by zaphod | Nov 4, 2026 | News
At the beginning of last October, Manchester based Cutaway Comics launched a kickstarter campaign for a graphic novel project ” celebrating the life of the absurdly talented and much missed Hitchhikers creator Douglas Adams”. Here’s the synopsis....
by zaphod | Sep 29, 2026 | News
I’ve just learned that Frank Halford has died. He was 94 or 95 years old (i’ll update when i get confirmation. He worked at Brentwood School between 1959 to 1991. Frank Halford was famous to Douglas Adams fans fans for being the teacher who gave a ten out...
by zaphod | May 22, 2026 | News
In the run up to International Towel Day, Stalbridge, Dorset’s smallest town, will see pop up community events, plus ‘build a recycled spaceship in your front garden’, Vogon Peotry Jams and Gargleblaster mixing competitions. If you are local to them...
by zaphod | Jul 9, 2025 | News
The Infinite Improbability Deck, based on Douglas Adams’ HHGG, designed by Jack Brutus Penny, is live on Kickstarter for a few weeks, and still have 9 days to go as i write this news. The project got 1,297 backers already. You have till Fri, July 18 2025 if you...
by zaphod | Jun 3, 2025 | News
This is sadly not the return of the live show written and produced by Dirk Maggs more than ten years ago. But nevertheless it’s still good news. The show is co-created by Arvind Ethan David (the guy who co-wrote the “Dirk Gently” play back in the...
by zaphod | Aug 4, 2024 | News
Following the success of the number one bestseller 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, this companion volume unveils Adams’ complete, never-before-published scripts of the Hitchhikers TV series, meticulously annotated with exclusive production notes,...
by zaphod | Apr 20, 2021 | News
It was a huge surprise when we heard the news. There will be another book with some Douglas Adams orignal and unpublished texts available soon! The last time a book was published under Douglas Adams’ name it was “Salmon of Doubt” in 2002. We all knew...
by zaphod | May 25, 2020 | News
Happy Towel Day all! This is a very special Towel Day due to the COVID-19 health crisis but that’s obviously a good reason to carry your towel everywhere today. Don’t hesitate to wrap it around your head if you don’t have your face mask, or to use it to ward off those...
by zaphod | Jan 22, 2020 | News
Terry Jones has died at 77. He was of course one of the six Monty Python. He directed “Life of Brian” (1979) but also co-directed “Monty Python’s Holly Grail” (1977) and “The Meaning of Life” (1983) with Terry Gilliam. He directed several interesting movies like...
by zaphod | Oct 12, 2019 | News
According to H2G2 radio series director Dirk Maggs, Stephen Moore died peacefully at home a few days ago. He was 81 years old. Moore was one of my heroes and the REAL Marvin (radio and TV series but he also recorded two singles !!). On 12th October, Dirk Maggs wrote...
