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Interview: TCAF from the Indy Publisher’s perspective

Thursday, May 9, 2013

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I’ve never been fortunate enough to make it over to Toronto for TCAF yet, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about it, not just from general reports but also first hand from some of our writer and artist friends in the Brit comics community who make the long trip over to Canada and love [...]

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Comics: Fantagraphics’ Kim Thompson facing cancer

Thursday, March 7, 2013

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The comics community is waking to some bad news this morning – Fantagraphics’ own Kim Thompson, a huge champion of quality, innovative comics creators and Indy publishing, is facing a struggle with lung cancer. Fanta emailed out a statement from Kim (which is also on Kim’s Fanta blog page), which I am reproducing below: “I’m [...]

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Julia Gfrorer’s Black is the Colour gets collected print release

Thursday, January 24, 2013

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I think I may have extolled the virtues of Julia Gfrorer’s excellent webcomic, Black is the Colour, a few times previously on here. Originally syndicated on the Study Group Comics website, the tale of two sailors who get put overboard in a lifeboat without any food or provisions in order to ease the demands of looking after [...]

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Upcoming: Barnaby by Crockett Johnson

Thursday, January 3, 2013

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I was anticipating the release of Barnaby at various times last year, checking the release date whenever Richard would ask us for our monthly picks. But that’s comics for you: one of those frustrating yet loveable (right?) aspects of the industry. I can’t claim any special knowledge about Crockett Johnson’s newspaper strip, it was just something [...]

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Review: The Cavalier Mr Thompson Rich Tommaso

Friday, November 30, 2012

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The Cavalier Mr Thompson: a Sam Hill novel Rich Tommaso Fantagraphics The Cavalier Mr Thompson is perhaps slightly mis-nomered as a crime/suspense book. A crime takes place within the pages, but it is one that is almost incidental and secondary to Tommaso’s narrative, which is essentially a book about people and stories. Each character here, [...]

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20 for 2013

Friday, November 30, 2012

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I thought it would be nice to have a quick look at some of the fantastic comics we have coming our way next year. This is a list of books that I’m especially looking forward to, but as you can imagine, there’s a great number of goodness in store. This being comics, obviously a lot of future releases [...]

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Upcoming: new Herge book to be published by Fantagraphics

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

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Great news for Herge fans: Fantagraphics will be reprinting his 1934 work Peppy and Virginny in Lapinoland- the first English language translation of the work in over 50 years:  Tintin publishers Methuen  previously released a version which was distributed in the UK in the 1960s. Due sometime next year, this will mark the first American publication of the [...]

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Go Read: Mark Kaleshniko’s Tarantula:

Sunday, September 23, 2012

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I love mark Kalesniko’s work. ALways have since I first saw his magnificent far too close to the bone autobiog Alex – reviewed here on the blog. And the love carried on with Mail Order Bride (sort of), and found full form once more with his most recent release Freeway. Which, criminally, I STILL haven’t [...]

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Upcoming: The Cavalier Mr Thompson

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

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Fantagraphics have been posting little excerpts from this on their Tumblr and it’s caught my attention in a big way. It combines a great two colour fine-lined cartoon style, with the era and genre invoking a Darwyn Cooke Parker feel. Author Rich Tommaso originally published this via Kickstarter last year and now the Cavalier Mr Thompson been picked [...]

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The Furry Trap

Friday, August 10, 2012

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The Furry Trap Josh Simmons Fantagraphics If Josh Simmons’ Furry Trap doesn’t elicit a visceral reaction from you, there’s something deeply wrong. Really. Even leafing through it the second and third times for review purposes bought squirmy feelings to my stomach. Or perhaps I have worms. This hardback collection from Fantagraphics gathers several of Simmon’s short stories previously published [...]

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