It’s Christmas you know. Which means a chance for comic folk to enter into the spirit of things. First up we have Neill Cameron’s Advent Santas. Last year Neill posted as many different Santas as he could think of on his blog. This year, building on the ideas of his A-Z of Awesomeness and the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Badger: Then and Now by Howard Hardiman Cute But Sad Comics This is Howard Hardiman’s second book featuring Badger. And I love Badger. I’ve said so many, many times before – so I think you all know what to expect here – my review of the first Badger book was full of this sort of [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 21, 2009
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Seeing as I loved Nick Abadzis’ Laika (review) and adored Howard Hardiman’s Badger (review and new review of Badger: Then & Now coming soon), this just had to be mentioned: (“Badger & Friend” by Nick Abadzis. © Nick Abadzis and Howard Hardiman) Seems Nick Abadzis is a big fan of Howard’s work, so he sent [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 20, 2009
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You may recall that I have a great fondness for Howard Hardiman’s Badger comic (here, here and here). And I described it thus: “This tale of a lonely little badger living all alone in his London flat is heartbreakingly, tearjerkingly sad. I could write a really lengthy review and completely over-analyse something that’s actually a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 17, 2009
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Polaroids From Other Lives: Volume 2 by Howard Hardiman Self published Howard’s Polaroids series continues with the idea of writing a series of imagined autobiographies; detailing snatches of other people’s lives. These are very short comics (just 12 pages here), mere fragments of a tale, more akin to illustrated poetry than actual comics. But within [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 4, 2009
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Lizz Lunney’s had an idea over at her blog and it’s led to a brand new Grizzly Bear Thursday blog: Submit your bear drawings (grizzly only please! non of those crumby panda types! paintings, sketches or even comic strips if you like) to sushimonsters@gmail.com and they will be added to the blog (with full credits [...]
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
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