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TCAF video tour

16. May 2012

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Ryan Couldrey posts up a short but sweet video tour around the delights of this year’s Toronto Comics Arts Festival:

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Lucky Luke – Volume 34 – gags over plot this time…

15. May 2012

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Lucky Luke Volume 34 – The Daltons; Always On The Run By Goscinny and Morris Cinebook “A general amnesty puts the Daltons back on the streets, something Lucky Luke isn’t happy about. And, to make it worse, they seem to have become model citizens. It’s all an act, though, and it doesn’t take long for [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Francois Schuiten’s Mood of the Past

15. May 2012

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François Schuiten’s never been one for straightforward comic work. His long-running series, Les Cités Obscures (with Benoît Peeters) always involved intricate imagery combined with almost labyrinthine storytelling. Just doing a comic doesn’t seem to be enough of a challenge for Schuiten. Recently, Schuiten has been in the news with new productions that are perfect examples [...]

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The Holy Numbers

15. May 2012

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Well known Irish comics creators and supporter Tommie Kelly has just launched a new webcomic on the unsuspecting populace, The Holy Numbers. Set in Ireland and with a religious/spiritual movement at its heart, Father Ted on Craggy Island this is not. When a woman awakes in the middle of the night, concerned about her boyfriend’s [...]

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Comics from Le Monde Diplomatique

15. May 2012

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(some frames from Cyril Pedrosa’s contribution to Le Monde Diplomatique) Last year Wim told us about the respected French current affairs journal Le Monde Diplomatique partnering up with Homecooking Books to produce a Hors Série, where their normal thoughtful analyses in prose were replaced by a range of works in comics form by a wide [...]

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Jason sketching at TCAF

15. May 2012

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The always excellent Jason sketches inside a book for a reader at the recent TCAF: Jason in action from Ila Solomon on Vimeo.

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Bristol show does not impress everyone

14. May 2012

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From what I’ve been seeing on Twitter over the last few days one of the venerable landmarks on the British comics con calendar, the Bristol Comics Expo, hasn’t quite cut the mustard this year, at least for some involved in the comics biz. I’ve seen a few creators twittering about poor footfall and subsequently poor [...]

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DC New 52 Collections Catchup… Green Lantern

14. May 2012

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Okay, it’s catch-up time for a few DC New 52 titles I kept up with. You remember the whole DC New 52 thing don’t you? Where DC decided the entire DC Universe needed a good kick up the continuity backside, and started everything from #1 again. 52 new series. And back in September, we looked [...]

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Hysterical Women & Graphic Grrrlz in Glasgow

14. May 2012

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You may remember last week I reported on a fascinating talk Heather Middleton of the Glasgow Women’s Library and the Team Girl Collective gave in Edinburgh’s Central Library on the history of women working in comics (you can read the report and see the pics here). Good new for readers on the other side of [...]

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Reflections

14. May 2012

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Martin Conaghan and artist Simon Mackie are working on a new comics project, Reflections, which he describes as “a series of single-page autobiographical strips based on events in my life, illustrated brilliantly by Simon.” The collection is tentatively slated for release in November (an eye towards Thought Bubble, perhaps?) and you can already see a [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

13. May 2012

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Another weekend and time to sit back, unfold your ears into a comfortable listening position and take in some of the programmes Alex Fitch is involved in, including, I am pleased to see, more on his series of European comics creators, talking to the artist behind one of my favourite books of last year, Uli [...]

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Art For Art’s Sake

13. May 2012

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Comics…. Internet…. Art? We think so…. Craig Thompson does a little of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy (Via Aw Yeah Comics) Jonathan Edwards has this “Happy Hour” print for sale. David Hitchcock‘s Batman from many years ago: “Way back when (around 12 years ago I reckon) I did this victorian Batman, if was a for an idea [...]

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Lovelace & Babbage – the book!

13. May 2012

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We’ve talked of our enjoyment of Sydney Padua’s Lovelace & Babbage before now, but it’s great to be able to report that Padua has recently announced that she’s got herself one of those book deals with one of those book publishers: “What started as a punchline to a one-shot comic– hey, wouldn’t it be hilarious [...]

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Great Comics That Never Happened….

13. May 2012

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Over at Comics Alliance Chris Sims has been putting together some great cover mashups, complete with guest art and plotlines. I meant to link to them before, but never managed. But here’s the latest…. Art by Kerry Callan, and here’s the plot by Chris Sims: For years, the Riddler has been one of Batman’s deadliest foes, [...]

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47 Ronin – Sakai’s bunny free beauty…

13. May 2012

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Announced recently from Dark Horse, that’s page 2 from 47 Ronin by Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai, and it looks very good indeed. We all know how great an artist Stan Sakai is from his Usagi Yojimbo series, but his art is often overlooked due to the anthropomorphic characters. But no chance of that here, [...]

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