Tag Archive | "European Comics"

Polish Mute Comics – a thing that I never realised was a thing up until now….

Sunday, January 29, 2012

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Polish Mute Comics? Yep, they are a thing it seems. At least enough of a thing to warrant a website collecting mute comics from 31 authors at present. I was sent their way by Piotr Nowacki, artist of Tainted and Moe. Seems he isn’t alone with the no words thing. Here’s how the website describes itself: “Welcome [...]

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Yakari & the Coyote – trickster tales for juniors

Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Yakari Volume 9 – Yakari And The Coyote Written by Job, art by Derib Cinebook “When the beavers bring Yakari a battered old canoe, the young Sioux and his friends repair it and go for a little trip—and find more adventure than they bargained for, in the person of a father coyote. Fortunately, their new [...]

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XIII Volume 10…. El Cascador returns?

Monday, January 23, 2012

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XIII Volume 10: El Cascador By Jean Van Hamme and William Vance Cinebook “Captured and imprisoned in the Roca Negra fortress, XIII is being tortured by the sinister Colonel Peralta. But, for all his pain and suffering, he’s also in the same building as Maria, the woman who may be his wife. And they have [...]

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New For 2012: Cinebook

Sunday, January 22, 2012

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More of those books coming in 2012. This time it’s the turn of Cinebook; fine, fine publishers of so much European material. Bringing the 9th art to the UK, they’ve managed to open my eyes up to so many wonderful books. One very good thing Cinebook have always done is to always produce a catalogue for the [...]

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Dan Berry’s off to Angoulême… and we can follow his progress

Sunday, January 22, 2012

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Yep, Dan Berry, of the recently enjoyed After We Shot The Grizzly, is taking himself off to the Angoulême Comics Festival this week, to soak in the atmosphere and enjoy the build up to next week’s festival. Lucky so and so. Angoulême is of course, the biggest and most important of the European Comics Festivals, [...]

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Thorgal – one of the stranger, more enjoyable ones….

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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Thorgal Volume 11: The Invisible Fortress By Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski Cinebook “Still travelling with Kris of Valnor, Thorgal runs afoul of a local tribe. When a mysterious old woman offers him a chance to escape the hostile villagers, he accepts. But there’s more to the bargain: She says that if he can [...]

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Killoffer’s album art

Thursday, January 5, 2012

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BD Gest reports on a new album by Renaud, the limited two disc edition of which comes complete with an 80-page CD-sized illustrated work/comic by the excellent Killoffer. Nice. (thanks to Simon Gurr for the tip):

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Best of the Year – Toon Horsten

Monday, January 2, 2012

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Today’s guest for the Best of the Year is a good chum of the blog from Europe, leading light of the Strip Turnhout festival and Stripgids comics journal, Toon Horsten; in the spirit of promoting cross-language comics reading I’m posting Toon’s faves of the year up in English and Dutch (thanks as ever to our [...]

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Douglas Noble on Strip Turnhout

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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Top UK comics creator Douglas Noble reports from the recent Strip Turnhout comics bash in Belgium. Doug and several other UK comics folk – Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Karrie Fransman and Rachel Emily Taylor – were over to fly the flag for the Brit comics scene, taking part in the Crossmedia exhibition event during Strip Turnhout. [...]

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Lady S vs The C.I.A. … no contest

Friday, November 11, 2011

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Lady S. Volume 3 – Game Of Fools By Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Aymond Cinebook “Suzan and her father are taking a well-deserved break in the south of France. But their holidays are cut short when several men burst into the house and kidnap James Fitzroy. What Suzie doesn’t know is that the attackers [...]

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Long John Silver Volume 3…. better and better and better….

Thursday, November 3, 2011

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Long John Silver Volume 3: The Emerald Maze By Xavier Dorison and Mathieu Lauffray Cinebook There’s a quote on the back of this from me that’s so true….. “practically nailed on to the best of 2011 list already“. And Volume 3 merely reinforces that verdict. This is everything I was hoping it would be, a [...]

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The Incal. Sci-Fi genius…..

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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The Incal Written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Illustrated by Moebius SelfMadehero A justifiably acclaimed comics masterpiece, The Incal has a writer and artist absolutely ablaze with creativity; where the brilliance of Moebius’ visual storytelling is in absolute synergy with Jodorowsky’s utterly out-there ideas. Described by many as a seminal works of science fiction …. and yes, I’m [...]

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Lucky Luke …. but with a difference

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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Lucky Luke Volume 31 – Lucky Luke Versus The Pinkertons By Daniel Pennac and Tonino Benacquista, illustrated by Achdé Cinebook Another couple of months and another volume of Cinebook’s English reprints of Lucky Luke comes out – but this time there’s a big difference. The names on the top aren’t Goscinny and Morris, as this [...]

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Iznogoud Rockets To Stardom

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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Iznogoud Volume 8: Rockets To Stardom By Goscinny and Tabary Cinebook We’ll start with the sad news, received a few weeks ago, that we’ve lost another great in the comics world. Jean Tabary, co-creator of the Iznogoud series died on August 18 at the age of 81 years. The Comics Reporter has an excellent obituary and overview [...]

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The Sun Sword … very likely my last Thorgal

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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Thorgal Volume 10 – The Sun Sword By Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski Cinebook Oh I do swing too and fro with my enjoyment of Thorgal; Van Hamme and Rosinski’s legendary sword and sorcery saga. Here’s my first take on it – Volumes 1-6: So Thorgal was enjoyable enough, indeed it was a lot [...]

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