People have been asking me to post updates when I launch a new REMAKE/REMODEL on Whitechapel, so here you go: this week, Basil Wolverton’s SPACEHAWK.

"Ellis, I need new HOUSE DVDs."

"Why do you like HOUSE, Lili? He’s just a grumpy old man, and you always tell me I’m a grumpy old man."

"Yes, but you’re not a doctor… (pauses, sees something she distrusts in my eyes, continues slowly)… you’re not legally a doctor, Ellis."

"…shit."

Though I must admit, I kinda love it – the German edition, apparently:

CROOKED LITTLE VEIN in Spanish:

Selections from this past week’s REMAKE/REMODEL thread on Whitechapel, this time featuring pulp character Domino Lady:

This week, Ryan Kelly, illustrator of LOCAL, came in:

* Paul Sizer, creator of the recently-released graphic novel BPM:

(obviously you’ll find all these at full size in the thread)

* Hana:

* Amanda Penrose:

* Jorge Munoz:

* Felipe Sobreiro:

* Miranda Pole:

* DisContent:

And the last REMAKE/REMODEL of the year goes up at Whitechapel on Monday.

In which something explodes. Free to air, you can still read all the other episodes for free, and the first 24 have been collected into a lovely book you can go out and buy for someone for Xmas today please oh god don’t make me beg

Next spring brings the launch of WIRED UK, a new stab at providing a "local" WIRED Magazine for God’s own country. This attempt involves the services of Ben Hammersley, whose CV is twice as long as mine or yours and eighteen times as mad.

And Ben Hammersley has engaged me as a monthly columnist for WIRED UK, with an editorial mandate of, well, writing about anything I feel like writing about.

This will be massive amounts of fun.

Emma Rios:

* Bethalynne Bajema:

* Ben Templesmith:

* Molly Crabapple:

* Nikki Cook (from a forthcoming issue of Brian Wood’s DMZ, I believe):

I’m wrapping up the script to #12 right now, and wrote a 1300-word piece for the back of #11 the night before last.

* Just in time for bloody Xmas, Jean Snow lets me know that his fine co-authored book ARCADE MANIA is now available from Amazons US and UK.

* Via Melissa, who I believed helped organise it:

* Morgan Murphy: still alive, it turns out.

* Free EP from Sideb0ard & Moore, following hauntological lodgings in the Curfew Tower as mentioned passim.

From BMEzine:

There ought to be a wall of cautionary photos, with Edie Sedgwick right at the top. It should say "Muses Don’t Keep Copyright."

– Molly Crabapple

“There is a giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a study has confirmed. The black hole is four million times heavier than our Sun, according to the paper in The Astrophysical Journal. The researchers from the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany said the black hole was 27,000 light years, or 158 thousand, million,
million miles from the Earth.”

Oliver Postgate died last night. You’ve doubtless been reading a lot about him from Brits of a certain age already today: the peculiar feeling of a childhood friend we never met going away for good.

You may be forgiven for thinking the following presentation is a bit… mental. That’s how children’s TV was in Britain, way back when.

"Security!"

See?

* The new REMAKE/REMODEL artist-challenge thread for this week is up.

* As is the day’s NEWSKRUSHER.

* Discussion thread for Garth & Jacen’s CROSSED #2.

* The I Did Not Need To See That imagethread. Though, funnily enough, the scary naked people are actualy in this month’s self-portrait thread.

"Anti-retroviral drugs used to treat HIV/Aids are being bought and smoked by teenagers in South Africa to get high."

Selections from this past weeks’ REMAKE/REMODEL thread on Whitechapel, this time featuring obscure 1930s adventurer Captain Justice:

Art Grafunkel:

Bryant Paul:

Juan Santapau:

Lukas Ketner:

Rainbow Blight:

I have left out some wonderful pictures (and some of these do need to be seen full-size). Go to the thread and see for yourself.