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Lambeth Graphic Novel Readers Group

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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The Lambeth Graphic Novel Readers Group will meet at Streatham Library at 7.30pm on the 16th of January. The theme for this meeting is the emerging comics and graphic narrative scene coming out of Arabic and North African countries at the moment, which should be a pretty interesting topic – as we blogged about just [...]

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Corporate Skull returns

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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Jamie Smart brings back his spleen-rupturingly funny Corporate Skull webcomic, with issue four kicking off this week. More cynical slices into corporate culture, more swears, more lashings of the old ultra violence and personal abuse. oh yes, sign me up. I’ve been loving this since it launched, it’s rude, crude and doesn’t give a flying [...]

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Yeowell after Lichtenstein

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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This week’s 2000 AD cover (for Prog 1765) made me smile – a Nikolai Dante cover with the fine Steve Yeowell pastiching pop artist Lichtenstein, which seems fair given Lichtenstein made money emulating (some say copying) comics artist’s work without attribution or recompense, so turn around by parodying his approach seems like fair game to [...]

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Best of the Year – Maura McHugh

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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This final guest Best of the Year selection comes from commentator, reviewer and writer Maura McHugh, who has been impressing us with some of her own comics series this year: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? Maura: [...]

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Somersault – lift or stairs?

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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The Real Men story arc continues in Somersault: (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first )

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Look left, look right, cross the road safely with Peanuts

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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This zebra crossing using a perspective slanted set of Charles M Schulz’s immortal Peanuts characters made me smile (via Wim):

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Electroshock therapy!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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Darren at the Genre Files points us to this fabulous short animation in French (with English subtitles) from the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques‘ Hugo Jackson, Pascal Chandelier, Valentin Michel, Bastien Morteleque and Elliot Maren. In time honoured tradition a hapless dweeb has a serious accident that gifts him with superpowers – he determines to [...]

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Invisible Girls and Phantom Ladies – Alan Moore on comics and gender

Monday, January 9, 2012

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The comics – especially the mainstream capes’n'tights comics – and charges of poor gender portrayal and indeed outright sexism are, sadly, not strangers to each other. Both in terms of the inequality in numbers of female creators and in the way women, even incredibly powerful superheroines, have been portrayed the medium has, often rightly, come [...]

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Best of the Year – Mark Kardwell

Monday, January 9, 2012

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Today’s guest Best of the Year comes from a long-time friend of the blog and a considerable commentator on and supporter of comics and books on his own Bad Librarianship blog, Northern Ireland’s own wandering librarian, Mark Kardwell: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and [...]

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Sean Phillips in FP Glasgow this month

Monday, January 9, 2012

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A reminder for your diaries – top comics artist Sean Phillips will be paying a visit to the Glasgow Forbidden Planet International on the city’s Buchanan Street (handily close to the Underground and Queen Street Station) on Wednesday 25th January (Burns Night, as it happens, bring your own haggis) from 5 to 7pm, signing copies [...]

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The Flame Alphabet

Monday, January 9, 2012

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There’s a bit of a buzz among some of the science fiction reading crowd at the moment over the new book by Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet. As with the well received Pontypool it posits a situation where one of the most uniquely developed faculties that make humans what they are – complex language – [...]

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Best of the Year – Joel Meadows

Friday, January 6, 2012

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Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from writer, comics champion and photographer, Tripwire supremo Joel Meadows: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? JM: First of my choices is Joe The Barbarian by Grant Morrison and [...]

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Alex’s Audio Round Up

Friday, January 6, 2012

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Windsurfing in on the recent gales comes Alex Fitch with news of the comics, film and sci-fi aural goodness with this new shows for the New Year; as ever check the (newly redesigned) Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Clear Spot: Cult animation, Tuesday 10th at 8pm on [...]

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In defence of dots

Friday, January 6, 2012

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Our own Kenny (via Rian Hughes) points us to this article by John Hilgart in defence of the old methods of comics art and printing, the classic four colour process and the ‘dots’ (an aspect of old colour comics production that Lichtenstein blew up for his pop art grabs from other artists). It’s an older [...]

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Pingu’s The Thing

Friday, January 6, 2012

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This fab wee claymation animation not only condenses John Carpenter’s The Thing – a true modern classic of horror cinema – into just 60 seconds, it does it with the cast of Pingu! It even has the iconic scenes like the alien chest snapping closed on the doctor’s arms and that extending head into scuttling [...]

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