Finn & Fish, by Leeann Hamiliton When it comes to reading a self-published comic by an emerging talent a touch of wariness can creep into your expectations about the title. It’s a tough feat for anyone – no matter his/her experience – to do everything successfully for a comic book title. Happily, Leeann Hamiliton’s first [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Continiung our reports from this year’s Angoulême comics festival which Wim kicked off live from the event on Friday, today we have a special treat as the excellent Sean Azzopardi, now a confirmed veteran of the BD festival, kindly agreed to give us his take on Angoulême from the point of view of an independent [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Continuing our series of week-long interviews with some of the stars of the newly released Brit small press anthology Paper Science 7,(which started yesterday with Marc Ellerby’s chat) today we have Matthew Sheret talking to My Cardboard Life’s creator Philippa Rice. Matthew Sheret: You first contributed to Paper Science back in #2, with a My [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 30, 2012
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Issue 7 of comics anthology Paper Science (one of the gems of the excellentBrit small press anthology comics we’ve been enjoying in recent years) is out today, and to mark the occasion we’ve got interviews with some of the series stars all this week as Paper Science’s Head Boffin Matthew Sheret talks to some of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 9, 2011
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Regular readers will know that I have long been in love with the wonderful Louis graphic novels created by Sandra and John of Glasgow’s Indy comics publisher Metaphrog; the art and stories are beautiful, enchanting, quite suitable for younger readers as well as adults, yet on closer inspection, to the adult reader there are layers [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 5, 2011
From some of our chums on Twitter it sounds like this year’s Malta Comic Con was again a huge and enjoyable success, not to mention being very popular with the Brit contingent who headed over to the sun-kissed, George Cross-winning island nation in the blue waters of the Mediterranean. Among the Brit comics contingent in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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Two weeks ago Flashback records hosted an exhibition organised by myself in partnership with We are Words and Pictures. The theme was music related comics and so naturally a record shop was a good venue to exhibit the artwork in. Not a typical gallery space – the general agreement was to fit the work around [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 9, 2011
Andrea Pirie of the Leeds FPI store is diving head first into the brightly coloured superhero pool of DC’s huge New 52 reboot, today sharing her thoughts on the first issues of the re-imagined Action Comics and Swamp Thing (spoiler warning!): There were 13 new issue 1’s from DC this week and as I quite [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 8, 2011
Well, I did say that the DC 52 reboot was stirring us up – Andrea Pirie from our Leeds store regularly posts her thoughts on new comics on the FP Leeds Facebook page and in the store and I’m delighted that she’s sent us some to share on the blog too. And like a lot [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 8, 2011
Today we have a guest review from one of our consistent fave creators, writer, artist, cool dad and chum of rock stars, it’s that man Oli East. Breaking his long fast away from the capes and tights Oli’s curiosity has been drawn to the relaunch of the DC universe with the wave of #1 issues [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 2, 2011
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Fear and Loathing in Santa Clara; From our Irish man enjoying a beer in a comic shop (note: at the time of writing James was in the US for the science fiction Worldcon, where he scooped a prestigious Hugo award for his fanzine work – Joe). It’s hot here in Northern California, but I have [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Apologies to the delightful Alysson Hannigan’s character in American Pie for paraphrasing one of her lines for the title, but I couldn’t help it… What is a barcamp though? It may sound like the retreat where Australian and Kiwi backpackers hone their gin-slinging, cocktail mixing skills they use to pay their way on round the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 4, 2011
Lucille By Ludovic Debeurme Top Shelf Lucille, the 544-page graphic novel by French artist/writer/singer Ludovic Debeurme, has recently been translated into English and published by Top Shelf. It arrives with an impressive pedigree: it was released in France in 2006 and won the prestigious René Goscinny Prize, was named one of the 5 ‘essential’ graphic [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Grant Morrison the man is friendly, down to earth and incredibly engaging, and his affection for the superhero genre is infectious. The Gallery space comfortably fits about 130 people intimately, and the wooden beam rafters are a reminder that this is not a new building dispute the modernity of the shop. Foyles bookstore is an [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 8, 2011
We are Words and Pictures launched a window exhibition last Friday at the Bookartsbookshop in Hoxton. Organised by myself, with window dressing by Philippa Rice, it was another example of getting comics out into the public domain, beyond the normal comics community. Wawap have been active in music and poetry festivals and children’s workshops and [...]
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