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Today's my last day here at Rebellion - just wanted to say "bye" in my official capacity as GNs editor, and thank you all for being one of the saner and more pleasant message boards on the 'net. I'm going to be GNs editor at Titan as of Monday, so no doubt I'll be talking to some of you in a professional capacity in the future - and for those who I don't, I'll see you at DreddCon 6!

Once again, thanks for all your support and kind words while I've been here - and don't forget to keep buying the kick-arse books we're going to be putting out!

For future reference, Dominic Preston will be taking over the GN editor role, so he's the guy to ask about forthcoming material.

All the best to you and yours,

J-Bo-I'd-like-to-thank-my-parents-and-my-tutors-and-my-acting-coach-and-my-aromatherapist-and-that-guy-who-does-the-lawns-and-...-well-I-could-go-on-1

From the Guardian media website:-

Chris Morris will be making his hotly anticipated return to Channel 4 early next year with a new comedy show thought to feature the Nathan Barley character from the TVGoHome satirical website.

Kevin Lygo, the Channel 4 director of programmes, said he had seen two episodes of the new show, which is shrouded in the secrecy that normally surrounds Morris projects.

However, the new comedy is understood to have a more traditional sitcom format than the maverick programme-makers previous Channel 4 shows, Jam and Brass Eye.

The show, which is understood to have a working title Box of Slice, will be broadcast as part of Channel 4's winter 2005 schedule from January, Mr Lygo added.

"It's more traditional than the stuff he has done in the past. It's not exactly a sitcom, but people do sit down in it from time to time," he said.

Morris's new show understood to revolve around the Barley character, a public school-educated, Hoxton-dwelling media type who is obsessed with gadgets and extreme sports.

The cast is believed to include Kevin Eldon - who has worked with Morris before on shows including Jam and Brass Eye - Nina Sosanya, whose credits include Teachers and Love Actually, and relative newcomer Ben Wilshaw.

Morris has co-written the new show with Charlie Brooker, the Guardian Guide's TV critic and co-creator of TVGoHome.

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J-Bo-1

Hi, all.

Just a quick note to let you know that in several weeks' time, I'm leaving Rebellion (and, indeed, Oxford) to take up the position of Graphic Novels editor at Titan Books.

Been a pleasure meeting and/or working with you all, and I'll see you at the next DreddCon, if not before.

In the meantime, I'm here to answer all your GNs questions, as ever ;)

All the best

J-Bo-1

Sadly, neither Carlos Ezquerra, Richard Elson or Mike Collins can make it on the day.

HOWEVER! Jock and D'Israeli are now coming along!

J-Bo-1

Following the news that THE LAST STARFIGHTER is to be turned into a musical, kindly suggest other wildly inappropriate sci-fi or 2000 AD stories that could trip the light fantastic. And some of the songs one might expect to hear.

For example:

CUBE - THE MUSICAL
featuring classics like "Living in a Box", "Tread Softly, My Love" and "Cop On The Edge"

Go!

J-Bo-1

Dom-1 has asked me to let you all know that the printers have been in touch, and subscribers will be getting their progs a little late next week.

Our sincere apologies.

J-Bo-1

Right, folks.

The best listing of accomodation in Oxford can be found in the link below.

Best of luck!

J-Bo-1

Link: http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/accommodation/hotels.html" target="_blank">Daily Info's Accomodation Guide

Follow the link!

J-Bo-1

Link: http://newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17668" target="_blank">Make with the clicky

Need your email addresses. Please send 'em via the sendmail facility...

...that is all.

J-Bo-1

For anyone interested in Si Fraser's work - which IMHO should be everyone in the world with a working set of eyes - there are a couple of page previews and some details about his forthcoming HILL HOUSE project up on today's Lying in the Gutters.

J-Bo-1

Right, there was this "Judge" bloke, but he had a crap comedy sidekick and talked like a knob-jockey. Didn't look like anything I'd ever read...

J-Bo-1

Reposted from the V Forum:-
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I'm looking for people to write Thumbnails for Ninth Art. Thumbnails are creator profiles that offer a chronological?rundown of a creator's career and highlight some of their best works. They tend to require two things; passion for that creator's work, and research.

?Thumbnails tend to be very popular. The Jim Lee Thumbnail is the most popular article we've ever run. The Neal Adams Thumbnail is also in the top five, and the Otomo, Herge and Crumb Thumbnails have all been staggeringly well-received. They're also some of my favourite articles on the site. So I want more.

?If there's a creator with a good body of work under his or her belt that you'd like to profile for Ninth Art, get in touch with myself and/or Mr Duff and let us know.?(I believe Brent Keane promised us a Grant Morrison Thumbnail and Al Kennedy said he'd do one on Mike Allred. Mazzeo mentioned that he'd started on a John Byrne Thumbnail, too. All other major creators are fair game, though. People like Steve Ditko, Frank Miller, Daniel Clowes, Matt Wagner and?Bill Sienkiewicz?would all be good subjects.)

