Archive | November, 2008

Propaganda – The Mystery Play

25. November 2008

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The Mystery Play by Grant Morrison & Jon J Muth The actor playing God in a religious play is found dead. A decaying town becomes filled with fear & suspicion in this stunning psychological thriller. Every character in the piece is searching for judgement or redemption. None more so than the detective, a bewildered, confused man, more interested [...]

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Les Barton

25. November 2008

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Lew Stringer unearths some work by Les Barton, who passed away recently; in this case Lew has found some cartoons that were more adult in nature, being created for 1950s men’s magazines rather than comics, fairly tame by today’s standards but probably racy for the early 50s, coming complete with glamour model pinup pics (Lew [...]

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Super-Sam – the fight

25. November 2008

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His powers are waning, he’s ill, he may be dying and he doesn’t even have his bullet-proof wig. Can Sam stand up to an assassination attempt? (click the pic to visit full-size version and the complete archive of Darryl’s previous Super-Sam and John-of-the-night strips. Art ©2008 Darryl Cunningham; if you want permission to reproduce any part [...]

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Sparky O’Hare

25. November 2008

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Continuing with our exclusive preview from the new Blank Slate Books translation of Mawil’s Sparky O’Hare: (Sparky O’Hare preview courtesy of and (c) Mawil, published by Blank Slate Books, click the image for the larger picture; you can visit Mawil’s site here)

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Art Spiegelman in the Times

24. November 2008

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“I had the amazing – to me – insight that comics are a narrative medium, but a narrative is a story, which comes from the Latin historia, referring to the horizontal rows of a building – and that comes from those early painted-glass comics that were used in churches to tell the superhero story of [...]

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Talking Elf – Tom Spurgeon chats to James Kochalka

24. November 2008

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The always excellent Tom Spurgeon on Comics Reporter talks to the brilliant James Kochalka, creator of, among other works, his autobiographical diary strip American Elf. here he is talking to Tom about how the strip has changed over its ten year (yes, really, the ten year mark just passed recently) run, just as his and [...]

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Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms

24. November 2008

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(one of the abandoned ’sound mirrors’ in Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms by and (c) Julian Hanshaw) The Guardian website has posted up an online version of Sand Dunes and Sonic Booms, Julian Hanshaw’s winning entry for the recent Jonathan Cape/Observer short graphic fiction prize.It’s a lovely piece of work, slighty reminiscent of Oli East – [...]

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Owamya doin’? Am ya Bostin’?

24. November 2008

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Bostin’ Heroes # 1 by Matthew Craig, Jack Davies & Donato Esposito A strange one this. A comic about the Black Country that forms part of the Bostin’ group, It’s technically a small press comic promoting a business, but since the business is all about the Black Country and that’s where I’m from, I make no apologies [...]

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Sparky O’Hare

24. November 2008

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Continuing with our exclusive preview from the new Blank Slate Books translation of Mawil’s Sparky O’Hare: (Sparky O’Hare preview courtesy of and (c) Mawil, published by Blank Slate Books, click the image for the larger picture; you can visit Mawil’s site here)

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Blank Slate: News comes in threes….

23. November 2008

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Kenny at the ever excellent Blank Slate has updated the blog with lovely things. First of all, the Spleenal book by Nigel now has a cover to the book that’s due out in February 2009: And Oliver East’s fantastic Trains Are … Mint has been reviewed in the Comics Journal # 294. His next book; Proper [...]

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Survivors writer talks to the BBC

23. November 2008

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On the BBC site’s Writer’s Room the guest is Adrian Hodges, who has worked on Primeval among a number of other productions but will probably pop more onto science fiction fan’s radars for writing the 21st century re-working of Terry Nation’s cult 70s show Survivors, which starts this evening on the BBC. BBC: “With Survivors, how [...]

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Before 2000 AD – classic British comics heroes

22. November 2008

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On a regular trip back to the family home recently I found myself leafing through some old 2000 AD annuals on the bookshelves of my old room. Flicking through some at random I spotted an article by one of the Mighty Tharg’s research droids, a young Lew Stringer. The article was in the 1985 edition [...]

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Life Sucks – I shall avoid the obvious pun for the title.

21. November 2008

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Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria and Warren Pleece Published First Second I really thought I’d enjoy this one a lot more than I actually did. The pedigree was excellent; Jessica Abel’s the writer/artist on Artbabe and Warren Pleece has never disappointed me yet with his artwork. But despite that the book just fell flat and I [...]

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Sparky O’Hare

21. November 2008

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Continuing with our exclusive preview from the new Blank Slate Books translation of Mawil’s Sparky O’Hare: (Sparky O’Hare preview courtesy of and (c) Mawil, published by Blank Slate Books, click the image for the larger picture; you can visit Mawil’s site here)

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“I’ll be back…” McG talks Terminator

21. November 2008

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Director McG has been showing some footage from the upcoming Terminator: Salvation movie and discussing the film with journalists in London. The film (the first in a projected new trilogy) is set in 2018, with human survivors dealing with the ongoing after-effects of the Credit Crunch and the global recession… Okay, its the aftermath of [...]

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