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Best Cover(s) EVER? – Colm Creamer

19. May 2013

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This week the Best Cover EVER? pick comes from one of our own writers; Dublin based Colm Creamer, who describes himself as: ‘born a nerd, raised a nerd and will eventually die a nerd. He works on computers and writes mainly to fund his long term comic book addiction that takes up most of the [...]

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The Weekly 2000AD – Prog 1832

19. May 2013

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Every Wednesday I’m off to the newsagent to pick up the latest 2000AD. Before 2012 this was something I’d never done before. I’m glad I started… Right then… this weeks cover is from Cliff Robinson and Dylan Teague, and it’s a downbeat affair. Nice enough image, but a cover? Judge Dredd by Michael Carroll and [...]

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Comics: It’s Christmas already? The Absence returns…

19. May 2013

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So far this weekend I’ve told you about new work from Rachael Smith, new work from Simon Moreton, and now, to make it a hat-trick of fantastic-ness, and the most unexpected news… Martin Stiff has a new issue of The Absence! It was a comic I fell for from the moment I first saw it, a couple of [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

19. May 2013

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Arty stuff for a Sunday. Put the coffee on, feast your eyes…. James Harvey’s Bartkira project – a complete remake of Akira with Simpsons characters (original idea from Ryan Humphrey) progresses apace, with odd bits cropping up online here and there. No doubt we’ll have a full book worth very soon. Here’s Chris Doherty’s page, from [...]

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Comics: Lighter Than My Shadow

19. May 2013

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We’ve featured Katie Green’s Lighter Than My Shadow on here already, but there’s an awful lot of interesting pieces, very personal pieces from Katie Green over on the Lighter Than My Shadow blog. The book is released by Cape in October this year, but it’s already shaping up to be something rather special. Just from [...]

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Desert Island Comics – Episode 59 – Gerry Alanguilan

18. May 2013

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Welcome to the latest episode of Desert Island Comics, where the FPI Blog steadily populates a series of tiny little islands somewhere in the Pacific, one comicker on each, provided with just one luxury and a crate of their eight favourite comics. This week it’s the turn of Gerry Alanguilan; Filipino comic book writer, artist and publisher [...]

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Upcoming: Rachael Smith – I Am Fire

18. May 2013

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I really enjoyed the first few comics I’ve seen from Rachael Smith, the band comic The Way We Write was excellent fun, her uplifting and involving web and print comic One Good Thing is well observed and sweet, and the material on her blog looks really promising including the long way off but looking fab Cooking With Annie And Oxford. [...]

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The Phoenix Weekender

18. May 2013

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The weekly look through the pages of The Phoenix Comic, popping through the letterbox every Friday, and probably the best weekly children’s comic in the world. This issue features the usual forest madness from Jamie Smart’s Bunny Vs Monkey,  Adam Murphy brings us more chats with the recently exhumed in Corpse Talk – this week it’s [...]

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Upcoming: Simon Moreton’s Grand Gestures

18. May 2013

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Coming very soon (Monday!) from Retrofit Comics, and featuring some truly beautiful minimalist work; Simon Moreton‘s Grand Gestures. Just the cover should convince you of this one. Meanwhile, Moreton’s also looking at releasing Smoo Issue 7 as a trio of zines wrapped in a map – that should be out later this summer. But first, [...]

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Dork Tower on Brave…

18. May 2013

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On the left, the young non-stereotypical young princess going against tradition, on the right, the hideous Disney Princess version. I hate the whole Disney Princess thing, always did, and worked hard to keep Molly (mostly) away from it when she was younger (we went with Sulley, Mike, Stitch – a far better choice). But this [...]

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