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Vanallemeersch and Nobrow bring you a BIG Mother….

8. February 2012

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Big Mother 2 By Sam Vanallemeersch Nobrow Press I’m just not the right person to appreciate this. I’m a comics guy, and my art tastes veer strongly to the sort of art that looks great but does so in service to a story. So basically Big Mother, as an A3 collection of artwork by Belgian [...]

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Somersault – the sneeze

8. February 2012

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Remember, kids, to stay safe and not spread those nasty germs around, always get the hankie out – catch it, kill it, bin it, as the ads used to say. (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first )

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“He was just a boy when I left…”

8. February 2012

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Not one of her Hark! A Vagrant delightful strips lampooning (affectionately) classics of literature, this is a rather different but equally excellent strip from one of the great favourites of the FP blog crew, Kate Beaton, quite a moving short work invoking the spirit of community in small towns, the need to often leave them [...]

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The Making of Slow Fiction

8. February 2012

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Bugpowder points us toward this online PDF of an essay by Michael Weller, based on a talk to the Research Institute for Media, Art and Design (RIMAD) at the University of Bedfordshire, October 7th 2009 , examining an area close to our hearts, the small press comics scene, contrasting the 60s US underground scene, the [...]

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The Guy Delisle Chronicles

8. February 2012

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A trailer for the documentary about the excellent comics creator Guy Delisle, best known for his wonderful travel books such as Shenzen, the Burma Chronicles or his most recent Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City which scored honours at Angoulême (the English language edition is due from D&Q this spring, it’s already on my Must [...]

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Zygote, Mr James and Dan Clowes’ homicidal tendencies

7. February 2012

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Harvey James, who created the very fine A Long Day of Mr James – Teacher for Blank Slate’s Chalk Marks imprint, has a new work coming later this year from Blank Slate Books, this time a full length graphic novel, Zygote. And lucky us, he has just set up a new website for Zygote where [...]

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The Blood Is The Life – Dracula

7. February 2012

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Dracula – The Graphic Novel By Bram Stoker, adapted by Jason Cobley and Staz Johnson Classical Comics It’s been a while since I looked at Classical Comics, way back in 2009 with the adaptations of Romeo & Juliet and The Tempest. Of which I ended with: “They may come across as worthy reads to this [...]

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Knitting Angou! Or Weekend of the Woolly Wildflowers

7. February 2012

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Okay, we’ve had more than a few reports on here from the recent Angoulême comics festival in France (see here), but here’s a wonderfully unusual one to point you towards, a torrid tale of teased yarn, sneaky undercover knitting, street art and comics at Europe’s most important bande dessinee bash. Yes, it could only be Deadly [...]

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Charles Vess’ Book of Ballads original pages given to Library of Congress

7. February 2012

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I know I am a little slow with this one as a couple of other sites have mentioned it already in the last few days, but since Charles Vess was kind enough to drop us a line about it and send us some pages I have to post it up as it is a rather [...]

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Rowson and Bell at the Guardian’s Open Weekend

7. February 2012

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The Guardian newspaper – often a very good supporter of comics and graphic novels, as well as being home to some of the best editorial cartooning in the UK – is holding an Open Weekend at the end of March (Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th). There will be a wide variety of events, talks, workshops [...]

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Last Admin Hero – Mike Battle without Mike battle

6. February 2012

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Sgt. Mike Battle Volume 2: Last Admin Hero By Graham Pearce Pier-C Comics I’ve looked at Pearce’s Mike Battle before (here and here) and although I had reservations, I’d enjoyed it, especially the later issues where he’s beginning to find an artistic style. But with Last Admin Hero he’s reprinting issues 8-10 of Sgt. Mike [...]

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Director’s Commentary – Karrie Fransman

6. February 2012

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Greetings Forbidden Astronauts! First up a big thanks to Joe Gordon for inviting me to write this director’s commentary. My name is Karrie Fransman and I am a comic creator who’s scribbled strips for The Guardian, created comics for The Times and just published my first graphic novel, The House That Groaned (which has garnered [...]

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New For 2012…. More from Mr Culbard….. Deadbeats

6. February 2012

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INJ Culbard already has a busy 2012, with the new Deadwardians series at Vertigo, a story in SelfMadeHero’s Lovecraft Anthology II, a new collaboration with Ian Edginton – Princess Of Mars, and a new Lovecraft full length graphic novel The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward all in the next couple of months. But that’s certainly [...]

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Batman and the Joker, time lapse

6. February 2012

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I always get a kick out of watching time-lapse videos of artwork coming together and Stefan Eriksson’s video of the Joker and Batman is pretty cool, starting off with very basic outlines, through the magic of time lapse it progresses within a few short minutes into a very stylish painting: Batman & Joker – Time-lapse [...]

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Before Watchmen – Ty Templeton’s verdict….

5. February 2012

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It’s funny… what else did you expect?

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