Actor Malcolm Tierney dies aged 75

This just in on the BBC News page.

 

 

Malcolm Tierney appeared in police drama Dalziel and Pascoe in the late 1990s

 

 

Screen and stage actor Malcolm Tierney, who played roles in Braveheart and Lovejoy, has died at the age of 75.

Tierney, who performed a range of character roles on TV and film from the 1960s, played Tommy McArdle in soap opera Brookside from 1983-87.

He was also noted for his theatre work with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1970s.
In 2012, Tierney appeared as Sorin in Chekhov's The Seagull at London's Southwark Playhouse.
Writing on Twitter, the theatre praised him as "a magnificent actor" who was "so brilliant" in the production.

Tierney took a significant role in BBC show Lovejoy, playing the rogueish antique dealer's rival in three series of the light-hearted programme.

The Manchester-born actor also appeared in Doctor Who strand The Trial of a Time Lord in 1986, and had a role in the original Star Wars movie in 1977.

Cinema audiences will also recognise him from the Mel Gibson movie Braveheart, in which he played the villainous magistrate who executes William Wallace's wife before meeting a similar end at the hands of the Scottish rebel.

Other notable roles on the small screen included in A Bit of a Do, a serial based on books by Reggie Perrin creator David Nobbs, and the 1990 series of political thriller House of Cards.

Actors who worked with Tierney during his extensive career also paid tribute to him via social media.


Tempus fugit

World Premiere of First Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - Official Trailer Sneak Peek (2014) [HD]

Green Skies: Kathatakathalaka Is Coming….

From the "Lost Mayan Calender"....

"Kathatakathalaka's coming shall be heralded by war.
The Earth will face storms of Ice, Fire, Rain and Flood.
The Atomic God shall be angered.
The Comet shall circle the Sun and many more will thunder through space.
A boulder shall be cast down from the Heavens to terrify all."

http://article.wn.com/view/2013/12/08/Ice_Storm_Temperatures_Drop_To_29C_In_US_4/

http://travel.aol.co.uk/2014/01/01/uk-weather-more-storms-and-floods-for-the-start-of-2014/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/coms13.htm

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/coms13.htm

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/activity/status.php


 It's happening. The Green Skies are next.

THE CROSS EARTHS CAPER

Paperback,

A4

Black & White

107 Pages 

 Price: £8.00

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Following the events on Neo Olympus and the Boarman invasion of Earth, many heroes and crime-fighters have withdrawn from activity. Some are trying to recover from injuries while others are fighting the mental scars left by the events. 

As heroes from other parallels who helped during the events return home, members of the Special Globe Guard are shocked at the sudden appearance of Zom of the Zodiac. 

Very soon, a group of heroes find a quick rescue mission turn sour as they become lost between parallel Earths anf threats. 

Sometimes one Earth just is not enough. 

The complete story published in issues 7-10 of Black Tower Adventure now in...one handy dandy book!

BilBOlbul

 

NEWSLETTER 14/2/2014

  

 

 

ASPETTANDO BILBOLBUL
RITRATTI D'AUTORE - BLEXBOLEX

 

Dopo Thierry Van Hasselt, è la volta di Blexbolex, disegnatore che si distingue con raffinatezza per la forza e l’immediatezza iconografica. La sua opera mescola il disegno con l’illustrazione e il racconto attraverso una sofisticata melodia nell’uso del colore e dell’arte della stampa.
L’incontro si terrà lunedì 17 febbraio ore 9-11 alla Scuola di Lettere e Beni Culturali - aula 5 (via Zamboni 38) all’interno di Ritratti d’autore, quattro incontri di autori pluripremiati che sperimentano ricerche grafiche e narrative, innovative e di qualità organizzati da BilBOlbul insieme alla Scuola di Lettere e Beni Culturali dell’Università degli Studi di Bologna e l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna.

Seguici sul sito o su facebook per sapere chi saranno gli artisti invitati ai due incontri di marzo!

PER MAGGIORI INFORMAZIONI: WWW.BILBOLBUL.NET

 

 

BilBOlbul Festival internazionale di fumetto fa parte della
Rete dei Festival del Contemporaneo di Bologna

Future Film Festival: 1 > 6 aprile 2014 - futurefilmfestival.org :: Live Arts Week: 8 > 13 aprile 2014 - liveartsweek.it :: Angelica- Festival Internazionale di musica: 2 > 31 maggio 2014 - aaa-angelica.com :: Biografilm: 6 > 16 giugno 2014 - biografilm.it :: Gender Bender: www.genderbender.it :: BilBOlBul: 21 > 23 novembre 2014 - bilbolbulnet

STEVE DOWLING INTERVIEW -IF his family reads this...

