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Paul Rainey’s Book Of Lists

4. July 2009

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I’m a big fan of Paul Rainey‘s work. Have been for quite some time, especially his epic “There’s No Time Like The Present” series (review here). But Paul also does something called “The Book Of Lists”, a diary strip where events are ordered by category rather than in a linear fashion. When Paul’s got enough [...]

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Marvel Strange Tales Max – strange tales indeed!

28. June 2009

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(Paul Pope and Jose Villarubia’s cover to Strange Tales Max 1. Big wow.) Yesterday I looked at DC’s major 12 weekly event superhero series Wednesday Comics. Today, it’s Marvel’s turn. I’ve always been a superhero fan, but find myself further and further away from the majority of output by the big two in the last [...]

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Wednesday Comics – coming every Thursday to a comic shop near you.

27. June 2009

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I’ve been meaning to mention this one ever since it was announced. DC comics are particularly fond of the summer event idea and are also rather fond of the idea of weekly comics. Now normally I have to say I find the whole idea rather horribly drowning in dense continuity, but the latest summer weekly [...]

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David Baillie’s Tongue Of The Dead now online

23. June 2009

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Comic artist David Baillie has just begun serialisation of his sword and sorcery epic The Tongue Of The Dead up onto the Sequential website, one page every day in the run-up to LUC176 and Monday/Thursday after that. Tongue of the Dead and other work by David Baillie was reviewed here. And I had this to [...]

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The alternative Simpsons

20. June 2009

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This year’s Treehouse Of Horror Simpsons issue is one of those lovely issues where the leading lights of the alt-comics crowd get their hands on Bart et al. Looks like it should be good: “Guest edited by Sammy Harkham, the award-winning creator of the popular Kramers Ergot anthology, this year’s issue is a jam-packed with [...]

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Gaiman & Palmer news…. aaaahhhh.

13. June 2009

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I’m still catching up so you’ve probably all seen this on the Spin website: (Via Heidi) “Later, Gaiman, 48, reads his disturbing comic piece about a man who works as a living statue in a city square, and stalks a young woman he admires from afar, eventually waiting for her in total stillness in the [...]

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Just seen my Christmas Present…..

7. June 2009

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Fantagraphics have some great news for us (although perhaps not for our wallets – but hell, who really needs food anyway?): Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons features not only every cartoon Wilson drew for Playboy, but all his prose fiction that has appeared in that magazine as well, from his first story in [...]

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Crumb’s “Genesis” finished, expect lots of media coverage…

6. June 2009

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This year I fully expect Robert Crumb’s new graphic novel; “The Book Of Genesis” to be everywhere. The press for it will be huge. There will be glowing reviews and articles on Crumb’s cultural position in the Guardian, there will be scathing attacks on Crumb’s book from the religious right and I can even see [...]

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Lenore returns…

31. May 2009

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Roman Dirge’s cute little dead girl has a new publisher. Titan Books have announced that they’re going to begin publishing not only the existing Lenore books but also going to be bringing out new comics and more by Roman Dirge starting this summer. Around the world little goth girls and boys are rejoicing! Lenore: Noogies [...]

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Lying in the Gutters ends, Bleeding Cool begins….

26. May 2009

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Joe posted earlier that tonight’s Lying In The Gutters; Rich Johnston’s gossip and news column over at CBR, was finishing it’s near 7 year run. The last column is here. But Twitter is currently buzzing with the news that even though LITG may be dead, it’s not the end of Rich’s gossip-mongering ways. And here’s [...]

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Mazzuccheli – from tiny acorns etc etc….

16. May 2009

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There’s a nice career retrospective of the great David Mazzuccheli over at Master Post Live Journal. Mazzuccheli is that classic example of an artist who will suddenly break out and blossom. Sienkienvicz and Lapham are two others off the top of my head. The evidence? How about this series of images? (Master Of Kung Fu [...]

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Everybody Is Stupid Except For Me – older maybe, but just the same Peter Bagge.

10. May 2009

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Okay, not new as such, merely a collection of a decade’s worth of camic opinion pieces for Reason magazine. Any new Peter Bagge book is worth a look, especially one where Bagge gets to vent his cultivated grumpiness on topics “ranging from Stupid War to Stupid Sex and, of course, Stupid Politicians”. For those of [...]

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Adrian Kermode – In Memoriam

3. May 2009

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News via e-mail this morning from Andrew Luke of the death yesterday of British comic writer and journalist Adrian Kermode, at the far too young age of 45. Cause of death is unknown at this time. Kermode was a frequent contributor to many British comic magazines including Borderline and Vicious. He was the co-creator of [...]

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London Zine Symposium – Sunday 3rd May

2. May 2009

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Celebrating the burgeoning small press and handmade scene, the London Zine Symposium takes place tomorrow; Sunday 3rd May at the Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street, London, E1 5LJ (Google maps here). Many familiar faces will be there, including; The Brighton Comics Table (Gavin Burrows (The Plot Thickens/ Rocket Science), Sean Duffield (Paper Tiger) and Dan [...]

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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Movie website launches

11. April 2009

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From the Press Release: Fans of the Oni Press series SCOTT PILGRIM by Bryan Lee O’Malley will be happy to know that the film adaptation is now in full swing, and the official SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD movie website is live now. The site, www.scottpilgrimthemovie.com, launched with a video blog featuring director Edgar Wright [...]

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