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Build A Beach Head – an Understanding Comics response from long, long ago….

17. September 2011

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Children…. there was a time when you could publish something and never, ever hear anything about it ever again. Even things much talked about and revered at the time, because they were in print, tended to become unavailable eventually, with their importance related directly to the number of people remembering and sharing the work. Then [...]

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Ty Templeton’s New DC – secrets revealed….

11. September 2011

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Ty Templeton solves the biggest mystery of the DC reboot….

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Upcoming: Leeds Alternative Comics Fair 3

11. September 2011

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We first mentioned this a few weeks ago….. but Hugh Raine sent out a press release with a few more details, a couple more names….. “In keeping with previous events, our small but perfectly formed event hopes to bring you some of the best Northern, alternative comics makers, print-makers and illustrators, who will be selling [...]

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Monologues, Captain Marvel….. the 6-panel meme begins?

2. September 2011

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You know how the Internet likes a good meme yes? You know how comic artists are terrible when it comes to finding other things to do instead of the things they should be doing….. So when you see Evan Shaner do a six panel piece on Captain Marvel (below) and then read Mike Maihack’s reasoning [...]

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Max Brooks in FP Glasgow today!

26. August 2011

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Glasgow peeps and assorted zombies, don’t forget this evening we have World War Z author Max Brooks coming into our Glasgow store on Buchanan Street, right round the corner from where some of the filming for the movie vesion of his book has been going on, from 5.30 to 6.30pm!

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My Octobriana obsession continued

10. August 2011

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Octobriana: Samizdat Edition By Steve Orlando, art by Chaz Truog Poseur Ink I mentioned this a while back, along with another post where I banged on about Octobriana, the made-up heroine of the Russian people. Since getting a copy of Petr Sedecky’s “Octobriana And The Russian Underground” from Dudley library as a boy I’ve been [...]

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Pablo Apple Tree

14. June 2011

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Blank Slate Books‘ Kenny Penman posted up a couple of pages from the upcoming and eagerly anticipated Pablo Apple Tree by Luke Astorigin on his Facebook page – it isn’t just a sneak preview though, interestingly he’s posted up the original sketched-out idea of the page: Then the finished page, fully coloured – have a [...]

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The Photographs

14. June 2011

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The Photographs is a short comic work by Sandra and John of Glasgow’s Metaphrog (home of the gorgeous Louis graphic novels, which I adore). The guys explained to us that The Photographs is the result of a commission by Glasgow Life and is a response to a series of workshops they did with groups of [...]

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Gallifrey Road

14. June 2011

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I am liking this Beatles/Doctor Who mash-up, the various incarnations of the Doctor meets the Beatles’ iconic Abbey Road album cover. Found on the Beatlemaniac’s Tumblr, via Gallifrey Panic Moon. Sadly as seems to be common on a lot of Tumblr blogs no artist info included – as ever if anyone knows who it was [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Gary Panter Painted Paris‏

13. June 2011

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Illustrator and cartoonist Gary Panter, whose art has been described as expressionist new wave punk, recently had an exhibition in the Martel Galerie in Paris, with lots of sketches and paintings, a fair amount of Jimbo material and quite a lot of Smokestack strips. Even though the exhibition is already over, you can still check [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

9. June 2011

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As another Thursday rolls around here’s Alex Fitch to update us to the latest of his comics and SF related shows coming up; as ever for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows, check the Panel Borders site: Panel Borders: Comic Therapy, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast afterwards on Panel Borders [...]

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DC announce 52 new series in a Universe wide reboot…. AND major news on digital comics….

1. June 2011

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(Jim Lee’s redesigned Justice League – image grabbed from IGN.com) DC announced this week that they’re going to: Cancel all their titles from August and, starting with Justice League #1 by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee on August 31st, they’ll be bringing out 52 new DC Universe titles through September, all from #1. And, almost as [...]

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Four from Toon Books – a magnificent debut from our youngest reviewers Katy (8) and Lucy (7)

31. May 2011

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Here at the FPI blog we’re very keen on Toon Books; the graphic novel series designed for the youngest of readers. But I’m definitely not the target readership, no matter how much I try to think younger. And even when I get my 11 year-old Molly to review them I still feel she’s slightly too [...]

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Read Every Day, Lead A Better Life..

15. May 2011

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Read Every Day, Lead A Better Life – that’s the tag line of a campaign by Scholastic to encourage reading at all ages, something we can all get behind. (Thanks to Wim for the link) They have a charity auction for pieces by various artists, including Jon J Muth (those great panda above), Jeff Smith [...]

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Strip Magazine sort of debuts at Bristol today…

14. May 2011

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(Strip Magazine Issue Zero, cover by Smuzz – Click here to download pdf version) Strip Magazine – the new British publication from Print Media – was meant to be having it’s special Zero Issue free sampler released exclusively this weekend at Bristol. But sadly it’s been caught up in an industrial dispute involving FedEx at Charles de [...]

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