Last spring I had a nice break in Paris and being me I had to go into a couple of bookstores and check out the graphic novels selection. Among the European works I noticed French editions of UK and US (and other) creators, including, I couldn’t help but notice, a rather nice big collection of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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The excellent Al Ewing is interviewed in SFX magazine and they’ve very nicely put it up online so everyone can read it. As well as discussing his career Al offers advice for would-be comics writers, noting how the short Future Shocks stories in 2000AD have proven to be a great way for new scribes to [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 4, 2009
I imagine many of you will have Dirk Deppey’s !Journalista! blog as one of the must read daily blogs (Tom Spurgeon’s Comic Reporter would be another, and hopefully the FPI blog!), so I imagine Dirk Deppey interviewed by Tucker Stone at Comixology will be of interest. Especially when it’s full of the sort of snark [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Leo Baxendale, one of the true treasures of Brit comics, kindly drops us a line today to let us know that he’s in The Times recalling the early 1950s and how as he created a variety of illustrations for different businesses he was approaching the mighty DC Thomson organisation in Dundee about making his own [...]
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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