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Best of the Year: Barry Nugent

30. December 2010

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Today’s guest Best of the Year is a regular face on the convention circuit, master at sneaking into various launch events, comics and SF guru, podcaster and writer (with a comics adaptation of his own novel, Fallen Heroes, also on the way too now), one half of the fine Geek Syndicate Podcast team, Barry Nugent, [...]

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Best of the Year: Doug Wallace

29. December 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from the man behind the UK Indy press which has grown significantly in stature over the last couple of years to enjoy some terrific reviews and respect for their releases, not to mention publishing some of my own favourite reading of the last couple of years, SelfMadeHero‘s [...]

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Best of the Year: Mark Kardwell

28. December 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from gentleman of letters (admittedly some of those letters can be rude on occasion), librarian, comics guru, blogger and drinker, Mark Kardwell: 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? Mark: [...]

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Best of the Year: Joel Meadows

27. December 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from photographer, writer, journalist, editor and brains behind the excellent Tripwire (a solid fave around here), Joel Meadows: 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? Joel: First up is Scalped, [...]

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Best of the Year: Richmond Clements

24. December 2010

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We tried to approach Mr S Claus for his best of the year picks for Christmas Eve, but his spokeself told us he was too busy. Lucky us, Mr Richmond Clements, writer, editor at Brit small press stable FutureQuake and co-founder and organiser of the very fine Hi-Ex Highlands comics convention, was kind enough to [...]

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Best of the Year: Dan Lockwood

22. December 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from Dan Lockwood, linguistic scholar, SF&F fan and freelance editor; Dan has, amongst others, worked for SelfMadeHero on their graphic literary adaptations The Master and Margarita and The Trial. He’s currently getting to indulge his inner geek editing SMH’s upcoming H.P. Lovecraft anthology due next year. Let’s [...]

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Best of the Year: Howard Hardiman

21. December 2010

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Today’s guest for the Best of the Year is an artist who, despite making us sad sometimes, we still love, despite him spending so much time hanging out with badgers with emotional problems, it’s Howard Hardiman. Let’s see what Howard enjoyed in 2010: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over [...]

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Best of the Year: Royston Robertson

20. December 2010

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Royston Robertson is a freelance cartoonist who draws single-frame cartoons for magazines such as Reader’s Digest and Private Eye. He has also worked for BBC Magazines, the Green Party, and Oxford University Press, among others, and is no stranger to readers of the FP blog as he’s also been kind enough to update us on [...]

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Best of the Year: Edward Ross

17. December 2010

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Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from Edward Ross, Edinburgh based Indy comics creator and film lover, who has managed to combine two of my favourite things, comics and movies, in his Filmish series (issue 1 reviewed here and issue 2 reviewed here) as well as producing work used by the Wellcome Trust [...]

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Best of the Year: Simon Gurr

16. December 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from Bristol-based artist Simon Gurr, who has created art for comics and for fine art, including the well-regarded Darwin graphic biography last year for the special Darwinian anniversary celebrations. Let’s see what Simon has been enjoying in 2010: Good evening / bon soir / kalispera. Here are [...]

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Best of the Year: Martin Conaghan

15. December 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from Martin Conaghan, journalist, writer of the Burke & Hare graphic novel, adapter of the comics version of Barry Nugent’s Fallen Heroes novel and regular columnist at Bleeding Cool. You can read a chat with Martin and artist Will Pickering discussing Burke and Hare here on the [...]

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Best of the year: Matt Brooker

14. December 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from one of our most talented Brit artists, a man who’s proved a dab hand at thinking about his art and altering and changing it to suit different stories with great effect, be it Mr X, Timulo, Scarlet Traces, Dredd or the macabre, twisted delights of Stickleback. [...]

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Best of the Year: Sean Azzopardi

13. December 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year picks come from a long-time stalwart of the Brit comics scene, a creator whose work I’ve really enjoyed for a number of years now, he’s been strongly involved in the promotion of the Brit comics scene too through London Underground Comics, flying the flag at Angouleme and Malta and numerous [...]

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Best of the Year: Rod McKie

10. December 2010

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Rod McKie is a professional artist who has contributed work to a wide variety of periodicals, including Playboy, the Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, National Lampoon and more, as well as working on his own comics and indeed often writing on the medium (including some fascinating posts right here on the FP blog). His blog [...]

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Best of the Year: Rob Davis

9. December 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from the very fine Rob Davis, gentleman, artist and now rapidly becoming something of a Cervantes scholar as he works on a graphic novel adaptation of what many book lovers (including me) hold to be one of the greatest novels of world literature, Don Quixote, for SelfMadeHero [...]

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