Yearly Archives: 2008

NASA, Walt Disney, and Buzz Lightyear in joint education initiative

NASA's Toys in Space program will be launching a Buzz Lightyear action figure aboard the space shuttle Discovery on 31 May to kickoff a new educational partnership with Disney... Read more [...]

Enemi Entertainment and Haven Distributors join forces

Independent comic distributors Enemi Entertainment and Haven Distributors are partnering to produce a new catalog... Read more [...]

Lolita and Maid Fashion Day coming to New York City

Lolita and Maid fashion are cosplay versions of the anime, manga, and general Japanese culture finding their way to the US. New York City's Kinokuniya Bookstore will be host to a full day... Read more [...]

Prince Caspian’s release date may have been a mistake

Disney CEO Robert Iger says the second Narnia film is not doing as well as expected, probably due to calendar competition from Iron Man and Indiana Jones... Read more [...]

Actor Harvey Korman Dies

Actor Harvey Korman (1927-2008) wasn't a tv star, but an award-winning co-star on television and in movies... Read more [...]

Jack Haringa Must Die to benefit the Shirley Jackson Award

A chapbook entitled Jack Haringa Must Die! is being sold to benefit the Shirley Jackson Award. Contributors to the book are all friends of the eponymous, quite alive Haringa... Read more [...]

Ralph Bakshi to be Artist Guest of Honor at WorldCon 2009

Animation icon Ralph Bakshi will be the Artist Guest of Honor at Anticipation, next year's World Science Fiction Convention... Read more [...]

Composer Earle Hagen Dies

Composer Earle Hagen (1919-2008) won an Emmy and was nominated for three more. Some of his work included the television series Planet of the Apes... Read more [...]

Scream Queen debuting with signing and beer

Brendan Hay and Nate Watson's new Boom! Studios comic, Scream Queen, will launch with a party at Los Angeles' Meltdown Comics & Collectibles... Read more [...]

Shirley Jackson Awards Benefit Reading

Ellen Datlow will host a benefit reading for the Shirley Jackson Awards while honoring the 60th anniversary of the publication of Jackson's "The Lottery"... Read more [...]

Encoding Humanity—a review of The Andromeda Strain

This updating of the 1971 movie—both of which are based on Michael Crichton's novel—is a good modernization, bringing in modern sensibilities and science... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.) Read more [...]

Composer Alexander Courage Dies

Composer Alexander Courage (1919-2008) will be best remembered for his "Star Trek Theme"... Read more [...]

All Pyr’s downloadable chapters, in one place

Pyr has built a page on its web site that "aggregates all the online content," including many sample chapters... Read more [...]

Ian Brill is new editor at Boom! Studios

Comics journalist Ian Brill has joined Boom! Studios as their Games Workshop Editor... Read more [...]

Limited Warhammer editions available

Boom! Studios is offering limited numbered and lettered editions of the hardcover collections of their Warhammer series Damnation Crusade and Forge of War... Read more [...]

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