Around 1999, I had an email from the grandson of Steve Dowling who was living in Canada.  I learnt that Steve had been bumped out of his job simply because he had reached 65 years of age (only in the UK!).  He then spent many years living off a poor pension.  Steve had no original art from his newspaper strip days to show his family -it’s why I was contacted because of my British Comic Books Archive project.
Apparently the family had asked the Daily Mirror newspaper if it could just get some photocopies of the pages for themselves.  No.  They asked then editor Piers Morgan (can I spit?) who basically responded that he had no time to waste of dumb comic strips (his hatred of them is well recorded).

I lost the email from the family when my old computer blew. IF Steve’s family in Canada read this then I have Garth strips I can offer on share file.

THANK YOU!

Just a shout out and a thank you to CBO hitters from China who, so far this year, have totalled up 65,269 page views!

I'm just sorry I do not get enough Manhwa news to publish for you!

THANKS

Kieron Gillen signing UBER and THREE

Forbidden Planet are delighted to bring you a signing for the brand new hardcovers of UBER and THREE, both from writer Kieron Gillen! Join Kieron at the London Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8JR, on Friday 11^th April from 6 – 7pm!

In UBER, it’s April 24, 1945. The world holds its collective breath as the war is only days away from ending. Russian troops move through Germany to the final objective... Hitler himself. As those around the mad dictator crumble, the much ridiculed threats of the "Wunderwafen" materialise. A new weapon is delivered, one with unstoppable power - a weapon like no other and with a madman pulling the trigger. The Ubers change the direction of World War II, providing a dark and uncompromising alternative history in a way that you've never seen.

In THREE, we return to the world of Ancient Sparta, where three Helot slaves are running for their lives - and pursuing them are three hundred of their Spartan masters. Includes cover gallery, making of material, and annotations. This story takes place during the events of 300.

FORBIDDEN PLANET

Forbidden Planet is the largest store of its kind in the world. Some of the biggest names in SF, Fantasy and Cult Entertainment have come to our London Megastore for events, including Jonathan Ross, Kevin Smith, Sam Raimi, Guillermo del Toro, John Landis, Terry Gilliam, Christopher Lee, Simon Pegg, William Gibson, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, and Stephen King.

For more about our signings please go to: http://forbiddenplanet.com/events/

Charlie Chaplin - Let Us All Unite [HD]

Something Gamers Might Not Care About.

  

Let's face it, if you are into 40K gaming then you don't give a crap about how you get your figures so long as you get them.  "Store-owners are allways saying how bad things are for them!" is the usual response.

Now, for a few years I wrote (over on the Word Press CBO blog and a few times on this one) about how Diamond Distributors operate a monopoly which means they push what they want to -ie. Marvel, DC and Dark Horse- and push every other publisher aside.

I outlined the problems as put to me by store owners. So how many of these frustrated and angry store owners came forward publicly? Two. That was it.  Their attitude was the same as most comic fans -so long as they get the Marvel and DCs f*** everyone else.

Games Workshop has, over the years, tried to push out competion and corner the market -concerns of store owners who had been faithful to them for years got the big "up yours!".  In 2013 the company basically changed how they deal with retailers so that many closed down or simply struggle on. 

Now, what follows are three videos explaining these changes by a Canadia, an American and UK store owners.

If you just dont give a crap then okay. f*** you.  But if you do believe in fair play and showing up the bullies trying to run monopolies PLEASE watch.

AND SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GAMES STORE!!

 

Mini wargaming in Canada. Followed by a video from a US game store and, finally a UK store.

Tribute To Brian "Bib" Edwards by John Schiltz

This will be extremely difficult . To put together a summation of such a multi-faceted being as Bib . I think the more people who can contribute the better , because I hardly saw him in the circumstance of conventions , others will know that side of him better .

The irony of this little ode is , in the parallel in which he bounced back from the various setbacks of his declining health , he would flake out ,and then there would be a phone call or an e-mail and Bib's back again .

The Come Back King !

Our quorum of book enthusiasts would meet at his house in a little village in Suffolk , where with his wife , Lynne , an internationally acclaimed quilter and teacher had lived and worked and raised their two sons ; Dickon - the eldest - who is now a diarist and Thomas , a musician . 

No longer , sadly , able to get to his loft studio , due to the effects of Pulmonary Fibrosis , a gradual scarring up of the lungs , we met for some weeks in his sitting room , where a little hospital had been set up , complete with home oxygen concentrators , that Bib , ever the film buff , called Huey and Dewey , after the robot Drones in the SF film , " Silent Running " .

