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Best of the Year – Mike Carey

19. December 2008

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Today’s Best of the Year comes from a good friend of the blog, a writer who I think has shared his faves with us several times now (a Best of the Year without him just wouldn’t be right) and one of the busiest scribes in comics, Mike Carey. Mike has created a diverse array of [...]

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Best of the Year – Eva Baillie

18. December 2008

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For today’s Best of the Year we’re taking a more European view as Eva Baillie from the Glasgow Goethe Institut (if you’re not familiar with them, the Goethe Institut promotes German language, learning and culture around the world) talks us through the work of one of her favourite German comics creators, Andreas Michalke: Smalltown Boy, Andreas [...]

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Best of the Year – Ian Rankin

17. December 2008

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Today’s Best of the Year picks come courtesy of internationally best-selling author Ian Rankin, creator of the incredibly popular Inspector Rebus detective novels set in and around Edinburgh (incidentally he picked the name Rebus from the title of a word puzzle on the funny pages of D.C. Thomson’s Sunday Post, the same section that hosts [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Best of the Year

16. December 2008

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Ah yes, it is that time of the year when we look back on the past 12 months and reminisce what went and stayed.  We put another log on the fire, pour another glass, and start compiling our lists.  Because that’s what we men are good at, compiling lists (I’m sure many women make lists [...]

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Best of the Year – Dan Goldman

15. December 2008

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Today’s Best of the Year choices come from Dan Goldman; I first encountered Dan’s work via Smithmag’s online serialisation of Shooting War (which on its print release became my favourite graphic novel of 2007, Anthony’s story carried the ring of authenticity, drawn on personal experience and Dan’s mix of media for the artwork was brilliant). [...]

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Best of the Year – Sean Azzopardi and Oli Smith

12. December 2008

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Today’s Best of the Year is a double act from that Stan and Ollie of the London indy comics scene – well, actually its from the Sean and Oli, being as it is a dual effort from two of London Underground Comics’ core members Sean Azzopardi and Oli “that’s another fine mess you got me [...]

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Best of the Year – Howard Hardiman

11. December 2008

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Today’s Best of the Year comes from a rising star of the British Indy comics scene, Howard Hardiman, the creator behind Badger, which our own Minister of Propaganda Richard described as “an incredibly simple little tale. Yet it’s one of my favourite comics all year. It’s certainly the saddest.” Pretty impressive praise for someone relatively [...]

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Best of the Year – Oli East

10. December 2008

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Today’s Best of the Year choices come courtesy of Oliver East, a man who’s been walking the Earth (“you know, like Kane in Kung Fu”), usually by the metal lines of the local railways and then creating very unusual comics from them, part travelogue, part local history/commentary/observation, part something indefinably Oli, which have been very [...]

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Best of the Year – Bryan Talbot

9. December 2008

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Continuing our annual Best of the Year post, today we’re asking one of the UK’s top comics writers and artists, Bryan Talbot. Bryan is well known (and respected) for his ability to create a wide variety of work and styles and the last year or so continues to prove this; following the success of the [...]

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Best of the Year 2008 – John Freeman’s take on the year

8. December 2008

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Unbelievably we seem to have reached into December already, meaning it is time for our now-annual Best of the Year slots (you can see 2007’s here), where we ask a number of readers, writers and artists what floated their boat over the preceding twelve months in the world of comics and other media. This year [...]

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