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Richard - who has written 1738 posts on The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log.
Trese – dark mysteries on the streets of Manilla
Trese Volumes 1-3 – Murder On Balete Drive, Unreported Murders, Mass Murders By Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo Visprint The back cover blurbs to these three volumes of Trese are just great. And when put together, in the spirit of the combined tryptich of covers above, they make something akin to poetry: When the sun [...]
Continue reading...Showcasing the Banal Pig…..
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Banal Pig’s Showcase (Of New Characters and One-off Stories) Steve Tillotson Banal Pig Th Banal Pig’s Showcase is (oh the surprise) a showcase for Tillotson to play with a few new ideas and characters, see what works, see what doesn’t. That sort of thing. His work isn’t long form by any means – the longest [...]
Continue reading...Telling Tales – a manga fairy tale anthology
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Telling Tales by Svetlana Chmakova, Emma Vieceli, Joanna Zhou, Irina Richards, Rebecca Burgess, Marubelle Sinclaire, Sonia Leong, Faye Yong, Fehed Said, Nana Li. Sweatdrop Studios Sweatdrop is the UK Manga publishing collective whose work I covered quite a while ago. And whilst I still have a fear of manga (too much of it, my knowledge [...]
Continue reading...Best Of The Year – Dave Hopkins, Manager Nostalgia & Comics
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
A second best of the year today from my favourite comic shop in the world; Nostalgia & Comics Birmingham. And even though I’m very biased, having worked there, man and boy, for 19 years up until 2006 when we moved up here to Yorkshire, I think the recent refit and a renewed concentration in the store [...]
Continue reading...The end of The Everyday….
Monday, January 10, 2011
The Everyday Collection 4 By Adam Cadwell Okay, I know that Adam Cadwell’s autobiographical webcomic finished a while ago. And I know this collection of episodes 151-200 came out a while back. But it doesn’t matter – it’s still worth mentioning and pointing out to you. When I looked at The Everyday Collections 1-3 back [...]
Continue reading...New New Comic Book Day…. From this week new comics will be in store on WEDNESDAY
Monday, January 10, 2011
To some of you this will make not one bit of difference, but to those of you who enjoy going into your comic shops on the day the comics get released, for those of you who enjoy seeing the new releases being loaded onto the shelves – it’s all change this week. From now on, [...]
Continue reading...Best Of The Year – Rich Nunn, Nostalgia & Comics
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Here’s a short and sweet best of 2010 from Rich Nunn, staffer at the Birmingham Nostalgia & Comics store: New #1′s (1) T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents (2) Incognito : Bad Influences (3) Mindfield Ongoings (1) Scalped (2) Hellblazer (3) Walking Dead Graphic Novels (1) The Marvels Project (2) Black Widow – The Name Of The Rose (3) [...]
Continue reading...New stuff to get excited about…
Sunday, January 9, 2011
2011 is already shaping to be another year with some great looking books: New Seth is always going to make a great year. Palookaville has gone the route of annual hardback with issue 20 and hopefully we’ll see issue 21 late in 2011. But there’s definitely going to be a new Seth graphic novel in [...]
Continue reading...Bill Sienkievicz talks Big Numbers to Padraig….
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Over on Padraig O’Mealoid’s blog there’s a great piece from with Bill Sienkievicz all about the Alan Moore written, sadly never to be finished, partially Sienkievicz drawn and controversy ridden project Big Numbers. If you don’t know about the problems over Big Numbers I’m not really going to try to fill you in here. See [...]
Continue reading...Deppey’s Exit Interview
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Just before Christmas, the news came through on Journalista that Dirk Deppey, one of the best industry bloggers, certainly the best at tying everything together and making sure we all knew what was going on, was let go from Fantagraphics, his employers for more than ten years. Deppey’s Journalista blog was one of those essential [...]
Continue reading...Bissette & Sim having a little chat….
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Actually, considering it’s up to 9 parts already (all parts linked here), each one filled with something interesting, and is showing little signs of stopping, it’s hardly “a little chat”. Dave Sim, as is his way, is doing it all through fax. Steve Bissette is then putting the faxes and his responses and continuations up [...]
Continue reading...Oli East’s doing the Elbow thing again….
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Yep, Oliver East (of Trains Are … Mint) is doing more work for Guy Garvey and Elbow. New album cover and singles covers.
Continue reading...Jonathan Ross & Tommy Lee Edwards – on the Rocketeer?
Saturday, January 8, 2011
From CBR’s “More Creators make Their 2011 Picks” article, here’s Tommy Lee Edwards, Artist of the Jonathan Ross written “TURF”: “I’m really looking forward to what certain artist friends are doing in 2011. Even though the writing seems shit, I know that “Supergirl” will look great with Bernard Chang.” Well, unless that’s tongue in cheek, [...]
Continue reading...Richard’s Propaganda List – Best Of Year 2010…
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Well, personally I thought 2010 was one of the best years for comics I’d seen for a long time. However, that did mean that, when it came to making a long-list of the good comics I’d read this year it was a very, very long list. Even pruning that master list down mercilessly I still had [...]
Continue reading...DC draws the line …. Marvel’s Tom Brevoort snarks back
Saturday, January 8, 2011
So, DC have come out with their “Drawing The Line” campaign. Dropping the cost of their main books to $2.99 and the page count from 22 story pages to 20. Does this mean that every year, as comic prices get higher and higher, DC are going to keep dropping the page count? That would make [...]
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- The 2010 FPI Master List
- Best of the Year - Kenny Penman
- Best of the Year - Joe
- Art For Art's Sake
- 2011 - The year the complete Barks' Duck Library begins...
- Nobrow - one of Britain's best looking publishers....
- Paul Rainey gives us more Time and the debut appearance of The Two Pauls.....
- Steve Tillotson starts a new series
- Art For Art's Sake...
- Emperor: Or even: momentofmillar or: momentofmille...
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- Richard: Oh yes - hadn't thought of that at the time I wrot...
- Crusade Volume 1
- Fancy an alternative Valentine’s night?
- Cosmos and Cosmic, Kirby meets Sagan
- Mike Carey talks
- Somersault – back to work with a helping hand
- Evolution of a Ninja Bunny…..
- Happy Burns Night!
- Not One For Knocking Off: Badman, Duff, Porcellino and Santoro in Manchester
- A day in the life of Superhero Girl
- JH Williams talks
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