Tag Archive | "Garen Ewing"

Cartoon County

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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Garen Ewing will be the guest at the next monthly Cartoon County (the Sussex Cartoon and Comic Strip  Artists Association) in sunny Brighton, where he will be talking about the Rainbow Orchid (a long-time favourite of the blog crew) on Monday 26th of April, with the event kicking off at 6pm in The Cricketers on [...]

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One for the diary – Rainbow Orchid Volume 2

Saturday, April 10, 2010

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Over on his blog Garen Ewing has posted the cover and release details of the second volume in his three part Rainbow Orchid series of graphic novels. Volume 2 will be out on the 5th July 2010 and Garen is promising that Volume 3, with all new material, will be out in 2011. I know [...]

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More Christmassy messages….

Friday, December 25, 2009

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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, [...]

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Somewhere over the Rainbow (Orchid) – Garen Ewing talks to Pádraig

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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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 [...]

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Comics at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2009

Saturday, August 29, 2009

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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 [...]

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What’s your opinion of the term ‘Graphic Novel’?

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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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’?” [...]

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Rainbow Orchid’s Garen Ewing interviewed

Sunday, August 9, 2009

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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 [...]

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Alex’s audio round-up

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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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 [...]

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The Rainbow Orchid Volume 1: Julius Chancer’s beautiful adventures…

Monday, July 27, 2009

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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 [...]

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Rainbow Orchid prints…..

Friday, July 10, 2009

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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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