Christopher Fowler's Blog, page 405

Sunday Morning in London

When you've been away for just a week, coming back to London can sometimes be a pleasantly surreal experience. As I walked through the station there was an opera singer performing an aria from La Traviata, hundreds of Japanese children in immaculate school uniforms were lined up for the Eurostar and a huge map of [...]

Re:View – 'Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn'

First, the obvious question; why didn't they shoot it live action instead of going with dead-eyed rubbery motion capture in the style of the ghastly 'Polar Express'? After the first twenty minutes an answer emerges – such is the feverish ADD pacing of the new Tintin film that no live action adventure would ever have [...]

I Axed For It

To celebrate PS Publishing's yummy new hardback reprints of the old Harvey Horror comics (for which I've written a foreword), artist Graham Humphries has painted me in a tribute to EC's original 'Vault Of Horror' comics book. I have to go now, I've a splitting headache!

Book Wars

With newspaper sales in fast decline as smart phones and tablets eat into sales, a new battle has begun. Recently rapacious Amazon started bypassing publishers and agents, and struck a deal for the exclusive digital rights to a hundred graphic novels by DC Comics, leading Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million to remove the novels from [...]

War Game

The first 'War Of The Worlds' trailer has gone live in the USA with great reaction, I'm thrilled to say. A proper traditional 2D side-scroller game, it looks like a lot of fun to play, although of course I know how this version ends. Dang!

You'll find it here.

Watch The Skies!

Here's a terrific read from Mark Pilkington's Strange Attractor Press – there's something about the books Mark chooses to publish; they manage to be esoteric and immensely readable. 'Welcome To Mars' by Ken Hollings is a timeline that marries America's postwar conformist social development with its often irrational obsessions about the future, taking in UFOs, [...]

Jordan Travel Tips

A tip for anyone considering Petra…go before dawn, hire horses and go over the mountains to the far end of the valley. That way, you do the whole experience back to front, and it's a deliciously hairy and cowboy-like experience with the horses slipping on loose shale near sheer precipices – unsurprisingly, 'Indiana Jones & [...]

Well, That Was Fun…

For some mysterious reason I can't post Facebook pics but can blog; the mysteries of wi-fi…I'll post some decent pics (i.e. not from my phone) as soon as I'm ensconced in London, where I have to do some serious book signing and writing this week.

A tip, though, for anyone considering Petra…go before dawn, hire horses [...]

Not Exactly Holiday Reading

No visuals today as my Flash Uploader has ceased functioning – but we struggle on.

I'm heading back from the Middle East (having singly failed to get to Jericho or Jerusalem, thanks to the Byzantine arrangements of the Israeli border system), and I just looked back at my holiday reading.

'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom' – TE [...]

The Dark Behind The Smile

So what exactly was Defence Secretary Liam Fox's relationship with pal Adam Werritty? What on earth made it so strong that Werritty would print up business cards announcing his connection with Fox? Did they just like hanging out? What was this, a special edition of 'Entourage'?

Well, the answer is coming out this morning, and it's [...]