Blood Blokes Issue 3 By Adam Cadwell This Life with vampires. It was a lazy comparison when I made it with issue 1, but for anyone who knows what I’m talking about it’s such an easy and obvious and right comparison when you’re talking about Cadwell’s slacker vamp soap-opera. What Cadwell’s doing here is quite [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 10, 2013
The Everyday Adam Cadwell The Everyday was Adam Cadwell’s webcomic, running 200 episodes and detailing those everyday events that oft times go unnoticed, the daily ephemera of life. After reviewing it in print form (Collections 1-3, Collection 4) I was pleased to get my hands on this beautiful landscape format hardback at last years Thought Bubble (I [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 27, 2013
Well, Adam Cadwell and Marc Ellerby set up their publishing house Great Beast a little over a year ago now, and although initially host to just the excellent comics from the founders (Chloe Noonan, Ellerbisms, The Everday, Blood Blokes) there were always talks of expanding, of becoming a place for other creators to get the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 16, 2013
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Normally an Upcoming post has loads of art on one particular project that’s due to hit your eyes at some point. But what about those projects that don’t have loads of images, or details, or even a title yet…. why should they be left out eh? Adam Cadwell’s Blood Blokes Issue 3 is (finally) released [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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Over on Instagram for the past week or so, Adam Cadwell has been serialising his all-ages strip The King Of Things, one panel at a time…. sort of an advent calendar with a difference… Here’s Adam…. “I tried a different style than my usual work, aiming for a more classically animated look, and although it [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 26, 2012
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Seeing as there were several FPI writers at the recent Thought Bubble festival, we thought it might be interesting to see what the comic highlights were. So, simple idea…. five comics that absolutely, utterly, completely entranced and amazed and generally made me go wow from Thought Bubble last weekend…. But one proviso…. I haven’t actually [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 17, 2012
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Tonight, at Leeds Thought Bubble Convention, the first ever British Comic Awards were handed out. I shall tell you all about the fun behind the awards at a later date, but right now the important things…. Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys & Girls, it gives me great, great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2012 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 28, 2012
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File this under “you wait ages for a great UK autobiographical comic collection and then two come along at once“. We showed you the tease last week, now here’s the finished product… Marc Ellerby’s Ellerbisms: “The cult autobiographical web-comic is finally released in a handsome collection from Great Beast Comics. Ellerbisms is the story of a relationship [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 20, 2012
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More new work from familiar names. Books ready (fingers crossed) for Comica Comiket (10th November), but definitely for Thought Bubble (17th & 18th November). I’m guessing this is a tease for Adam Cadwell’s The Everyday collection…. … and this is from Marc Ellerby…. could we finaly, finally, be getting a collection of his wonderul Ellerbisms [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 1, 2012
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We last featured Decompressed, the comic craft podcast by Kieron Gillen, when talking about Hawkeye (the second issue of which is out this week). The thing that makes Decompressed such an interesting thing to listen to is that it dissects comic work from an artist or writer’s point of view, breaking the actual craft down. It’s [...]
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