Tag Archive | "Comedy"

Bill Hicks’ Day

Friday, February 26, 2010

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Today is the anniversary of the death of the late, great Bill Hicks, one of the best stand-ups/ranters to ever grace the stage and a major influence on one Jesse Custer in Ennis and Dillon’s brilliant Preacher. With a new documentary on Bill coming up a good its a good time to look back at [...]

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Socks for Christmas

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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Comics creator and Beano regular Kevin F Sutherland’s Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre explain exactly why socks suck as Christmas presents, which is true. On the other hand, much as I love collectable action figures, they don’t keep your tootsies warm!

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Sparky O’Hare – Tiny comedy, big laughs.

Monday, August 10, 2009

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Sparky O’Hare by Mawil Blank Slate This is the second book from Mawil to be released by Blank Slate (the first; his very impressive look at young life and relationships; We Can Still Be Friends was reviewed here). But Sparky O’Hare is a completely different book; a cute, charming and ever so funny series of 4 panel strips [...]

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Mustard – a funny comedy mag – now there’s original for you….

Saturday, July 18, 2009

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Mustard # 4 Editor / Designer Alex Musson Self Published. (Kevin O’Neill’s great Alan Moore illstration against a backdrop of Moore comics) I Came to this one rather late after reading about the big Alan Moore interview in this issue somewhere online. I’m even later reviewing it. So late in fact that by now it’s well into it’s recession [...]

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