More "Dial H" details!
io9 have spoken to China about his "Dial H" comic series. As usual China is very cagey about giving too much away ahead of release, but he drops interesting hints:
There are various Easter eggs for hardcore/long-time fans of Dial H for Hero in the run. (As one of them, can we come up with a better noun for such people? Dialers? Dialups?)"
There's also a peek at the artwork over there.
Thanks to @tamara_rom for pointing this out to me, and io9 for the article.
Dial H!
I thought China might be done with comics, after his swamp thing cancellation and the rejection he got for scrap iron man. But he's back with an ongoing comic called "Dial H"!
From the USA today article:
..instead of one superhero, Miéville will create several every month in Dial H, about a guy who finds an old dial that gives him different powers every time he uses it.
Nine of DC's "New 52" issues were among the 10 best-selling comics of 2011, according to Diamond Comics Distributors.
"Part of the sign of the New 52 growing up is that it can afford to stretch its wings a little bit and so some things that are a bit more left field," Miéville says. "There's room for a lot of different inflections in this vocabulary."
Update: Found some more stories on this, at comicbook resources and sfx.
Railsea
Somehow news of China Miéville new "young adult" targeted novel seems to have passed me by! So here we are reporting on it now:
Amazon's description goes as follows:
"On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death and the other’s glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can’t shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea—even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-colored mole she’s been chasing since it took her arm all those years ago. When they come across a wrecked train, at first it’s a welcome distraction. But what Sham finds in the derelict—a kind of treasure map indicating a mythical place untouched by iron rails—leads to considerably more than he’d bargained for. Soon he’s hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters, and salvage-scrabblers. And it might not be just Sham’s life that’s about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea."
Sounds interesting doesn't it? It's due in the UK & US on the 15 May (again according to Amazon).
If anyone has any more information then please let us know!
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer on the Sofanaughts
Jeff and Ann VanderMeer are on the recent Sofanaughts episode talking about their upcoming anthology "The Weird".
Sounds like this anthology is going to be pretty exciting (and massive!) collection of weird fiction.
Jeff and Ann discuss the process of constructing "The Weird" and give some hints at the contents. Ann also discusses her exit from the role of editor at Weird Tales.
One thing which must be mentioned given this sites name is the fact that Jeff and Ann let China Miéville "loose on the afterward" and that he was "like a kid in a candy store".
China Miéville @ BD Passion
Forbidden Planet's blog has a report on China's appearance at BD passion (which we previously mentioned here ). We've heard about some of this stuff before, but this is still worth a read!
"China starts off by talking about how pleased he is to be able to sit around and talk about the comics and illustrations by the creators he loves. He begins by saying that he really wants to highlight unusual and unexpected influences and avoid talking about the predictable. He admits that he loved 2000AD, but interestingly he highlights Massimo Belardinelli’s Ace Trucking.
Then on the large screen Mieville shows us images from William Pene du Bois’s 1950s fairy tale book Castles and Dragons followed by a collection of monster illustrations by Don Bolognese. The author is delighted to explain that he is not looking to show us just the people we love, but the unusual illustrators who influenced him."
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