I didn’t get round to writing any review pieces this year so this will be a longish, if rather late, wander through the things I enjoyed the most in what was another excellent year for the spread of comics. If it lacked a single achievement to rival last year’s ‘Fun Home” it seemed to me [...]
Continue reading...9. January 2008
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Another double-header for today’s Best of the Year picks – we start off with some graphic novels and some movies from broadcaster and journalist Alex Fitch. I’m sure most of our readers are familiar with Alex’s name and the shows such as Panel Borders he works on and usually posts up as podcasts after transmission [...]
Continue reading...7. January 2008
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Today’s Best of the Year comes courtesy of Doctor Mel Gibson of Northumbria University, lecturer, writer and strong supporter not only of comics but of using the Ninth Art to encourage adults and children to read more. Regular readers may recall Mel was one of the principal speakers at the Go Graphic event covered here [...]
Continue reading...4. January 2008
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For today’s Best of the Year picks we turn to a British writer who has his finger in more pies than a mutant baker with ten hands, Mike Carey. Mike has a number of series from a variety of publishers, including a number from the Big Two of DC and Marvel, with titles ranging across [...]
Continue reading...3. January 2008
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Yes, I know we are now into 2008, but we still have a few Best of the Year selections from some of our friends for your reading delictation and delight (and yes, including my own picks in the near future). Matthew Badham (who, by the way, has a three-part interview up with the very fine [...]
Continue reading...21. December 2007
Today’s Best of the Year choices come courtesy of the writer and artist who has been consistently putting out one of the best and most professional-looking comics on the web (and hopefully eventually a proper-sized big print collection of it all when it concludes), Garen Ewing, creator of the brilliant Rainbow Orchid series, a brilliant [...]
Continue reading...20. December 2007
Today’s Best of the Year piece has a distinctly Scandinavian flavour as we are joined by Jelle Hugaerts , who I’m sure some of our regular readers will recognise because he’s been kind enough to send some comics news and thoughts from Scandinavia in our direction from time to time. Jelle is serious supporter of [...]
Continue reading...19. December 2007
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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is the third part of my look back at the graphic novels I enjoyed the most in 2007. So far I’ve talked about some of the great books which narrowly missed out on making the final five and reviewed Shooting War, then yesterday I covered Fluffy and [...]
Continue reading...18. December 2007
This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is the second part of my look at the Best of the Year graphic novels. Following on from yesterday’s piece on Shooting War today we’re having a closer look at numbers 2 and 3 on my Best of Year list, Simone Lia’s Fluffy and Warren Ellis and [...]
Continue reading...17. December 2007
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This is Propaganda, I’m Richard Bruton and this is what I’ve been reading lately: First, a mention of three books that didn’t make it to the list this year, but will very probably make the 2008 best of list. All three have been briefly perused and all three look incredible. Two of them are unread [...]
Continue reading...17. December 2007
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For the latest of our nosey looks into what comics, books, TV and movies have been catching the eye of some of our friends in the last year we have a special British writer triple-bill today, as we are joined by Leah Moore and John Reppion as well as fellow British scribe Paul Cornell; with [...]
Continue reading...14. December 2007
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Today’s look back at personal highlights from the last year comes courtesy of our own Continental Correspondent, the man who eats croissants shaped like Tintin’s quiff for breakfast, the Ephemerist‘s Wim Lockefeer, who selects some of the best graphic novels he’s enjoyed reading in the last twelve months, so without further pre-amble, over to Wim: [...]
Continue reading...13. December 2007
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Today’s Best of the Year is a double-header, with the first set of picks coming courtesy of British illustrator Darryl Cunningham, who is also, of course, FPI’s resident cartoonist now, delighting us all with his Super-Sam and John-of-the-Night comics strips every Tuesday here on the blog and our webstore, as well as having some brilliant [...]
Continue reading...12. December 2007
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Today’s Best of the Year picks come courtesy of writer Adi Tantimedh. Regular blog readers will recognise Adi as the genius behind my favourite webcomic reading of the year, La Muse. Aided by Hugo Petrus’ fine artwork, Adi has taken one of the most clichéd genres in comics – the almost godlike superhero – and [...]
Continue reading...11. December 2007
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Today I’m pleased to say that Steve Holland has contributed some of his comics choices for the Best of the Year. Steve, as many of you will know, is a life-long comics fan and staunch supporter of British comics and illustration in particular; his excellent Bear Alley site regularly features articles and artwork from all [...]
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24. January 2008
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