Bib , a great fan of Dan Dare and The Spirit and the Goons ; creator of Captain Biplane Interplanetary Airman and his adventures in the Solar Bubble would hold court , and ensure tea , biscuits and enjoyment of conversation ranging from the diversity of literature . Comics , the latest in science , space , exo-planets ; his favourite , parallel universes - the what-if scenarios of many SF authors , through to history , radio comedy and his favourite of all , flying machines of all manner of descriptions , factual or fanciful .

His A1 originals of Captain Biplane are a joyful expression of his boyhood annuals , where his hero and his ever morphable Biplane face down the Boarmen in defense of Queen Ennyl and her realm. Originally Bib and Lynne were models for both . His comics' style was resplendent in pen , punch graphics and coloured inks .

His sitting room , with it's shelves gleaned from postal sorting antiquity with their compartments filled with an array of memorabilia and models , colourful toys and assortments of "founds " , collected over many years of being an artist and enthusiast of the young and inventive and shelves of books , meticulously in order , on art , quilting , superheroes of the Golden Age , side by side with W H Robinson , L Baum and books of the pioneers of aviation and invariably airships .

Our meetings became , inevitably , braver on his part . He would , at times , remove the oxygen , and give full voice , if he wanted to share with us  a passage from a book he was enjoying reading . The progression of the Pulmonary Fibrosis , however , meant that he grew breathless and although he didn't show frustration , we could see the effort for him was great . A few weeks ago a room was set up in a nursing home , after spending a while at St Elizabeth's Hospice in Ipswich , where we all visited . A

pleasant room had been set up and a small sampling of his collection was on sills and on a bedside cupboard and set of drawers , a corkboard full of pictures , postcards and greetings dominated a wall .

A carer , who turned out to be a fellow film buff was looking after him when we visited , helped him sit up in bed . We talked and amused ourselves with the usual , occasionally a carer would come in , with

his medication , and he would make all efforts to be the host , introducing us , as always , maintaining his interests , outside himself , an essential for a creative artist who has a talent ,seemingly effortlessly for communicating creativity with everybody . We left after an hour .

He would spend time with Rod Taylor and his time machine , one of his favourites and his family were coming later .

We all found out the following morning that nothing , absolutely nothing , can prepare you for the loss of a dear friend .  I had known Bib for over thirty years , drawn with him , jammed on underground comics

with him and shared enthusiasms , started a cartoon club with him , shared our love of the countryside and water colours , of which he was an enthusiastic master of the unusual view , sometimes of man's technologies being returned to nature .

Bib was an true friend , a teacher communicator and a like I shall never meet again .

John "Sepp" Schiltz

TITAN COMICS

Celebrate the worlds of TITAN COMICS by joining DAN BOULTWOOD, STUART JENNETT and MARTIN STIFF signing at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore on Wednesday 5th March from 6 – 7pm!

Fans of cult film will love DAN BOULTWOOD’S hilarious B-movie romp, a knowing throwback to the heyday of low-budget SF cinema! In It Came! an enormous alien robot lays waste to the English countryside, annihilating bunting, villages, and diagonally-sliced sandwiches alike! Only the pipe-chomping space scientist Dr. Boy Bret and his assistant Doris Night stand a chance of stopping it from marching all the way to London!

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In STUART JENNET’S Chronos Commandos, we meet dinosaurs, giant crocodiles, time travel and Albert Einstein with a machine gun. When the Allies and Nazis develop time-diving technology that could see the course of World War II derailed by creatures from the Cretaceous period, only the Sarge and his band of misfit soldiers can save the future by saving history!

• 

In MARTIN STIFF’S The Absence, the disfigured Marwood Clay returns to his coastal village, and he is shunned by the residents for an unspeakable past crime. While Marwood struggles to rebuild his life, the newly-arrived and enigmatic Dr. Robert Temple is building a strange house for himself, on the hill overlooking the town.

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FORBIDDEN PLANET

Forbidden Planet is the largest store of its kind in the world. Some of the biggest names in SF, Fantasy and Cult Entertainment have come to our London Megastore for events, including Jonathan Ross, Kevin Smith, Sam Raimi, Guillermo del Toro, John Landis, Terry Gilliam, Christopher Lee, Simon Pegg, William Gibson, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, and Stephen King.

For more about our signings please go to: http://forbiddenplanet.com/events/

WWW.FORBIDDENPLANET.COM

--
Danie Ware
Social Media & Marketing

Brian "Bib" Edwards

For those of you involved in the Small Press or who were active in the 1980s and read the adventures of Captain Biplane in Braque (google and you'll find examples online) I have some sad news.

Creator Brian "Bib" Edwards sadly died yesterday. He was in his seventies and in a care home suffering from pulmonary fibrosis.  Apparently, the last words to his family were: "I'm going to sleep now" and he passed away.

