Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes via editor extraordinaire and a man who is a close, personal friend of the Elder Gods, invoking their hellish powers to assist SelfMadeHero’s Lovecraftian desires, it’s Dan Lockwood: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes courtesy of Martin Eden, a comics creator who always looks good in Spandex; Martin’s managed to combine sexual politics and identity with the capes’n'tights genre in a unique and unusual way – while mainstream comics make a big thing out of having a token, solitary gay character [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from Matthew Sheret, comics creator and also co-founder of the excellent Brit small press showcase We Are Words + Pictures as well as being behind the brilliant Paper Science anthology. FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 12, 2011
Today’s guest Best of the Year comes via the good offices of the excellent Nick Abadzis, who has brought us some fabulous comics work over the years, not least the magnificent, touching and inspiring Laika, a tale of a dog and the heroic dawn days of what would become the Space Age. The new edition [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 9, 2011
Today’s guest Best of the Year comes from someone who manages to merge two of my very favourite things – comics and cinema. Edward Ross, among other works, has created a fascinting series called Filmish which uses the comics medium to explore film theory and I’ve very much enjoyed them (reviews of issue one, issue [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 8, 2011
Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from a long-time good chum of the blog – a writer, artist and keen supporter of the British small press comics scene, as well as an occassional contributor to this very blog (in fact he kindly penned a report on the Brit comics contingent’s trip to the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Today’s guest is new to the blog, although I am sure quite a few of you will know her already. Academic, writer and now, with her soon-to-be published debut Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, a comics scribe too (collaborating with her husband Bryan), Doctor Mary Talbot. Mary has also been kind enough to agree to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 6, 2011
For our second in 2011′s Best of the Year series our guest is one half of the gestalt comics entity known as the Etherington Brothers, a man who has literally worked for Monkey Nuts, Robin Etherington: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 5, 2011
Yes, it is indeed, unbelievably, that time of year once more, when we kick off our daily series of guest posts from writers, artists, editors and publishers in the comics biz, and ask them to pick out their favourite comics reading from the last twelve months. It’s become something of an annual tradition here on [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 19, 2011
Publishers Weekly seem to think so, doing the equivalent of being the annoying auntie who loudly and proudly points out that “yes, I tend to get all my Christmas shopping in the October half term holidays whilst the shops aren’t too crowded….”. Publishers Weekly have published their best of year list already. In fact they [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 23, 2011
Every year Joe Gordon sends out requests for best of year lists from various comic people; artists, writers, journalists, retailers, and various other interested (and interesting) parties. And we’ve been running the various commentaries on the Best of 2010 through most of December and the start of January (they’re all tagged here). And yet again [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 17, 2011
Each year when it’s time for me to think about my favourite reading of the year it seems I have to struggle quite a bit. Not struggling to find stand-out comics and books but rather the opposite – struggling to try and narrow down my list into something reasonably short and readable. I think once [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 14, 2011
Today’s guest Best of the Year is from the very fine artist, animator, comics creator, powering force behind the Irish 24 Hour Comic Day and she’s a champion level hugger to boot, it’s the lovely Cliodhna Lyons: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 13, 2011
Today’s Best of the Year selection comes from long-time comics reader, retailer, FPI director, colleague and now publisher of the fine Blank Slate Books, Kenny Penman: 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? Kenny: A good year all [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from one of our own regular contributors, the man who brings us our weekly visit to the strange and frequently disturbing world of Somersault, as well as creating some fab small press comics and regularly posting some fascinating thoughts on the comics medium on his Love the [...]
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