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Cute Badger meets sad, lonely space-dog……

21. November 2009

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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 [...]

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It’s a grey, miserable day – have a picture of Sarah McIntyre’s new book….

20. November 2009

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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 [...]

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Blogshank’s inevitable disaster of an Ikea bed…

15. November 2009

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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 [...]

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Kate Beaton’s Remembrance Day cartoon….

14. November 2009

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Missed this during the week, but Kate Beaton’s simple Hark, A Vagrant cartoon is just perfect in so many ways. That goes for most of her work, but something about this one just hits the spot.

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Alan Sanders’ superheroes – perfect poster material….

13. November 2009

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Fantastically retro Marvel and DC superheroes artwork from Alan Sanders. Dear Santa, I’d like these as a poster or a duvet set please. (via Drawn)

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Oli East’s Elbow art going to Manchester gallery

9. November 2009

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Oli East’s artwork for Elbow’s award-winning album The Seldom Seen Kid is being donated to the Manchester Art Gallery’s permanent Manchester collection, Guy Garvey has told him. Oli, still basking in the ‘new dad’ glow, notes on his blog that he was also liked the frame the band had for his artwork, made from salvaged [...]

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Tim Biskup art on show in LA

9. November 2009

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How cool is this Astro Boy artwork by Tim Biskup? BoingBoing reports that Tim and Matt Goldman have a series of paintings, sculptures and prints on show at the opening of the Barracuda Shop in LA on Friday 13th (auspicious day for an opening!) and runs to December 3rd; you can check out more very [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Jim Medway & Andi Watson

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. To end our little look at the great works entered for the Graphic Short Story Prize we have two familiar names to the regular readers of this blog. First up Jim Medway, who comes up with the beautiful and frankly hilarious Paul Crystal, Graphic Designer. But, like [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Sion Smith & Charlotte Rose, Mickey Lam & Hannah Forward,

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Fire Sermon by Sion Smith and Charlotte Rose (available as an free ebook here) – a very different style from a lot of the entries it seems, and Sion says on the Tales From The Zodiac Lung blog that “they were obviously looking for something very [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Laurie J Proud, Maddy Vian, Khaled Abou Alfa & Dan Archer

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Three very different styles on show with these entries, first up is Laurie J Proud’s entry Aubrey, which brilliantly features the line “We moved away in 1948 after Dad went mad and burned the shed down”. And then there’s Maddy Vian’s IDEAS – Maddy is very [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Hugh Raine, Matilda Tristram & the mystery that is Thorsten Sideboard.

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Hugh Raine up first, whose very funny comics we featured here, with his entry Maryl. Following that is Matilda Tristram’s entry Sloth and Spiders and finally for this post, from the ever growing Flickr group here’s the entry by “Thorsten Sideb0ard“. I’ve looked but I can’t [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – David Litchfield, Key NG and Martin Simpson.

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Three very different styles on show with these entries, first up is David Litchfield’s entry Bill and Joyce, which I found from the developing Graphic Short Story Prize Flickr group. And then there’s Flu Fighters by Key NG. And finally we have Martin Simpsons Tinned Peaches [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Jason Cobley & Paul Harrison Davies, Natalie d’Arbeloff & Frances Castle

7. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Next up we have the entry from the writer and artist team of Jason Cobley and Paul Harrison Davies – a reworking of their Hugo The Zombie strip from the Accent UK Zombies special. Following that we have the entry by illustrator Frances Castle as she [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Rob Davis, David O’Connell, Luke Pearson

7. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. To kick things off, the first “non-winner” that I saw online a couple of weeks ago: Rob Davis. Rob put his excellent entry “How I Built My Father” up on his blog here, complete with a little explanatory commentary here. And then David O’Connell brings us [...]

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And the winner of the Cape/Observer 2099 Graphic Short Story Prize ISN’T………

7. November 2009

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Last weekend, the Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story prize was announced. Our post on it is here, together with rather a lot of comments. Even before the winner’s announcement I had been thinking it would be nice to put up a few of the “non-winners” as the quality of the work looked really high. But since [...]

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