My sincere condolences to his wife, Lynn, and his sons.

Tempus fugit, old son.

2014 Clallam Bay Comicon

2014 Clallam Bay Comicon

Hi, folks! And we're off and running for the 3rd year!

Promote your attendance or your shop with the 2014 flyer mini-poster (download link), featuring our logo, Kelpie! If you want to use logo/mascot "Kelpie" for tshirts, buttons, etc., and make some money, contact me.

First, links to the 2nd annual con:
The 2013 ComiconRecord Page/Con Report Link
The 2013 Comicon Facebook Page

Now - the 2014 information: 

FACEBOOK LINK (If you want to keep up with ongoing discussions, ask questions, organize a sales rep or living space or panels).

July 13-14-15: During and after Clallam Bay/Sekiu Fun Days 9am to 5 pm SUNDAY AND MONDAY for trade show (setup, show, breakdown). (You heard us - Sunday and Monday). SATURDAY is optional, for getting here, enjoying Fun Days, Parade, and Fireworks party night; but highly recommended.

ADMISSION for public: free. "We don't need no stinkin' badges." You're all special guests to us. And don't have to prove you're pros or amateurs.

BOOTH FEES: $25 ($27.00 Paypal).  CONTACT for payment instructions.

The newly renovated building - nice job, Lions!

WHERE:
Clallam Bay/Seiku Lion's Club
90 Bogachiel Street
Clallam Bay, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, United States (Take Highway 112 through Clallam Bay. After the hard left, look for liqour store on the right; Bogachiel Street is the next left).

LINK TO PHOTOS OF MORE SPACES

ACCOMADATIONS AND HOUSING Get your ass in gear - rooms fill up FAST! And also Neah Bay AND the Couchsurfers Event Link! Stay with fascinating local people - or if you are a FLP - sponsor a comics/media/art/writer in your own home.

EVERYONE WELCOME. If you do comics, poetry, gallery art, jewelry, paint cars, bake pies, sing, do stand-up, sculpture, hip-hop, light shows, whatever - bring it. Cosplay wanted for the parade. AND HORSES!

HOW TO GET HERE: Take a flight to Port Angeles on Kenmore Air, then take the Forks bus to the the Clallam Bay connection at Sappho.  Yes, Sappho. Bus details at Clallam Transit. Or take Olympic Bus Lines from Seattle. Coming from Portland, or other points south? Take the WEST side of the Olympic Peninsula, Highway 101: Good roads, scenic, food and fuel - and MUCH less traffic, even in July.

GETTING to Neah Bay and back, if you'd prefer not to drive every day - contact Olympic Peninsula Errand Service, for Janet or Adam: (360) 640-4583 NOTE: Neah Bay is a First Nations town, and DRY. And you don't want to drive THAT road after enjoying some wind-down juice.

AWARDS: Who are we to judge? If your fans love you and buy stuff, you win.

PROVIDED: space, electricity (PROBABLY wi-fi). More Wi-fi is 24/7 at the library, right around the corner. LOTS of table space!

SPACE: Dealer's Room: main club building. Gaming and music: outside covered porch. Panels: outside covered porch. Parking: around Lion's Club, Old Fire Hall and Clinic parking lot. LINK TO PHOTOS OF MORE SPACES

PANELS and EVENTS Link: Includes audio-visual details.

GAMES: You want games? Find a Gamesmaster and contact us to be put in the Panel schedule.

CATERING: We have a NICE kitchen available, so if you want to bring and sell food, take care of your own licensing or whatever. 

CHARITY: Comicon needs a charity. Contact us.

BEST, safest, most scenic route if driving: Highway 101 around Lake Crescent, then Highway 113-112 to Clallam Bay (slightly longer, but recommended).

FIRE DISPLAYS: If you want to play Burning Man, contact the District Five Fire Department.

FOOD AROUND TOWN

LAST-MINUTE PRINTING: Already on the peninsula and forgot something? Need a large print order at the last minute? Olympic Printers are the guys.

T-SHIRTS: Don't want to drag a million t-shirts along, especially if you have a new design? Get 'em done in Port Angeles and pick 'em up at SickTees.
 
CHILDREN: watch your own.

TRASH: Container in Lion's Club kitchen. SEPARATE THE CANS.

FACILITY CARE: No tape of any sort on the wall. Respect the Lion's Club's wall displays. We all chip in to clean up at the end of the show. It don't take long.
 
Don't set yourself on fire.

EXHIBITORS:

1: Donna Barr's A Fine Line Press AND Clallam Bay Comicon Central (Official convention t-shirts!).

2: Catalyst Studios