Top comics artist Sean Phillips will be paying to the Glasgow Forbidden Planet International on Wednesday 25th January (Burns Night, as it happens, bring your own haggis) from 5 to 7pm, signing copies of his very tasty looking new creator-owned collaboration with Ed Brubaker, Fatale, the firt issue of which comes out from Image in [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 29, 2011
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Above, the cover of Prophet #1 from Image, 1993, by Rob Liefeld. Below, the cover (by Marion Churchland) and the first few pages of Prophet issue 21 by writer Simon Roy and artist Brandon Graham. You couldn’t possibly get further apart if you tried could you? Best description is Graham’s: “Fucking future space Conan ish” [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 9, 2011
Well, Rian Hughes has been trailing this one for a while with various postings on his Facebook, but finally Tales From Beyond Science has a release date. It will be on release from Image Comics on December 21st 2011. Late Christmas pressie anyone? Tales is a pulp sci-fi collection with stories written by Mark Millar, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 18, 2011
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The Thought Bubble convention & festival is bigger than ever this year, taking place across a week in November with a bigger 2-day, 2-venue convention on 19th & 20th November. They’ve already completely sold out all of their exhibitor slots (300 of them) and have a very, very impressive guest list. No word on the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 18, 2011
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Mudman – coming from Image Comics in November…. Well, on the downside, this pushes back any possibility of more of his brilliant Kane series. And what it means for the continuing Weird World Of Jack Staff we’ve yet to find out. But any new work from Grist is a thing to be trumpeted. From the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 27, 2011
New in this very day, a very welcome new collection from Image Comics of David Hine and Shaky Kane’s Bulletproof Coffin. Oh yes. Want. (page from Bulletproof Coffin, by and (c) David Hine and Shaky Kane, published Image)
Continue reading...Thursday, August 12, 2010
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On the racks today and just how fabulously cosmic does this look: Joe Casey and Tom Scioli’s Godland Celestial Edition Volume 2 from Image.
Continue reading...Monday, April 26, 2010
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Chew Volume 1: Taster’s Choice by John Layman and Rob Guillory Image Comics Chew was one of those books that got an awful lot of buzzy press as soon as it appeared, and I finally tentatively approached it expecting something lightweight and relatively throw-away, but I have to say I was surprised, and rather impressed [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 27, 2010
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Seen via Ellis: New series from Image by Brit vets David Hine and the magnificent Shaky Kane that starts this June. Previews here. Flikr sideshow here. Could have picked any of the images out but here’s one bit of brilliance that leaped out:
Continue reading...Friday, March 26, 2010
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Choker issue 1 by Ben McCool and Ben Templesmith Image Comics Choker – a detective story in a very Blade Runner-esque setting with plenty of science fiction, horror and some very, very dark comedy thrown in for good measure. This book comes to you from newcomer Ben McCool and the already well-established Ben Templesmith. What [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 27, 2010
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Full disclosure bit – Ben McCool is a friend of mine and has been for years – we worked together at Nostalgia & Comics Birmingham, him a mere baby, me not quite so young, I watched him take his first steps to being a comics writer, and like so many people who have had any [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 20, 2009
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(Detail from a Frank Miller CBLDF T-shirt) The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) has been tirelessly fighting censorship and defending the first amendment rights of comic book professionals in the United States for the last 23 years. And the latest CBLDF benefit book is really shaping up to be something of a special event. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 18, 2009
I used to work with Ben McCool back at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham for several years before he left to travel to America and find fame and fortune as a big time writer of comics. I don’t know how he’s doing for money (he still owes me several drinks) but the fame thing seems [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
Once upon a time back in the days when I used to work at Nostalgia & Comics in Birmingham, I worked with one young Ben McCool; manic, effervescent, incredibly personable, an amazing drinker and a spectacular character who could instantly control a room with the sheer force of his personality. When Ben flows into anecdote [...]
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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