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Digital Comics – an optimist’s view……
Lucy Kinsey, on this simple one page strip, presents a viewpoint all too rare in modern comics. It’s often the case that older lags in the game (and I have to include me in this) bemoan about comics as a digital medium rather than a printed one. So to see her enthuse about them like [...]
Continue reading...Girl and the Gorilla, Psychiatric Tales and more, more, more….
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Kenny of Blank Slate showed me the submission from Madeleine Flores a while ago. She’s a young cartoonist with a delightfully light style and a wonderful story – The Girl And The Gorilla. Well, the deal is done and Blank Slate Books is due to publish this in 2010. Madeleine’s post “The Most Awesome Thing [...]
Continue reading...Cute Badger meets sad, lonely space-dog……
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Seeing as I loved Nick Abadzis’ Laika (review) and adored Howard Hardiman’s Badger (review and new review of Badger: Then & Now coming soon), this just had to be mentioned: (“Badger & Friend” by Nick Abadzis. © Nick Abadzis and Howard Hardiman) Seems Nick Abadzis is a big fan of Howard’s work, so he sent Howard a [...]
Continue reading...Your weekend comic events (north) – Thought Bubble…..
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thought Bubble, The Leeds Sequential Art Festival has been going on for a couple of days now, featuring some wonderful events across the city of Leeds. And tomorrow sees the centrepiece of the festival; the Thought Bubble comic convention. It features a host of comic creators with the complete list here and a lot of [...]
Continue reading...Your weekend comic events (south) – Comica’s final weekend…..
Friday, November 20, 2009
This weekend sees not one, but two great comic events. First up it’s the Comica 2009 final week – which looks rather good with a trio of conversations happening at the ICA: First up on Sunday 22 November; Reinhard Kleist, author of the great I see A Darkness, the biography of Johnny Cash, published recently by [...]
Continue reading...It’s a grey, miserable day – have a picture of Sarah McIntyre’s new book….
Friday, November 20, 2009
Just because it’s a lovely, happy image on a rather miserably grey day with rain sheeting down here – Sarah McIntyre’s next children’s book, written by Gillian Rogerson: When King Cupcake is kidnapped by hungry aliens, it’s up to his feisty daughter, Princess Spaghetti, to save him from becoming their dinner. She blasts off into space [...]
Continue reading...Thomas Wogan Is Dead … Again.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thomas Wogan Is Dead by David Hughes Tabella Publishing Back in March 2009 I reviewed Thomas Wogan Is Dead as a self published comic (right here in fact). This Tabella version is effectively just a very nice re-packaging of the small press self published comic with a few extra pages and a general neatening up. So everything I [...]
Continue reading...Boilerplate – a mechanical marvel that never really existed….
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett Abrams Image Boilerplate is a fascinating concept – a mockumentary coffee table book dealing with the heroic exploits of Boilerplate – a Victorian Era mechanical man. He crops up everywhere from his creation in 1893 until his disappearance in 1918; possibly making it to the South Pole way [...]
Continue reading...S.W.O.R.D. issue 1 – breathless outer space Marvel action.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
S.W.O.R.D. issue 1 by Kieron Gillen, art by Steven Sanders (backup strip by Jamie McKelvie) Marvel Comics It’s not that I dislike superheroes, more the fact that I really haven’t got the time to decipher the vast, inter-connected-ness of the modern Marvel or DC Universes. So these days I tend to only dip into the Marvel Universe when [...]
Continue reading...“Some bloody holiday this is” – Harker issue 9
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Harker issue 9 Plot, story, script – Roger Gibson. Plot, art – Vincent Danks Ariel Press. And here we are again, another issue of Harker, another review (for the others try here). By now you can probably write these for yourself. But for those who haven’t been paying attention this is my standard description of Harker: “Harker’s a great [...]
Continue reading...Robot City: Rust Attack!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Robot City Adventures: Rust Attack by Paul Collicutt Templar Publishing “Welcome to Robot City — the metal metropolis that never rusts! Here, highly developed robots are part of everyday life, living and working in harmony with humankind. The city that never rusts . . . is rusting! The well-loved robotic dance troupe, the Automettes, has been struck down [...]
Continue reading...The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – David Enker, John Riordan, Nigel Gilbert and Paul Francis
Sunday, November 15, 2009
For an explanation of all this – see here. More of the “non-winners” of the Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize. …… (David Enker – The Sleeper.) (John Riordan – Olympus School) (Nigel Gilbert – Starcross’d) (Paul Francis – Tower Hamlets.) And The Winner Isn’t: Introduction to the idea. And that is it for this year. Hopefully you’ve seen something in all of [...]
Continue reading...The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Francesca Cassavetti, James Milroy, Paul Shinn, Moel Fox, Aidan Potts
Sunday, November 15, 2009
For an explanation of all this – see here. Last weekend we extensively covered a lot of the “non-winners” of the Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Prize. The plan was that we’d just do those few posts and move on. Except all this past week I’ve been seeing more and more of the entries crop up online. [...]
Continue reading...Blogshank’s inevitable disaster of an Ikea bed…
Sunday, November 15, 2009
I’ve been following Mike Smith’s Blogshank blog for quite a while now. It’s never less than a wry, gentle smile of a strip, often a full on smile and sometimes, just like the example above – absolutely hilarious. We’ve all had that Ikea moment, and many of us have suffered the inevitable marital strife that [...]
Continue reading...Read Lapham’s Stray Bullets 1-4 for free….
Sunday, November 15, 2009
David Lapham’s Stray Bullets, it’s no exaggeration to say, blew everyone away when it came out in 1995. A fantastic, unexpectedly wonderful comic from a creator previously known only for his artwork on various Valiant/Defiant superhero comics (If you don’t remember them – don’t worry – I wish I didn’t). It established Lapham as a phenomenal [...]
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