You can get in touch with the Ninth Art editorial team via:- submissions@ninthart.com

J-Bo-1

Link: http://www.ninthart.com/sectionindex.php?section=features" target="_blank">Ninth Art's THUMBNAILS and other features

...Anyone watching it? First two episodes have now aired in the US, and I've gotta say, I am LOVING it.

'Course, it helped that episode 2 was a dramatisation of Alan Moore's CLASSIC Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...

J-BURN!-1

It's Suicide time! COMMERCIAL SUCIDE 2.0 is now open to submissions.

COMMERCIAL SUICIDE 1.0, a 48-page compendium of wrongness, rocked the hizzy at Bristol 2004, selling out before 12 noon on the first day. Not bad for a comic organised in 18 days flat! This time, we are aiming for a 64-page book which will be sold at the London con on Oct 23 and will hopefully be printed up afterwards for direct sales & distribution. There are also rumblings of a Brazilian version.

DETAILS: Send us your filth! We want funny and demented stories between 1-8 pages in length, by October 11th. We can hook writers up with artists, but writers would need to get their scripts in by end of this month if they need us to matchmake.

Anonymous contribution (or use of a pseudonym) is allowed.

The only criterion for inclusion in COMMERCIAL SUICIDE is that your piece makes Kieron and I laugh. If it isn?t funny, it doesn?t go in. If you have any doubts, email us with your script first.

Format is colour cover, black & white interior, standard US comic size.

We also need a cover artist. Anyone interested, please email us. The cover will be generally of the cheesecake (purty female, scantily clad) variety, because we're not too proud to sell our product via sex.

The October 11 deadline is a drop-dead date. If you send anything after Oct 11, Kieron and I will pretend to be very polite, telling you that we will hold it back for Version 3.0 in May. In reality, I'll be holding down the voodoo doll while Kieron stabs it with rusty scalpels.

Assume that Commercial Suicide will be unpaid. However we will divvy up any proceeds from the later printing and distribution (direct or cafepress, still not sure) and send it to people pro rata, based on the number of pages they contributed.

THE NEXT STEP:

WRITERS (AND ARTIST-WRITERS): Email us and tell us 1) what you'll be
contributing; 2) how long it is; and 3) if you need an artist. Please note
that we expect a significant number of returning contributors from 1.0, as well as already-promised contributions from various friends. We will close the book to subs once we have a certain number of pages, so don't hang about.

ARTISTS: Email us if you have availability in September/October to draw between 1-8 pages. If there is a maximum number of pages you want to draw, please tell us. If you want to do the cover, tell us. We'll decide on a cover artist in the next 2 weeks.

GROUND RULES: COMMERCIAL SUICIDE is not at home to: wet-blanketry, lateness, excuses (unless they are really, really funny), quibbling, or dropouts.

COMMERCIAL SUICIDE welcomes: bribes, zombie foetuses, Minister Drill-cock, very large guns, gratuitous nudity and violence, robot armageddon, tartan miniskirts, controlled substances, and general offensiveness. Remember, it's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye. And then the real fun begins.

BLAME:
Alex de Campi (alex_de_campi *at* hotmail *dot* com ) : Co-Tyrant
Kieron Gillen (kieron *at* panelbleed *dot* com): Co-Tyrant
Josh Krach (josh *at* studiophoenix *dot* com): Production God
Hector Lima (hectorlima *at* gmail *dot* com): Latin American Co-Respondent.

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Jamie's note:-

Attention G. WILKINSON, A. EWING, A. WYATT, and the other small-press comickers on this board ? get yer subs in!

J-Bo-1

...and boy, are my arms tired. I'm here all week! Try the veal!

Just returned from ComicCon San Diego... and can talk to you about next year's books up til March.

Quick version:-

JANUARY

SINISTER DEXTER: MURDER 101
ABC WARRIORS: THE MEKNIFICENT SEVEN
BAD COMPANY: GOODBYE, KROOL WORLD

FEBRUARY

SKIZZ
ROGUE TROOPER: THE FUTURE OF WAR
DEVLIN WAUGH: RED TIDE

MARCH

DREDD: AMERICA
NIKOLAI DANTE: THE GREAT GAME
SLAINE: WARRIOR'S DAWN

Will discuss further once jet-lag wears off... my body thinks it's breakfast time!

J-Bo-1

Please email me offlist if you have a copy of the 1992 Winter Special. There may be something nice in it for you...!

J-Bo-1

11:00 PM, tonight (Monday 10th)

Do NOT miss this movie - one of the finest Asian flicks ever made and a real future-shock story :)

J-Bo-1-HAS-SPOKEN

All fans, droids, etc. Who's coming? Where you staying? Let the board know!

J-Bo-1, there for the weekend, at the Ramada

...Anyone watching the best TV Western series ever made, DEADWOOD?

J-Bo-c**ks**k**g-m**********rs-1

What I've been promising all this time!

J-Bo-1

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