Tag Archive | "Best of the Year 2009"

Best of the year: David Baillie’s picks

Monday, December 28, 2009

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For the latest in our annual Best of the Year selections today’s guest is a good friend of the blog, a noted indy comics creator and a well known figure on the UK comics scene where he is especially noted for his ability to entertain children and adults alike with his glove puppet show, as [...]

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Best of the year: Mike Carey’s faves

Sunday, December 27, 2009

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Today’s guest for the Best of the Year has to be one of the most prolific scribes in the business right now, a writer who mixes scripting major mainstream characters like the X-Men, Hellblazer and Fantastic Four with his own highly acclaimed series like Lucifer and Unwritten and somehow has also found time to pen [...]

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Best of the Year: Sean Azzopardi’s faves

Thursday, December 24, 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year guest is one of our best indy creators on the UK small press scene, creator of the excellent 12 Hour Shift, co-creator of Necessary Monsters and many other works and a good chum of the blog, Sean Azzopardi: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over [...]

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Best of the year: Mark Kardwell

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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For today’s Best of the Year spot I’m pleased to introduce fellow blogger-about-town and also gentleman librarian (quite possibly the only librarian who keeps a fully stocked utility belt under his chunky knit cardigan), Mark Kardwell, with his faves from 2009: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last [...]

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Propaganda’s Book Of 2009: If you read just one graphic novel that lays out the fundamental foundations of mathematical logic….

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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Logicomix Concept & Story by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou. Art by Alecos Papadatos. Bloomsbury “What Is Logic? ….. My way of telling you the story of Logic will be through the tale of one of it’s most ardent fans. Myself!”  – Betrand Russell from the pages of Logicomix. Here’s a comic you wouldn’t [...]

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Best of the Year: Ian Rankin’s selection

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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Today’s blog guest for the Best of the Year was also a recent guest in our Edinburgh store where he signed copies of his debut graphic novel, Dark Entries. Creator of the internationally bestselling Inspector Rebus novels and a regular on shows like Late Night Review and the Culture Show, as well as stout supporter [...]

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Best of the Year: David Bishop’s picks

Monday, December 21, 2009

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Today’s guest for the latest picks for our annual Best of the Year posts is a man who spent part of his professional comics career with green skin and eating plastic cups as he filled in for the Mighty Tharg editing 2000 AD (as well as putting together the 30th anniversary history of 2000 AD, [...]

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Best of the Year: Paul Cornell’s faves

Friday, December 18, 2009

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It’s time for the latest in our annual Best of the Year selections and today’s guest, I am delighted to say, is a well-respected author of science fiction novels, screenplays (including some of the better Doctor Who episodes) and comics, as well as a regular at many a convention, it is, of course, the very [...]

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Best of the Year 2009: Wim’s faves

Thursday, December 17, 2009

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Today’s Best of the Year for 2009 comes from one of our own regular contributors, our very own Continental Correspondent, Wim Lockefeer; over to Our Man in Belgium: Ah, it’s that time again. You know the drill, so no frills. In no particular order : Tales From Outer Suburbia (Shaun Tan, Arthur A. Levine Books) [...]

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Best of the Year: Jim Medway’s picks

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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For today’s selection for the Best of the Year its the turn of the excellent comics creator and educator Jim Medway, who has the special distinction of being one of the particular favourites of our youngest contributor, Molly, who ranked Jim’s Crab Lane Crew as among her very favourite strips in the now sadly gone [...]

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Best of the Year: Rob Jackson

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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Continuing the annual December tradition of our Best of the Year posts, today we have respected UK indy comics creator Rob Jackson sharing some of his favourites from 2009 with us. FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out? [...]

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Best of the Year 2009 – Gerry Alanguilan

Monday, December 14, 2009

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Yes, once again December has not only crept up on us but is now busy hurtling past us (really, where does the time go?) leading inevitably to Christmas and the end of the year and of course that means its time to commence our traditional Best of the Year features, where we ask a variety [...]

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