (it made me cry!). I’ve never been a massive fan of the Man of Steel, or “the boy scout” as Batman refers to him. Sure, I’ve seen the movies, and I’ve started to watch the current series of Smallville–in the past I…
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magnifique
I finished the re-writes on the story I wrote earlier in the month and I’ve sent it out to a market. I have to keep rolling the dice. I watched the terrific low-budget French horror film, Maléfique (2002), today. I saw the film originally at the London horror film festival, FrightFest a number of years ago, where the director, Eric Valette, gave a Q&A afterwards. The film made a lasting impression on me, so I was delighted it got a DVD release. The lads behind FrightFest have shown considerable foresight and have established their own DVD label, FrightFest Presents. Maléfique is the second title in their catalogue of horror flicks.…
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a week passes quickly
I can’t believe a week has passed since I last wrote an entry here. It’s weird how time compresses and before you know it a passel of days have trooped past you towards multiple sunsets. I saw a bunch of cool documentaries at the Film Fleadh: Goat Walker, and Ässhäk, Tales from the Sahara, as well as the Siberian folk story, Bride of the Seventh Heaven. The German animated film, Inspector Derrick was good fun, and Zang Yimou’s emotional operatic vision, Hero, ended up being much better than I first thought. During the week I finished Starfish, by Peter Watts, as well as a short novel by Jonathan Lethem called…
