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Propaganda – My November favourites….

3. December 2011

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It’s awful close to the end of the year now, and that means all those best of year lists will start coming in very soon…. But there’s still time to do a best of the month thing for November…. because it’s been a bloody great month for great comics. And if I hadn’t been laid [...]

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Facebook the comicbook

1. December 2011

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Facebook the comicbook 2: Achievements By Paul Stapleton Paul Stapleton’s second comic about facebook. I missed the first. I imagine it went pretty much the same. A snarky look at obsessive online lives and those who live them. Or something like that. The big problem is that essentially everything you need to know about the [...]

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Ink + Paper…

30. November 2011

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Ink + Paper no. 1 — Winter 2012 Cover, design and editing by David O’Connell Contributors: Anna Jay, Barnaby Richards, Ben Whitely, Cliodhna Lyons, Dan Berry, David O’Connell, Ellen Lindner, Ellie Partridge, Helen Entwisle, Hugh “Shug” Raine, Jeremy Day, Jess Bradley, Joe Decie, Julia Homersham, Lizz Lunney, Michael Leader, Philippa Rice, Rick Eades, Sammy Borras, Selina Lock, Timothy Winchester Ink + Paper …..such an evocative little title for the little A5 sized anthology, bringing [...]

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Klaus – contemplative comedy – freshly booked…

28. November 2011

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Klaus By Richard Short Nobrow Press Always nice to see something you once held in your hands as a hastily put together self published comic turn, thanks to the art publishing skills of Nobrow, into a rather tasty looking A5-ish hardback, of the sort often found frequenting stockings at Christmas, albeit usually not as fine [...]

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Chester 5000 XYV… just your everyday erotic, robotic, Victorian romance…

27. November 2011

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Chester 5000 XYV By Jess Fink Top Shelf “1885: an age of industrial revolution and sexual frustration. Pricilla is a woman with needs, and her inventor husband Robert is a little too busy with his experiments to keep her fully satisfied. Science to the rescue! With a few gears and springs, the proper appendages, a [...]

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Nursery Rhyme Comics

25. November 2011

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Nursery Rhyme Comics – 50 Timeless Rhymes From 50 Celebrated Cartoonists Edited by Chris Duffy Artists (deep breath): Nick Abadzis; Andrew Arnold; Kate Beaton; Vera Brosgol; Nick Bruel; Scott Campbell; Lilli Carre; Roz Chast; JP Coovert; Jordan Crane; Rebecca Dart; Eleanor Davis; Vanessa Davis; Theo Ellsworth; Matt Forsythe; Jules Feiffer; Bob Flynn; Alexis Frederick-Frost; Ben [...]

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The rainy, beautiful day of Mr. James – Teacher….

24. November 2011

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A Long Day Of Mr. James – Teacher By Harvey James Blank Slate Books “In 2008, Harvey James, as a young man of 25 years of age, travelled to South Korea to teach English to elementary school students. The six most eventful and enjoyable months of his life, he was constantly inspired and formed bonds [...]

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Dinopopolous … meet Nigel and cue the fun….

23. November 2011

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Dinopopolous By Nick Edwards Blank Slate Books Another Chalk Marks comic from Blank Slate – their high production value comic series highlighting new and upcoming artists with a bite size, easy to get finished bit of comics. It may be only 26 pages long, but it feels like a lot more than your standard comic [...]

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The Klondike – a sprawling, epic that distracts when it should have fascinated

22. November 2011

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The Klondike By Zach Worton Drawn & Quarterly It’s the 1890s, and we’re in the Yukon, at the time of the biggest gold rush in American history, where everyone, no matter who they were, no matter where they came from or how impossible it may have seemed, all felt the lure of gold. Worton’s 300 [...]

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Welcome to your midlife crisis…..

21. November 2011

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Mid-life By Joe Ollmann Drawn & Quarterly Midlife is a sort of, maybe, possibly kind of autobiography by Ollmann. He says it himself – “This is largely a work of fiction. Except where it isn’t” How much is autobiog and how much fiction he leaves open to us. But it certainly feels like the sort [...]

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Nina…. what makes her mad will make you smile….

18. November 2011

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Nina in “That Makes Me Mad!” By Hilary Knight, based on a text by Steven Kroll Toon Books The latest Toon Books, those beautiful little hardbacks designed for much younger readers (and beloved in the school library I must add), is a little bit of a classic…. in both senses of the word. First of [...]

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O.M.F.G. – it’s Spandex Issue 5!

16. November 2011

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Spandex #5 By Martin Eden Five issues in and we know what to expect from Martin Eden’s Spandex; bright, bold colours, great artwork, diverse sexual politics, personal intrigues cast against the backdrop of superheroics…. and most of all a damn fine, highly enjoyable all-gay superteam soap opera series. Here’s a previous summary (but a note [...]

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Okie Dokie Donuts makes Molly laugh….

15. November 2011

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Okie Dokie Donuts: Open For Business By Chris Eliopoulos Top Shelf Productions Another interesting looking kids/ all -ages book from Top Shelf. I have to admit I saw this and just thought it was a little too over the top, a little too cramped, with so much going on in a lot of the panels [...]

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Back with Verity…..

14. November 2011

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VerityFair #3 By Terry Wiley IDCM Wiley promises in the intro to this latest issue of VerityFair that this will be “the most boring issue yet” and that “if you’re waiting for more comedy drunkenness hang on for issue 4″. I say ignore the artist, he’s just being as much of a drama queen as his leading [...]

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Nogoodniks – am I missing something?

13. November 2011

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Nogoodniks By Adrian Norvid Drawn & Quarterly Nogoodnik: n. A worthless, disreputable, or malicious person Another one of those Petits Livres books from Drawn & Quarterly, that really haven’t done that much for me in the past. Essentially my problem with them is that they’re merely art books with occasional mixing of words and pictures, [...]

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