Every December we bring you a month-long celebration of a cross-section of comics’ great and good, picking their very best of the year and telling us a little of how the year has been for them. And 2012 was no exception. As usual, the only predictable thing about the list that develops is simply how [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 12, 2013
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Well, it took me a while to get this out of her (far too much time doing stuff over Christmas to be bothered doing this), but here we go, just sneaking in before I get around to doing the FPI Master List 2012…. Number 1 daughter Molly brings you her best 3 of 2012 (and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 11, 2013
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And so, belatedly, after my fellow blog crew members and our traditional series of daily guest Best of the Year posts (I’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who was kind enough to take the time to contribute, it’s a lot to do each year but I love running it [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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Okay, back to the Best of 2012 posts and we’re rounding up those final few now, all connected to the blog in one way or another. This time it’s comic reader, comic retailer, FPI director, and blog-papa (the man without whom etc etc…) Kenny Penman. Kenny Penman is also the publisher of Blank Slate Books, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 31, 2012
I love lists. I especially love lists of comics and books because it usually throws up a whole host of interesting things that I’ve missed out on (because despite how passionate I am about comics, it’s a vast medium). 2012 was, as has been established by most people, a very interesting year for comics. It [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 30, 2012
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Wow, here we are again at the end of another year. Frankly, it’s been a quite magnificent year for UK comics. There seems to have been more great works of increasing diversity than ever before. The British comic scene is growing and growing, beginning to get some recognition outside these shores, with both Europe and [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 29, 2012
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So, we’ve had all of our guest posts for the Best of 2012 here on the FPI blog (you can see them all here) which means it’s time for those of us who contribute to get involved. We shall start with our continental correspondent: Wim Lockefeer: 2012 was a good year for comics, I think. It [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 28, 2012
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Just going to be really cheeky and squeeze in a final ‘Best of Year’ guest post. My own fault for the delay- illness and uni work has meant I’ve not had time to tend to blog duties. Today’s guest is creator of Spera, most probably one of the most beautiful web-comics out there, writer and editor Josh [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 26, 2012
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And so we come at last to our final guest Best of the Year for 2012 – we’ve been posting up a different view of the best from the last year or so every single day since the start of December (you can see them all here), as is now pretty much a tradition here [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 25, 2012
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Continuing into this final week of our traditional festive daily guest Best of the Year posts (see here for the preceding entries in this year’s series) and today we welcome Graham “Sgt Mike Battle” Pearce: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why [...]
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Monday, January 14, 2013
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