It’s Christmas Day, all is, hopefully, good in your world, maybe Santa visited last night, maybe you stayed up till 3am waiting for someone to be properly asleep so that Santa could put in an appearance. Today will possibly bring food, drink and Doctor Who for many of us. But whatever you’re doing this Christmas, everyone [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 17, 2009
Regular readers will know that we’ve been following Garen Ewing’s delightful Rainbow Orchid series with great pleasure for some years, in limited print versions and online and we’ve kept up with Garen as it progressed, so it seemed right that now Egmont have published the first Rainbow Orchid book (I’m tempted to use the European [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 29, 2009
Oh, it’s a lovely world we live in when something like this is now a regular thing. And equally nice that events such as this aren’t entitled “Wham, Pow” or “Comics aren’t for kids anymore”. It seems that every week or so we’re drawing your attention to some new comics event or other, often taking [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 18, 2009
That man Pádraig Ó Méalóid has been asking questions once more, this time instead of one of his in-depth interviews he is asking one simple question to sixteen comics professionals (including Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein, David Lloyd, Bryan Talbot, Chris Staros, Dave McKean, Garen Ewing and others) “What’s your opinion of the term ‘Graphic Novel’?” [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 9, 2009
Firstly, you have all bought your copies of Garen’s excellent Rainbow Orchid haven’t you? Good. Now you may be interested in a couple of extra things. Here on the FPI blog Matthew Badham has a wide ranging interview with Garen. And David O’Connell lets us know that he’s posted a new interview with Garen at his [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 6, 2009
Its Thursday and time for Alex Fitch to update us to some of the shows he’s involved with over the next week or so; as usual check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows: Strip!: Horrible Histories, this evening at 5pm on Resonance FM, podcast after transmission on Panel [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
Rainbow Orchid, The Adventures Of Julius Chancer Volume 1 by Garen Ewing Egmont. It’s taken a long time for Garen Ewing’s Rainbow Orchid to get a release that will finally do it some justice, but this first volume in Egmont’s three volume series is pretty much a perfect way to experience a series that has been lauded high [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 10, 2009
In advance of Volume One of Garen Ewing’s excellent Rainbow Orchid (released August 4th – pre-order it here) you can now get your hands on a couple of quite lovely prints in Garen’s very recognisable clear line style: Order the prints from Garen’s site here.
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Friday, December 25, 2009
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