Tag Archive | "Kyle Baker"

Kyle Baker’s You Are Here – why, oh why, isn’t this book in print?

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Comments Off

Kyle Baker‘s You Are Here is a masterpiece of comedy, but as it’s by Baker that’s hardly a surprise. I’d been meaning to do something on Baker’s comedy works for a long time, and one day I promise I will. His Cowboy Wally Story, Why I Hate Saturn and You Are Here are masterpieces of [...]

Continue reading...

Art For Art’s Sake – The Shadow Special

Saturday, July 23, 2011

1 Comment

(UPDATE – I’ve done it again…. for years I could never spell Bil Sienkievicz’s name right. Then I went through a phase of getting it right, and now it seems I’ve slipped back into moronic misspelling…. apologies! The worst thing – I even included one of the covers here with his name on it – [...]

Continue reading...

Lapham and Baker on Deadpool Max – oh yes!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Comments Off

Latest in that list of Marvel books that I look forward to because they don’t feel like Marvel books – there’s going to be a Deadpool Max series written by David Lapham and drawn by Kyle Baker. From the “Cup Of Joe” interview with Marvel Exec Ed Axel Alonso: “And in October – drum roll, [...]

Continue reading...

Inappropriate Golden Books

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Comments Off

These have been around for quite a while, but Josh Cooley‘s posted a few more up recently with the announcement that his Inappropriate Golden Books (based on the design of the classic children’s books) are to be collected and published…. There’s much more at Cooley’s blog, including some great gag panels, with a line and [...]

Continue reading...

Midnight madness with Kyle Baker

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Comments Off

Kyle Baker‘s I Die At Midnight was a slim 64 caper comic published at the turn of the millennium and coming as it did after the wonderful Cowboy Wally Show and the even more sublime Why I Hate Saturn (both criminally out of print) it was rather undervalued. But it’s a fantastically funny manic rush [...]

Continue reading...

Great Big Comics

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Comments Off

This week DC publishes the first of their new Wednesday Comics series,  a 12-part weekly series which comes in the old tabloid newspaper format, designed to echo the classic paper’s comics section. Although for many comics readers of a certain age (like me) here in the UK I suspect it will remind them of something [...]

Continue reading...