Tag Archive | "Andi Watson"

Glister and the Faerie Host; Glister just keeps on getting better and better….

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

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Glister: The Faerie Host by Andi Watson Walker Books When I reviewed Glister The Haunted Teapot back in August I described it thus: “Glister Butterworth is a strange magnet. Like it says right there: wherever she goes, strange things happen around her. In fact Glister’s life is pretty strange without anything happening to her. She lives with her dad, [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Jim Medway & Andi Watson

Sunday, November 8, 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. To end our little look at the great works entered for the Graphic Short Story Prize we have two familiar names to the regular readers of this blog. First up Jim Medway, who comes up with the beautiful and frankly hilarious Paul Crystal, Graphic Designer. But, like [...]

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Glister: House Hunt – more Glister, more Andi Watson. Rejoice.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

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Glister: The House Hunt by Andi Watson Walker Books The second Glister book from Walker Books, released earlier this month along with Glister: The Haunted Teapot (review). To be honest everything I said in that review could easily fit here. Glister is such a delightful work, full of marvellous moments and sumptuous artwork that I could almost wish Andi [...]

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All that glisters here really is golden: The triumphant return of Andi Watson’s Glister

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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Glister: The Haunted Teapot by Andi Watson Walker Books Glister was a comic series that came out in 2007 from Image Comics; 3 issues of the series made it out before the plug was pulled. But in many ways the book was doomed from the start; after all, Image are hardly the ideal company to market a comic [...]

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The long summer holidays – Andi Watson helps out ……

Saturday, August 8, 2009

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Anyone out there reading this who’s on childcare duties over the incredibly long 7 week summer holidays that the children have this year will probably be desperate for anything fun and interesting to do with the kids (and if it doesn’t cost much that’s a bonus). We may all love our children dearly but even [...]

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The return of Andi Watson’s Glister …

Sunday, July 19, 2009

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A long time ago, I wrote a review of Andi Watson’s new series; Glister. And I had this to say about it: “past the gorgeousness and over the slightness. Next comes the reading. And the reading is fun. Lots of fun. Watson has switched back to his early style of cartooning to present a lighter, looser [...]

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