Archive | August, 2008

D’Israeli’s new comic may be delayed………

31. August 2008

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The artist has found other things to take up his time; we’ve seen comic art mashups, now we’re seeing action figure mashups. It’s just classic displacement activity: Get back to work Matt! (Images from D’Israeli’s blog & his Flickr stream)

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Propaganda – Queen & Country

31. August 2008

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Queen & Country by Greg Rucka, Steve Rolston, Brian Hurtt, Leandro Fernandez, Jason Alexander, Carla Speed Macneil, Mike Hawthorne. When you’ve read Q&C you’re aware of it’s debt to the small scale, careful spycraft of Le Carre & Greene. Q&C manages to portray all of the dirty realism of espionage yet still delivers enough out & out [...]

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Hunt Emerson’s Dennis The Menace

30. August 2008

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I was having a little look around Hunt Emerson’s Large Cow website (something you should all be doing from time to time) and came across this fantastic little character sheet of Dennis The Menace. It’s the sort of thing that the editors at the Beano ask the artists to do every so often, just to [...]

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Hitchhiker’s producer killed in traffic accident

30. August 2008

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The BBC reports the sad news that famous comedy producer Geoffrey Perkins has been killed after being involved in a traffic accident. Perkins, aged only 55, was involved in a vast number of British TV and radio comedies, including some of my personal favourites such as I’m Sorry I Haven’t Got a Clue (which I [...]

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Propaganda – on Nabiel Kanan’s Birthday Riots and Lost Girl

30. August 2008

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Birthday Riots & Lost Girl by Nabiel Kanan    Few writer/ artists, especially British, have ever burst onto the comics scene with such incendiary style as Nabiel Kanan did back in the early 90s. Amongst a wave of awful, derivative, badly drawn, poorly written trash, the first issue of Exit, with [...]

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Comic browsing on the web

29. August 2008

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A few titbits I’ve come across in the past week or so, and some more substantial morsels too: The American woodcut artist Lynd Ward was an early pioneer of “novels in pictures”, or “graphic novels” as we call them now, though Ward’s work is unlike anything you’ll find in a comics shop today. [...]

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The Uncollecteds A-Z part 3 S through Z

29. August 2008

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The last part of our continuing Uncollecteds series looking at those lost and unavailable classics. For the idea and the rules see the first post. This time it’s a straight A-Z again, with the contributor in brackets alongside the title. We join the game at S …… The Shadow – Howard Chaykin, Andy Helfer, Bill Sienkienwicz, Kyle [...]

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Calvin & Jobs

29. August 2008

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Missed this when it was out a few weeks ago; a nice little Calvin & Hobbes meets Apple supremo: Calvin & Jobs at Daily Cartoonist. There’s more at the link. (Via ComicMix)

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Spirou and the Marsupilami together one again?

28. August 2008

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In the next issue of Spirou Magazine, the pre-publication of Spirou and Fantasio’s fiftieth adventure will kick off, in which scientist-gone-wrong Z goes all loony again.  As BoDoi points out, it’s the final one for the creative team of José Luis Munuera and Jean David Morvan (with a little help from [...]

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The Uncollecteds A-Z part 2 J through R

28. August 2008

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Here we go again, continuing the list of all of those great comics that we all want to see collected so we can gaze lovingly at them on our bookshelves – for the idea and the rules see the first post. This time it’s a straight A-Z, with the contributor in brackets alongside the title. Justice League [...]

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DC universe theory sort of, kind of explained….

28. August 2008

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I may not have wanted to read a lot of it, but I always had (still do have) a somewhat nostalgic warm and fuzzy feeling for the Marvel and DC Universes. And since I used to work at Nostalgia & Comics Birmingham for many years I could always find out the ins and outs of [...]

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The Marvel: a Biography of Jack Parsons webcomic

27. August 2008

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Richard Carbonneau and Robin Simon are putting up a comics biography of Jack Parsons online entitled The Marvel. Parsons was a pioneer in rocketry and a founder of the famed and internationally respected Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). It appears away from his heavy duty science research though he was heavily into the ‘mystical’ (or simply [...]

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Propaganda dallies with a Princess at Midnight

27. August 2008

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Princess At Midnight by Andi Watson Image Comics I can honestly say that as far as I’m concerned Andi Watson just can’t write a bad book and with this and his other current project Glister he’s keeping up a phenomenally good standard. Princess At Midnight was first published in the first volume of Best New Manga, this [...]

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Torchwood to be one story arc

27. August 2008

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The BB of C reports that the next season of Torchwood, currently filming in Cardiff for broadcast next year, will be one story arc instead of the usual independent episodes, with the team dealing with one serious alien threat through the five episodes. I think that might actually be a good move for Torchwood, which [...]

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The Uncollecteds A-Z part 1 A through H

27. August 2008

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Another in the Uncollecteds series, for the idea and the rules see the first post. This time it’s a straight A-Z, with the contributor in brackets alongside the title. 2001 – Jack Kirby (Paul Cornell) Give it the Essentials treatment because Kirby would, again, look a lot better without those muddy Marvel colours back then. A1 – various [...]

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