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Outcastes – magic, mystery and murder…..

17. February 2010

Outcastes issues 1-6 by Tony McGee True Stories Comics Outcastes opens with a pair of witchy, mysterious, amnesiac twins; Winter and Summer who are found in a cave on moors in what looks like some variation of Victorian era Britain. Taken to the local orphanage it seems as if madness and magic are following [...]

Echo Volume One: Moon Lake

16. February 2010

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Echo Volume One: Moon Lake by Terry Moore. Abstract Studio I picked up the first issue of Echo; Terry Moore’s first, post Strangers In Paradise series and put it down as one of those that might be interesting to follow once a collection came out. Well, it seems I was right. When these first 5 issues are read [...]

There’s No Time Like The Present 11

15. February 2010

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There’s No Time Like The Present issue 11 (of 13) by Paul Rainey Self Published. It’s really difficult reviewing this one, since I really don’t want you to read it. At least I don’t want you to read it quite yet. Like I’ve said before, Paul Rainey’s There’s No Time Like The Present series is something you absolutely must [...]

Alan Moore’s Light Of Thy Countenance

12. February 2010

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Light Of Thy Countenance by Alan Moore, adapted by Antony Johnston, illustrated by Felipe Massafera Avatar Press (Two covers to Light Of Thy Countenance; left – softcover, right – hardcover) This slim volume is an adaptation of one of Alan Moore’s old prose stories. It’s become rather a popular thing in the last few years to mine every [...]

Pjang 4 – more of those people who just aint no good

11. February 2010

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Pjang 4 by Rol Hirst, Chris Askham, Ryan Taylor, Tony McGee, cover by Nigel Lowrey and Davey Metcalfe Self Published The latest issue of Rol Hirst’s Pjang sticks to the format of three short stories per comic, and just about sticks to the title’s theme of “people just ‘aint no good”. It certainly gets off to a great [...]

All the little joys of being in Coupledom….

10. February 2010

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Coupledom by Andrew Waugh Self published Here’s a little something that should warm the cockles of anyone who’s a fan of things like Mark Ellerby’s Ellerbisms or Adam Cadwell’s The Everyday. Yes, Coupledom by Andrew Waugh is yet another autobiog strip with pretty pictures, cartoony style and a focus on the daily life and relationship of the cartoonist [...]

A Study In Scarlet – Holmes & Watson are back for the first time

9. February 2010

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Sherlock Holmes – A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adapted by Ian Edginton and I.N.J.Culbard SelfMadeHero The second in SelfMadeHero’s Sherlock Holmes adaptations gets it’s release at almost the perfect time, hot on the heels of the recent big budget, and by all accounts rather entertaining movie outing with Robert Downey and Jude Law. The [...]

Douglas Noble’s Live Static – difficult, complex, brilliant.

8. February 2010

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Strip For Me: Live Static by Douglas Noble Self published “It’s a horror story about love. It’s a romance about memory. It’s a dream of forgetting.” That’s how Noble describes the 3 part Live Static – told in issues 28-30 of his Strip For Me series. There’s a man, there’s a woman, they live together in something that [...]

Publish You – Alternative Press

5. February 2010

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Publish You Selected and compiled by Jimi Gherkin, Peter Lally, Gareth Brookes and Saban Kazim Alternative Press With the upcoming 1st anniversary of the Alternative Press Fair just around the corner I thought it was about time to take a little look at the Publish You collection that Alternative Press put out in 2009. Publish You is an 80 [...]

Graphic Novel Classic Library: Judge Dredd: America

5. February 2010

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Some of you may have noticed that we’ve recently changed the format of our popular weekly newsletter, now creating a second one each week dedicated purely to graphic novels. Along with recommendations for upcoming new titles from all sorts of publishers we decided we also wanted to include a suggestion for a classic title, a [...]

Ethel Sparrowhawk’s Terrible Hangover

4. February 2010

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Ethel Sparrowhawk’s Terrible Hangover by Jemima Von Schindelberg and Steven Tillotson Banal Pig Comics A sad, somewhat bizarre and somewhat brilliant tale of a lonely, rather pathetic life here. This is the second part of the Ethel Sparrowhawk story, but everything you ever needed to know is either neatly summarised on the inside front and back covers or [...]

Comics of Decadence

3. February 2010

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Comics from the Decadence Collective Published by Dave Lander (Lando) and Stathis Tsemberlidis (Covers to Decadence anthology # 6 and #7) Decadence is both the name of the anthology and the name of the artists collective started in 2003 by artists Lando and Stathis Tsemberlidis. They’re a collective that operates very much at the artistic end of [...]

“In my line of work you see a lot of death” – irritable, grumpy and wonderful; Harker’s back

2. February 2010

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Harker issue 10 by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks Ariel Press Here we go again….. by now you know how much I enjoy Harker (see the review of Volume 1: The Book Of Solomon for a reminder), so when I got the latest issue I was almost tempted just to write a quick piece announcing it’s release and [...]

Feels Like Stephen King

1. February 2010

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Feels Like Stephen King written by Steven Deighan, illustrated by Terry Cooper Dark Monster Publications I’ve never really liked Stephen King, so a graphic novel with that title was always going to be a hard sell for me. But this debut piece of comic work – at 42 pages it’s more graphic short story than graphic novel – [...]

Le Mot Faux – one last chance to get it right, but at what cost?

29. January 2010

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Le Mot Faux by Matthew Craig Self Published “One more time. One more night. One more chance to set things right.” That’s the idea behind Matthew Craig’s latest comic, something a little different from his usual fare at first glance. But this tale of technology allowing the grieving one last day with the dead has, at it’s heart, the [...]

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Outcastes – magic, mystery and murder…..

Echo Volume One: Moon Lake

There’s No Time Like The Present 11

Alan Moore’s Light Of Thy Countenance

Pjang 4 – more of those people who just aint no good

All the little joys of being in Coupledom….

A Study In Scarlet – Holmes & Watson are back for the first time

Douglas Noble’s Live Static – difficult, complex, brilliant.

Publish You – Alternative Press

Graphic Novel Classic Library: Judge Dredd: America

Ethel Sparrowhawk’s Terrible Hangover

Comics of Decadence

“In my line of work you see a lot of death” – irritable, grumpy and wonderful; Harker’s back

Feels Like Stephen King

Le Mot Faux – one last chance to get it right, but at what cost?

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