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Brian Wood’s Public Domain 2 Book – free to download:

Saturday, June 11, 2011

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Brian Wood’s offering a free download of his Public Domain 2 collection of a decades worth of sketches and artwork. 115 meg, download at the link above. Only had a quick look at the preview to grab some art for you, but it looks well worth a download.

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Simon Gane…..

Saturday, June 11, 2011

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Simon Gane does some spectacularly good work. I could bang on and on, but see this review of Paris, and for a really well done analysis of his artistic style I’d heartily recommend Charles Hatfield’s The Art Of The Fleck on The Panelists website. But first, some of his art, a recent Batman sketch: Panel [...]

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More Harry Potter from Lucy Knisley

Saturday, June 11, 2011

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A while back we showed you Lucy Knisley‘s single sheet Harry Potter summary comics - from Philosophers Stone to Order Of The Phoenix. And here’s the next one…. Half Blood Prince. The very, very best thing about it? “Well….. lets go camping”, a perfect summary for some of the problems with the final book. (Via Buzzfeed)…

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Guest post: Andy and Gar fill us on on this year’s 2D Festivalguest

Friday, June 10, 2011

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Derry/Londonderry is home to Northern Ireland’s most notable comics convention. Last weekend, 2-D celebrated it’s fifth year. So, not one but two guest reviews this morning, as Belfast’s Andy Luke and Dublin’s Gar Shanley attempt to fill in the gaps in missing memory: Andy Luke Last weekend’s 2D Festival in Derry will stay with me [...]

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Crocheted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle – er, cacti?

Friday, June 10, 2011

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I think these are fab: Sarah Weigel crocheted her own Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a bunch of cacti! Funky! TMNT comics meet Bill’n'Ben meet knitcraft! Made me smile. (via Kate Brown)

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New Comix Reader available

Friday, June 10, 2011

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Our cartoonist in virtual residence, Mr Richard Cowdry, Esquire, FRSCC (Fellow of the Royal Society of Comics Chaps), DVP (Double Vodka Please), has announced to an expectant world the unveiling of the latest project which has been occupying his time, namely a second issue of the splendid and most enjoyable Comix Reader, which those of [...]

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Comics Fundamentals

Friday, June 10, 2011

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Jerzy Drozd has posted up more videos from what looks increasingly like a cracking set of comics related event at the Ann Arbor District Library (see here for ones we have previously blogged about). The latest two feature Jerzy himself explaining some fundamentals of comics and cartooning to a class: Comics Fundamentals, Pt 1 from [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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As another Thursday rolls around here’s Alex Fitch to update us to the latest of his comics and SF related shows coming up; as ever for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows, check the Panel Borders site: Panel Borders: Comic Therapy, tonight at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast afterwards on Panel Borders [...]

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Róisín Dubh

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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Róisín Dubh Maura McHugh, Stephen Daly Atomic Diner (cover art to Roisin Dubh #1 by Stephen Byrne) This comic comes loaded, baby. Filled with modern Chick Power, a dangerous mix of brilliance and style with a political reality lurking just under the surface. One of the writers, Maura McHugh is a fairly well known blogger. [...]

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Arthur Wyatt talks to Matt Badham

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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Good chum of the blog Matt Badham talks to Arthur Wyatt about his work, how he got into writing comics professionally and, of course, working for the Mighty Tharg – you can read more of Matt talking to Arthur in the Judge Dredd Megazine #311, on his blog Matt presents more material there wasn’t space [...]

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Mick McMahon is blogging

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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The quite brilliant Mick McMahon is blogging – yes, go, bookmark it right now, this instant, we’ll wait here for you. Done? Good. And on his shiny, new Tugging Your Coat blog Mick has posted an interesting glimpse into a new project, Kestrels, which he is illustrating, working with Ben Dickson. According to the blog [...]

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Scotch Corner presents Kingdom of Adventure

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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Checking out some cool Judda artwork on the Scotch Corner comics art collective’s blog (see below), I notice that the guys are planning a comics event in the near future: Kingdom of Adventure, taking place in the Kingdom of Fife at 21-23 Whytecauseway in sunny Kirkcaldy on the afternoon of Saturday 2nd of July, with [...]

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Joe Sacco speaks

Thursday, June 9, 2011

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The Lannan Foundation has uploaded two videos of the great Joe Sacco, one of our most interesting creators working in modern comics. One video has Joe in conversation with Chris Hedges and the second has a reading; both are, I’m pleased to note, fairly long as well: Joe Sacco with Chris Hedges, Conversation, 18 May [...]

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Somersault – cleaning up

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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Really, some flatmates just never seem to listen to the most straightforward rules… (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; you can see the larger version and all of the previous episodes  archived here)

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The delights of The Little Endless – The Little Endless Storybook and Delirium’s Party

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

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The Little Endless Storybook and Delirium’s Party By Jill Thompson Based on The Endless characters created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith and Mike Dringenberg DC/Vertigo There’s a joy in listening to a story being read to you, and likewise there’s a joy in reading aloud for someone else. We read all sorts of books to Molly [...]

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