Tag Archive | "Melissa Mendes"

Comics Carousel: aliens, spider dating and pet detectives

Thursday, March 21, 2013

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Stuff what I’ve been buying round-up: Bird by Melissa Mendes, Oily Comics: Mendes is currently the best person around when it comes to portraying the essence of childhood and children, and she achieves that through this particular interaction between her characters and their environment. It results in an atmosphere of quiet focus that’s natural and never overdone. Bird is [...]

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Review: Freddy Stories by Melissa Mendes

Friday, January 25, 2013

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Freddy Stories Melissa Mendes Melissa Mendes’ Freddy Stories perfectly mirrors the qualities of it’s eponymous character: expressive, lacking in artifice, quiet with a use of sparing dialogue and yet so very effective. The crux of what Mendes acheives here is the attainment of something rare: the articulation of childhood, that place to which none can return, which seems [...]

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Go look: Melissa Mendes

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

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There are so many talented comic creators out there- it’s always a real pleasure to discover for yourself someone new and find they have a little body of work which you can explore. In a way, it works better with more independent artists whose updates you can follow, who don’t have a vast, daunting, must-be-read-in-chronological-order back catalogue [...]

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