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The Lengths Issue 4

24. January 2012

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The Lengths Issue 4 By Howard Hardiman Previously in Howard Hardiman’s dark tale of sexuality, relationships and bad decisions …. reviews of issue 1, issue 2, issue 3, We met Eddie, poor, messed up Eddie, living a dark double life, trying to be the good boyfriend to the lovely Dan, but tempted into the male escorting biz [...]

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The Phoenix Comic – Issue 3

21. January 2012

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The Phoenix Issue 3 After the initial buzz of reading issues 1 & 2 back to back last weekend, today was what will be a regular thing – get The Phoenix, read The Phoenix, for both Molly and myself. Molly never really got into The Dandy, the Beano or Toxic. Yet something about The DFC [...]

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Town Mouse…. silly, slight, and fun.

21. January 2012

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Town Mouse By Graham Johnson Along with the recently reviewed, and much enjoyed Arthur and Posy issue 1, artist Graham Johnson sent along Town Mouse, a teeny-tiny diary comic (the art on here is about full-size on an average-ish monitor). It’s all about ”a town mouse in the country“, who just happens to have the same name [...]

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The Adventures Of Hergé – a life in moments….. but not in depth

20. January 2012

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The Adventures Of Hergé Written by Jose-Louis Bocquet and Jen-Luc Fromental, illustrated by Stanislas Barthélémy Drawn And Quarterly Bouquet, Fromental and Barthélémy deliver a biographical graphic novel of Georges Prosper Remi, the man known the world over as Hergé. His work, his art, his creations are forever associated with his name, his books sell in [...]

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Arthur and Posy

19. January 2012

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Arthur and Posy Issue 1 By Ella Risbridger and Graham Johnson I didn’t have any idea what to expect from this one, but it didn’t take long for it to rather enchant. Yes, it’s rough, it’s loose, but there’s such charm here in a tale best summed up by the back cover: “A big glittery [...]

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Solipsistic Pop 4 – Maps

18. January 2012

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Solipsistic Pop 4 Artists: Takayo Akiyama, Krystina Baczynski, Dan Berry, Joe Blann, Stephen Collins, Paul Harrison Davies, Joe Decie, John Cei Douglas, Oliver East, Nick Edwards, Marc Ellerby, Paul Francis, Katie Green, Isabel Greenberg, Howard Hardiman, Ste Hitchen, Tom Humberstone, Joe List, Lizz Lunney, John Miers, Kathryn Newman, Luke Pearson, Edward Ross, Philippa Rice, Jenny Robins, Alison Sampson, Anna Saunders, Matthew Sheret Edited by Tom [...]

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The Phoenix Comic – Issues 1 & 2

16. January 2012

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The Phoenix Issues 1 & 2 Yes, I’m a little late with a review of The Phoenix Comic, and sorry, but it’s all my fault. I meant to subscribe earlier, honest I did, but Molly broke her arm mid December, and then the mania of Christmas took over. Before I knew it, it was January, and [...]

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Culpability – the dark (definitely fictional) work of Thom Ferrier…

13. January 2012

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Culpability By Thom Ferrier More comics work from Thom Ferrier, a real (ex) GP, curator of the Graphic Medicine website and a man who’s written a dissertation on medical narrative in graphic novels. So when he writes about medical stuff you know that he’s working from experience, which makes the subject of Culpability a rather scary [...]

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Science Fiction Octuple Feature

12. January 2012

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Science Fiction Octuple Feature Sarah K. Fogg, Lily-Rose Beardshaw, Laura McNulty, Sammy Borras, Catherine Reda, Luke Bayliss, Harry Griffin-Hayes, Shazia Jubeen, Jacob Boniface, Jack Davies and Gemma Sheldrake Inspired Comics Short anthology of sci-fi tales, eight in total. Not great, but enough in some to make me want a little more. Allow me to explain…. [...]

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Best Of Year – Richard’s Propaganda List 2011

11. January 2012

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Here we go, late as usual, what I reckoned were the best ten comics published in 2011. And hell, it was a good, good year. There have been far, far, far too many comics released this year that I really wanted to read, and sadly some of the ones I’ve bought for myself, desperate to [...]

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Thorgal – one of the stranger, more enjoyable ones….

10. January 2012

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Thorgal Volume 11: The Invisible Fortress By Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski Cinebook “Still travelling with Kris of Valnor, Thorgal runs afoul of a local tribe. When a mysterious old woman offers him a chance to escape the hostile villagers, he accepts. But there’s more to the bargain: She says that if he can [...]

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Graphic Novel Classic Library: Heavy Liquid by Paul Pope

9. January 2012

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Heavy Liquid by Paul Pope DC/Vertigo Heavy Liquid blends every influence you can think of; manga, comics, bandes dessinee, rock and roll, and science fiction into one suitably breathless story that hits like the best of them all, a perfect comic book for a future of broken dreams and machine nightmares, of Blade Runner-esque cities [...]

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Nobrow 6 – The Double

6. January 2012

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Nobrow 6 – The Double Nobrow Press (The comic side cover of Nobrow 6 – by Tom Gauld) Not content with putting out some very fine examples of graphic novels in the three years of their existence, Nobrow Press also have the temerity to put out their illustration anthology, simply titled Nobrow, a collection of [...]

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Nelson – repeated….

5. January 2012

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A little cheating here…. we put my Nelson review up (finally) on Christmas Day. I say finally, not because it had taken a long while to post the thing, but because Richard (me) had dragged and dragged and dragged his/my feet over the review. Wanted to read it again, and again, and again. Wanted to [...]

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Mush! Just your everyday Canine Comic Sit-Com….

4. January 2012

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Mush! Sled Dogs With Issues Glenn Eichler & Joe Infurnari First Second “Venus wants Buddy to quit asking her to “make puppies.” Buddy wants Winston’s help wooing Venus. Winston wants Guy’s respect. Guy wants Dolly’s job. Dolly wants to know the meaning of it all. Nobody knows what Fiddler really wants, not even Fiddler. But [...]

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