Tag Archive | "Knockabout"

Extraordinary Gentlemen at Gosh

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Yes, those extraordinary gentlemen, Messrs Kevin O’Neill (well known ittinerant artist) and Alan Moore (five times winner of the All-Northampton Mighty Beard Champion), will be returning to London’s fine Gosh Comics emporium of four-colour delights to mark the publication of the third and final part of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy, with the [...]

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The return of The Black Dossier…

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – The Black Dossier By Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill Knockabout Comics Before Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill took The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to Top Shelf & Knockabout for LoEG: Century, DC Comics were responsible for putting out the third volume – LoEG: The Black Dossier. To put it [...]

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Paris – ab-fab fashionistas in the city

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

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Paris By Maarten Vande Wiele Knockabout Faith sings, Hope dreams of making it as a model, and Chastity just wants to be rich and famous. And they’re all looking to find it in fashionable Paris, where everything is designer, everything luxuriates in glamour, everyone parades in head to toe couture (all neatly recorded in the [...]

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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century 1969 …. Somewhere in here I get to reviewing it.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century: 1969 By Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill Knockabout / Top Shelf Hmmm, this review was meant to appear before Century 1969 came out. Except, had I have written it after just reading 1969, with Moore and O’Neill’s reduced team of Extraordinary Gentlemen in swinging, psychedelic London, it would [...]

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Propaganda’s 4 from …. June 2011

Saturday, July 2, 2011

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We review a lot here at the FPI Blog and thought it might be nice to do a quick round up, a best of the month if you will. Normally I like to do a 3 of the best, but this month, because I can’t narrow it down, let’s have four…. Luchadoras By Peggy Adam [...]

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Pinocchio. But not the one you remember…. not that one at all…..

Monday, June 13, 2011

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Pinocchio By Winshluss Knockabout Comics Oh, this is gorgeous. Even before cracking it open, Knockabout’s production of this massive full colour book hardback is first class, and everything about it, from it’s reassuringly expensive heft to the gorgeous Chris Ware-ish cover design through to the thick matt feel paper that imbues a satisfying tactile feel [...]

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Blank Slate’s new slate of books or Hope For the Future

Monday, December 13, 2010

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Kenny has been posting on the Blank Slate Books blog, mostly announcing the slate of graphic novels he’s planning to publish in 2011, but also talking optimistically about the state of comics publishing in the UK. As Kenny notes we’ve gone from despairing about the lack of independent comics publishers here, which has been a [...]

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Depresso – brilliant tales of everyday madness.

Friday, October 29, 2010

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Depresso (or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Embrace Being Bonkers!) by Brick Knockabout Tom Freeman is not a well man, not a well man at all. What starts as a dull ache in the balls soon turns into something far, far more painful. And author Brick delights in showing us just how painful [...]

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Centuries

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

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(cover art for the second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century books, by and (c) Messrs Moore and O’Neill, to be published by Top Shelf in the US and Knockabout in the UK) The Gosh blog notes that Kevin O’Neill is coming close to completing the artwork for the long-anticipated second volume of the League of [...]

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Dodging life’s brickbats

Friday, October 1, 2010

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For our latest “director’s commentary” I’m lucky enough to be able to present Brick discussing his upcoming graphic novel and talking us through some of his pages. I was intrigued right away when I first heard that Knockabout Comics would be publishing Depresso this winter (I think it is going to be a book to [...]

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New Dodgem Logic with wraparound art from Alan Moore

Thursday, April 15, 2010

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I’m delighted to say Tony at Knockabout Comics has just updated us on a brand new issue of Dodgem Logic by the esteemed Mr Alan Moore and Company – this new issue is slightly more expensive than before but in return it comes perfect bound, plus inserts and in best Brit mags tradition there’s a [...]

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Gilbert Shelton at Gosh!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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The great Gilbert Shelton will be at Gosh! Comics on Saturday 14th of November from 3 to 5pm (check the blog for details) to sign copies of the recently published Fat Freddy’s Cat Omnibus from Knockabout; and stay tuned, hopefully have some more Gilbert related news for you in the near future.

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Knockabout news

Friday, August 21, 2009

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Two bits of news in one here; British publisher Knockabout have set up a website (finally!). Knockabout have been stalwarts of the UK publishing scene for the longest time, formed in the 80s, publishing some brilliant works from the likes of Alan Moore, Hunt Emerson and Gilbert Shelton and always, always remaining strong when customs [...]

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The Thoughts of the Artist: Eddie Campbell talks to Pádraig

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

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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 [...]

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Fat Freddy’s Cat

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Rejoice, for Knockabout have a huge omnibus collection of the great Gilbert Shelton’s Fat Freddy’s Cat coming out this August. Spliff papers for a roll-up not included.

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