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Rian Hughes… Threadless think he could do better

Friday, May 25, 2012

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Rian Hughes has a  few T-shirts up for consideration at Threadless. You know… THAT Rian Hughes. The rather brilliant artist/designer responsible for some very gorgeous imagery over the years. These two are pending approval… But a third design has already had a little feedback from Threadless. I’ll pass you over to Rian’s comments grabbed from [...]

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Next up in convention season: London MCM Expo

Friday, May 25, 2012

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Happening over the weekend, or this afternon if you were at the special Friday preview. MCM Expo is a full media show, with a lot of guests from the worlds of TV, film, and pop entertainment of all kinds. Big names this time round include Danny Devito, Anthony Daniels, and Kevin Eastman along with a [...]

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Eat Me!

Friday, May 25, 2012

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Eat Me! A Food Anthology Jack Davies, Catherine Reda, Luke Bayliss & Harry Griffin-Hayes, Sammy Borras, Lily-rose Beardshaw, Sarah Fogg Inspired Comics Hmm. The urge to pepper this one with hideous puns and food references is almost too much. You’ll forgive me “pepper”. I promise that will be the last of them. Right then. Six comic strips all on the [...]

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Valerian & Laureline – The Land Without Stars.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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Valerian And Laureline Volume 3: The Land Without Stars Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières Cinebook When a rogue planet threatens a new Human colony, Valerian and Laureline are sent to investigate and discover a barren, rocky surface… and a whole world beneath it! The people who live inside Zahir have never seen the stars. Divided [...]

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Psircus

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

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Psircus Issue 1 – The Origins of Kathy and Icarus Written by Daniel Bell, art by Katja Lindblom, Iain Buchanan, Daniel Bell Yes, PT Barnum presents…. yes, the same PT Barnum who runs the circus. Except in here, it’s the Psircus he’s running, the Psircus being a way for writer (and sometime artist) Daniel Bell [...]

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Spirou and Fantasio… reporters and adventurers

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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Spirou & Fantasio: Running Scared Written by Philippe Vandevelde (Tome), illustrated by Jean-Richard Geurts (Janry) Cinebook Spirou and Fantasio are hired by a doctor to escort some of his patients. Their ailment? An apparently incurable case of the hiccups. His solution: Send them on the most insane adventure ever and scare the hiccups out of [...]

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SPOOKS – Weird Enforcement Special Team

Monday, May 21, 2012

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SPOOKS Volume 1: The Fall Of Babylon By Xavier Dorison and Fabien Nury, art by Christian Rossi Cinebook “1895. Members of the East Coast elite have died under mysterious circumstances. To investigate this delicate problem, Richard Clayton—against the wishes of the President—calls upon a man named Morton Chapel for his unorthodox methods and peculiar associates. [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

Sunday, May 20, 2012

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Pictures…. yeah…. Margaux Motin (author of the lovely looking, very funny sounding But I Really Wanted To Be An Anthropologist) cover for Fluide.G mag – from the SelfMadeHero blog: The first thing he’s posted since October 2011…. Paul Pope’s Jedi from 2011: Just one from a series of Chris Weston commissions over at 2000AD Online: Mick [...]

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UPCOMING: Sendak in The Comics Journal 302

Sunday, May 20, 2012

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The brick sized TCJ #302 should be out this Autumn. As usual, full of more reading than you can probably get through before Christmas. But noteably, it has an interview with Maurice Sendak, something we’d talk about anyway, but made all the more important by his death this month. Essential reading. Gary Groth has posted [...]

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David Ziggy Greene – en tournée en France

Sunday, May 20, 2012

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Coming to a venue near you in May. If you happen to live in Paris, Montargis, Nantes, or Lyon that is. David Ziggy Greene is off on a mini tour of France…

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Alter Ego art show… the pics!

Sunday, May 20, 2012

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The Alter Ego show finished on Wednesday – and from all reports it was a bit good. Seven artists involved: Waste, Cottonmouth (RichT) , Guy McKinley, Klingatron, Robert Ball, Smug, and WJC looking at the ideas of being someone else, hero, villain, whatever…. the artwork is over at the Alter Ego Facebook page. But I figured you could cope with a [...]

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2012 2000AD Pledge – Prog 1783

Saturday, May 19, 2012

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In February 2012, for the 35th anniversary of 2000AD, I made a pledge: “But here’s a deal for you. If you’ll do it, so will I. 2012 will be the year I read 2000AD. 2012 will be the year YOU read 2000AD.” It says Block War on the front of that Karl Richardson cover (don’t [...]

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3 weekends, 4 events … busy, busy, busy

Saturday, May 19, 2012

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This weekend it’s…. Next week/weekend it’s …. And to end the month we have… Hmmm… what was it Tim Pilcher was saying about too many cons?

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Avengers Disassembled

Saturday, May 19, 2012

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Silly, cute, funny…. Avengers Disassembled by Junaid Chundrigar. (Via Superpunch) And if you want to see more – character designs here. Love the expression on Black Widow’s face.

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2nd International Alternative Press Festival

Saturday, May 19, 2012

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Jimi Gherkin sends news of the next Alternative Press Festival – lots of notice – happpening in August… “We are SUPER EXCITED to announce the 2nd International Alternative Press Festival (#iapf2) on 4th & 5th August 2012! So far we have exhibitions planned for Orbital Comics, Gosh! London and TEN (yes, TEN!) venues in the [...]

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