Tag Archive | "Comics and cartoons"

Ken Harrison speaks to Alec Worley

Friday, May 25, 2012

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Comics writer Alec Worley was recently interviewed for the Judge Dredd Megazine by Ken Harrison (Megazine #324, released earlier this week and available now). This is the original email exchange that formed the basis of that interview. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of Ken Harrison, Alec Worley and Judge Dredd Megazine Editor [...]

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Eat Me!

Friday, May 25, 2012

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Eat Me! A Food Anthology Jack Davies, Catherine Reda, Luke Bayliss & Harry Griffin-Hayes, Sammy Borras, Lily-rose Beardshaw, Sarah Fogg Inspired Comics Hmm. The urge to pepper this one with hideous puns and food references is almost too much. You’ll forgive me “pepper”. I promise that will be the last of them. Right then. Six comic strips all on the [...]

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Don Depresso meets the Happiness Fairy

Friday, May 25, 2012

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It’s been a little while since I checked out the most recent postings on Better, Drawn, the site that showcases comics works addressing mental and physical health issues. Simon Moreton flagged up one strip, Don Depresso by Asidewalk, on Twitter recently and I had to have a look, followed by a visit to Asidewalk’s own [...]

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MKomix

Friday, May 25, 2012

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One of our long-time favourite Brit small press comic creators Paul Rainey drops us a line to say that the Milton Keynes Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Pushwagner art this summer. This will be the first solo exhibition of Norwegian artist and comics creator Hariton Pushwagner outside of his native land and will [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Schrauwen in Space

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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Connoisseurs of small but delicate comics work have a good excuse to plan a short trip to Antwerp for tomorrow.  On Friday 25th May, a delightful exhibition of original drawings and prints by celebrated New Flemish Name Olivier Schrauwen will open in the Bries Space, a small-scale art centre run by the same people behind [...]

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Not Really A Review of Black Dossier, In Any Real Sense, More an Examination of One Tiny Part of It

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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In March this year Knockabout published the first British edition of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen sourcebook, Black Dossier. In theory, this should be the first time that this book is available on this side of the Atlantic, even though it was published in America in 2007, five years ago now. [...]

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Valerian & Laureline – The Land Without Stars.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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Valerian And Laureline Volume 3: The Land Without Stars Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières Cinebook When a rogue planet threatens a new Human colony, Valerian and Laureline are sent to investigate and discover a barren, rocky surface… and a whole world beneath it! The people who live inside Zahir have never seen the stars. Divided [...]

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From our continental correspondent – summer’s coming, time for some festivals!

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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It has been a while coming, but with summer finally arriving here are a few pointers for upcoming comics festivals on the Continent for the coming month or so. We’ve just had the 31st edition of the Arctic Comics Festival in Kemi, Finland, where Christophe Blain was the guest of honour. Also present were tintinologist [...]

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Lord of the Rings meets Calvin and Hobbes

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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Cool Johnny‘s mashup of Calvin and Hobbes with Lord of the Rings made me smile. (via Live for Films)

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Family diaries

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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Mike Smith’s Blogshank features some cracking short comic strips, usually drawn across a couple of pages of a diary, detailing the delights of family life and parenthood – well worth a look (thanks to Dave Shelton for the tip).

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Psircus

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

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Psircus Issue 1 – The Origins of Kathy and Icarus Written by Daniel Bell, art by Katja Lindblom, Iain Buchanan, Daniel Bell Yes, PT Barnum presents…. yes, the same PT Barnum who runs the circus. Except in here, it’s the Psircus he’s running, the Psircus being a way for writer (and sometime artist) Daniel Bell [...]

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Spirou and Fantasio… reporters and adventurers

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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Spirou & Fantasio: Running Scared Written by Philippe Vandevelde (Tome), illustrated by Jean-Richard Geurts (Janry) Cinebook Spirou and Fantasio are hired by a doctor to escort some of his patients. Their ailment? An apparently incurable case of the hiccups. His solution: Send them on the most insane adventure ever and scare the hiccups out of [...]

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Hope Beyond Hype – Ken MacLeod & Edward Ross’s stem cell comic

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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I’ve known for a while that one of my favourite science fiction writers, Ken MacLeod, was working alongside the excellent Edward Ross (who created the fascinating Filmish comics on film theory I reviewed previously) on a science education project using comics. Ken drops us a line to let us know that the fruits of their [...]

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Chip Kidd on book design

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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Missed this until I had a wee back-browse through some videos, but the always fascinating TED lectures series has a fairly recent (March, I think) talk up by Chip Kidd – it isn’t specifically about his comics work, rather about his approaches to book design in general, but it is a funny, fascinating and well-presented [...]

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SPOOKS – Weird Enforcement Special Team

Monday, May 21, 2012

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SPOOKS Volume 1: The Fall Of Babylon By Xavier Dorison and Fabien Nury, art by Christian Rossi Cinebook “1895. Members of the East Coast elite have died under mysterious circumstances. To investigate this delicate problem, Richard Clayton—against the wishes of the President—calls upon a man named Morton Chapel for his unorthodox methods and peculiar associates. [...]

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