This week on(line): Hannah Eaton on Naming Monsters / Dan White on Cindy and Biscuit
Alex Fitch
Electric Sheep issue 74: Strange Gems & Dreamscapes -
LFF, We Are What We Are, Nosferatu
October is all about festivals. We outline some of the highlights of the 57th BFI London Film Festival in previews Part 1 andPart 2 – we’ll be reviewing more films throughout the festival. We also report back from Venice, Toronto, the Way Out East strand at London's Raindance, and the wonderful L'Etrange Festival in Paris.
Out in cinemas this month are two FrightFest favourites, We Are What We Are and V/H/S/2, plus Im Sang-soo’s latest filmThe Taste of Money. F.W. Murnau’s digitally restored classic Gothic horror Nosferatu returns to the big screen, whileNightmare on Elm Street is back for a special Halloween treat in selected UK theatres. In home entertainment releases, we have a comic strip review of Oriol Paulo’s haunting The Body, plus we take a look at George A. Romero's Creepshow, Eric Walter’s My Amityville Horror and Jeff Lieberman’s cult-horror classic Squirm.
In features, we revisit Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, and we present an extract from Kim Newman's new novel Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard. We also explore the sounds of sci-fi in Shane Carruth’s Primer and discuss the score to Tarkovsky’sSolaris in Reel Sounds, while author Ann Leckie’s cinematic alter ego is HAL from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.■
Signings at Gosh! Comics
Hic and Hoc Launch party
Overseas publishers of Very Nice Comic Things Hic & Hoc have enlisted some Brits you may be familiar with to edit their second volume of the Hic & Hoc Illustrated Journal Of Humo(u)r (see what they did there?). Gosh! favourite Lizz Lunney, author of such lovely works like Depressed Cat and At The Theme Park, also-Gosh!-favourite Joe List, who you may know from his frequent doodlings over Guardian newspaper publications, Gareth Brookes, Stephen Collins, Joe Decie, Luke Pearson and Philippa Rice have put together a collection of the best of the UK comics scene, out to tickle your funny bone. Various contributors will be signing the book at Gosh! for the launch event, with free booze on tap, so come along!
Friday October 25th, 7pm – 8pm
Joe Sacco signing
Joe Sacco himself, author of critically-acclaimed reportage comics Safe Area Gorazde, Palestine, and many more, is going to be in the shop for a signing on the 26th of October, to celebrate his latest book, The Great War
Saturday October 26th, 2pm – 3pm
Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR
Comica Festival 2013
This year’s London Comica Festival is imminent and events over the first couple of weeks include:
From Hell To Eternity: Eddie Campbell On Alan Moore
Campbell discusses his collaborations with Alan Moore, notably on the acclaimed From Hell.
Platform Theatre, Handyside Street, London N1C 4AA
October 26, 2013 4.45pm for 5-6.30pm
Joe Sacco: The Great War and the Battle of the Somme
Sacco talks in depth about how he achieves his acclaimed comics journalism.
Platform Theatre, Handyside Street, London N1C 4AA
October 26, 2013 7.15pm for 7.30-9.30
The Nine Lives of Dave McKean
Explore the multi-faceted, multi-media creativity of this extraordinary storyteller & image-maker.
Foyles Bookshop, 3rd Floor Gallery, WC2H 0EB
October 29, 2013 6.15 for 6.30-8.30pm
Living and Loving in London : Oscar Zarate & Ilya
How new graphic novels The Park & Room For Love reflect realities of urban relationships.
Foyles Bookshop, 3rd Floor Gallery, WC2H 0EB
October 31, 2013 6.15 for 6.30-8.30pm
What Is A Superhero?
Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier, Will Brooker & Richard Reynolds analyse what makes a superhero.
Foyles Bookshop, 3rd Floor Gallery, WC2H 0EB
November 1, 2013 6.15 for 6.30-8.30pm
More info at www.comicafestival.com
Join the Web Artists Swap Project 2014
Get involved via www.tempolush.com before the end of October 2013…
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