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Digital Comics – an optimist’s view……

21. November 2009

Lucy Kinsey, on this simple one page strip, presents a viewpoint all too rare in modern comics. It’s often the case that older lags in the game (and I have to include me in this) bemoan about comics as a digital medium rather than a printed one. So to see her enthuse about them like [...]

Girl and the Gorilla, Psychiatric Tales and more, more, more….

21. November 2009

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Kenny of Blank Slate showed me the submission from Madeleine Flores a while ago. She’s a young cartoonist with a delightfully light style and a wonderful story – The Girl And The Gorilla. Well, the deal is done and Blank Slate Books is due to publish this in 2010. Madeleine’s post “The Most Awesome Thing [...]

Cute Badger meets sad, lonely space-dog……

21. November 2009

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Seeing as I loved Nick Abadzis’ Laika (review) and adored Howard Hardiman’s Badger (review and new review of Badger: Then & Now coming soon), this just had to be mentioned: (“Badger & Friend” by Nick Abadzis. © Nick Abadzis and Howard Hardiman) Seems Nick Abadzis is a big fan of Howard’s work, so he sent Howard a [...]

Your weekend comic events (north) – Thought Bubble…..

20. November 2009

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Thought Bubble, The Leeds Sequential Art Festival has been going on for a couple of days now, featuring some wonderful events across the city of Leeds. And tomorrow sees the centrepiece of the festival; the Thought Bubble comic convention. It features a host of comic creators with the complete list here and a lot of [...]

Your weekend comic events (south) – Comica’s final weekend…..

20. November 2009

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This weekend sees not one, but two great comic events. First up it’s the Comica 2009 final week – which looks rather good with a trio of conversations happening at the ICA: First up on Sunday 22 November; Reinhard Kleist, author of the great I see A Darkness, the biography of Johnny Cash, published recently by [...]

Thomas Wogan Is Dead … Again.

20. November 2009

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Thomas Wogan Is Dead by David Hughes Tabella Publishing Back in March 2009 I reviewed Thomas Wogan Is Dead as a self published comic (right here in fact). This Tabella version is effectively just a very nice re-packaging of the small press self published comic with a few extra pages and a general neatening up. So everything I [...]

Alex’s audio round-up

19. November 2009

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As gales ravish the land and men with wigs daren’t step outdoors here’s Alex Fitch to give us an excuse to stay inside where its warm and listen to some show; as ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Strip! – Ctrl Alt Shift: Lightspeed Champion and [...]

Cartoon Art Trust Awards

19. November 2009

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The 15th annual Cartoon Art Trust Awards were given out this week in London’s Mall Galleries, reports Bloghorn. The occasion also marked the 21st birthday of the Cartoon Art Trust, the body behind the Cartoon Museum. (Climate Talks by and (c) Morten Morland who won the Political Cartoon Award, cheekily pinched from Bloghorn’s article) The award winners [...]

Boilerplate – a mechanical marvel that never really existed….

19. November 2009

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Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett Abrams Image Boilerplate is a fascinating concept – a mockumentary coffee table book dealing with the heroic exploits of Boilerplate – a Victorian Era mechanical man. He crops up everywhere from his creation in 1893 until his disappearance in 1918; possibly making it to the South Pole way [...]

Pictures that tick

19. November 2009

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We may have to wait until next year for the promised new edition of Dave McKean’s brilliant Cages, but meantime there’s something rather lovely in this week’s new releases to keep McKean fans going: Pictures That Tick is a large-sized collection of Dave’s shorter comics work from the 90s and early 2000s. And as you’d [...]

Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramon Perez signing in FP Dublin

19. November 2009

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As well as playing host to the Eclectic Micks crew the Dublin Forbidden Planet also had the trio of Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramón Pérez signing for fans and creating sketches in the store last weekend as part of their TX Comics European tour, which will also see them at Thought Bubble this weekend [...]

Bienvenue/welcome Lord Yoyo

19. November 2009

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Earlier this year Wim posted on the growth of the French language comics blogosphere (see here), which has now reached a level where even the holies of holies in the Francophone comics calendar, the Angoulème Festival, added a special award recognising online comics work. In his introduction to some of the more interesting French language [...]

S.W.O.R.D. issue 1 – breathless outer space Marvel action.

18. November 2009

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S.W.O.R.D. issue 1 by Kieron Gillen, art by Steven Sanders (backup strip by Jamie McKelvie) Marvel Comics It’s not that I dislike superheroes, more the fact that I really haven’t got the time to decipher the vast, inter-connected-ness of the modern Marvel or DC Universes. So these days I tend to only dip into the Marvel Universe when [...]

Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble

18. November 2009

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Over the last few months the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions have been cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s good and bad about [...]

Björk singing for the Moomins

18. November 2009

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(Björk, image borrowed from her website gallery) Icelandic singer and all round engima Björk is working with Sjón to create a song especially for a new film being made by the Finnish Filmkompaniet studio and due next year, “Moomins and the Comet Chase”. Hard to think on someone more suitable to sing for a Moomin Troll! [...]

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Digital Comics – an optimist’s view……

Girl and the Gorilla, Psychiatric Tales and more, more, more….

Cute Badger meets sad, lonely space-dog……

Your weekend comic events (north) – Thought Bubble…..

Your weekend comic events (south) – Comica’s final weekend…..

Thomas Wogan Is Dead … Again.

Alex’s audio round-up

Cartoon Art Trust Awards

Boilerplate – a mechanical marvel that never really existed….

Pictures that tick

Karl Kerschl, Cameron Stewart and Ramon Perez signing in FP Dublin

Bienvenue/welcome Lord Yoyo

S.W.O.R.D. issue 1 – breathless outer space Marvel action.

Celebrating the Ninth Art: a Conversation with Lisa Wood of Thought Bubble

Björk singing for the Moomins

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