Today’s guest Best of the Year selection comes from a very well known face in the Brit comics community – writer, editor (working on several new projects as we speak), blogger and, on odd weekends, tenth-level Ecky-Thump Master, it’s John Freeman: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last [...]
Continue reading...17. January 2010
I thought it would be interesting to tot up the various Best Of Year posts we’ve had from people this year. We had a total of 27 people respond who managed to pick (by my reckoning) 100 different titles as their best of year selection. Now, before you start thinking this is some serious piece [...]
Continue reading...15. January 2010
Well we come to our last Best of the Year for the 2009 releases and before we embark on my own selection of graphic novels, books and movies from the previous year I’d like to thank all of the many guest bloggers who took part in our annual tradition; I hope you enjoyed them as [...]
Continue reading...14. January 2010
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Today’s guest for the penultimate Best of the Year is the very fine artist Graeme Neil Reid, who’s created some great work in the Brit small press scene (I was lucky enough to pick some up from him at Hi-Ex) and a founder member of the Scottish comics artists collective blog Scotch Corner. Let’s see [...]
Continue reading...13. January 2010
Today’s Best of the Year selection comes from FPI’s own Kenny Penman, also turned gentleman publisher with Blank Slate Books which has been bringing us new talent from the UK and translating some great work from the European comics scene: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve [...]
Continue reading...12. January 2010
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Today’s guest for our annual Best of the Year slots is Doug Wallace, publisher at UK press SelfMadeHero who publish the Manga Shakespeare range and a number of excellent literary graphic novels adaptations we’ve been loving, as well as the recent Johnny Cash graphic biography by Reinhard Kleist. Let’s see what Doug’s been enjoying in [...]
Continue reading...11. January 2010
God, I’ve read an awful lot of comics this year and yet again, it’s been a year filled with some wonderful new discoveries and some old favourites. I’m not even going to try to explain why the things I’ve chosen are on here, instead I’ll post a link to my review and a pull quote. [...]
Continue reading...8. January 2010
Today’s Best of the Year guest spot comes from my friend Chris Marshall – comics lover, reviewer and gentleman podcaster (when he can keep away from the golf course), who runs the excellent Collected Comics Library podcast and collaborates on various other projects to discuss and promote good comics. Chris is giving us his favourite [...]
Continue reading...7. January 2010
Today’s Best of the Year guest blogger arrives nattily clad in shimmering, bespoke spandex splendour, creator of some cracking comics with gender and sexuality challenging characters such as the recent Spandex (which received many plaudits, not least from our own Richard, see here), Martin Eden: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially [...]
Continue reading...6. January 2010
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Today’s Best of the Year is, unusually, a collective effort from the trio of comics reviewers and creators at the Sunnyside Comics podcast and blog, Ron, Scott and PJ Holden: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? PJ: [...]
Continue reading...5. January 2010
Today’s Best of the Year guest is not only well known for his contributions to the UK small press comics scene but for co-founding and co-organising a rather splendid new comics convention in what some might have thought an unusual location, Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, which has rapidly garnered plaudits and is carving itself [...]
Continue reading...4. January 2010
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The latest guest post in our annual Best of the Year comes from a well known creator on the UK scene (I think I first became aware of his work with the interesting Bedsit Journal anthologies) and our current cartoonist in virtual residence here on the blog with the weekly Somersault strip (archived here), Richard [...]
Continue reading...3. January 2010
We’re into our home stretch with out guest bloggers and their Best of the Year selections and I hope you’ve been enjoying the diverse works they’ve been highlighting for us. Today please welcome comics creator, illustrator and guiding light (or perhaps guiding spinning disco glitter ball) of Dr Sketchy’s, Molly Crabapple: FPI: Can you pick [...]
Continue reading...31. December 2009
Today’s Best of the Year selection comes from Matt Badham, freelance writer (with work appearing in the Judge Dredd Megazine, Tripwire, 2000 AD, Comics International and more), interviewer, keen supporter of UK comics talent and a regular contributor to the blog. Eschewing the regular format Matt is instead concentrating soley on comics; over to Matt: [...]
Continue reading...30. December 2009
Today’s Best of the Year guest is a very well known face on the Brit indy comics scene and no stranger to the blog, Jason Cobley. Jason warns us that “I never seem to be very good at remembering whether things came out this year, last year, or whether I’m still catching up with 1974, [...]
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23. December 2010
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