The Return of Black Widow

X-Men: Days of Future Past

I just bought my copy of Empire. 25 to chose from and I got Rogue.

WARRIOR #10 by Garry Leach

The British comic WARRIOR #10 cover by Garry Leach 1983. Thanks to Dave Elliott.

Planet of the Apes (1968) Original Teaser

Only Lovers Left Alive

I went to a screening of this last night. Loved it!

McQueen - Spring/Summer 2014

Kate Moss by Steven Klein for Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2014

F U T U R O !

Spotted while wandering around Paris... it's my dream home! More about the Futuro here.

Maison & Objet - Paris

A few shots from the Andrew Martin International stand at Maison & Objet in Paris earlier today.

Interview Russia Interview Germany

Interview Magazine Russia - February 2014, Featuring Anna Chipovskaya

Interview Magazine Germany - February 2014, Featuring Lindsey Wixson

Commercial Break #37

A commercial from the 1970s featuring Farrah Fawcett and Angela Cartwright aka Penny Robinson!

Maleficent

Rigg & Lazenby

For more about this particular team-up, check Nick Setchfield's On Her Majesty's Secret Service James Bond feature on this link.

Aurora - Lost In Space

Retrieved from my parent's attic by my brother; my assembled but unpainted Aurora kit from 1967. Free Robinson Family with every purchase (well, all but one!)

Garry Leach Signs Miracleman

Garry Leach signing at Orbital Comics yesterday

I remember being completely blown-away by the art of Garry Leach when I first saw Marvelman in Warrior Magazine 30 years ago, in fact if it hadn't been for Garry I may never have ended up working in the comics business at all. In 1983, I was working the West End nightclubs as a freelance photographer and doing graphics and illustration during the day, having just left a completely non-lucrative job in a small advertising agency. As much as I loved photography, comics was my other passion and an avenue that I still hadn't explored, so I looked up the number of Quality, the publishers of Warrior and called them up. Garry was the person I spoke to and surprisingly he invited me to drop by the office and show him my work. I had no sequential art at all, just a few comic style illustrations. He had a look, gave me advice, a lot of encouragement and a couple of discarded Alan Moore scripts; carbon copies they were, one was Marvelman and the other, V for Vendetta. He told me to practice and he also said I should try Marvel UK and see if they had anything going... and that's how I ended up working for Marvel UK. So, Thank you, Garry!

It's well worth reading Rich Johnston's article, Why Miracleman Matters, Thirty Years On, over at Bleeding Cool as well as his (then) live blogging of the event here. 

Later in the evening Orbital's Chris Thompson presented a fax that had just come through from Will Simpson and here it is in all its glory!

Carbon Copy Scripts

Valentino Rocks

A rather beautiful ad campaign by Photographer, Craig McDean and Fashion Editor, Karl Templer.

Models: Malaika Firth, Auguste Abeliunaite, Ine Neefs, Esther Heesch & Maartje Verhoef. 

Valentino Spring/Summer 2014 (click for large).

Game of Thrones: Season 4

RIP Alexandra Bastedo

Sad to hear of the passing of Alexandra Bastedo who played Sharron Macready in The Champions.

London 1927

Natalie Merchant - Ophelia

Will Simpson: The Art Of Game Of Thrones

Will's beautiful drawing of Daenerys Targaryen

Orbital Comics is currently hosting this very special exhibition featuring storyboards and concept art by William Simpson for HBO’s Game of Thrones. The private view was fun and it was great to catch up with Will, who I hadn't seen since our time at 2000AD and previously, Marvel UK. If you're in town, go and check out his amazing art while you still can. It's showing until January 19th.

Will Simpson in Stereo

Left, Rian Hughes doffing his pork pie hat, with Bella White and Will Simpson

Rian and Rufus Dayglo

Don't miss!

A berserker from the 'Night's Watch' as seen on the BluRay dvd extras for season 2

Shannon - Let The Music Play

R E L A X – It was 30 years ago today

More about this over on DJ Food's channel... meanwhile, here's the remix from 2009.

Commercial Break #36

Pierre Cardin, 1968.