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Women in graphic novels

9. March 2010

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tihkalcat has an interesting short piece on graphic novels, produced as a video essay for a media theory class, concentrating on women in the comics medium and especially on the autobiographical approach. I’m not sure I agree with it all and the fact that graphic novels can create enlightenment and knowledge on a subject as [...]

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Ignition City – half a western Flash Gordon from Ellis

8. March 2010

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Ignition City by Warren Ellis and Gianluca Pagliarani Avatar Press After choosing Warren Ellis as my favourite author for the 5th anniversary post of the FPI blog I can’t help but feel very let down by him after completing Ignition City. It’s a classic example of the sort of writing he’s sometimes capable of, especially with Avatar, who [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Moomin at the Belgian Comic Strip Centre

8. March 2010

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At the Brussels Belgian Comic Strip Centre, a nice little exhibition has been put up about Moomin, Finland’s best known contribution to comics. Originally, creator Tove Jansson (1914-2001) wrote and illustrated a series of illustrated novels featuring the white, hippopotamus-like creatures. Over the years though, the world of the Moomins expanded and currently [...]

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Tom Times Two: Tom de Haven talks to Tom Spurgeon

8. March 2010

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Over on the always excellent Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon talks to writer and comics commentator Tom De Haven as his long essay Our Hero: Superman on Earth: “TOM SPURGEON: At the beginning of Our Hero, you discuss various reasons for your doing the essay. One thing you mention but don’t tie into the reasons this book [...]

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Matt Maden and Jessica Abel

8. March 2010

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As part of their Walter Gropius Master Artist Series the Huntington Museum has a five minute video up featuring Matt Madden and Jessica Abel (link via Dirk at Journalista):

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Marvel Vs DC

8. March 2010

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Conor, Josh and and Ron on iFanboy discuss one of the all-time biggest things in comics, bigger even than Power Girl’s, er, reputation, it’s DC Vs Marvel:

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The DFC Library – Baggage from The Etherington Brothers

7. March 2010

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Following the publication of the first volume of The DFC Library this week, Robin & Lorenzo Etherington write to report that their next DFC book is already slated for release in Spring 2011 and it’s completely new material rather than reprints from The DFC Comic: Robin writes: “After the conclusion of the comic, Lorenzo and I [...]

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The Hardened Artery

7. March 2010

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Mssrs Noble and Lambden have been in touch to tell us that their latest webcomic; “The Hardened Artery” is online at The Sequential.com. Now with only one episode, it’s impossible to tell whether it’s actually going to be a webcomic about a theatre reviewer as episode 1 suggests, but seeing as Noble continually surprises with his [...]

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How did you discover the big, wide, world of comics?

7. March 2010

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(Two key comics in Tom Spurgeon’s comic reading life. One he bought, one he didn’t. Yes, January 1984, a series of dodgy Assistant editors month Marvel Comics or Chaykin’s risqué looking American Flagg, what would any reasonable 15 year old boy choose?) Tom Spurgeon is one of the better writers on comics and his The [...]

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The DFC Library: The creators have their say….

6. March 2010

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I emailed a few people to talk to them about the return of the DFC and thought it would be interesting to let you see a little of what they came back with. Over to them….. Dave Shelton, author Good Dog, Bad Dog - The very first release from the DFC Library and reviewed here. “I am [...]

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Good Dogs from Cameron & Etherington….

6. March 2010

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In celebration of the first release from the DFC; Good Dog Bad Dog from Dave Shelton, we have a couple of pieces of great fan art from Lorenzo Etherington and first, Neill Cameron who sent along a rather familiar image…. (Dave Shelton’s Good Dog, Bad Dog  – art by Neill Cameron, after someone called Frank Miller?) (Lorenzo [...]

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Jamie Smart’s Talking To Dad

6. March 2010

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Our sympathies go out to Jamie Smart, who lost his dad this month. He wrote beautifully about it over on his Live Journal and has posted this touching, heartfelt and very moving strip online – Talking To Dad. To explain why he felt moved to complete the strip he said this: “I don’t often draw serious [...]

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Anyone else thinking this?

6. March 2010

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I saw the cover to the Amazing Spider-Man (Villain Variant) #23 this week (over on Newsarama) and all I could think was this….. It’s the nose isn’t it? “I’ll get you Peter Parker, I’ll get you“. Or is it just me? The villaious Red Hooded Claw or Lobster Man is actually a new Vulture. Just in [...]

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More Moore teenage girl Manga – now with teen Gaiman

5. March 2010

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Okay, we showed you the Alan Moore as Manga schoolgirl strip by Ryusuke Hamamoto at the end of last year. But it seems there’s more to come, with a special teenage manga girl appearance by ….. unruly hair, black leather jacket ….. yep, that’s Neil Gaiman: (via Comic Alliance and Neil Gaiman’s Twitter)

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The DFC Library: The Spider Moon

5. March 2010

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The Spider Moon Book 1 by Kate Brown DFC Library / David Fickling Books / Random House “They tell a prophecy of our homelands being crushed by a falling sky. That fate has been a shadow over our people ever since. The end has begun . . . in my lifetime.” The Spider Moon is the third in the [...]

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