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Best of the Year – Chris Marshall

13. January 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year comes courtesy of my friend Chris Marshall, host of the fine Collected Comics Library podcast (which celebrated its landmark 200th programme just before Christmas) and the TwoMorrows Tune-In. Chris has been blogging and podcasting on all manner of graphic novels for a number of years, looking in detail at some, [...]

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Best of Year – Toon Horsten

12. January 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year has a Continental flavour, coming as it does from Toon Horsten, one of the guiding lights behind the highly respected Belgian comics journal Stripgids, which he edits, as well as being the director of the Strip Turnhout Festival and long a champion of quality comics art. Toon should also [...]

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Best of the year – Barry Renshaw

9. January 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year choices come from a very well known name on the UK comics circuit, Barry Renshaw. Barry has been damned busy with Engine Comics, a new arrival in the family and latterly working closely with Mike Conroy on a re-launch of Comics International (the first of the revamped issues will be [...]

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Best of the Year – Mattias Elftorp

8. January 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year comes courtesy of Swedish illustrator and comics artist Mattias Elftorp, who has been involved with a variety of comics and journals but is probably best known to English language readers for his Piracy is Liberation series and the highly respected ongoing anthology series C’est Bon, the sixth volume of which [...]

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Best of the Year – Brian Heater

7. January 2009

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The latest in our Best of the Year picks are chosen today by a very well-known name to most of us who follow comics, Brian Heater. Brian, as many of you will know, put together a huge best of the year list just before Christmas on The Daily Cross Hatch (a must-bookmark site for all [...]

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Best of the Year – another European perspective

6. January 2009

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A slightly different Best of Year for you to enjoy today; you may recall just before Christmas Eva Baillie from the Glasgow branch of the Goethe Insitut (the organisation for promoting German language and culture) talked to us about one of her favourite German comics creators. Well today two of her colleagues are sharing some [...]

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Best of the Year – Sarah McIntyre

5. January 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year comes from someone relatively new to the world of comics (although not to illustrating stories) but someone who has already carved herself a good name, Sarah McIntyre. Currently working on some children’s books for David Fickling Sarah is also the creator of Vern & Lettuce in the DFC, which, as [...]

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Best of the Year – Joe’s faves

2. January 2009

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I meant to post my own Best of the Year choices before the end of 2008, but Christmas, birthday and New Year all got in the way, as did my own propensity to keep adding to the list so it just kept getting longer and longer… (I couldn’t help it, everytime I looked at my [...]

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The alternative Best of the Year

1. January 2009

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So far in the Best of the Year we’ve restricted ourselves only to comics and graphic novels published this year in our own reality, but today we expand it to take in some of the most interesting works from both major publishers and independent presses in various parallel Earths: Picklehack by Smedgington and Miss Paley. A [...]

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Best of 2008 – Richard’s Best Of Propaganda 2008 (with added Molly aged 9)

28. December 2008

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Looking back over the entire year, I seem to have reviewed an awful lot of comics. And interestingly I found that the most fun and innovation to be seen in comics was in the small press field. I’m pretty sure this isn’t just because the UK small press is particularly vibrant (although it is). It’s [...]

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Best of the Year: Paul Cornell

27. December 2008

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Another best of 2008 feature, this time from friend to the blog; Paul Cornell. Paul, if you don’t already know is a multi-talented writer of prose, comics and has a string of television writing credits to his name including some great work on Doctor Who. He’s responsible for the excellent two parter Human Nature / [...]

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Best of the Year – Jon Haward

24. December 2008

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Today’s Best of the Year choices come from Jon Haward, a stalwart member of the British comics community, Jon has illustrated a huge variety of works, from comics to annuals, film story boards, game character designs, kid’s books and more, in a career which has seen him depict characters from Sooty to Judge Dredd, Dan [...]

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Best of the year – Isobel Rips

23. December 2008

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Today’s Best of the Year choices come courtesy of my colleague Iz, our senior buyer (in addition to constantly tackling numerous other tasks) and also the translator for Blank Slate Books’ two Mawil titles, We Can Still be Friends and Sparky O’Hare. Here’s Iz sharing what floated her boat in movies, TV, books and comics [...]

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Best of the Year – Richmond Clements

22. December 2008

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Today’s Best of the Year choices come from Richmond Clements of British small press publishers FutureQuake press and co-organiser of the Hi-Ex comics convention in the capital of the Scottish Highlands, Inverness (the first one was in February of this year and you can read a report on it on the blog here; the second [...]

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Best Of Year 2008: Marc Ellerby

21. December 2008

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Another Best Of 2008, this time from a fave small presser here at FPI, Marc Ellerby. I’ve reviewed his comics here and interviewed the man here, so figured he could spend a little time answering our questions. And he hasn’t let us down. Marc Ellerby is currently hard at work on his Ellerbisms webcomic, which [...]

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