SF Tidbits for 11/28/11

Interviews and Profiles

• The Guardian (Tom Lamont) profiles Alan Moore.
• comicbookGRRRL Alan

  Moore. [via The

  Cultural Gutter]

• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews David Bischoff (podcast).
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews James Shepherd-Barron (podcast).

News

• Bram Stoker Award Reading List.
• The

  Dark Knight Rises Marks the End of Christian Bale’s Batman Era.

• Mexico City claims zombie

  walk world record. [via Paul Di

  Filippo]

• Nicholas

  Cage’s Action Comics #1 Expected To Be Most Expensive Comic Sold.

• BEAT

  to a PULP: A Rip through Time – Now Available as an e-Book.

Events

• Sisterhood Of Dune

  Tour Details.

Articles

• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on The

  Harry Potter Phenomenon.

• SF Novelists (James Alan Gardner) on The Skill List Project: Scene Design.
• Alan Rinzler on When do you need an editor?
• Book View Cafe (Laura Anne Gilman) on Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 47.
• Black Gate (Theo) On Polemic and Prosaic License.
• P.N. Elrod on Do you think it is possible to write a good book if you never read?
• David Brin on Atlas

  Shrugged: The Hidden Context of the Book and Film.

• Helen Lowe on Encountering

  Fantastic Worlds, Part 3: SciFi continued.

• Dreadful Tales on The

  Century’s Best Horror Fiction – Part Two (1911-1920).

• Sherwood Smith on 
• Adam Christopher on Staying

  on Target.

• Jay Lake on Hugo.
• John Scalzi on Why

  I’m Thankful to Science Fiction Films.

• Jamie Todd Rubin on Vacation

  in the Golden Age, Episode 28: October 1941.

• The Globe and Mail on Indigo’s

  Heather Reisman faces digital reckoning.

• Sybil Vasche on Village

  of the Damned: A Cinema Static Classic Reflection.

• Light Within Light on Diamonds

  in the garbage heap – Part I: Science Fiction.

• SciFi Now lists Top 10

  superhero cartoons ever.

• Terminally Incoherent lists Essential

  SF Books You Should Read.

Art

• Inspirational

  Sci-fi & Fantasy Art Featuring Isuardi Therianto.

• Samurai’s,

  Dragons & Beautiful Environments By Mateusz Ozminski.

• Cool

  Digital Painting Gallery.

• Gallery: Alex Tuis, Creature

  Designer.

• @Jo’s Playground: “Kull:

  The Cat and the Skull” by Jo Chen.

• @ItsArtMag: “Black

  dragon” by veprikov.

• @ItsArtMag: “Black

  Rain” by KiDo.

• @ItsArtMag: “The Key of

  Living Fire” by kerembeyit.

More Fun Stuff

• George

  R.R. Martin’s 1963 letter to Marvel comics.

• Doctor

  Who: A Beginner’s Guide.