Tag Archive | "Laika"

Nick Abadzis’ alternate Laika – one last time…

Friday, August 5, 2011

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Nick Abadzis has been posting alternate endings to Laika over on the Big Planet Comics site as as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations. And he’s just put up the very last one. It’s a perfect ending, summarising everything that attracted him to the subject in the first place and…. oh, just look at it…

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More Laika….

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

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It’s lovely sometimes, this Internet thing. On Saturday, we put up a post about Nick Abadzis doing a little What If…? on Laika. And then Magda Boreysza gets in touch to point out her own Laika strip, done in 2007 and published in her comic Toastycats #1. We’re all connected nowadays, and isn’t it great? With [...]

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What if Laika……

Saturday, July 30, 2011

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Nick Abadzis‘ Laika is a wonderful book, but in the end it’s heartbreaking, as we all know that poor Laika doesn’t return from her epic journey onboard Sputnik II. But now, as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of Big Planet Comics in Washington DC, Abadzis is playing a game of What If…? And he’s [...]

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Cute Badger meets sad, lonely space-dog……

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 [...]

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Nick Abadzis’ Laika, now with added soundtrack

Sunday, October 4, 2009

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Nick Abadzis’ Laika is a stunning, beautiful book, described by me last year as: “It was a one way journey, necessitated through Khrushchev’s desire to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution with another propaganda victory to match that of Sputnik I. Yet Sputnik II’s little dog gave her life for little scientific advancement [...]

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