Tag Archive | "Graphic Novels"

Pictures that tick

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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We may have to wait until next year for the promised new edition of Dave McKean’s brilliant Cages, but meantime there’s something rather lovely in this week’s new releases to keep McKean fans going: Pictures That Tick is a large-sized collection of Dave’s shorter comics work from the 90s and early 2000s. And as you’d [...]

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“Bodies for gold!” – we talk bodysnatching to Martin Conaghan & Will Pickering

Friday, November 13, 2009

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FPI:  Today I’m joined by Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering, the team behind Insomnia’s recently published graphic novel Burke and Hare, which draws upon one of history’s most famous cases of the infamous ‘Resurrection Men’ (or bodysnatchers) in Enlightenment era Edinburgh. Hi, guys and thanks for joining us – could you begin by introducing yourselves [...]

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Red Son

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Hitting the racks tomorrow this rather tasty deluxe hardback edition of Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son; I love this Soviet propaganda style cover artwork by Dave Johnson.

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Go stake yourself

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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“Dude. You just staked the zombie version of yourself. You are going to be in therapy for the rest of your life.” That has to be one of my favourite lines of the week as Morbius the Living Vampire stakes his zombie counterpart in Marvel Zombies 3, paperback edition hitting shelves this very day. Written [...]

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Harker Volume 1: The Book Of Solomon – One of the best of 2009.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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Harker Volume 1: The Book Of Solomon Plot, story, script – Roger Gibson. Plot, art – Vincent Danks Ariel Press. Anyone reading the blog over the past 9 months or so will have surely picked up on my great love of Harker. I’ve championed it since issue 1 and every month have delivered positive review after positive review. [...]

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Dean Haspiel reading from the Activate Primer

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Enjoy some video of the recent Activate Primer event at the Book Court with Dean Haspiel reading live (along with Joan Reilly and George O’Connor) from Billy Dogma with comics art being projected behind him (via Dean’s FaceBook):

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PW’s books of the year

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Publisher’s Weekly has posted up its annual best 100 books of the year list (yes, its now November – already?! – and we’re moving into that time of year when we’ll all be talking about our faves of the year). Nestling among the entries is the unusual European bestseller which recently came out in English [...]

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Alan Moore video channel

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Regular contributor Pádraig has been gathering together various Alan Moore videos and posting them all together in one handy YouTube channel called -- what else? -- Glycon. From Pádraig: “For those of you who are fans of Alan Moore but are not necessarily on the Alan Moore Yahoo! Group mailing list, there has recently been a [...]

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Nexus Graphica

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Over on SF Site Rick Klaw has the second part of his feature on the emergence of comics and graphic novels to a more prominent cultural position in the Anglophone world on the regular Nexus Graphica column, with part two (part one can be seen here) reaching the late 90s and early 2000s with [...]

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The Man In Black – in perfect black and white….

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt (Hurt by Trent Reznor, but made perfect by Johnny Cash) I’ve just finished Reinhard Kleist’s wonderful graphic biography of Johnny Cash – I See A Darkness and have to [...]

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Comics are Everywhere: a Conversation with Paul Gravett

Friday, October 30, 2009

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Over the last few weeks and months, the Forbidden Planet International blog, Down the Tubes and Fictions have been cross-posting Q&As by Matt Badham with the organisers of various British comic conventions. Our aim is to give the conventions themselves some well-deserved publicity and also to, hopefully, spark a wider debate about what’s good and [...]

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The Dream Hunters

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Hitting the shelves today, the hardback edition of the excellent P Craig Russell’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: the Dream Hunters. I want.

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Meet Betsy Streeter

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Rod McKie put me on to this work in progress, a graphic novel Besty Streeter is developing; there’s quite a bit of material with some lovely art on Flickr to have a look at, either browsing picture by picture of by clicking the ’slideshow’ button on the upper right. Its obviously still very much in [...]

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“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash”

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Cash: I See a Darkness Reinhard Kleist Self Made Hero “If you wanna save your soul from hell, cowboy, then change your ways today. Or you’ll ride with us through these endless skies, forever on the hunt for the Devil’s herd...” Ghost Riders in the Sky To say award-winning German comics creator Reinhard Kleist’s graphic biography of the late, [...]

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Graphic novel events at Hertfordshire libraries

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Emma at Hertfordshire libraries tells me that they are following up successful comics and graphic novel events last year with more as part of their book events throughout the county this year, including two creators dear to the heart of British comics readers, Dave Gibbons, who will be giving a talk in Stevenage Central Library [...]

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