Welcome to the first webcast from Forbidden Planet featuring the new coffee table book Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel. FP hosted the authors, Anina Bennett and Paul Guinan, for a short interview about their creation. It’s […]
Umbrella Academy vol 02: Dallas TP– A fractured team gets thrust into new adventure involving a plot to kill JFK. An FP bestseller, The Umbrella Academy maintains the vibrant cool of volume one with Dallas […]
Plaque, Legos, Dozers… These things build up. So too does the rather heaping mound of comics, books, and assorted curiosities on the coffee table back at Casa de Ayers. I get sent and/or buy a […]
I love Ballistic. They’re a publisher of fine digital art books based in Australia and their line is absolutely magnificent. A tad on the pricey side, butcha pay for quality, dang it! They’re worth every penny, […]
Highlights: Process Recess 3– Acclaimed and uber-popular Fables cover artist James Jean’s new artbook from AdHouse arrived this week. Copies of the book adorn the counters at FP NYC and when I first saw them […]
MSN Movies has some fantastic new imagery from Spike Jonze’s adaptation of the seminal children’s book by Maurice Sendak. Mostly production stills, but included is this new one-sheet: Having only seen this film’s trailer with […]
The Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street between Park and Lex in NYC, opens its 2009 Spectrum exhibit this Tuesday night, September 1st. “Spectrum” is on display at the Museum of American Illustration at […]
Joe Gordon, he of the fantastic Forbidden Planet International Blog, has photos and video up this morning from the Edinburgh store’s signing with Amanda Palmer. You might remember Amanda from such books as, Who Killed […]
The incredibly creative couple of Neil Gaiman and Dresden Dolls Lead Singer Amanda Palmer have combined to bring us a work of Palmer’s photography in “Who Killed Amanda Palmer.” The book doesn’t even come out […]
Been playing with this in the wee hours of the evening after closing the FP NYC store… Go Hero’s Buck Rogers 12″ Action Figure … That’s right. Playing with it. Grown man, playing with a […]
“Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.” — Buzz Aldrin And to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the original […]
This week’s Village Voice has a review by cartoonist Ward Sutton of the highly touted new documentary “Died Young, Stayed Pretty.” The film premiers Friday the 17th in New York at the IFC Center and […]
As reported by Locus magazine, science fiction publishing lost one of it’s more ardent and vociferous supporters this past Sunday. Locus publisher, editor, and co-founder Charles N. Brown, 72, died peacefully in his sleep July […]
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