Tag Archive | "Comics and cartoons"

Sim on the style of comics…. strips and books

Saturday, February 11, 2012

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Boy, that Moment Of Cerebus does keep delivering the goods, eh? This and this from Dave Sim’s Glamourpuss #2 (2008) Said it before, will say it again, one of the finest artists out there, even when, as here, deconstructing and copying someone else’s style for his own purpose.

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Avengers Art Appreciation….

Saturday, February 11, 2012

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Marvel have decided that, for no reason I can decipher (oh, a movie you say?) it’s going to be Avengers Art Appreciation in April. On the one hand: Variant covers are a stupid, ridiculous, destructive thing, responsible for no end of torment and financial troubles in the comics industry through the years (oh, alright, they [...]

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Nostalgic for those indie comics of yore?

Saturday, February 11, 2012

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Then look no further. For those of us of a certain age, and a certain preference in our comic reading during the 80s, these will be wonderful. The Adventures Of Mr Phil Tumblr is “A Visual History Of Indie Comics … on shuffle“. And it’s already thrown up ads I remember so fondly, for books [...]

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Alan Moore guest posts on the BBC site

Friday, February 10, 2012

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Our great, bearded magus Alan Moore, Albion’s Wizard in Extraordinary, is given a guest slot on the BBC site to discuss this global adoption of the V For Vendetta mask he and Dave Lloyd had the titular character wear in the comic, now sported worldwide by a variety of anti-corporate and anti-authority (or more precisely [...]

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Trese – more supernatural tales from Manilla….

Friday, February 10, 2012

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Trese Volume 4 – Last Seen After Midnight By Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo Visprint Foul play. Magic spells. Supernatural criminals. When crime takes a turn for the weird, the police call Alexandra Trese. We covered Volumes 1-3 of Trese back in January 2011. And what I said there goes just as well for Volume [...]

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Paris Manga and SciFi Show

Friday, February 10, 2012

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Sarah McIntyre, along with Emma Vieceli, headed off last weekend to France for the Paris Manga and Sci-Fi Show – naturally Vern and Lettuce had to go along with them (and thankfully French chefs didn’t see them as ingredients for dinner!). As well as more of the cool Vern and Lettuce special strip about the [...]

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The Donger and Me – Adrian Tomine page for sale

Friday, February 10, 2012

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The Donger And Me is a self contained one page story by the brilliant Adrian Tomine currently up for auction and sitting with a bid of $550 at time of writing. Sweet. Although long before Hollywood beckoned didn’t Aussie comedian Paul Hogan have a cop character called Donger? The cop injured in the line of [...]

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Drunken Batman gets animated

Friday, February 10, 2012

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Several months back I blogged about Spencer Scott Holmes and Ryan Dunigan’s Drunken Batman video (see here). I notice on their Vimeo channel that they now have animated versions of the Drunk Knight to check out: Drunk Batman and Robin Animated Short 1- Smart Phone from Spencer Scott Holmes on Vimeo. Drunk Batman and Robin [...]

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The House That Groaned…. groans slightly under the weight of expectation…..

Thursday, February 9, 2012

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The House That Groaned By Karrie Fransman Square Peg The House That Groaned is the debut graphic novel from Karrie Fransman, and she’s certainly not frightened of really going for it. No thin little volume is this, no lightweight simplistic story. No, this is heavyweight, thick, literary stuff. Deliberately so perhaps, and definitely appealing to [...]

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Bill Griffith speaks

Thursday, February 9, 2012

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The excellent Bill Griffith, creator of, among others, Zippy the Pinhead, talks to Mr Media in a nice, long video piece. Fantagraphics have just released a very fine retrospective collection of Bill’s work, Lost and Found.  (link via Tom Spurgeon at the indispensable Comic Reporter):

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Vanallemeersch and Nobrow bring you a BIG Mother….

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Big Mother 2 By Sam Vanallemeersch Nobrow Press I’m just not the right person to appreciate this. I’m a comics guy, and my art tastes veer strongly to the sort of art that looks great but does so in service to a story. So basically Big Mother, as an A3 collection of artwork by Belgian [...]

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Somersault – the sneeze

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Remember, kids, to stay safe and not spread those nasty germs around, always get the hankie out – catch it, kill it, bin it, as the ads used to say. (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first )

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“He was just a boy when I left…”

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Not one of her Hark! A Vagrant delightful strips lampooning (affectionately) classics of literature, this is a rather different but equally excellent strip from one of the great favourites of the FP blog crew, Kate Beaton, quite a moving short work invoking the spirit of community in small towns, the need to often leave them [...]

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The Making of Slow Fiction

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Bugpowder points us toward this online PDF of an essay by Michael Weller, based on a talk to the Research Institute for Media, Art and Design (RIMAD) at the University of Bedfordshire, October 7th 2009 , examining an area close to our hearts, the small press comics scene, contrasting the 60s US underground scene, the [...]

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The Guy Delisle Chronicles

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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A trailer for the documentary about the excellent comics creator Guy Delisle, best known for his wonderful travel books such as Shenzen, the Burma Chronicles or his most recent Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City which scored honours at Angoulême (the English language edition is due from D&Q this spring, it’s already on my Must [...]

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