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Hope

15. May 2009

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Among this week’s new arrivals is the oft-delayed third volume of Harold Gray’s Complete Little Orphan Annie and I couldn’t resist sharing one of the cartoons from the back cover – this is nearly eight decades old, drawn as the world staggered through the effects of the Great Depression in the early 1930s; its fairly [...]

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Graphical Powers

19. March 2009

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Among this week’s new releases there were two whose covers really grabbed me, one simple and largely monochromatic, the other also quite simple but with a splash of colour. One is volume 12 of Powers: 25 Coolest Dead Superheroes of All Time (finally in, I know a lot of readers have been waiting for that) [...]

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Collected Bulldog Adventure Magazine

14. March 2009

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Years ago at Nostalgia & Comics we used to stock Bulldog Adventure magazine so it’s a pleasure to be able to point out that Jason Cobley’s classic British adventuring Bulldog is finally getting the collected edition that it’s been deserving for a long time. The Greatest Adventures Of Captain Winston Bulldog is available right now [...]

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Tripwire Superhero Special 2009

3. March 2009

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Tripwire Superhero Special 2009 Edited by Joel Meadows In a comic world where we seem rather bereft of regular magazines about comics at the moment it’s nice to have another Tripwire appear so rapidly after last year’s annual. For those who don’t know, Tripwire started out as a well regarded comic book news and interviews magazine; 50 issues [...]

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Heroes of UK comics in Bizarre Magazine

21. February 2009

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Joe linked to the Paul Gravett piece on heroes of UK comics earlier this week, but did you know that it’s included as part of the March issue of Bizarre magazine, available from an FPI store near you: From the website: “We salute the heroes of British comics – from Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman to Grant [...]

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Propaganda has a good, long read of the Tripwire Annual 2008

23. September 2008

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Tripwire Annual 2008 Joel Meadows & Gary Marshall (Tripwire Annual 2008 – look for the gorgeous Tommy Lee Edwards cover at a store near you) Although Tripwire may have started out in 1992 as a comics magazine, it’s evolved into something far more substantial and all-encompassing than that. Since ending the regular magazine in 2003 editor-in-chief Joel Meadows [...]

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Space tourism and happy birthday to NASA

29. July 2008

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Science fiction edges a little closer to science fact as Richard Branson’s rather optimistically titled Virgin Galactic (Galactic? Has anyone explained the concept of astronomical distances to his marketing brand people? Oh well, we can forgive their enthusiasm, I think) space tourism jet and pod are exhibited to the public. The odd-looking ‘double jet’ design [...]

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Iron tomes

17. April 2008

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This afternoon I am making myself a little fort using the massive Iron Man omnibus volumes. (the huge Iron Man Omnibus, just arrived fresh from Marvel, from left to right the Jack Kirby, Adi Granov and Movie cover versions. Warning, you may need power armour to actually lift these things...)

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Heroes arrives

8. November 2007

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Among the latest arrivals in this week’s new releases is the eagerly-awaited Heroes hardback collection, which comes in two different cover editions, one by Jim Lee and one by Alex Ross. Although some of this material may have been seen by some fans in the online comic strip that accompanied the TV show I think [...]

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From Hell

12. October 2007

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This must be a week for very handsome hardback editions of classic comics work to arrive and tempt my poor wallet (the poor thing is squeaking in fear like a timid mouse and hiding from me under my desk) – following on from the arrival of the second volume of the Absolute Sandman, I notice [...]

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Dealing in Absolutes and the Key to Hell

10. October 2007

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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, I’m a very excited comics bunny – among the latest arrivals for New Comics Day tomorrow I spotted a large, dark tome: volume two of the Absolute Sandman. Geekgasm alert. Among the twenty-odd issues of the Sandman collected in this huge tome are the A Game of You story [...]

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Walking Dead staggers in

3. May 2007

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If, like me, you are a big fan of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series from Image, you will be very happy to hear the much delayed sixth volume – “This Sorrowful Life” – has finally arrived with this week’s batch of new arrivals, so you can finally find out what happened to Rick, last [...]

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Ray Bradbury gets Pulitzer citation

21. April 2007

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The esteemed author Ray Bradbury is to receive a special citation from the Pulitzer prize organisers at an awards luncheon on May 21st. While this isn’t an actual Pulitzer Prize, the citation is a pretty prestigious honour, given for “his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy.” [...]

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Civil War arrives

13. April 2007

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It will surprise no-one to learn that some of the Civil War graphic novels have suffered from delays, just as the comics did, but at last the collection simply entitled “Civil War” by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven has finally arrived – a day later than usual this week because of the Easter weekend, but [...]

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The final Potter

1. February 2007

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JK Rowling has announced the publication date for the final volume of the incredibly popular Harry Potter novels, the Deathly Hallows, due this summer on the 21st of July (sighing booksellers round the world will be marking it on their calendars and preparing to gird their literary loins for waves of enthusiastic youngsters at midnight [...]

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