Tag Archive | "Howard Hardiman"

UPCOMING…. Hardiman, Ellerby, Tillotson…

Saturday, May 12, 2012

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A few things to add to that long, long list of things to buy…. Marc Ellerby has a digital omnibus of Chloe Noonan coming out very soon. Now, where’s the PRINT version? News was from Ellerby’s FB, but no doubt it will be available on the Great Beast website sometime this week. Howard Hardiman’s Lengths [...]

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Badger animated documentary

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Regular readers will already be familiar with a self-published series of comics featuring Howard Hardiman‘s Badger, the poor little depressed creature that we’ve come to love for the emotional content of the tales and for the beauty of the artwork. Filmmakers Annie Kwan and Helen Omand have been working on a short animated documentary about [...]

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Lengths Issue 1 – online and free

Sunday, May 6, 2012

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Howard Hardiman’s excellent series The Lengths has impressed with the 4 issues I’ve reviewed (review links here). This is what I had to say at the end of issue 4′s review: “The Lengths is at the halfway stage here, and so much has gone on that it’s ridiculous to think of picking it up midway [...]

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Badger’s Diary

Monday, January 30, 2012

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Badger’s Diary By Howard Hardiman On one hand, it simply confuses, this prose with illustrations little non-comic with the name of an old, old friend written on the front. This is Badger’s Dairy. It says so on the front cover. And there he is again on the back cover…. that’s the little critter I remember [...]

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New For 2012: Howard Hardiman

Saturday, January 28, 2012

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(Preview page from issue 5 of The Lengths by Howard Hardiman – coming soon!) Howard Hardiman has a busy 2012 lined up. The artist behind Badger and new series The Lengths (issue 4 reviewed last week) has dedicated most of the year to finishing the 8-issue series, with an issue every couple of months from [...]

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The Lengths Issue 4

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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The Lengths Issue 4 By Howard Hardiman Previously in Howard Hardiman’s dark tale of sexuality, relationships and bad decisions …. reviews of issue 1, issue 2, issue 3, We met Eddie, poor, messed up Eddie, living a dark double life, trying to be the good boyfriend to the lovely Dan, but tempted into the male escorting biz [...]

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The Lengths Issue 3

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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The Lengths Issue 3 By Howard Hardiman We’re on something of a Lengths roll here at the blog, simply because I was terminally late with the review of issue 2, which then led straight into the recent preview of issue 3 and now, just a short while later, a review of issue 3. To get some [...]

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Howard Hardiman’s The Lengths Issue 3 Previewed

Saturday, August 27, 2011

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Howard Hardiman’s The Lengths is a dark and emotional 8-issue series looking at the world of male prostitution through the journey of one young man. For a perfect description of the series here’s Hardiman’s back page blurb to set the scene: We reviewed Issue 1 back in January and have recently reviewed issue 2. It’s [...]

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The Lengths Issue 2

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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The Lengths Issue 2 By Howard Hardiman The second issue of Hardiman’s The Lengths continues his dark and emotional story of one man’s descent into a shadowy world of sex and drugs. It couldn’t be further from his adorable, all-ages Badger, but it’s proving to be a challenging and powerful series. Howard describes the 8 issue series [...]

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We Are Words + Pictures – the radio show…

Saturday, July 9, 2011

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The latest We Are Words + Pictures radio show is up online – this time round it’s Howard Hardiman, artist of The Lengths and Badger: “Spring has passed, and now we’re in tropical monsoon season here in WAW+P-land. So WAW+P Radio host Michael Leader took shelter at the Old Police Station in Deptford, in order to [...]

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Pop to the shops for your copy of The Lengths….

Saturday, May 21, 2011

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I reviewed Howard hardiman’s Lengths issue 1 way back in January, and it’s a pleasure to be able to tell you his comic finally makes it’s way into selected comic shops this week – if your local shop isn’t carrying his comic, ask yourself why not, then go and ask the maanger of your shop [...]

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Badger as a silent film

Thursday, February 3, 2011

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Howard Hardiman‘s lovely Badger (which we are big fans of around here) as a sort-of silent movie. Okay, it isn’t animated, but it’s still a pleasure to look at:

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Howard Hardiman brings us good news, and more Badger….

Saturday, January 15, 2011

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I reviewed Howard Hardiman‘s new comic “The Lengths” a few days back, but he’s been in touch with the good news that he’s finally got a distribution deal for The Lengths. Only the Uk perhaps, but it’s still great news: “The Lengths has a UK-wide distribution deal through Diamond UK! I’m superbly excited. This means [...]

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The Lengths Issue 1 – compelling and dark stuff……

Friday, January 7, 2011

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The Lengths Issue 1 By Howard Hardiman I’ve loved Howard’s work since first getting hold of Badger; his adorable all-ages work dealing with a very, very sad and very lonely Badger. But his new series The Lengths couldn’t be further from that if it tried. The Lengths is a story of the world of male prostitution, of [...]

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Best of the Year: Howard Hardiman

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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Today’s guest for the Best of the Year is an artist who, despite making us sad sometimes, we still love, despite him spending so much time hanging out with badgers with emotional problems, it’s Howard Hardiman. Let’s see what Howard enjoyed in 2010: FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over [...]

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