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Jamie Smart – Hey, that’s my work!

29. January 2012

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Just what do you do, in these mass media times, when you come across someone using your work for commercial means? It’s happening more and more now, with the Internet meaning that not only is it easier than ever to find something and steal it, it’s also far easier for the original artist to discover [...]

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Polish Mute Comics – a thing that I never realised was a thing up until now….

29. January 2012

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Polish Mute Comics? Yep, they are a thing it seems. At least enough of a thing to warrant a website collecting mute comics from 31 authors at present. I was sent their way by Piotr Nowacki, artist of Tainted and Moe. Seems he isn’t alone with the no words thing. Here’s how the website describes itself: “Welcome [...]

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Lizz Lunney conquers the world (or at last the card shops…)

29. January 2012

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Lizz Lunney – a source of continual, simple joy – her work always a treat, her unusual, quirky ideas and simple cartooning producing some wonderful comics over the past few years. Most recently with the great Depressed Cat comics. And it’s good to see it’s not without some reward. Although, unfortunately, it’s not really a [...]

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Anyone fancy popping along to a pop up comic festival?

28. January 2012

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….. because Sarah McIntyre’s thinking of putting one on.  It’s all part of the London Pop Up Story festival happening 30th June & 1st July: Sarah writes on her Live Journal: “I’m one of the creators chosen to curate this year’s Pop-Up Festival in London on 30 June & 1 July.2 “So here’s the deal! We’ll each [...]

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New For 2012: Howard Hardiman

28. January 2012

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(Preview page from issue 5 of The Lengths by Howard Hardiman – coming soon!) Howard Hardiman has a busy 2012 lined up. The artist behind Badger and new series The Lengths (issue 4 reviewed last week) has dedicated most of the year to finishing the 8-issue series, with an issue every couple of months from [...]

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Henry Flint’s One Page Graphic Novel…..

28. January 2012

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Just one page, but what a page…. artist Henry Flint gives you the one page graphic novel: The Thames Megalodon: “Keith is a dustman who is shot into the future by a Time Vortex. He meets three companions and they start an epic adventure and It’s up to you to fill in the gaps.“

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Philippa Rice’s new portfolio site…

28. January 2012

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It’s not all just collage and My Cardboard Life for Philippa Rice. Her new portfolio site has a lot of unseen art from Rice, together with previews/complete strips from the likes of Nelson, Paper Science, Solipsistic Pop, Ink+Paper. Illustration first…. Patterns (from her book Patterns Forever): Fishes (self portrait): Now comics. There’s a full 25 page [...]

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DC Logo – what about a designer’s opinion?

28. January 2012

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DC’s new logo. Not the most popular of things around the Internet. But wouldn’t you like to hear what a designer thinks? How about the best designer in comics? Here’s Rian Hughes (from his facebook). I reckon he’s worth listening to on this: “Here’s the thing – a comic book logo has got to fulfill [...]

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17 Webcomics – a suggested reading list…

28. January 2012

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I don’t know if you’re anything like me or not, but I have a problem with webcomics. In fact I have two major problems: First, I don’t really like reading on screen all that much. I’m gradually getting used to reading single issue comics on screen for review, but anything longer just does my eyes [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Spiegelman conquers Angouleme

27. January 2012

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I attended the comics festival of Angoulême a couple of times in the past, and even though the event generally has a fairly international feel to it, it’s always been a predominantly French affair, albeit with a good contingent of guests from other lands. With the presidency of Art Spiegelman however, it would seem that [...]

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The whinging ginger ninja in colour…. very special

27. January 2012

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Chloe Noonan Monster Hunter Colour Special By Marc Ellerby So far we’ve seen three issues (#1, #2, #3) of Ellerby’s disinterested monster hunter with the smart mouth and iffy attitude (just look at the great cover – attitude in spades!). And nothing has convinced me that I wasn’t absolutely spot on with what I said back [...]

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Alex’s audio round up

27. January 2012

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Another week rolls past as 2012 settles down and trundles along, and here is Alex Fitch to update us to the latest shows he’s involved with. As ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Panel Borders: Habbibi Blankets, Sunday 29th January on Resonance FM, podcast after [...]

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24 hour comics in Angoulême

27. January 2012

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Dan Berry has been over in Angoulême for several days before the start of the main part of Europe’s most important comics festival and regularly tweeting and posting online about his experiences, including this year’s 24 hour comics – or we should say 24 heures de la bande dessinee, which he notes had an incredibly [...]

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Craig Thompson in London

27. January 2012

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Regular fave with the blog crew Sarah McIntyre was at Monday’s Comica event with the brilliant Craig Thompson in London; she has a report on it with photos up on her blog and, Sarah being Sarah, she, of course, sketched a bit of the evening too and posted the rather lovely results up:

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Her Maj

27. January 2012

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The Bloghorn reports on the upcoming unofficial cartooning salute to the Queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee – the Cartoon Museum in London has the Her Maj: 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the Queen exhibition coming up, opening on Februaryl 1st and running through to April 8th. The Cartoon Museum apparently describes the upcoming [...]

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